- Poll on Mastodon (Fediverse)
- Poll on LinkedIn
- ChatGPT conversation
- The Hedgehog and the Fox by Isaiah Berlin
- We Are Open Co-op
- The role of endorsement in Open Badges and Open Recognition
- Rewilding Your Attention (CJ Eller)
- “Rewilding Your Attention” (Clive Thompson)
- Increasing your 'serendipity surface' (Discours.es)
- The Uncensored Library gives gamers "a safe haven for press freedom" (Dezeen)
- Ethiopia to build local rival to Facebook and WhatsApp (Tech Central)
- Kuo: iPhone 13 to support LEO satellite communication, allowing users to make phone calls and send texts without cell signal (9to5Mac)
- Why is walking so good for the brain? Blame it on the "spontaneous fluctuations" (Salon)
- Why cloud gaming could be a big problem for the climate (Polygon)
- What if you're already on top of things? (Oliver Burkeman)
- Awesome Screenshot
- ColorZilla
- Containers Sync
- Dark Reader
- Decentraleyes
- Disconnect
- DownloadThemAll!
- Firefox Multi-Account Containers
- Floccus
- Fraidycat
- LessPass
- Livemarks
- Momentum
- NoPlugin
- Plasma integration
- Privacy Badger
- RSSPreview
- Terms of Service; Didn't Read
- The Camelizer
- uBlock Origin
- Video DownloadHelper
- Web Developer
- Zoom Scheduler
Microcast #102 — Rituals and Routines
A very short microcast about reading by the light of a fish tank in the early hours of the morning.
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Microcast #101 — Self-esteem, pies, and moving house
More solo waffle about various things. I could pretend there's a consistent thread, but then I'd be lying.
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Microcast #100 — Awkward Conversations
Instead of avoiding difficult conversations, aim to make them less awkward. Here's one way.
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Image: Unsplash
Microcast #99 — EVs
Reflections on taking delivery of an electric vehicle (EV), including charging, business lease, and other rambling thoughts.
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Image: taken by me on my first run-out to Druridge Bay
Microcast #097 — What do we mean by 'consensus'?
Exploring different conceptions of 'consensus' using polls on the Fediverse and LinkedIn, as well as reflecting on my own experience.
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Image: Unsplash
Microcast #096 — Getting back in the saddle
Explaining what I've been up to and the difference between being a hedgehog and a fox.
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Image: Pexels
Microcast #095 — Rewilding your serendipity surface
Attention, Big Tech, and choosing to curate rather than be curated.
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See also: Fraidycat and Rewilding Your Attention (Read Write Collect)
Image: Pexels
Background music: Shimmers by Synth Soundscapes (aka Mentat)
Microcast #089 — Circumvention
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In this microcast I discuss three articles loosely related to censorship and the circumvention thereof.
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Image: Michael Dziedzic
Background music: Shimmers by Synth Soundscapes (aka Mentat)
Microcast #088 — Spontaneous fluctuations
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In which I pick another three interesting items from my bookmarks to discuss.
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Image: Richard Horvath
Background music: Shimmers by Synth Soundscapes (aka Mentat)
Microcast #085 — Extensions for Mozilla Firefox
In the last quarter of 2019, I got rid of my Google Pixelbook and Chromebox, and switched full-time to Linux and Firefox.
I still need to dip into Chromium occasionally to use Loom but, on the whole, I'm really happy with my new setup. In this microcast, I go through my Firefox extensions and the reasons I have them installed.
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The following are links to the Firefox Add-ons directory:
Microcast #084 - Chris Dixon on RSS, crypto, and community ownership of the internet
I don't often listen to the a16z podcast but for some reason I decided to listen to an episode about the past, present, and future of the internet while out for a long walk.
In it, Jonah Peretti, founder and CEO of Buzzfeed, interviews Chris Dixon, a partner at VC firm Andreessen Horowitz. A section of it really struck me, which I'd like to share with you now.
I'd be interested in your thoughts on it, too. Are you optimistic about the kind of approach that Dixon outlines?
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Microcast #083 - Ambiguous in Kuwait City
Some reflections on my digital literacies pre-conference workshop yesterday for AMICAL.
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Microcast #004
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Is it really a ‘skills gap’ that we should be talking about? What’s the real problem here?
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Microcast #003
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What technologies are going to be used with Project MoodleNet?
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Microcast #002
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What’s Doug working on this week?
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Microcast #001
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What is microcasting? Why has it suddenly appeared on Thought Shrapnel? Whose voice will you hear? How often will one of these appear in the stream? How are these produced?
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