"Brexit is Suez 2.0 | Memex 1.1"
PESOS from Reading.am.
New book traces humankind's 14-billion-year journey
I really want to like this but I fear ("Inspired by genetic pioneer Sydney Brenner") that it will not contain enough of Brenner's genius.
"Are podcasts a wasteland? (with a post script about Kurt Wagner) | CultureBy – Grant McCracken"
Just as desktop publishing didn't turn everyone into even a half-decent designer, so the democratisation of "radio" doesn't turn everyone into even a half-decent producer.
PESOS from Reading.am.
How to download all of your Flickr photos (and metadata)
tl;dr: It couldn't be simpler. What to do with all that, however, is the bigger question.
The Garden and the Stream: A Technopastoral | Hapgood
So good.
Your machine is a library not a publication device. You have copies of documents is there that you control directly, that you can annotate, change, add links to, summarize, and this is because the memex is a tool to think with, not a tool to publish with.
Everybody wants to play in the Stream, but no one wants to build the Garden.
Three things about Readers during IndieWebCamp Nürnberg
I watched some of this magic happening, and it was ... Magical. There are so many good things happening in ReaderLand these days.
"Our Hidden Wound | The Contrary Farmer"
On World Food Day, so delighted to see this piece from Gene Logsden pop up in my feed.
https://thecontraryfarmer.wordpress.com/2018/10/15/our-hidden-wound-2/
Sometimes, it’s the data you’re missing that’s the key to understanding something
Illuminating anecdote from WW2.
PESOS from Reading.am.
On Cash, in which a busker prompts Tim Bray to reassess his priorities
What happened was, I was walking through a train station on the way to work with the buds playing randomly on shuffle and a knifeblade of Real Music came in from outside so I had to pull them out of my ears, there was this young dude getting great electric sound out of a teeny amp doing a slow take on Little Wing with a really good voice: When I’m sad, she comes to me… plenty room between the notes and lots of soul in them. He looked a little hard-pressed; I put my hand in my pocket for some coin but there was no coin there because I live on plastic these days and that busker went unpaid that morning. Another reason for a thing I’m thinking of: Going back to cash.
PESOS from Reading.am.
Squalid London - Craig Murray
I read it, I note that I am unsurprised, and I move on. That is what is wrong with me.
"Geohashing expedition 2018-08-23 50 -1"
PESOS from Reading.am.
"Owning Your Content - Blottings"
PESOS from Reading.am.
Cornell's Brian Wansink: A Crisis in Food Science
Not the most important point in the article, but an important point:
Wansink’s sense for harnessing buzz may have been a skill in the wrong domain. He’s a camera-friendly performer who might’ve done very well as a Bill Nye– or Neil deGrasse Tyson–type infotainer, in an industry where simplification to build a compelling narrative is not a bug but a feature, given the explicit mission to deliver an attention-grabbing-and-holding product to an audience.