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People: Benjamin
Stood to the side of the road, walking stick supporting him. Well kept. Elegant even. Just standing. The traffic constantly passing him by. No slowing down, but then no attempt by him to get them to either.
I slowed down to let him cross. No movement.
I opened the window.
“Would you like a lift?”
“Thankyou.” he said. “Thankyou very much.”
Slowly walking towards the car, he gets in.
“Much appreciated.” he said. “I’m going to 4th street … is that ok?”
"No problem. Which cross street?"
“It doesn’t matter. Anywhere on 4th. I’m going to the bank.”
How long before we have this integrated into Micro Blog / Wavelength?
… asking for a friend.
Words and Pictures ... There's Room For Both
In my world, there is even a space for both!
Pictures - they say - are worth a thousand words.
Words however are very specific and in many ways less open to interpretation (lawyers aside!!)
So, I am going for both.
Here on my muttering stream - i have oft’ referenced the closing down of my different social spaces, so might I welcome you to :
Words - now Archives - the lead content on this space are words - sometimes supported by pictures … but not always. (UPDATED LINK)
and
Pictures - now Archives- the lead content on this space are pictures - sometimes supported by words … but not always.
Both are based on Blot.IM
I will also publish a picture of how it all connects on … where else … Archives !
Also to come soon … Sounds.
UPDATE 2024 04 22
More broken links identified in the archives.
And that … that right there … that is the rub (my bold)
”Let’s put that another way. No matter what happens from this point onward—no matter what the Mueller inquiry reveals or doesn’t about conspiracy with the Russian government—the fact is that prosecutors have evidence to allege that “Individual-1,” aka Trump, ordered Michael Cohen to break campaign-finance law and lie about it. Even if you believe, as Republicans do, that those crimes are unworthy of impeachment and removal (even if less severe crimes were enough to impeach Bill Clinton), few would say they should go unpunished after Trump leaves office.”
Johna Stoehr, The Editorial Board
‘Trust is the new currency for business’
'Everyone'
‘Trust is the currency for The Mafia’
‘Me’
Consolidating Yesterday To Tell A More Connected Story Today.
I attended this yesterday …. a 1 day (actually closer to two days squeezed into one day ) event feauturing Tim Berners Lee, Vince Cerf, Professor Wendy Hall and a veritable host of others.
During the day I posted a series of images and comments in separate posts, today I am consolidating them into a single post to bring more of a story together.
In chroniclogical order »
Kick Off
… with Ray Wang, Mei Lin Fung
… and Vint Cerf
Later In The Morning
Vint Cerf and Tim Berners-Lee … who didn’t invent the internet or the www (respectively) … at least according to them.
TShirt Proof
Dame Wendy Hall …, with Sir Tim listening quietly in the background.
Sponsors For The Day
Vint and Ray Wang
World Economic Forum
Hashtag for it all : #OurDigitalFuture
The Enormous Life of Anthony Bourdain, According to Those Who Knew Him Best.
Why on earth the article is headlined ‘The Last Curious Man’ …. I have no idea, yet another reason why I am not a publisher, they must know what they are doing. Right?
More Americans get news from social media than newspapers
The devil is in the detail, which for such an article seems to be excruciatingly short.
The Cube Rule of Food, the Grand Unified Theory of Food Identification
Very clever .. and via the inimitable Kottke … BUT … shouldn’t number 5 be described as ‘Flan’ or ‘ Quiche’?
You know those people that talk loudly over the speaker that you are all trying to listen to?
… and then when you do finally get through the noise, it turns out a woman is telling the rest of the panel that businesses are managed by men - i.e. no diversity - and a man interrupts to explain why she is wrong.
I think I know what he means … but is it what he meant?
#OurDigitalFuture
Scooter Firm Chases Funding to Staunch Losses … what could possibly go wrong … well, apart from this … seems like a perfect acquisition for Uber .. Oh, wait,
Dear Mercedes Benz,
We live in 2018.
I was brought up in a house with shelves like this … and my house too had a few shelves like this at one time …
Why I changed my mind about the Apple Watch’s data plan
”Apple’s AirPods and a watch on my wrist is all I need to remain reachable.”
… and you get to engage with the world, rather than scrolling through posts, feeds, messages et al … that aren’t exactly time sensitive.
Cal Newport on Blogs in the Social Media Age .. good read, spot on and definitely in sympathy with the lores of micro blogs and the indie web.
So good, that there will be more on this to come.
The Noose Tightens - then again he is a snake … very slippery.
”Friday’s moves come after stocks rebounded from sharp losses on Thursday on media reports that the Fed could tighten monetary policy at a slower-than-expected pace.”
I watch the daily roller coaster but spinning a drop of 70 after a prior day drop of 800 preceding a drop (at time of writing) of 250 as a rebound is AWESOME!