Convocast episode 13 is out – and we have a format change! Starting with episode 12, John Philpin asked his question and then gave his answer – I loved it! I follow his example – so check it out!
When I left the CIA, I no longer wanted to fight our "war on terror." For seven years after the 9/11 attacks, I served as an operations officer in the CIA counterterrorism center. My role in our effor
I’m now a cop in my hometown, Savannah, Georgia, and I don’t want to fight another war — our “war on crime.” But I’m not going anywhere. I’m just speaking up, to propose that we end what never was a war to begin with. We need to change our mind-set about what it means to “police” in America. At this moment of maximal national tension and outrage, when national leaders are calling the streets of America a “battlespace,” with police officers as warriors who should “dominate” and give “no quarter,” I am telling whoever will listen: Police are not warriors — because we are not and must not be at war with our neighbors.
It doesn’t look like the Trump Adminstration has a handle on the coronavirus…better wear your mask, wash your hands, and practice social distancing! It’s up to us…
Source: The Lincoln Project
Cool article about digitized tapes of Grateful Dead concerts on Archive.org!
Convocast episode 11 is now available – we are in double digits now! Check it out!
Wiki resources
I had a collection of links on wikis, thought I would collect them here:
Tom Critchlow – Building a Digital Garden: How I built myself a simple wiki using folders and files and published using Jekyll (his personal wiki)
I liked this article because it makes it possible to have a wiki without a database
Tom Critchlow – Of Digital Streams, Campfires and Gardens – Building personal learning environments across the different time horizons of information consumption
Tom gives Twitter, blogging, and wikis as his examples for his title, also references the article below.
Mike Caufield – The Garden and the Stream: A TechnoPastoral
This 2015 article compares and contrasts wikis and blogs, with a focus on Federated Wiki (created by Ward Cunningham)
Frank McPherson – Site index page for his instance of Federated Wiki (also, his page on setting up Federated Wiki on your laptop)
Andy Sylvester – My instance of Federated Wiki (my New User Setup page)
Rudimentary Lathe – Jack Baty’s hosted instance of TiddlyWiki
TiddlyWiki – Main site to download your own copy
Chris Aldrich – Summary of Indieweb pop-up session on The Garden and The Stream (includes notes and video)
Everyone has an opinion about how and if schools should reopen for this coming school year. We’ve heard from the governors, the pediatricians, the parents, the education secretary, and the president. Everyone has a “study” and “research” to back up their claims, but unfortunately (as alway…
Excellent summary of the issues on the ground in the public schools with coronovirus.
ZoomIt is a screen zoom and annotation tool for technical presentations that include application demonstrations. ZoomIt works on all versions of Windows and you can use pen input for ZoomIt drawing on tablet PCs.
GET AND MANIPULATE DATA FROM THE OPEN WEB BY CONNECTING BLOCKS
Or you can set up your own Pipes server!
Huginn is a system for building agents that perform automated tasks for you online. They can read the web, watch for events, and take actions on your behalf. Huginn’s Agents create and consume events, propagating them along a directed graph. Think of it as a hackable version of IFTTT or Zapier on your own server. You always know who has your data. You do.
See also this post on Medium