I’m loving the auto tagging feature in MicroBlog. I know, I know we’ve had it for months years … but it’s new to me. Yet another feature tucked away and ready when you are. Thankyou @manton
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February 11th.
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Into Coops? Fed up with Zoom, Teams, Blue Jeans et al … maybe 🔗 The Online Meeting Cooperative is what you are looking for. Anyone using them?
🔗 Uber settles UK VAT tax bill with HMRC
… Tracking the organizational antichrist - AKA Uber - as I do, I was surprised that I hadn’t hear about this little scam. Glad to see the loop is closed and the noose tightened.
Just been looking at the various options to backing up my MicroBlog. Nice to see that the WayBack machine has been 🔗 quietly doing its job in the background. Not so nice to see how much of a problem there was in 2020 and 2021. ONWARDS.
🔗 If you subscribe to Calm and are into Stoicism.
Discovered this by accident. Calm has a lot of stuff - but they are really bad at offering ways to find it.
Nothing in the 4 Twitter feeds that I have in NetNewsWire since the 8th. I guess we are cut off.
The Streamlining continues.
🔗 A new page indexing all of my pages on MicroBlog to reduce menu clutter.
If you know how to
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remove ‘categories’ (the archive / category page)
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move ‘bookshelf’ from the end of the menu
I sure would appreciate the help. Thankyou.
February 10th.
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💬 Motivation, Innovation and Education
💬 Quote Bonanza Today - The Theme is AI …
… Venkatesh does not like Mr. Brooks.
… part of an excellent series of articles on how ‘this time it is different’.
… that’s one hell of a guarantee!
My Tumblr account usually gets a new follower every quarter … since the start of the new year, it’s about one a day … I’m assuming there’s a bot army out there .. somewhere .. for some reason. Anyone know?
For the first time ever, iOS notifications are working on my iPad 🎁 🍾 🎉
🎛️🎙️ That ‘Content’ word again.
You might have read my 🔗 many posts about ‘content’ .. and my singular objection to that word. Turns out I am not the only one. Will Arnett waxes lyrical about that exact issue on Smartless.
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The Full Podcast: 🎙️ Smartless : Dana Carvey
An 'Unknown' Podcaster - He Sounds Boring - He Is Fascinating
🎵 Despite my initial resistance to the 500 song podcast narrated by 🔗 Andrew Hickey .. I am now moving into my third … first ‘The Monkees’, then ‘Love’, now ‘The Move’. The depth of information flying through the speakers is really quite incredible - thoroughly researched, packed with information - some of which I know - a lot I don’t.
A particular speciality of his is identifying groups that todays’ mega stars played with in the very early days. Examples like when Albert Lee played with Hendrix and Jim Morrison wishing he and The Doors were as good as Love. Or how Graeme Edge and John Bonham both played in the same band - sorry, cant recall who replaced who … and and and … fascinating - and NOT information that is on ‘the wiki’.
So - I did some prodding around to work out who Hickey is - assuming he must have been a music journalist at some point - but no. At least not that I could find. He seems to be a relatively ‘unknown’ creator who writes books and does podcasts.
Interesting that in the search, I came across this review of his podcast : Pismotality: A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs that has one comment - from Andrew Hickey. He spends a little time talking about his accent and deadpan delivery … something I referenced in my first post on him, and it turns out there is a reason.
Anyway - suffice to say - if you love rock and related music genre and want to learn more - particularly about the genesis of the ‘names’ - highly recommend.
Rabbit Holes, YouTubes and Criminals
I wonder why this link is not actually on the MS site any more?
I mean, it seems like it would be important for people to know? Part of the URL reads ' host-clayton-morris-leaves-country-amid-fraud-allegations-lawsuits ‘- so you can guess what it is about if you don’t want to click through
Yahoo and many others still have similar links reporting the story.
I came across him today when a friend mentioned the YouTube channel - and after what I was being told, I felt it all seemed … shall we say odd?
Three minutes of ‘deep’ search found the info that really makes me wonder.
What’s worse is that according to my LinkedIN profile, I have one person in common with ‘Clayton’ … a person who is in a really senior person and has had many senior roles over the year. I can only hope that the connection is an old one when they might have crossed paths when ' Clayton ' was on Phaux News. But these days - you really never know do you?
Phaux News? I know right - that alone should have been a warning!
🔗 How to Add Chapters to Your Highlights in Readwise with Headings …. it is amazing how much stuff there is under the hood over at #Readwise.
February 9th.
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