Style guides, notes on “jihad”
https://www.wnyc.org/story/breaking-news-consumers-handbook-islamophobia-edition/ Guardian Reuters
Archives: Microblog
microblogs
Want to check out this …
Want to check out this python monitoring system sometime: https://freedif.org/glances-detailed-but-intuitive-system-monitoring-tool
Some more information here on …
Some more information here on microformats for microblogging: micropub. Also, here’s my outpost on micro.blog.
A good read on microblogging …
A good read on microblogging, and how to set up WordPress for microblogging using post formats. Good points.
Here we go. Microblogging tools: …
Here we go. Microblogging tools: Custom post type Plugin to help with custom URLs Function to help with auto generating …
Testing publishing a microblog with …
Testing publishing a microblog with no title. :) Works great: https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/52896/force-post-slug-to-be-auto-generated-from-title-on-save Now I just need to figure out how to move …
First, autogenerate title from post …
First, autogenerate title from post content with a function. Then, autogenerate permalink from title with a function (plugin). Then, heh …
Islamophobia in media
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/islamophobia-persistent-in-the-media-journalist-says-1.4069455
Globe and Mail editorial: Canada 150
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/editorials/indigenous-peoples-and-the-need-for-a-way-forward-made-in-canada/article34568640/ Murray Sinclair: http://aptnnews.ca/2017/04/04/sen-murray-sinclair-blasts-globe-and-mail-for-propagating-racist-fallacy/ Establishment newspapers propagate myth of the empty land and then wonder why trust in #journalism is low. …
Follow up reading
http://www.nafeezahmed.com/ https://www.jacobinmag.com/author/keeanga-yamahtta-taylor/
Open Canada
https://www.opencanada.org/about/
Weapons of mass destruction, Invasion of Iraq
http://archive.spectator.co.uk/article/29th-march-2003/12/war-is-purgatory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Iraq_War 12 arguments against war, rebutted Andrew Coyne, National Post, Friday, March 07, 2003 Cached version on James Moore …
Town and city icons
I have a soft spot for small town icons. Not icons as in famous people. Icons as in big things.
The invisible crown : the first principle of Canadian government
Title: The invisible crown : the first principle of Canadian government Author: Smith, David E., 1936- Edition: [2nd ed.]. Publication …
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Idea: interview mom about Grand Centre circa 1971
When my parents moved to Grand Centre around 1971 the bar (Lakeland Inn?) was segregated. There was a side for white …
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On the minimal view of journalism: here’s an idea
On the minimal view of journalism, it is the shrinking wedge of an ever increasing pie.
Discourse Media is awesome
Discourse Media is doing good work.
Colour pallete generator
Cool application.
Young earth creationism as filter bubble
Some Christians are young earth creationists. They believe the earth is less than 10,000 years old. It’s not a small …
NCCM guide for educators (PDF) and more
Role of media in Islamophobia: Since then, the ongoing conflicts and terrorism inflicted by those claiming to be acting in …
Digital news report 2016, Reuters
http://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/Digital-News-Report-2016.pdf
Desmond Cole quoting Ta-Nehisi Coates
American writer Ta-Nehisi Coates has compellingly described racism as “not merely a simplistic hatred. It is, more often, broad sympathy …
Ambient music for work
Yeah, I think probably 2017 will have more work music. http://okikumi.com/