A Golden Globes award for podcasts – seriously?

I know I am late to comment on this, but I saw the Golden Globes last weekend, and was surprised to see that an award was given for Best Podcast (the winner was Amy Poehler for “Good Hand with Amy Poehler” (Apple Podcast link)). Seriously? Why are they doing this? From the history page on their website, the awards started out for film, and then grew to television. Who was asking for them to try to recognize a “best podcast”? After all, there are already 32 top awards for podcasts – who needed another one? Save us, please!

I am posting local media links at Portland Protest News concerning the shooting of 2 people in Portland, Oregon on 1/8/2026 by Border Patrol agents.

Wired: How to Protest Safely in the Age of Surveillance – Law enforcement has more tools than ever to track your movements and access your communications. Here’s how to protect your privacy if you plan to protest.

Creating new types of feeds

I saw a post by Tantek Celik today describing how he created an h-feed microformat from a list of HTML elements. He then showed how this microformat could be read and parsed by the Monocle feed reader. He then pointed to a post by James Gallagher about how he publishes h-feed and uses the Granary tool to convert to RSS and other feed formats.

This is an interesting topic. I have looked at microformats before, to me it seems to be a way of adding to HTML to make it machine-readable without the construction of a separate feed. I have nothing against innovation in feeds, but I am not sure how popular the use of microformats is within the feed reader ecosystem.

Remembrance of the 5th anniversary of the January 6th Insurrection

Here we are, five years later…some people would say that the insurrectionists won (Trump is back in office, Jan6 insurrectionists were pardoned). We still have a democracy, but it is heading towards authoritarianism. I hope the results will eventually head back towards democracy.

Previously on this weblog:

Other coverage:

Frank McPherson
Politico – Back in power 5 years later, Trump has all but erased the stain of Jan. 6
NPR – This Jan. 6 plaque was made to honor law enforcement. It’s nowhere to be found at the Capitol
New York Times – Jamie Raskin: Jan. 6 Never Ended
Joyce Vance/Civil Discourse – January 6th Again
Joyce Vance/Civil Discourse – The Dangerous Revision of Jan 6 History on the WH Website
Garrett Graff/Doomsday Scenario – Five Ways to Remember January 6th
CNN – The political divide over January 6 is only deepening five years after the deadly US Capitol attack
US House of Representatives – Democrats hold a meeting to mark the fifth anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Jack Smith testimony transcript (also local copy)
Video of Jack Smith testimony

With the Trump act of war on Venezuela, I am resuming capturing the CNN live blog for this topic at my Linkblog47 linkblog.

The 2025 Linkblog King Award goes to Taegan Goddard’s Political Wire website, who posted the following stats: “I published 15,516 posts on Political Wire last year — an average of more than 42 posts a day.” Congratulations!

Acts of war

Putin invades Crimea (2014)

Putin invades Ukraine (2022)

Trump orders strikes on alleged drug smuggling boats (2025)

Trump kidnaps Maduro and his wife from Venezuela (2026) (see also CNN liveblog for 1/3/2025 and CSPAN coverage of Trump press conference on 1/3/2025 from Mar-A-Lago)

EmacsConf2025: Zettelkasten for regular Emacs hackers

EmacsConf had their 2025 online conference in early December 2025, and I am listening to conference presentations from their YouTube playlist. I thought that the presentation “Zettelkasten for regular Emacs hackers” was a good one. The presenter, Christian Tietze, one of the people behind zettelkasten.de, talked about some zettelkasten principles, and used the Denote package in Emacs for creating new “notes” in Emacs. In addition to the 25 minute talk, he did a Q&A session for almost an hour and a half, which was very illuminating about his zettelkasten process/skills. I have embedded the videos for the talk and the Q&A session in this post – enjoy!

Currently reading: Raven Rock: The Story of The US Government’s Secret Plan to Save Itself – While The Rest of Us Die, by Garrett M. Graff (found this after watching A House of Dynamite on Netflix).