• The right to be informed
• The right of access
• The right to rectification
• The right to erasure
• The right to restrict processing
• The right to data portability
• The right to object

At least according to GDPR

OK …

• commit to pinboard … check
• import old deli.co.us tags for posterity … check
  • all 12,396 apparently … good grief!
• import Pocket history … check
• tie into Instapaper and Pocket … check
• publish the stream to a microblog page … check
• a tool bar short cut so I can push other stuff into the stream … check

Just so we can all see it

##Still To Do

• import Instapaper - snafu - ticket logged

Anything else?

John Lennon’s words came to my mind this morning driving on the 101 to a meeting.

Apparently Starbucks thought it was my birthday today ( it isn’t .. but that’s a different story). To celebrate the occasion I was offered a free ‘whatever I want’ to celebrate. So, totally out of the norm of my morning pattern, as I drove down the hill - I swung into the local Starbucks and ordered myself a check complementary Latte.

Fast forward to now as I write this post on my 📱 in the courtyard of a car wash I know. The car did need it - just been delaying it through some of the weather. Whilst getting it cleaned, they are also extracting one venti latte - less one sip - from the car’s carpet.

##Lessons

• there is no such thing as a free latte
• don’t pretend it’s your birthday
• stick to your routine

That’s all … enjoy your day … I’m going to … who knows maybe I just avoided a major accident resulting in my ability to even write this post!

Not my words … in fact, not sure whose they are … if I find out, I will come back and correctly attribute … until then …

Big data and machine learning (is) all oriented to one type of intelligence or a western view of intelligence. Mimic the brain, no heart. Instinct defined via algorithm. Maybe we struggle against this because deep inside we know its profoundly dysfunctional.

By the numbers there’s my driver’s license,
car registration, license plate, zip code,
various accounts, street address, birthdate
home, work, and cell phones, passport, credit cards
debit cards, PINs, social security
frequent fliers, internet passwords, stocks
checking, HMO, IRA, museums
library card, land and enneagram.
I know its a lot to remember, but
thank god i finally know who I am.

Jim Woessner - Box Poems

My own work right now is with Customer Commons, on terms each of us can assert, and that sites and services of the world can agree to: the exact reverse of what we’ve had since forever on the web. We’re getting help from law students at Harvard and elsewhere, but we need geek help too.

I believe making every user a Neo is not only do-able, but the most world-changing revolution since the industrial one, which was when subordinating personal power to the requirements of big business began.

Digital technology and the internet were designed for freedom, and not just for more enslavement on the industrial model. If you want to help make everyone a Neo, talk to me.

Or keep munching that blue pill.

Doc Searls : Editor Of Linux Journal

Full Article

Great read from the author of The Intention Economy.

Being of a certain generation … the existence of The Berlin Wall is very much part of the DNA of my memory. (Berlin itself - not so much … though I had reason to be in Berlin shortly after the fall of the wall.)

The Berlin Wall has been gone for longer than it existed, Deutsche Welle reported on Monday.

The wall was constructed in 1961 and kept Germans in the eastern side of the city from fleeing to the west after 3.5 million had left following World War II. It was up for 28 years, two months and 27 days.

Hard to believe that more time has passed since then than the very existence of that edifice (if that word is not too ‘honorary’ of such an abomination).

The Full Story on Deutsche Welle

Does anyone have any knowledge / experience / thoughts about Vellum?

##Later

Now - that is really interesting …

Vellum is a free download. You can use Vellum to import your manuscript, explore Book Styles, and see how your book will appear on a variety of devices. A purchase is only necessary when you’re ready to generate books.

There must be something about me at this time of the year .. apparently I first signed up with IFTTT six years ago! They even sent me a ‘happy birthday’ message this morning …

It’s been six years since you joined IFTTT on February 6, 2012.

… and then tried to give me some guidance on using the service more with some recommendations.

I have to say the 4 applets that they picked for me were neither relevant, interesting, clever or even unknown … you would have thought that with all the triggers and tracking that they have behind the scenes that they could have done a lot better with their personal recommendations.

For example they know the services I have connected to, how often my applets get triggered, how long they have been there … which is a clue to where I spend time, what I do and where my interests lie.

I have linked my 1999 site into Micro.Blog - so that if I publish something on River.BeyondBridges.net … the post finds it’s way into my Micro.Blog timeline.

So far so good.

Now what I want to do is pull all of the historical posts that are there into here (the public facing side of my Micro.Blog)

In other words …

A one off import of all the content at My River to John DOT Philpin

Onwards - I know there is help to be had somewhere.

sometimes - you just have to wonder ….

Hundreds of top-secret and highly classified cabinet documents have been obtained by the ABC following an extraordinary breach of national security.

Click through if you want to see the story of how this came to be.

Consolation prize

I guess we should be happy that government ineptitude is not limited to the USA and the UK!

Well … I got up. I looked. I watched. I waited.

Pretty amazing … although you wouldn’t think so based on the photos!

This is a specific post - with a specific reason.

The specifics relate to using this plug in on one of my wordpress blogs - thankyou for the link @manton

The idea is that this post gets fed through to And Another Thing. When it arrives it will be classed as ‘Pending’ - so as not to inundate the readers at And Another Thing.

I will then visit the site later today and publish the post and .. if it works, the plug in will add in a footer to this post .. and it will appear there.

If it does - I will come back here and add the link to the experiment.

Fingers crossed!

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Later

It worked - and now have a nice workflow that starts with Mars Edit from [@danielpunkass](https://micro.blog/danielpunkass) and the team at **Red Sweater**, that allows me to publish to Micro.Blog (of course from [@manton](https://micro.blog/manton)) and through the power of a Wordpress plugin developed and offered by [@michal](https://micro.blog/michal) that post is routed to [And Another Thing](http://www.andanotherthing.co) where it is held in Pending mode.

I can then periodically check and delete the irrelvant posts (all irreverent posts will be allowed) and tweak with some tagging and other tuning for that site before it gets published.

The plugin allows me to append the message with a standard footer, so a reader can also register for the occasional newsletter and/or click on a link to see other posts that arrived on the site in this way.

Next - clean up the Newsletter flow and then add this functionality into my other blogs. (Don’t ask).

A question raised recently, that ‘everyone’ should be able to answer …

How do you make a judgement about what is safe to do online?

Good question. But I specifically put ‘everyone’ in quote marks because I worry about ‘everyone’. I worry that given that people generally do nothing to protect their passwords … think yellow stickies on monitors, using thr same password across all services, sharing your password(s) with friends … however you look at it - whatever you do …. if that is hard to understand - we have an uphill battle with ’Informed Consent’