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Friends Don’t Let Friends Use Silos To Publish Their Thinking.
🖇️ I wrote a related piece yesterday.
This one takes the thought a step further, because it’s not just original posts … but also replies.
As so often happens to me these days .. I start to reply to a message somewhere in one of the interweb’s silos … you know where they are in control - not you … even down to how long your message should be … because … you know ‘they’ know best. When that happens, I start a new post on said silo .. where there isn’t a character limit .. but I find myself doing that less and less … because why do I want to give my original thinking to a silo that stores undifferentiated commodities like bulk chaff? That’s why I don’t write ‘content’ …
But these days there’s even more reason not to use the Silos for being the prime origin of your IP, your work, your thinking.
🖇️ The short ‘case study’ just yesterday is all about the problem.
My next post started as a reply to a very good LinkedIN post .. and is a prime example of the ‘too long’ problem. I’ll link to here when it is finished.
📸 230905 🖇️ #MBSept
They say that sometimes you can’t see the forest for the tree .. I know what they mean.
📺 Secret Invasion
… and while we are on the topic of ‘🖇️ back stories’ of movie franchises … it’s got Samuel J - so definitely not bad - but also not the greatest.
📺 Obi-Wan Kenobi
Historically not been a big watcher of the Star Wars franchise. Sure I have watched them - but not ‘religiously’ - so expert in the story arc I am not. That said - I really like the back story series that they have been producing. (Even 🖇️ Boba Fett - despite my review at the time and definitely 🖇️ The Mandalorian)
If you are keeping up, you will know that I use 🔗 to highlight links to other places on the web. This morning I am introducing 🖇️ to highlight links to this blog. Like here. - there will need to be a limited amount of revisiting older posts to ‘make it so’. But the ‘rule’ is already in place.
CSS Frustrations - hope some passing good samaritan might help …
Can anybody tell me why I can’t get the ‘cite’ element on this page : 🖇️ https://john.philpin.com/2020/01/05/people-kevin.html to move over to the right?
It SHOULD look the same as this
🖇️ https://john.philpin.com/2023/06/24/robert-f-kennedy.html - where I have used my usual tag ‘attribution’
I have tried
- cite
- p.cite and
- blockquote.cite (I know - I know)
David Merfield and Blot Once More Deliver. Simple Solution - but QUITE BRILLIANT
Blot Delivers. Again.
🖇️ Back in 2020 I wrote this. Then just a few days ago 🔗 I asked again … this time I also pinged David.
The nub?
How it would be really useful when on a public page on a blot site - e.g. this one - to be able to have a single click that takes you to the file in dropbox - which you could then edit and save, so updating the site.
The current method is to take note of whatever the content is - open up dropbox and navigate to the file, which may - or may not - be as easy as it sounds. For me - because of how I structured my dropbox - it is generally a pain in the neck.
No More.
Thanks to David I know have a bookmark that he wrote for me.
Now I can click on that book mark and voila - there is the dropbox file.
Let me know if you would like the code.
The county of Maui hosts a number of tech m/billionaires with ownership of land counted in tens of thousands of acres. Hell, one of them owns 96% of the island just across the strait from Lahaina.
I do hope they find their way to seriously helping the island get through this and then really recover … and not just go live in one of their other houses while things ‘settle down’ — whilst offering ‘thoughts and prayers’.
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I’m no fan of CardiB’s music .. but with her all the way on her 🔗 reaction to the dick in the Audience who threw his drink at her … it really is time to hold people accountable for their actions … 🖇️ like Gaga.
Cracked It. He is a Misogynist. Pure and Simple.
… and actually a hell of a lot more. Now, with the calm of the morning, and many days behind me, I have had time to reflect on this 🖇️ ’Journal Storm’ and understand a little more about what was going on.
I hope this isn’t AI …
AND - if you don’t want to click through to Twitter I understand - so 🖇️ click here.
Dear Lady Gaga - you are my hero. ♥️♥️♥️ pic.twitter.com/RfyqxffFmU
— ᒪᗩᑎᑕᗴ 🏳️🌈 (@LanceUSA70) July 20, 2023
Gosh darn … I was so taken by 🔗 this conversation today that it rather unusually derailed my routine. 🖇️ I am now back on track … and also rather unusually (first time?) this morning my extract is from the source material, not Ryan’s summary.
🎬 It would be around 1,315 days - cant be more exact, because I am not sure of the first date, since I last went to a Theater to watch a movie.
The movie back in late 2019 was Knives Out, yesterday’s was Asteroid City. (I only reviewed 🖇️ Knives Out 2) - 3 stars and flagged as better than 1 if that gives you a clue.
Both coincidentally featured an ‘ensemble cast’. (I don’t make a habit of those kinds of movies.)
But the funny thing is that we saw last night’s movie with the same couple that we saw Knives Out. That is the only time we have been to the movies with those friends and the only time we have been to that particular Theater.
Like pandemic bookends.
I think Louisiana has a Dem as Governor and the rest are Rethuglicans. Just earlier today I referenced 🖇️ North Carolina sailing towards being a second Florida.
Hold that in your mind as you read that the 🔗 Decline in Budweiser Beer Sales has lead to the Closure of Two Bottle Factories in the South. … specifically the closures are in those two States. In that same article I read …
Munhall also said the closures may also be connected to a conservative boycott of Bud Light.
Which in turn got me to wondering how many conservatives in those two states helped impact those closures through the boycott are now directly jobless or will soon be suffering financially because of the inevitable knock on effect.
I think I might enter the entire Republican voting base for the Darwin Awards.
Seperately, it is increasingly clear that the Dems should just step back and watch the ‘alternative’ just self destruct.
🔗 Is North Carolina Going to Become Like Ron DeSantis’s Florida?
… certainly seems to be 🖇️ heading that way.