After Perry left, walking by a mannequin wearing a Squat N’ Gobble T-shirt whose hand was raised above her head – a hand Perry tried to call on during a question-and-answer period — a spirited discussion broke out in the restaurant, with some patrons waving Nobama ’12 bumper stickers. It was resolved, it seemed, after they determined that someone had left without paying their bill – and a Perry staffer agreed to pick up the tab.
Warning: The beautiful tedium of working with content management systems outlined below.
I still use google reader and RSS as my main avenue for keeping up with blogs and news. Maybe I am old fashioned. I don’t use the google reader web interface anymore. I mainly use reeder on my iPhone and iPad. I use the mac version when I am checking on my laptop.
I have long noticed that reeder shows some feeds with a nice giant image. A little googling showed that reeder is using the “apple-touch-icon” for this – the same icon the iPhone will use if you add a website to your home screen. You just need to specify the location of the apple-touch-icon in your web page like so:
For a fraction of a second I thought this might be an opportunity for me to start a new wordpress plugin but of course a plugin already exists.
Even though this is a pretty basic example, I love that you can find a WordPress plugin to do whatever I need to do. I also love that I was able to install said plugin in a few seconds right from the web interface. No ssh, sftp, wget.
Now on the off chance that anyone ever subscribes to this blog and uses reeder they will be warned of the bologna contained herein.
The toys my Dad made for me were wooden. The toys I make – for myself, for friends, to make a joke real – are digital. But they’re there, and they all come down to an odd idea I wanted to explore, or a joke I wanted to make real. They are not vague ideas, tweeted and then forgotten about, tossed to the wind in a meeting, or imagined up but never created. They work, they’re real. No smoke and mirrors here – but no Great Purpose either, no business model. Just something fun, something interesting, to scratch an itch, to see if it’s fun in your hand.
I make toys to find out what’s interesting, to explore what’s next.
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The new liberal arts are not on the edge of something big; they are on many edges, all at once. We get to decide where they tip over into; what’s at the bottom of those cliff-faces.
Matchbook is an app that lets you bookmark places. Makes use of the iPhone’s GPS. Sounds like a simple idea that could be useful in all kinds of contexts.
Matchbook is designed around restaurants and othe social venues. GPS bookmarker seems like a more no-frills app that is more generic in its approach to location bookmarks.
“Social media is filling the gap left by the press,” said Andrés Monroy-Hernández, a doctoral candidate from Mexico at the M.I.T. Media Lab. “In different regions of Mexico, both the state and the press are weak, while organized crime is becoming stronger and, in some places, replacing the state.”
Many Mexicans now say they trust Twitter more than local news outlets, and in some areas, parents and grandparents are being taught by their children how to get online — specifically so they can be safe.
Anonieta Salazar Loftin, a doctoral student in Mexican history at the University of Texas at Dallas, said this is how her relatives back home use social media. She said that anonymous crime-focused Twitter accounts like @balaceramty — which is based in Monterrey and has more than 40,000 followers — provide a needed public service.
“They fulfill the need for information in an immediate and accessible way and, on a deeper, psychological level, provide some knowledge or certainty in the face of uncertainty,” Ms. Loftin said.
I don’t trust people in our industry who don’t use Facebook … it’s the soul of how hundreds of millions of people are really experiencing their first time of participating online.
If you are doing anything with the web, and I argue that the web is central to modern higher education, then you must take the time to understand facebook deeply.
