Read: O Caledonia by Elspeth Barker ★★★★★📚
2022 off to a good start. Brilliant fun. Short strange life of Scot’s girl. Gothic home, weird family, horrible school. Laugh out loud & touching.
Kind: Notes
short content: a post or status update with just plain content and typically without a title
Five years ago I reviewed the previous years blogging by making a word cloud from the posts titles 2015 in Titles.
I though I’d have another go. The result is quite different.
Read: Antlers of Water: Writing on the Nature and Environment of Scotland edited by Kathleen Jamie ★★★★★ 📚
Marvellous anthology astonished me, the range of writers on what I consider my sphere of interest that I had not read. Lots to follow up, just one e.g. Amanda Thomson Art.
Read: Three Summers by Margarita Liberaki ★★★☆☆ 📚
3 girls growing up in Greece, lovely scenery, with the feel of long repetitive summer days. A lot going on behind the scenes that slowly emerge.
RSS Via Shortcode to Page & Post plugin removal
I’ve been using this plugin on several pages on this site for a while. Recently I’ve seen errors on some of the pages and occasionally on other posts pointing to this plugin. I checked and it has not been updated for 7 years, so decided to pull the plug.
Rather than find a new plugin I just changed the pages to use the new Blocks editor and add feeds using some blocks.
For some I used the Display Remote Posts Block – WordPress plugin. This I discovered & installed through the add block interface & found later that it has installed a plugin. On others I used the built in RSS & podcast player blocks. All three seem to do the job.
Examples: RSS block, Podcast Block & Display Remote Posts.
I am not ready for the Block editor full time on this blog. I’ve been exploring it a little on Glow Blogs. But I’ve got a few things here that are incompatible (eg. Post Kinds plugin) and for my blog the classic editor, is usually more than enough.
The two, berry covered, rowan trees outside our flat have been nearly completely striped by redwings over the last day or two.
10 years of DS106
10 years ago today I Joined DS106. Not sure why I would have done so on Christmas eve?
This online course has resulted in over 70 posts here, 213 Posts on my Ds106 blog and 1144 tweets matching #ds106 in my tweet archive.
Ds106 has lead me up many garden paths, syndication, internet radio, quite a lot of gif animation and lots more.
It has been an amazing educational experience while being immense fun. I’ve met, laughed and learnt from folk for all around the world.
A Merry Christmas to All DS106
Read: The Union of Synchronised Swimmers by Cristina Sandu ★★★★☆📚Sad tales, elliptical fragments for the lives of six defectors that sync together a story.
Castro’s Top Picks algorithm fooled me yesterday with last episode of 2019 Cow sharing in the European Alps from Eat This Podcast I was not expecting another today. High Art dropped in & delighted.
1. I’ll keep an eye on Castro. 2. @jeremycherfas’s podcast is wonderful.
Going to listen – Social Warming: The dangerous and polarising effects of social media
Talking about Charles Arthur’s Social Warming: The dangerous and polarising effects of social media John Naughton says:
I run into non-tech-savvy people and realise they have no idea about how social-media feeds are algorithmically curated, say, or why many people in the global South are unaware that Facebook is not the Internet. But then I think: how could they have known? After all, mainstream media doesn’t do a good job of explaining it. And social-media definitely have no incentive to do it.
From Memex 1.1
Which made it sound like an interesting book. I’ve grabbed the audio version for January’s commute. I tend to prefer shorter podcasts, and have not listened to many audio books so am wondering if I’ll manage to keep on to the end.