Democracy is not a spectator sport
Several weeks ago, I read a Substack post with this same title, as well as a Vox article titled “The courts were never going to save America from Donald Trump”. The bottom line of both articles were...
View ArticleThe end of podcasting, chapter 63
More recent news items this month about layoffs at Chicago Public Media (WBEZ) and Colorado Public Radio, both affecting their podcast units. Key quotes: The move to terminate nearly 15% of the 62...
View ArticleKnowledge management and organizing information for use
A short podcast on some of my recent experiences on knowledge management and organizing information for use: Some references from the podcast: Organizing information for use – A Github repo...
View ArticleCan the use of semaphore be useful today?
Ken Smith recently wrote about the use of semaphore and RSS in transmitting information. He relates an experience where he organized students to send a message across a university campus. The historic...
View ArticleThe language of music
This past year, my wife and I resumed singing in our church choir. It was fun to get together with old friends and making music. As we started, I realized how much of a language written music...
View ArticleWhat does “working together” mean?
I read a post by Dave Winer today titled “Working together“. After some recollections about past social networks, his main examples of working together are two discussions he was involved in on the...
View ArticleSome examples of resistance
On April 6, I published a post on “The Resistance” commenting on someone asking where “The Resistance” was. Shortly after after that post, there was a protest in Oregon over plans to log 14,000 acres...
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I was reading through a set of articles on CNN.com, and got the following message: “You have reached your daily article limit. Continue reading with a free CNN account or come back tomorrow.”. I have...
View ArticleAn example of semaphore using email
Earlier this week, I commented on Ken Smith’s inquiry into the use of semaphore for communication, noting that I felt his interest in the use of semaphore was to inform people in case of a crisis....
View ArticleThe joy of podcasting
Over the last few weeks, I restarted recording some short podcasts while I drive home from work. It was fun to do, and I decided on the last one to not do any post-processing or edits, and thought it...
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In early April, I posted about Cleveland Plain Dealer editor Chris Quinn, who wrote a column saying that he was going to continue to tell the truth about Donald Trump, even when it offends those who...
View ArticleHow to stop Donald Trump
I entered the title of this post as a search phrase in Google, and here are some of the top results: Indivisible.org: Defeat Trump Toolkit – This resource was created in January 2023, has suggestions...
View ArticleLooking into protest songs
I have been looking into what protest songs/chants have been used in the past five to ten years. Researcher Noriko Manabe from Indiana University has a recent journal article and a set of posts on...
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Elle Griffin writes about recent BigPub merger settlement (merger did not go through), and how few new copies of most books are sold, and lots of other interesting financial details. I mostly buy used...
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I have been having problems today with copying files to a USB drive, getting this error: “You’ll need to provide administrator permission to copy this file”, I used to not have this problem. Looked at...
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Simon Willison: AI for Data Journalism – an annotated version of a recent talk where Simon gave twelve (!) demos of using AI tools to process data – jam packed!
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Crooks and Liars.com: Four years ago yesterday, Donald Trump announced that “injecting bleach and shining light into the body would cure COVID-19” – it’s amazing we survived Trump, much less COVID-19!
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Gregory Alvarez: “Living Like It’s 99: No Social Media, No Smartphone” (via Tracy Durnell) – A personal story about stopping use of a smartphone and social media and still not using it 3 years later....
View ArticleCan worker’s cooperatives be successful?
Hamilton Nolan/How Things Work: Interview with Erik Forman, labor activist, and creator of The Drivers Cooperative (via Tracy Durnell). Three points I found interesting were Erik’s comments about (1)...
View ArticleOnce again, it is up to us
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the presidential immunity appeal from Donald Trump this week (coverage from Election Law Blog, Joyce Vance at Civil Discourse, CNN takeaways, CNN live...
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