React.js deemed too complex and not in the ‘spirit of Wordpress’. But there is ClassicPress, an alternative to WordPress without Gutenberg & React.js
WP 5 with Gutenberg will be available this month. What do you think? Storm in a tea cup or a major fork in the road?
Today’s Questions …
1] How many people use a digital calendar … be it google, outlook, fantastical, busycal, mac calendar …?
2] Of those people how many people set up or accept meetings with other people in their calendar?
3] And of those people, how many actually ‘accept or reject’ said meetings … so that an organizer can actually have a view of who is likely to be on the call.
Today’s Observations Emerging From Today’s Questions:
1] Most
2] About 40%
3] About 15%
In other words - invite 20 people to a call … watch all 20 debate around agenda, timing and objectives through email (without anyone going to the calendar)
Expect about 8 of them to accept or reject the meeting time.
All 8 will never have an idea whether the other 12 ‘intend to attend’ and in fact on the day the call will often have an email apology or two from people that even said they would attend - they just don’t update the calendar.
I ask because this is surely one of the simplest things to do … and yet still does not happen.
Trump comment, chipmakers power Wall Street’s third day of gains … they know he lies … right?
The mayor of Taipei released a rap video
… all good … but the click through reveals a number of Western Politicians trying it on … a world I never knew existed … thank goodness.
“An artist needs a certain amount of turmoil and confusion.”
[Joni Mitchel ... via Stowe Boyd](http://stoweboyd.com/post/179648593157/an-artist-needs-a-certain-amount-of-turmoil-and/amp)
We live in artistically thriving times.
Can beer be saved from climate change?
”Most of the crops that go into making beer will not survive extreme weather caused by global warming.”
At least 1 Justice will sit up and listen to that case making its way towards the Supreme Court. Now what will trigger the other 8?
I know it is not Christmas - but I hold to my ‘unalienable right’ to say
“bah humbug to Halloween and Pumpkins.”
The FAANG stocks are flirting with their best day in almost 3 years (FB, APPL, AMZN, NFLX, GOOG)
… aren’t they FAAAN stocks?
Google wants to improve your smart home with iRobot’s room maps
I need to dig out my old post … but wasn’t this tried once before … and thrown out?
Three Hours Later
I knew I’d read about this iRobot mapping your house idea before .. 15 months ago to be precise
And, as a result of all those shenanigans, 12 months ago iRobot was very clear :
iRobot’s CEO says the company never planned to sell Roomba home mapping data
So I guess now they are just giving their data to Google?
Remember when Scottish workers stood up to a brutal dictatorship?
So much goes on in the world that we don’t know.
Googlers forcing Google out of military contracts are essentially using this play book.
”The United States government is accelerating efforts to monitor social media to preempt major anti-government protests in the US, according to scientific research, official government documents, and patent filings reviewed by Motherboard.”
and
”The social media posts of American citizens who don’t like President Donald Trump are the focus of the latest US military-funded research. The research, funded by the US Army and co-authored by a researcher based at the West Point Military Academy, is part of a wider effort by the Trump administration to consolidate the US military’s role and influence on domestic intelligence.”
Netflix’s libertarian-fascist corporate culture is a hell no one deserves …
… well that is good to know … I think.
note to self - remember not to download all the apple updates at once … there is simply not enough time in the day.
I Am Using Blot and Micro Blog to extract myself from Corporate Networks.
… written in response to a question asked this morning by Doc Searls.
Click through to see what you can do … beyond voting that is!
Never even heard of this one … but for all those writers out there ….
Nisus Writer Pro - Powerful Word Processor for macOS has just had an upgrade.
Red Hat takes over IBM … at least that’s what Bob Cringely is predicting … including Jim Whitehurst becoming IBM’s CEO within 6 months.
Lots of other predictions around Amazon, Google, Oracle et al and what they will now do when it comes to Apache and UBUNTU et al.
”Demagogues rarely commit violence directly. Instead, they use blame, ridicule, fear and hate – and then leave the violence to others. That way, they can always claim “it wasn’t me. I don’t have blood on my hands.”