Style guides, notes on “jihad”
https://www.wnyc.org/story/breaking-news-consumers-handbook-islamophobia-edition/ Guardian Reuters
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 titles from content Function to help with auto generating URLs from titles Optional plugin to clean editor interface including titles For display: microtopic-taxonomy.php ?? single-microblog.php archive-microblog.php Hmm, here’s an alternative method: https://torquemag.io/2015/05/adding-microblog-within-wordpress-blog/
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 the title down in interface.
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 heh, hide the title.
What happens when I publish with no title? Titles are friction. http://help.micro.blog/2018/setting-up-wordpress/ But titles from the post title in the head. And title also form a meaningful permalink. This is interesting how micro.blog handles titles: https://sherwin.micro.blog/2018/02/22/check-testing-squrrk.html This makes sense to me; the first few words form the permalink and the page title. Hmm, permalinks should include year…
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. #cdnmedia https://t.co/QSC0COHEVB — Sherwin Arnott (@sherwinarnott) April 4, 2017 Why don't residential school survivors 'get over it'? @SenSincmurr respondsLISTEN @TheCurrentCBC https://t.co/a4171t8i6Q#thecurrentMMIW pic.twitter.com/bZxGxy53rn — CBC Radio (@cbcradio) April 4, 2017 The Globe's Editorial position on…
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 site hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilian deaths — There is no basis to these forecasts. No one can say with certainty how many will die, on either side. But the choice is not between…
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 Date: 2013 Publication Information: Toronto, ON : University of Toronto Press, ©2013. Physical Description: xvi, 274 pages ; 23 cm ISBN: 9781442615854 Abstract: The Crown is not only Canada’s oldest continuing political institution, but also…
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 folks and there was a side for white men and Indigenous folks.
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 number of people. But how many? And how many in Canada? And how does this community continue to believe these things? What do their children think? How does belief correlate to age? Young earth creationism,…
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 the name of Islam, has meant that Islam — and its sincere adherents — are often negatively portrayed in the mass media, and regarded pejoratively by wider society. This has led to a distinct rise…
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 toward some and broader skepticism toward others.” We can extend this observation to patriarchy and classism. The Power of Being Preppy Original quote in The Atlantic, “Fear of a Black President”: Racism is not merely…
Ambient music for work
Yeah, I think probably 2017 will have more work music. http://okikumi.com/