I saw Martin Weller’s tweet out for a randomizing text generator: He got lots of replies (which is what make twitter useful when often it can not be), though many were just offering tools, no…
I always like the random…
I’ve a vague idea you could run this from a google sheet allowing folk to generate more of this sort of thing.
Facebook does not technically sell your data, for instance. Nor does Google. They sell the power to influence you.
HT Aaron
‘The idea that fake news on Facebook influenced the election is a pretty crazy idea’ - Zuckerberg ‘The odds are that we are going to spend $1 billion on this campaign’ - Trump’s digital manager, Brad Parscale on 2020
The whole thread is interesting eg this and this.
Ron (micro.blog)@ron (FWIW I am an apple user, but I don’t really talk much about Apple online). I hope at some point you will be able to post replies and these will be created on your own blog. At the moment I can, I think, post a reply from my blog and it will end up on micro.blog. I am usually tooo lazy to do it. This post is posted on my blog as a reply to your post on micro.blog…. The IndieWeb seems to me to be a work and exploration of possibilities in progress. Micro.blog seems the simplest way to get as much indieweb goodness as possible with the least effort?
The web is once again being deconstructed by its users in new and different ways. You can see it in tools like CodePen and Glitch, which lower the barrier to entry for folks that want to experiment with web technologies. People are building simple and complex things on these platforms, and whole communities have sprung up to encourage collaboration and sharing.
Aaron Davis (collect.readwriterespond.com)I have a new #IndieWeb itch, that is extend the search capabilities for my Commonplace Book. I have a practice of saving pertinent quotes within the response properties. However, on research, I have found that the standard WordPress site search only looks at the title and body. Although there seems ...
Hi Aaron,
I realised I had the same itch! I think the custom google search would do the trick. But I though it might be better to have something built in to WordPress. I found Search WordPress by Custom Fields without a Plugin | Adam Balée Designs, LLC. This requires you edit a functions.php file. I’ve already got one in my child theme so added the code there. It works.
Amanda Rush(Placeholder, edit later) WordPress powers over a quarter of the web. With such a large market share comes a shared responsibility to create a web that everyone can use and enjoy, regardless of how they access it. (customerservant.com)Right now I am incredibly grateful and thankful for the extensive accessibility improvements to the WordPress widgets screen, because today I learned that there is at least one developer on this planet who actually worked to not support accessibility mode.
Is there a legitimate reason to do this other than pure unadulterated ableism? That’s not a rhetorical question.
not that I can think of. I often fail with adding alt tags to images, but I don’t do it oon purpose!
“#tds1537 Lack of importance or consequence https://t.co/oVvWYB0psz”
And the days are not full enough
And the nights are not full enough
And life slips by like a field mouse
Not shaking the grass
Ezra Pound
Gettin' Air Season 3 Premiere with Jim Groom @jimgroom! Jim has been central a central figure in hugely influential educational technology movements/ideas/things like #ds106, #edupunk, and Domain of One's Own (#DoOO). And now he is co-founder of a shining beacon of educational technology done right in @ReclaimHosting. But why are they running a VHS store in Fredericksburg, VA?
@jimgroom is always worth a listen, some #ds106 nostalgia (always worth thinking ‘n taking about #DS106) and fascinating stuff around opensource and the implications of depending on a closed technology.
“I have travelled oceans of time for this--it is that good! https://t.co/Op1EpqwFtU”
Thanks Jim, This looks like a podcast feed full of interest, subscribed, took me a mo to find the podcast RSS.
