My goodness Apple News is pernickety. Just spent two hours tracking down why three of my posts hadn't made it into the Apple News stream. All came down to tiny tiny errors in the HTML that Wordpress accepted and rendered quite happily - but Apple News - nope . #FAIL.

In the end I have a single post left that hasn't published to News - interestingly titled : Top 5 Pranks Apple Have Played On Us - I originally thought it was a conspiracy - I think I now know that in that post - it is long is a link error. 

Going to let that one slide.

Just finished listening to the @davewiner rough podcast, where he talks about technology and politics coming together as one. I was reminded of Jeremy Heimans who talks of Old/New Power - Old/New Values. [ If you want to actually listen to the podcast - click on the headphones at the top of the post ].

How will this affect the 2016 presidential election? Heimans and Timms believe that like Barack Obama in 2008, the candidate who prevails will need to channel emerging new power forces and unleash the self-organizing potential of his or her supporters. This time, however, they'll need to go much farther than posting videos to YouTube or doing a Twitter town hall.
"The impact of new power in politics is just beginning," Heimans said, although he noted that new power has proved more effective at driving the outcome of campaigns than influencing the business of government.
"We should be cautious with the idea the rise of new power will necessarily lead to instant democracy. New power dramatically lowers the barriers to participation -- but it doesn't guarantee more inclusiveness or more representation," Heimans said. "In this sense, new power is more flash mob than General Assembly."

The words (my bold) above come from CNN's site from January 2015 - prescient, when you observe the Trump phenomena.

When I first saw this reported on - Fusion.net - I assumed it was a piece of 'Onion' - but no - here is the Philadelphia News reporting how a Maths equation is 'frightening' - and 'terrorist-like' ..

the woman "thought I was a terrorist because I was writing strange things on a pad of paper. I laugh. I bring them back to the plane. I showed them my math."

... not so much a bug report as a list of enhahncements ...

I have to post first - and then go back to add title, attachments etc - would be good to be able to do this all at once.

A simple way to allow links to pop up in new window - rather than in the space you are already working in

Tagging for rapid finding

A quick visual reference to quickly tell if your post is published or not.

Maybe I am missing it - but ability to embed video - not just have a link - if that is what enclosures are - not working for me.

I want to be able to repost someone else’s post - like as in Tumblr or on Wordpress

Easy sharing into other networks - and vice versa

Now that outspoken critic of Uber - Sadiq Kahn is mayor of London - I wonder if he will do anything about them ... certainly Rachel Whetstone isn't as connected to him as the Cameroon (sic) / Boris cabal.

and the new Radiohead is released ... listening already. #InstantGratification

"Labour’s Ken Macintosh, who has held the Eastwood seat since 1999, in fact ended the night in third place, behind the Conservatives and the SNP."

My new About Me page is live.

You never change things by fighting existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

Posted this today across a couple of spaces : http://beyondbridges.net/2016/05/silicon-valley-laggard-best-workplace-practice/ - and depending on feedback - it might getter a wider publication next week.

Sometimes the simplest image conveys what we all feel - but we can’t QUITE encapsulate. Follow your passion is the ‘new meme’ .. and then there is this ...

http://thisisindexed.com/2016/04/okay-ill-try/

http://kottke.org/16/04/a-cult-meeting-in-adoration-of-the-leader

FUNNY 

http://www.openculture.com/2016/04/princes-extraordinarily-poignant-cover-of-radioheads-creep.html

NICE

Realignment of Beyond Bridges Site ? Check !

There are some really clever ideas emerging from The UC Davis Innovation Week.

If you are interested in following the tweets of us 1999ers - pop over here

Prince. Pantone. Blockchain. Brexit. 1999. All covered in my latest post on Beyond Bridges.

I am waiting for the next big debate to be truly talked about .. open and honestly.

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/apr/22/police-raid-pushed-academic-to-end-her-life-euthanasia-advocate-philip-nitschke

I am not sure if Dave's system is / can run some kind of aggregator or list of all of us who are running 1999 sites, but it did strike me that the nature of the people involved with this might be interesting to each other. 

So, I took the liberty of adding those people who had already posted their 'first post here' on Google Docs - to a folder in my Feedly - which you can access here. 

If this is useful - I will continue to add to that group as I become aware of other sites. On the flip side - that URL is in the public domain - and if you do not want to be listed there - let me know.

Letting me know is best done via 'replies' to this post.

Thankyou for you attention.