Now that’s useful :
General Election 2019: Compare policies in an interactive manifesto checker.
Jacinda Ardern : Economic Growth Is Pointless If People Aren’t Thriving
We continue to measure the wrong things. That’s why we are told that ‘the economy is booming’, but 74% / 78% / 49% of Americans are living pay check to pay check. (I guess it depends on how you measure!)
If you run a Slack group - you might find this interesting … an AI-driven engagement tracker for Slack-based teams.
“Better to be present with a bad note than absent from a good note.”
Robert Fripp
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🎵 Rattle and Hum is a much overrated album by U2 - definitely not one of their best. In fact every time I listen to it I feel - well - woebegone.
Boom - a double - double word entry to celebrate MicroBlogVember !
Quick Question …
Can you hum the tune from the PBS Series Lake Woebegone?
Sure - but that isn’t how you spell ‘Wobegon’ !
This line brought to you courtesy of two MicroBlogVember entries 😊 🎵
Maybe it is just me, certainly not unknown !!!
Is anyone else seeing WP 5.3 acting a little flaky under Safari?
Hollow words are never good. And saying them into a hollow container to cause the echo so you hear them twice or more doesn’t make them better.
Coincidentally the first day of MicroBlogVember happened to be ‘All Hallows Day’ - but that is unrelated and simply a near coincidence of spelling.
Last Orderrrrs! Speaker John Bercow’s career in numbers - BBC News.
I liked this image embedded in the click through ….
The Ukraine scandal proves Trump is exactly who we warned you he was.
Funny - I wrote something like that three years ago and then revisited it earlier this month.
A Facebook content moderation vendor is quitting the business after two Verge investigations.
The vendor is Cognizant. Didn’t even know they were working in this space - talk about defocus. (But that’s not why they are leaving.)
The Gig Economy is Dopey
The following post comes courtesy of John T. Maloney, who sent me an email reply to one of my newsletters and it just was too good not to share. Thankyou John. Nicely delivered.
The 'gig economy' is dopey. Always had a problem w/the term.
For me, a gig is a trident tip spear used for gigging. Period.
Growing up in rural and coastal Connecticut, from April to November, gigging was a principal pastime. We'd go after anything gigable, but mostly bullfrogs and flounder. It was very effective.
Careful Where You Publish Your Work
Doc Searls, Godfather of The VRM/Me2B Movement observed recently that he writes on 4 (what amount to) personal blogs ... which made me feel a lot better about myself. In that same post he wrote;
Bigger than all four of those blogs is Linux Journal, where I wrote a great deal, including what amounted to blog posts on its website, for 25 years. That ended when Linux Journal ceased business in August. Also, as of today the entire site, with all its archives, is offline, erasing a third to a half of what I've written online so far.
Doc Searls
Think about that .... a third to a half of what you have written online is suddenly not available. And you wonder why I write articles like this.
It's a cautionary tale because Doc (who's final position at Linux Journal was Editor in Chief) might reasonably have expected that whoever owned Linux Journal wouldn't suddenly remove it from public view.
Rule Number One : When it comes to your IP trust no one. Keep your articles and writing in a place that you have access to and control.
Rule Number Two : There is no Rule Number Two.
On a side note, but keeping the theme of Doc ... he recently published the links to the last three posts on the VRM Blog. They are good reads.
We’re not data. We’re digital. Let’s research that.
What law might clear the way for VRM development?
Thinking Allowed
This is a People First post that was originally on the People First domain. It has been moved here as part of my domain consolidation program. It’s a steady and slow WIP as I check each entry, so do please bear with me.- More about People First
- Other People First Posts
(not just from the ‘other domain’ … all of them.)
The problem is that this is so believable that you miss that it’s ‘The Onion’.
”That’s the thing about Trumpism. It’s not just an ideology I disagree with; it’s not even merely a cult of personality that celebrates a leader nobody should admire. At its core is a rejection of the values that we used to think defined us as a nation. You might say that Trump is at war with truth, justice, and the American way. And that is, terrifyingly, a war he might win.”
Paul Krugman
It’s not the second - it’s the 20th MicroBlogVember Post
I still remember my Mum having a Bridget Riley (print - of course!!) hanging in our living room in the late 60s. So I clicked through and read the story - and lo - there is the actual picture - Blaze 1 - now I know what it is called.
Struggling with how to get RSS out from somewhere where the RSS seems to be hidden - or maybe not even exist?