So, ds106.club is now loading securely over https, not that anyone would notice or care but me. I like tinkering on small, zero-priority sites because they allow me to figure stuff out without any repercussions if things go wrong.
Hi Jim,
Someone would notice & care;-) I log on to the club once every year or so. Just fixed a couple of http references to https. I still wonder if the tilde environment would make a good place to run a ds106 course.
It is also a good tinkering place.
My response: WHO CARES! I started two podcasts (Convocast and Thinking About Tools For Thought) without any media empire support. Did I make any money? No, but that wasn’t why I created those podcasts. I did it for fun and to share information/perspectives with others.
I’ve podcasted both for fun and as an learning experience for my pupils. This rings true.
In Search of One Last Song: Britain’s disappearing birds and the people trying to save them Patrick Galbraith ★★★☆☆
The author’s meeting with a cross section of folk working in bird conservation, talking about the birds they love. Not the usual conservation suspects, but farmers and keepers along with poets and RSPB types. The subjects sometimes had very differing opinions from each other. They also often differ and argue against the usual conservation narrative. This made for interesting reading.
Reading this in short bursts rather than a few longer sittings I was sometime confused by jumps between different conversations and subject. Each voice appeared and left without out much of a formal introduction & conclusion.
Thanks to 4th Estate & William Collins and NetGalley for this ebook in exchange for an honest review.
Good Ruler – Bad Ruler https://dlvr.it/SRQy7N pic.twitter.com/ghtx9LJzW7
The Biggies had a bit of fun thinking about what that would do if they were good or bad rulers. Making graphics with layers, transparency, copyright free images, clip art an their own photos.
Good Ruler – Bad Ruler https://t.co/uxmOXAbphR pic.twitter.com/ghtx9LJzW7
— Banton Primary (@Banton_Pr) June 1, 2022
A Visit from the Goon Squad – Jennifer Egan ★★★☆☆ 📚 one to re-read when I am reading in larger chunks. Fragmented tales across time and characters had me a mite confused.
Chris Aldrich (boffosocko.com)The IndieWeb is attempting to remove these barriers, many of them complicated, but not insurmountable, technical ones, so that we can have a healthier set of direct interactions with one another
This is a lovely essay on the IndieWeb. Too many quotable sentences:
Venture capital backed corporate social media has cleverly inserted themselves between us and our interactions with each other.
My On this Day page leads me to think about webmentions. I’ve also been listening to Daniel Jalkut on the Automators podcast which reminds me of MarsEdit.
Mar’s edit has custom formatting macros so I am testing one that add the u-in-reply-to class to links: Webmention test.
Hopefully this is the right way to format a macro.
Read Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart ★★★☆☆ 📚
Aaron Davis (Read Write Collect)Here’s a super rough proof of concept Replit tiny library.
https://collect.readwriterespond.com/triple-entry-blogging/
Interesting, the rather challanging hypothes.is comments were interesting too.
rationale also needs to be expanded to suggest that It’s likely that non-reading adults will raise non-reading children
yup. My daughter was brought up pre smart phone. She now encourages me to read by lending me books:-)
