Reading Terminal Market, Philadelphia – June 2017
Reading Terminal Market, Philadelphia – June 2017
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Well done Scott McNulty
Scott McNulty: Let me repeat that: I've lost 50 pounds in 5 months! Scott and I have dieted together in the past. In fact, it has already been 12 years! He did tremendously well then so it is of no surprise that he's killing it yet again. He, like so many dieters including myself, had a relapse -…
Top of the World, Dunmore Pine Barrens – June 2017
Top of the World, Dunmore Pine Barrens – June 2017
Ben Brooks on Hello Weather
Ben Brooks reviewing Hello Weather: This app is without a doubt, my favorite weather app. Not just now but of all the apps I’ve tried over the years. Well done. Ben's enthusiasm for Hello Weather reminds me of mine for Dark Sky. An app I use every day and gladly paid for. Hello Weather uses the same backend…
Twan van Elk on social media
Twan van Elk: Everytime I open up my feed reader and read about people’s lives, thoughts, work, observations, what they ate, that beautiful flower they saw, I ask myself: why do I enjoy this so much more than any social media timeline I’ve ever been on? Because blog posts feel more permanent than social media posts causing people…
Turkey egg – May 2017
Turkey egg – May 2017
Tabledo
Tabledo: Create dynamic websites automatically using data from your spreadsheets as content. Cool idea. It appears Tabledo takes my idea much further. Last June I wrote: I was recently asked by a client if I could use an existing Excel spreadsheet and create a single-page web site from it. This way, their team would be able to use the work they’ve…
Colin Walker on evergreen content
Colin Walker: Evergreen content. It’s what many bloggers crave. Posts that keep people coming back. Passive traffic that you don’t have to do anything more to receive. Back-in-the-day we called this the longtail. Publish enough posts on a given niche and generate tons of traffic over the longterm due to people searching for those topics and your blog…
Adventure Aquarium, Camden, New Jersey – May 2017
Adventure Aquarium, Camden, New Jersey – May 2017
Quad trail – June 2017
Quad trail – June 2017
What I saw this week #45: June 30, 2017
As the summer heat rises in our hemisphere it seems that the river of content online dries up to a slow trickle. I wonder if that means I should expect more from our friends Down Under during these months? Here are a few things that caught my attention: Mars on Google Maps – Google has a jump on…
Jurassic Park-like Turkey track – June 2017
Jurassic Park-like Turkey track – June 2017
Liam Dempsey on vacationing in Germany
Liam Dempsey: Walking through cities that trace their history back to the 1200s and to churches that reach back to 800 AD is deeply moving. The connection to the past is palpable and gripping. I felt this very same feeling when in Ireland. You realize the pub you're in is nearly a thousand years old and suddenly the…
Observations on Apple Music
I switched from a paid Spotify account to a paid Apple Music family plan earlier this month. Since doing so I've used the service nearly every single day via my Mac desktop, my iPhone, and my iPad. I've created playlists, downloaded tracks, loved and disliked albums, followed artists, used Siri's built-in "What's this song?" feature, and more. So…
VR180
Frank Rodriguez: VR180 video focuses on what’s in front of you, are high resolution, and look great on desktop and on mobile. I think this looks like an excellent format. As I've mentioned in the past, 360 video is very difficult to follow if there is a narrative. While 360 might be good to virtually put you somewhere,…
Colin Walker on the IndieWeb
Colin Walker: Yet there is still a problem, and that is the apparent insistence on the implementation of specific technologies as implied by the guides and documentation. Go read his entire post. There are all sorts of "problems" with the IndieWeb and Walker lays some of them out nicely. (Remember, I told you to subscribe to his site.)…
What I saw this week #44: June 21, 2017
First day of summer! I'm off my schedule. I know. Sorry. Video: Mixed Reality – THEORIZ – RnD test 002 – Realtime AR used to create art. We'll be seeing a lot more of this. Rafter – A group of turkeys is called a rafter. Putting the social in social media – A nice write-up of one of…
Colin Walker on blogrolls
Colin Walker: Part of the problem with people based following models on social networks is that you follow the whole person so see everything they post whether it is relevant to you or not. There is no filtering system. He goes on to mention that blogrolls that also supply an OPML file make it quick to subscribe via…
Goslings, Aylesworth – June 2017
Goslings, Aylesworth Park – June 2017
Should I start a blogroll?
Dave Winer: I'm thinking of restarting my blogroll. Remember those! I've been thinking about that too. I have a list already created of what blogs I would add to it. But I find linking to individual posts with some context provides more value than just a list of URLs.
Gravel pile, Archbald, PA – June 2017
Gravel pile, Archbald, PA – June 2017
Electric City Building, Scranton, PA – January 2017
Electric City Building, Scranton, PA – January 2017
Podcasts 2017
Three years ago I was tagged to make a list of the podcasts I was currently listening to. A year before that I did something similar. So, now I'm back this year to provide a current list. In no particular order: Criminal The West Wing Weekly The Joe Rogan Experience* The Tim Ferriss Show* tecBRIDGE Radio MeatEater The…
Osterhout Free Library, Wilkes-Barre, PA – January 2017
Osterhout Free Library, Wilkes-Barre, PA – January 2017