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The GIF, this little looped video, is often misunderstood as a component of modern communication.
🎧 Listened The GIF as an increasingly important visual communication tool nice to hear ref to gifitup & ‘artistic’ gifs near end HT @ianinsheffield
Looking for and not finding Claire’s Knee to rent on Apple, Netflicks & Amazon Prime so much for the long tail…
Science fiction great Ursula K. Le Guin died on Monday at age 88. Le Guin was the subject of this long New Yorker piece from a cou
👍 love Ursula K. Le Guin and “gender ghetto” of the Golden Age of science fiction, Kottke has one of the best Ursula K. Le Guin stories.
“Tinkering with realtime world creation in @Scratch. Character on the screen is coded to interact with different colored objects. (Black is floor. Red is lava. Green is the goal.) Kids can be creating and coding these worlds simultaneously in realtime. https://t.co/giiR6HCmNR”
I want to track this to see if the “how to” requests get an answer. Looks clever. Might not need much kit?
👍 enjoyed Philip K. Dick and the Fake Humans | Boston Review especially in ‘reader view’.
GDPR seems to be a hot topic at the moment. Tweeted this gif earlier in the week, blogging ’cause why not.
“It’s how you use it” is wholly unsatisfying, philosophically misguided, and a total corporate cop-out that places disproportionate responsibility on individual users
How Facebook Affordances Give Us The Blues HT @mdvfunes
Banton Playground dawn this morning, snow is all gone. 📷