my first meme: thanks to my working 20 years at Collins Aerospace, I was able to fix a computer problem in 10 minutes. The meme: sometimes it’s good to be a smart old fart….
While I was walking my dog this morning, I met some friends walking their dogs and had a nice chat, it reminded me of this post on dogwalking as community.
Act of random kindness: I thanked a Costco employee for her past suggestion that I buy flowers for my wife, her face lit up and she gave me a big hug!
Read: Planning as an act of hope
What a story! Life changes can bring home what is important…
Read: The Rise and Demise of RSS
Interesting history…via Dave Winer
Read: Indieweb for Journalism – IndieWeb
Some good tools/links for rebooting journalism
Read: 2019 – Independent Blogging Trends
via Chris Aldrich – I think people focus too much on having the perfect tool or the right tool, just start with some tool – just get started!
Read: The reboot of journalism (Scripting News)
— sources go direct —
Read: The Black Box system for organizing a story – American Press Institute (great how-to on writing a news story)
The earlier link is a great description of what journalism is, this link is a great description of how to do journalism.
Read: The elements of journalism – American Press Institute
via Dave Winer