Augustine [of Hippo] knew the power and the danger of idolatry and celebrity. And he knew the danger of both was first to permit the idolater to offload the duty of thinking onto their idol. And second to seduce the celebrity, in turn, into thinking his fans have nothing insightful to say. That treatment of a fellow human, a fellow christian, would be not the achievement of theology but the avoidance of it. And he went out of his way in his life and in his words to forestall such approaches.
Quotes
Brett Kosinski (The “B” Ark)But as I thought more about what I wanted for my blog, and read more about the IndieWeb movement, I realized my idea of what a blog could be was incredibly limited. ❧
IndieWeb quote of the day!
I learned long ago in my career that shorter is harder. When I started Entertainment Weekly, I decreed that long reviews usually waste readers' time with critics showing off. Shorter can be smarter.
One doesn't measure comprehensiveness with a clock or a ruler. Longer is not deeper. ❧
I was particularly struck by two quotes in the comments which are very similar to a popular saying by Blaise Pascal.
Are these truisms proven out on a daily basis by Twitter?
Christian Nestell Bovee often receives credit for the quote. “Kindness: a language which the dumb can speak and the deaf can understand,” he wrote in his 1857 book “Thoughts, Feelings, and Fancies.” ❧
Chris Aldrich (boffosocko.com)Create an IFTTT.com recipe to port your Hypothesis RSS feed into WordPress posts. Generally chose an “If RSS, then WordPress” setup and use the following data to build the recipe:
Input feed: https://hypothes.is/stream.atom?user=username (change username to your user name)
Optional title:{{EntryTitle}}
Body:{{EntryContent}}from{{EntryUrl}}
{{EntryPublished}}
Categories: Highlight (use whatever categories you prefer, but be aware they’ll apply to all your future posts from this feed)
Tags: hypothes.is
Post status (optional): I set mine to “Draft” so I have the option to keep it privately or to publish it publicly at a later date. ❧
Posting this solely to compare my Hypothes.is highlights and annotations on my website with Will’s version.
I’m still tinkering with mine and should have a Micropub based version using IFTTT and Webhooks done soon.
"I run all of my campaigns as if people were watching television with the sound turned down," strategist Karl Rove is known to have said [...]
The Centre for Innovation of Leiden University has always strongly supported social or collaborative learning in online learning: the interaction between learners facilitating learners, whether that is in discussion forums, peer review assignments or in our Facebook groups, contributes to a deeper understanding of subjects, and prepares learners to apply their knowledge.
However, the Centre for Innovation has a responsibility to our teachers, learners and volunteers, under GDPR and our own Privacy Policy. Based on this we conducted a review of different platforms that we made use of for collaborative, social learning and have decided to move away from those that do not allow us to meet our obligations and promises to those in our care.
Therefore we have decided to close all Facebook groups, Whatsapp groups and Instagram accounts currently under control of the Centre for Innovation, per the 29th of March 2019, and have adjusted our courses accordingly.
You can direct any questions or remarks in regards to this policy to MOOC@sea.leidenuniv.nl.
Kind Regards,
On behalf of Centre for Innovation, Leiden University,
Tanja de Bie, Community Manager
At least part of Leiden University is apparently making the moral and ethical call to close all their Facebook related properties. Kudos! They’ve already got a great website, perhaps they’ll move a bit more toward the IndieWeb?
Jussie Smollett on Twitter (Twitter)“Frauds are everywhere y’all.”
Ironically it’s like Jussie Smollett said himself almost three months ago to the day.
📑 There are only three places that have a ‘the’ in the front of their name: the Vatican, The Hague, and the Bronx.
“There are only three places that have a ‘the’ in the front of their name: the Vatican, The Hague, and the Bronx.” ❧
—Mary Higgins Clark
📑 I don’t want to be a brand. | Cheri Baker
Cheri Baker (social.cheribaker.com)To participate in the economy, we’re encouraged to shape ourselves into a strategically pleasing form, always with a sale in mind.
Isn’t the phrase
we’re encouraged to shape ourselves into a strategically pleasing form
almost exactly what women have been attempting to fix with much of the feminist movement? We should all just be ourselves. Trying to “stay on message” is just painful. The message should be: “This is my life, and I’ll do with it as I please.”
📑 I don’t want to be a brand. | Cheri Baker
Cheri Baker (social.cheribaker.com)“You should write down your brand statement, and then EVERYTHING you communicate online (or around your customers) should be in line with that statement. In short, if it doesn’t advance your brand, don’t share or say it.”
And my heart rose up in revolt and shouted: F@CK THAT SH*T!
Almost as iconic as “I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not gonna take this anymore!”
📑 One Tool To Rule Them All | Oki Doki Digital
Marie Poulin (Oki Doki Digital)Looking at some of those bullet journal masterpieces made me wonder, how much of bullet journaling is just...productivity porn? ❧
How many times have I thought this myself?
My bullet journal has to be the most spartan and utilitarian book of lists ever created.
Any religion that professes to be concerned with the souls of men and is not concerned with the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them, and the social conditions that cripple them, is a spiritually moribund religion in need of new blood. ❧
I read this quote on Nov 29, 2018 12:04pm through @dswanson's post and it has stuck with me. I thought I’d dig up some additional detail on it. It turns out Swanson’s version was a slight misquote/variation and even at that MLK may have been modifying a quote from somewhere else.
King may have adopted this passage from Harry Emerson Fosdick’s The Hope of the World [New York: Harper & Brothers, 1933], p. 25:
“Any church that pretends to care for the souls of people but is not interested in the slums that damn them, the city government that corrupts them, the economic order that cripples them . . . that kind of church, I think, would hear again the Master’s withering words: ‘Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!”’
—annotation in The Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project (okra.stanford.edu) “Address at the Religious Leaders Conference on 11 May 1959” on page 200
📑 Three things about Readers during IndieWebCamp Nürnberg | Seblog
Sebastiaan Andeweg (seblog.nl)I have a problem with algorithms that sort my posts by parameters I don’t know about, made by people who want to sell my attention to others. ❧
📑 Fark Banned Misogyny to Facilitate Free Speech | Motherboard
"I am really pleased to see different sites deciding not to privilege aggressors' speech over their targets'," Phillips said. "That tends to be the default position in so many online 'free speech' debates which suggest that if you restrict aggressors' speech, you're doing a disservice to America—a position that doesn't take into account the fact that antagonistic speech infringes on the speech of those who are silenced by that kind of abuse." ❧