They've been trying to sabotage the movie's success from the beginning. Their failure proves they're played out.
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👓 The web we broke. | ethanmarcotte.com
I read something depressing last Monday, and I can’t stop thinking about it.
At the end of February, WebAIM published an accessibility analysis of the top one million home pages. The results are, in a word, abysmal.
The research underpinning this sounds just dreadful. Fortunately Ethan has links to some great resources for creating a better start on web accessibility.
👓 Jonah Goldberg is ‘ideologically grounded, but I feel politically homeless’ | Columbia Journalism Review
I’ve been wondering what the moral core of the conservative movement will be doing in the future. Too many are just blindly following Trump because it seems expedient. Goldberg is an interesting bellwether.
👓 Actresses, Business Leaders and Other Wealthy Parents Charged in U.S. College Entry Fraud | New York Times
A sprawling federal investigation accuses 50 people of involvement in a scheme to get undeserving students into major American universities.
👓 Twitter reveals big changes to conversations and new camera features | NBC
The changes are meant to make good on the company's promise to promote "healthy conversation."
Their sample certainly doesn’t look any better here. I wonder how much of a change it will really represent?
I worry that the camera is just another means of weaponizing their users’ phones?
👓 Lori Loughlin's Daughter Olivia Leaves Yacht of USC's Board of Trustees Chairman | TMZ
As Lori Loughlin traveled from Vancouver to L.A. Tuesday night to surrender to federal authorities in the college bribery scandal -- which got her daughter, Olivia Jade, into USC -- Olivia spent the night on the yacht of the Chairman of USC's Board of Trustees ... but she's off the boat now, TMZ has learned. We've learned 19-year-old Olivia was on Rick Caruso's yacht in the Bahamas. Caruso's daughter, Gianna, Olivia and several other friends were spending spring break in the area.
🔖 Virtually Connecting March 18-20 at Digital Pedagogy Lab Toronto!
The Digital Pedagogy Lab – Toronto event is on March 18-20, 2019. We are virtually connecting to you from the Gladstone Hotel in Queen West Village with two (maybe three!) opportunities to connect to this wonderful event from afar. Join us at a distance for a hangout with #DigPed keynotes, track...
🔖 Hemingway Editor
Hemingway App makes your writing bold and clear.
The app highlights lengthy, complex sentences and common errors; if you see a yellow sentence, shorten or split it. If you see a red highlight, your sentence is so dense and complicated that your readers will get lost trying to follow its meandering, splitting logic — try editing this sentence to remove the red.
You can utilize a shorter word in place of a purple one. Mouse over them for hints.
I could see some serious value in this if I could use it as a web app with Micropub support, which would allow it to almost any CMS or platform. It’s a bit reminiscent of Quill, though that doesn’t have the grammar and writing help.
There’s a $20 desktop version that can publish to WordPress and Medium.
Possibly missing for a full editor experience: the ability to add images.
As a sample, I tried putting in some prior writing. Apparently I overuse adverbs. It said I was writing at grade 13 and I should aim for grade 9! (It was something I had already attempted to “dumb down”.)
👓 A rough sketch for an Indieweb plugin UX update | aaroncommand.com
Some ideas I threw together for an updated Getting Started screen. Introduces the user to the IndieWeb concept, presents prominent next steps for ‘Indiewebifying’ their site and learning more. Eliminates the need for the Extensions page.
I like the idea that this simplifies things and potentially gets rid of an additional tab/page.
👓 My First Website | Kevin Marks
The first packets sent on what was to become the Internet happened 45 years ago today: The very first transmission on the ARPANET, on October 29, 1969, was the logon from UCLA to SRI. The first website was posted earlier, but the w3c was founded 20 years ago today too., and there is a gala celebrati...
👓 Inoreader is meer dan een RSS lezer | Digging the Digital | Frank Meeuwsen
Ik gebruik Inoreader al een paar jaar maar ik wist niet dat het mogelijk was om er nieuwsbrieven in te ontvangen. Je kunt een specifieke tag aanmaken waarna je een uniek mailadres krijgt. Met dat mailadres kun je je op allerlei nieuwsbrieven abonneren en deze dus in je feedreader krijgen. https://di...
I use Inoreader a lot and never noticed it did emails to pull in newsletters! This is awesome!
👓 The Commonplace Book as a Thinker’s Journal | Critical Margins | Medium
Kevin Eagan ( Critical Margins | Medium)For centuries, authors and thinkers have kept commonplace books: focused journals that serve to collect thoughts, quotes, moments of introspection, transcribed passages from reading — anything of purpose worth reviewing later.
Why keep a commonplace book today? When we are inundated by information through social media and our digital devices, it’s easy to overlook what drives and intrigues us. Keeping a journal helps, but keeping a focused journal is better, even if that focus is on self-fulfillment.
👓 Bookmark: Using Inoreader as an IndieWeb feed reader | Digging the Digital
Ik onderzoek weer hoe ik deze pagina’s beter kan gebruiken als een commonplace book, een plaats waar ik allerlei gedachten, ideeën en losse flodders kan plaatsen met minimale barrieres. Het is een rode draad in mijn blog-ontwikkeling en ik denk dat het een belangrijk element wordt op de IndieWebC...
📑 Context challenges between #indieweb and social media silos | David John Mead
David Mead (David John Mead)On my blog it has context. You can see all the other eat/drink posts on thier own or mixed in with everything else. I can include links to the place where I bought it, who makes it, or related posts.Instagram's context is its a photo with an optional description. It doesn't matter what it's of. It won't contain links to anything. ❧
❤️ hummearth tweeted @NurtureGirl @kevinmarks @adamjorlen Oh, what an interesting educational thread! Tools to pull and interact with social media is definitely something to explore & integrate down the road. Especially for us at #Humm – aiming to build an agent-centric self-publishing platform. We’ll definitely check #indieweb.
Humm.Earth (Twitter)Oh, what an interesting educational thread!
— Humm.Earth⏳ (@hummearth) March 13, 2019
Tools to pull and interact with social media is definitely something to explore & integrate down the road. Especially for us at #Humm - aiming to build an agent-centric self-publishing platform. We'll definitely check #indieweb.