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Chris Aldrich
Don’t just Google it! First, let’s talk! by Jon Udell Asking questions in conversation has become problematic. For example, try saying this out loud: “I wonder when Martin Luther King was born?” If you ask that online, a likely response is: “Just Google it!” Maybe with a snarky link: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=when was martin luther king born? Asking in conversation is frowned upon too. Why ask us when you could ask Siri or Alexa to ask Google? There’s a kind of shaming going…
User Interface to Indicate Posting Activity by Chris Aldrich (Boffo Socko) Today I saw a note that led me to the Internet Archive which I know has recently had a redesign. I’m not sure if the functionality I saw was part of this redesign, but it’s pretty awesome. I’m not sure quite what to call this sort of circular bar chart given what it does, but circular widthmap seems vaguely appropriate. Instead of using color gradations to indicate a relative…
An Indieweb Podcast: Episode 9 30 Days of Indieweb by Chris Aldrich and David Shanske from BoffoSocko The upcoming IndieWebCamp NYC, Micropub plugin enhancements and a media endpoint for WordPress, rel="alternate" solutions, Facebook API turning off, Ditchbook, Greg McVerry IndieWeb class edu522 This is the last episode in 2018.…
Spoils from a cow party (BoffoSocko) A few months back, I got roped into joining in on a co-op purchase of a whole cow that was estimated to come in at around 600 pounds. It was grass fed, organically raised, and was to be humanely butchered, packaged, and frozen. I made an initial $200 deposit, and this morning I paid the $290.50 balance at what was billed as a "Cow Party". Thirteen of the "partners" got together at 11:30am to…
