Read: For the First Time in More Than 20 Years, Copyrighted Works Will Enter the Public Domain

Read For the First Time in More Than 20 Years, Copyrighted Works Will Enter the Public Domain

A beloved Robert Frost poem is among the many creations that are (finally) losing their protections in 2019

Great article by Glenn Fleishman – the impact of corporations on copyright law has been quite significant, too bad that Lawrence Lessig’s work on copyright law was not successful in stemming the tide..

Read In six years, 164,000 people from 200 countries participated in Knight Center's online courses in journalism

The Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas is celebrating the 6th anniversary of its program of massive online courses in journalism that has an unparalleled reach around the world. Si

I did not know that the University of Texas was involved in this.

I am trying out Dialog, the Android app for micro.blog, seems to be working well, can monitor the timeline and respond to posts..

Read Why WordPress Needs Gutenberg (& the Future of Page Builders) – ProfitPress

WordPress Gutenberg is reinventing the WordPress editing experience, but it won’t be easy. Here’s why it’s worth it and what it means for page builders.

I liked this perspective on the Gutenberg editor. My site is still on WordPress 4.7.2, so I have not made the jump yet.

Read Microblogging

The idea of microblogging on my own website is something I’ve been kicking around for years. Instead of posting short pieces of text to Twitter, longer pieces of text to this blog, and photos to Instagram, why not just post all of that stuff here? I could still cross-post to other sites if I wante…

I liked this article for the discussion that the author presents about where, when, and what to post. This is something important to work out for yourself when you start blogging primarily in your own space. As for when to blog, I like the advice from Ron Chester:

The best time to blog is when you have something to say. If you have something to say, the writing will be easy. For me, these things usually come from a personal experience, anything from a simple observation to a full-blown epiphany. Write about it in the moment, if you can.

Read How Do You Read RSS? by Ton Zijlstra

Google Reader five years dead
Five years ago, on July 1st 2013, Google killed their Google Reader. It was then probably the most used way to keep track of websites through RSS.
RSS allows you to see the latest articles from a website, and thus makes it easier to keep track of many different blogs an…

Read Deplatforming and making the web a better place by

Chris Aldrich

I’ve spent some time this morning thinking about the deplatforming of the abhorrent social media site Gab.ai by Google, Apple, Stripe, PayPal, and Medium following the Tree of Life shooting in Pennsylvania. I’ve created a deplatforming page on the IndieWeb wiki with some initial background and h…

How to download a file from Github using Node.js

Saving these links for later review:

Github – Comment from LnyxLab addresses addition cURL options
Github – VonC expands on earlier comment in different question

Read Fortran is still a thing

(via Dave Winer) – I used Fortran as my first professional programming, interesting to see that there are still so many users…

Read 5 things we need to conquer to accelerate space exploration

Sure, everyone wants to see Planet Earth in the rear-view mirror. But we won’t achieve that goal until we first cover these particular bases. @Enterprisenxt

I don’t know about the “data transmission” item as one of the top items needed for space exploration, but I would agree with space medicine and STEM education…