Esko Kilpi: Hedging the future of work (more)

Instagram and Snapchat don't pay. Patreon does and it's growing like crazy. (more)

Taylor Pearson emailed A 5 Minute Exercise To Make Today The Most Productive Day of Your Life (more)

Progressive Web Apps are technically regular web pages (or websites) but can appear to the user like traditional applications or (native) Mobile applications. This new application type attempts to combine features offered by most modern browsers with the benefits of mobile experience... As of 2017, Progressive Web Apps are supported by the Google Chrome browser, but more browsers may support the features needed in the future. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_web_app (more)

Web Design approach that tries to handle variety of user hardware (esp Mobile) (screen size, speed, support for JavaScript, etc.) gracefully. (more)

Progressive Web Apps: Yeh or Meh? (more)

Stowe Boyd: The Rise and Fall of Work Media (more)

Big proponent of UnSchooling/Home-Schooling. Died in 1985. (more)

A Wiki is a web-based writing space based on the original Wiki Wiki Web. It is typically collaborative, but doesn't have to be. Why do it? To make the WikiWeb, Webs Of Thinkers And Thoughts. (more)

Meta wiki discussion (more)

applying Pattern Language format to help refine the key aspects of a Wiki. (more)

Austin Kleon: Further notes on scenius. “Scenius” is a term coined by musician and producer Brian Eno to counter “The Lone Genius Myth,” or the idea that innovation in art and culture comes from a few Great Chosen Ones. (more)

Seth Stephens-Davidowitz: Maybe the Internet Isn’t Tearing Us Apart After All (more)

The Meaning of Mendacity. In Tennessee Williams’ drama Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Big Daddy confronts his son with the root of his problems. “What’s that smell in this room? Didn’t you notice it? Didn’t you notice a powerful and obnoxious odor of mendacity? (more)

aka Ecstasy; probably mostly harmless - see 2003-09-28-EcstasyStudiesRetracted (more)

In the course of a book review, Alan Cabal says: Frank Owen writes with a certain nostalgia, and repeatedly implies that there was something innately noble in the origins of the club scene. Again and again he refers to the idea that MDMA was some kind of unique Social Glue bringing together the different races and genders in some blissninny orgy of serotonin-fueled agape. I've taken Ecstasy a few times. It's a remarkably stupid drug. It induces a state best described as the opposite of paranoia. A better street name for it would be "chump," because only a chump would take it in a public venue. Trust is a valuable commodity and shouldn't be given lightly. Any drug that induces trust is a drug to be avoided.

Inside Donald Trump’s anger and impatience — and his sudden decision to fire James Comey. Every time FBI Director James B. Comey appeared in public, an ever-watchful President Trump grew increasingly agitated that the topic was the one that he was most desperate to avoid: Russia. Trump had long questioned Comey’s loyalty and judgment, and was infuriated by what he viewed as the director’s lack of action in recent weeks on leaks from within the federal government (more)

Behind James Comey’s firing: An enraged Donald Trump, fuming about Russia. He had grown enraged by the Russia investigation, two advisers said, frustrated by his inability to control the mushrooming narrative around Russia. He repeatedly asked aides why the Russia investigation wouldn’t disappear and demanded they speak out for him. (more)

Antigonish 2.0: A Way for Higher Ed to Help Save the Web (OpenWeb) (more)

Silicon Valley hires most graduates from this college (and it’s NOT an Ivy League school) (more)