JR: Tt post mar 8 2016 - more about media website bloat - "I watched Spotlight last week. It won the award for best film, and detailed how the Boston Globe investigative team uncovered the pedophile priest scandal in the Boston archdiocese." And that reporting occurred or began in 2002. January 6, 2002 -... more>> 7 min read
- Mar 09, 2016 - #media #design #moronism

JR: Newspapers are executing a war on the web - my notes/thoughts from this stream ... ... have been copied here: "Forget Spotlight: There's a war against journalism" - - #media #moronism #humor #entertainment - a lot of whining from a media person about the entertainer Trump. it's not politi... more>> 3 min read
- Mar 01, 2016 - #media #moronism #humor #entertainment #speed #design #web

JR: Read Later - Or read again. https://medium.com/life-learning/50-ways-happier-healthier-and-more-successful-people-live-on-their-own-terms-30280c7d5e44#.qrbffc8wv https://medium.com/re-form/cabin-fever-63c4c4b3a2ad https://medium.com/re-form https://medium.co... more>> 1 min read
- Feb 01, 2016

JR: Google's AMP Project - January 2016 - Hilarious. Publishers need to rely on other companies to serve fast web pages on mobile. That's because publishers create some of the worst designed and most bloated websites on the internet. Here's how to speed up an article page: use no javascri... more>> 5 min read
- Jan 20, 2016

JR: Tt post oct 28, 2015 - media - Thanks for the detailed info, foodie88. I'm with you on the number of cluttered, bloated, and wretched media websites that are horrible user experiences. Again, I prefer simply-designed article pages. For a homepage, I prefer single column strea... more>> 1 min read
- Oct 28, 2015 - #media #toledo #design

JR: Google wants to speed up the mobile web - The delicious irony here. The horribly bloated and slow-loading Verge.com published a story about Google speeding up the mobile web. Last summer, a Verge.com writing dolt blamed the slowness of the mobile web on browsers and not the disgustingly-de... more>> 4 min read
- Oct 09, 2015

JR: Apple iOS 9 - news reader and ad blocker - Positives for the user reading experience. Possibly negatives for publishers if they choose to remain stuck in the past. create crappy, bloated websites, and users revolt. and don't blame innovation that originates at Google, Faceb... more>> 14 min read
- Sep 20, 2015 - #media #design #rss #mobile #advertising

JR: Media websites, JavaScript bloat, tracking, Ghostery monitoring - Jul 4, 2014 - PandoDaily - I just installed a tool which shows how popular websites are spying on me. The results are horrifying With JavaScript enabled, an article page may take several seconds, maybe more than 10 seconds, to load completely. With ... more>> 7 min read
- Aug 21, 2015 - #media #browser #javascript #blog_jr

JR: Tt post aug 5 2015 - b - A bit more from Ignazio Messina's story today: Stacy Weber, the citys public information officer, said public utilities executives did receive pay raises, including the director, but initially said she was unsure whether the city could immediately ... more>> 1 min read
- Aug 05, 2015 - #toledo #politics #moronism

JR: Facebook Instant Articles - May 2015 - https://www.facebook.com/instantArticles https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9536807 video I doubt Google will be able to create anything to compete with Facebook. Google+ still exists, and it's used a lot, but it's not in the same category as... more>> 21 min read
- May 18, 2015 - #mobile #app #media #socialmedia

JR: 2015 Toledo Beer Week - May 11 - 17, 2015 Toledo Beer Week will have more than 25 craft beer-related events throughout its run. From beer-themed sandwiches and doughnuts to tap takeovers at area bars and restaurants, organizers of the event left no keg untapped. Th... more>> 4 min read
- May 14, 2015 - #beer #brewery #event

JR: Drupal security hole - October 2014 - https://www.drupal.org/PSA-2014-003 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8528605 Some excerpts from the above links: Date: 2014-October-29 Security risk: 25/25 ( Highly Critical) Automated attacks began compromising Drupal 7 websites that were... more>> 12 min read
- Oct 31, 2014 - #drupal #wordpress #programming #security #php #cms #blogging

JR: Geek Browser War - Firefox vs Chrome - August 2014 - I've used Chrome as my main browser for years. I switched to Opera for a while in January 2014 because it seemed that a new version of Chrome chewed up more CPU. But Chrome does a lot of little things well that I missed in Opera, so I switched back... more>> 2 min read
- Aug 16, 2014 - #web #browser #opensource #business

JR: Web-based discussions are superior to radio discussions - That's stating the obvious. Below is my Jan or Feb 2014 comment posted at ToledoTalk.com. #todo find the link to my comment. (Another user said:) "Fred - why not invite AC down to speak on behalf of the residents who so far have chosen not to repre... more>> 1 min read
- Mar 03, 2014 - #todo #forums #web #radio #blog_jr

JR: Proposed Ghost blogging platform - Idea proposed in the fall of 2012. Development began in 2013. First release expected in summer or fall of 2013. A lot of nerd hype. Concept, however, contains interesting ideas. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4743245 http... more>> 6 min read
- Feb 13, 2014 - #blogging #writing #design #ghost #blog_jr