Read The Unwilding by Mariana Kemp ★★★★★📚
An excellent artist as monster, but looking at the fallout for other characters more than the monster himself. Two main narrators, the possibility of some unreliability, time & location change make for a captivating read.
Social media is a river. Your post there might get a lot of eyeballs but it’s very quickly lost in the ceaseless flow. In contrast, a blog post like this one is smaller and slower, but more enduring.
bog thawPaul Chambers
the slow lift
of frogspawn
...
heather slope
a skylark vanishes
into its note
Better Search & Replace
I’ve noticed that the old edutalk.cc domain is broken on Radio Edutalk. I had a a couple of hundred or so links on this site to the .cc domain. Just used Better Search Replace – WordPress plugin to change edutalk.cc to edutalk.info which reported:
During the search/replace, 1 tables were searched, with 435 cells changed in 260 updates.
. Seems to have done the trick, I limited the search to the post content. Very much appreciate the plugin authors.
#silentSunday
Read: Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout ★★★★☆ 📚
Back reading Elizabeth Strout after a couple of years break. She brings together lots of characters from different books. Olive is still my favourite. The first half of this was a bit too diffuse & simple, but somehow pulled it together so that the second half felt very much in the Olive vein.
@manton is offering free blog hosting for teachers & nurses on micro.blog. Micro blog is fully featured, should be especially interesting to teachers who want to own the content they share on social media. Micro.blogs cross posting is peerless. Of course for Scot’s teachers I’d recommend Glow.
Likes Curate your own newspaper with RSS by .
Readers no longer see news articles from the journalists they chose to follow on Twitter as the site downranks any posts that link offsite. When they search on Google, they’re bombarded with error-ridden AI facsimiles before reaching the higher-quality underlying work.
I enjoyed listening to the podcast version, feeling smug as a long time RSS reader. Spells out lots of new reasons for using RSS. Watching Ewan Macintosh use NetNewsWire on a train, before Wifi on trains, before smart phones, changed my digital life. I though then it might change everyone’s, maybe still will?
