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👓 Digital Pedagogy Lab 2019 Fellowship Application | Clarissa Sorensen-Unruh
Yesterday morning I woke up to an email from the Digital Pedagogy Lab that announced the opening of the 2019 Digital Pedagogy Lab Fellows program: The Digital Pedagogy Lab (@DigPedLab) has its 2019 Fellows application available, folks. It’s due 1/10/19. Information about the Fellows program is her...
👓 Save web pages straight to Inoreader | Inoreader blog
Hopefully, by now you’ve recognized Inoreader as your go-to place for regular content consumption. But we know there are many more ways to come across great new content – and we want to help you with that, too. Now you can save pages from all over the web with our new feature, Saved web pages …
👓 Inoreader How-to: Do more with browser extensions | Inoreader blog
When you’re casually browsing the internet, there is nothing better than stumbling across a new source of excellent content – but nowadays you’re rushing so much that you might not put in the extra effort and fire up your Inoreader to add a feed to your subscriptions. Inoreader Companion, our dedicated browser extension, will save …
👓 How to Configure Your iPhone to Work for You, Not Against You | Better Humans
The Very, Very Complete Guide to Productivity, Focus, and Your Own Longevity
Optimize First for Single Tasking#1. Turn OFF (almost) all notifications #2. Hide social media slot machines #3. Hide messaging slot machines #4. Disable app review requests #5. Turn on Do Not Disturb #6. Be strategic about your wallpaper #7. Turn off Raise to Wake #8. Add the Screen Time widget #9. Add Content Restrictions #10. (Optional) Use Restrictions to turn off Safari #11. Organize your Apps and Folders alphabeticallySwitch to Google Cloud to Work Faster#12. Choose GMail #13. Choose Google Calendar #14. Replace Apple Maps with Google Maps #15. Install the GBoard keyboard for faster typing #16. Switch to Google PhotosInstall These Apps for Productivity#17. Use Evernote for all note taking, to-do lists, everything #18. The Case for Calm as your go-to meditation app #19. Install the right goal tracker for you #20. Store all your passwords in a password manager, probably LastPass #21. Use Numerical as your default calculator #22. Put the Camera app in your toolbar #23. Use this Doppler Radar app #24. Use this Pomodoro app #25. Use Brain.fm for background noiseUse These Apps and Configurations for Deep Learning#26. Subscribe to these podcasts #27. Install the Kindle app but never read it in bed #28. Use Safari this way #29. Organize your home screen for deep learning over shallow learningUse These Apps and Configurations for Longevity#30. Track steps this way #31. Prefer Time Restricted Eating Over Calorie Counting #32. Schedule Night Shift #33. Set up Medical IDMake The Finishing Touches with These Configurations#34. Change Siri to a man #35. Change your phone’s name #36. Turn off advertising tracking #37. Set auto-lock to the maximum time #38. Set your personal hotspot password to a three word phrase #39. Turn on control center everywhere #40. Turn on Background App Refresh #41. Delete Garage Band #42. Develop verbal memory for talking to Siri #43. Set up these text replacement shortcuts #44. Set your address #45. Backup this wayAppendix A: PrinciplesAppendix B: Budget & CostsAppendix C: Case StudyAppendix D: Updates
👓 Play Ball! | Library of Congress
No one encapsulates baseball’s history more than Branch Rickey (1881–1965), a former player and manager who became an innovative baseball executive and part owner.
👓 Trump, Democrats battle over wall in Oval Office spat | The Hill
"I will be the one to shut it down," Trump tells Democrats at the White House.
👓 A year in reading: letting the pile grow | Flashing Palely in the Margins
My year in reading has been marked by reflection on who I am and who I aspire to be, but mostly, it has been marked by a realization that I am okay, that even though I can be better, it's also okay to be who I am.
👓 Canceling Subscriptions & Supporting Institutions | Driftless Meditations
I cancelled my subscription to Foreign Policy yesterday afternoon, spurred by an email from FP about an upcoming auto-renewal charge. The quality of the print journal has been in decline for several years, no doubt due, at least in part, to structural challenges the publishing industry faces. I am sympathetic to that; I know firsthand (though at much smaller scale) how hard it is to keep a print publication going in 2018, especially when other outlets are giving similar articles away for free online. In that respect, I feel bad about this parting, because I believe sound, sensation-free journalism & well-informed editorial opinion matters, now as much (or more) than ever. Publications, like FP, that present issues in detailed, yet plain, language have an important place in our culture and provide valuable service to our society.
I also had some issues with their content management set up and particularly their lack of good RSS feeds as I’d prefer to read them digitally than in print. I actually ended up reaching out to them and worked a bit with their customer support team and their programmers to try to help them better support the types of RSS feeds that I’d like to see coming out of their Drupal platform. I’m hoping they get it all sorted out soon so that it benefits not just me, but the rest of their work. I see it as increasingly important for journalistic outlets to own their own websites, content, and at least part of their distribution on the web going forward. I’m happy that services like this are still supporting web specs like RSS until something better comes along.
🔖 Configuring WordPress for Micro.blog | Chris Reed
I love taking photos and I've always wanted a place to post my photos online, but I've always struggled to find an appropriate place to put them.
👓 The Cube Rule of Food Identification
The grand unified theory of food identification
👓 A Look at Known: social publishing and Indieweb | Brad Enslen
Publish blog posts, photos and media to your own site, and syndicate it to your social networks. Keep everything on your own site. Source: Known: social publishing for groups and individuals I’m looking at Known this morning. The website has that Silicon Valley – Apple vibe to it – lots of s...
👓 Individual-1 | Leo Laporte
There’s now strong evidence that Trump committed two felonies when he instructed Michael Cohen to pay off two women to silence them just before the election. The Cohen indictment also showed Trump continued to plan a Trump Tower in Moscow while running for president (and denying any contacts with ...
👓 Pareto’s principle of home baking | Ross’s Micro Blog
Pareto’s principle of home baking: 80% of the bread gets eaten in the first 20 minutes after it comes out of the oven. The last 20% takes 4 days to eat.
👓 Can blogs rebuild America? | Parent Hacks | Asha Dornfest
I’m excited to see so many people in the comments are into the idea as well, but it seems like several are having problems knowing where to get started or where to go. I’d suggest many spend some time to check out IndieWeb.org and the resources not only on their wiki, but within their online chat. There are a lot of us out here who have experience doing just this and can help kickstart the process, not to mention we’ve built up a huge wiki with details, tools, and processes to help others out.
Asha, if you’re game, perhaps we could set up some video chat time to help folks out?
The best part is that the old school blogosphere has been growing again and adding some cool new functionalities that make having and using a personal website a lot more fun, useful, and even simpler. Let me know how I might be of help.