The New Wilderness (Idle Words). Powerful thinking about the parallels between online/social media problem and environmental ones
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Aaron Davis (readwriterespond.com)What follows is the collection of posts, links and resources
Bookmarked: Feedback, Content and People
Bookmarked: Screenshots are the new save by @nnnnicholas - fascinating and thought provoking thread.
As I see it, the best things schools can do for kids is to help them learn how to distinguish useful talk from bullshit. I think almost all serious people understand that about 90% of all that goes on in school is practically useless, so what I am saying would not require the displacement of anything that is especially worthwhile.
Found in this tweet by @MarkRPriestley.
My link is to a pdf of the talk from 1969. Now seem broken so archive.org
Postman also wrote kairosschool.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Teaching-as-a-Subversive-Activity.pdf.
A good fun read with many cringe points, which of the forms of BS have you used? I’ve used a lot.
Aaron Davis (Read Write Collect)Jeffery Zeldman argues that in being unable to pay mortgage associated with the web, we have become indebted to the mob that is platform capitalism. This has led us into the money trap, which demands unrealistic rewards that care more about clicks than community. Zeldman’s suggestion on how to fix...
Aaron points to Nothing Fails Like Success (A List Apart).
Aaron links to several fellow travellers reactions that make great reading too.
Aaron’s own blogging has gone a long way along the IndieWeb path and is a excellent one to follow.
Kml2gpx.com
Kml2gpx.com: convert kml to gpx online. It’s free, simple and fast I am digging out some old mapped walks from dropbox and converting them to work on my site so this is handy.
In this 15 minute tutorial we’re going to build a simple decentralized chat application which runs entirely in a web browser. All you will need is a text editor, a web browser, and a basic knowledge of how to save HTML files and open them in the browser. We’re going to use Bugout, a JavaScript library that takes care of …
Build a Decentralized Web Chat in 15 Minutes WebRTC fascinating.
Fascinating thread about algorithms in retail.
Every Wednesday in March and April, Teaching Matters will examine a different aspect of blogging as part of the Academic Blogging mini-series.
Anne-Marie Scott Introduces a series of posts to support blogging at Edinburgh university. A lot of WordPress going on.
Open Source Podcast Audio Chain. Contribute to sritterbusch/ospac development by creating an account on GitHub.
Beside other features, ospac includes a robust leveler, two solutions to avoid crosstalk and soft silence skipping.
Might be a replacement for The Levelator when 32 bit apps no longer work.