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JR:
Facebook's Instant Articles do not help the Open Web
- (Nor the #Indieweb which is the term that I prefer.)
I enjoy reading Dave Winer's blog posts that are related to blogging and other technologies. I don't have to agree with him all the time.
Two recent DW posts:
How Instant Articles helps the ope...
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5 min read
- Feb 29, 2016
- #Indieweb #socialmedia #mobile #app #blog_jr
JR:
Tt comment feb 27 2016
- Past Toledo Talk threads:
April 2013 - Toledo Ranked 7th Fattest City in America
Consider it evolution. A little natural insulation helps Toledoans survive the winter, which ends about July.
In April and May and sometimes in early June, we occasi...
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1 min read
- Feb 27, 2016
JR:
Twitter's Complexity
- Twitter's Missing Manual - (eev.ee)
related HN thread
It takes thousands of words to explain how to use a service that permits only 140 characters.
This is a space that is ripe for disruption. Someone or something could create a much simpler "disc...
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4 min read
- Feb 27, 2016
- #socialmedia #forums #design #humor #moronism #blog_jr
JR:
Tt comment fri, feb 26, 2016
- "Maybe JR could stretch the rules a little and call this "political"."
No. I think that some of this area's quirkiness should remain visible.
From that broken making a predator website, I learned about this nugget from the Toledo City Paper's 'Bes...
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- Feb 26, 2016
JR:
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- Feb 25, 2016
JR:
Tt comment feb 25 2016
- "How many wrongs make a right anyway?"
It seems that as long as the popcorn holds out, then no limit exists on the wrongs.
"Could someone TL;DR this for me?"
I'll refer you to a November 2015 post from yet another ephemeral website about the topic...
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- Feb 25, 2016
JR:
Tornado Warning Sampson County, NC
- Issued: 5:04 PM EST Feb. 24, 2016 National Weather Service
The National Weather Service in Raleigh has issued a
Tornado Warning for...
southeastern Hoke County in central North Carolina...
Cumberland County in central North Carolina...
e...
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1 min read
- Feb 24, 2016
JR:
Google AMP News - Feb 24, 2016
- Publishers are dumb. Publishers create terrible websites. Publishers need Facebook and Google to save them.
A lot of moronic rhetoric will exist about this topic.
The feedback from publishers so far has been very enthusiastic. Everyone is excite...
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18 min read
- Mar 21, 2016
JR:
Book Reading - 2016
- Trying to read at least a couple books a month, instead of reading only web pages.
January
Nothing
February
Charlie Brewer on Slider Fishing - revisited an old favorite
#book - #reading
- Feb 22, 2016
JR:
Possible tt comment feb 22 2016
- Thanks, JustaSooner.
The potential strength and uncertainty of this storm for the Toledo area is a reason to me that it seemed amateurish for Wichman to make such authoritative on Sunday afternoon and evening, approx 72 hours ahead of the
- Feb 22, 2016
JR:
Tt post sun feb 21 2016
- Sunday afternoon, Feb 21, 2016 tweet by Ryan Wichman:
Can't stand these websites and fake forecasters who exploit people. All they do is post big snow totals/tornado threats to scare people.
That's funny coming from someone in TV media who are t...
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1 min read
- Feb 21, 2016
- #tv #media #moronism #weather #toledo
JR:
Tt post feb 18 2016
- "Why vote someone that stupid back to the board? Oh wait, Hickey told you it was a good idea."
Canales was also officially endorsed last year by the Lucas County Democrat party.
If she doesn't live in the Washington Local school district, then may...
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- Feb 18, 2016
JR:
Html template error
- html template error
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- Feb 12, 2016