@rupl @jsruppel I love that my mom does much the same thing!
Of course I wrote a little about it and it put me at the top of HackerNews for most of a day... :)
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@JmacDotOrg When you get a chance, could you document it at https:/
@cathieleblanc You may be (too generously) confusing me with @jgmac1106 who interviewed you. Perhaps it was in one of your conversations via his site that I saw the reference to your looking for this type of overview though?
@mattscomments Are all the journalists leaving their homes?
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@cathieleblanc I can't find it now, but it seems like you made a comment the other day that led be to believe that this post/pencast might help you out a bit: http:/
@mattmaldre I do remember playing around just for fun, but ultimately it was #JAWPIDN (Just Another Web Presence I Don't Need)
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@malcolmblaney Odd. I'd been subscribed to the feed in @inoreader for a while, but it didn't seem to be picking up/storing anything. It just looked like it had been dead for a while.
It's interesting to see that you've stored/used my old Christmas-themed Twitter handle. :)
@kimberlyhirsh I'm more curious where influencers are actually getting their income streams and what those physical numbers actually are. Affiliate marketing may be a piece of it, but from what I've seen from YouTube financial flows, only the very top ones (a fraction of a percent) are making decent money and the rest are getting pennies on the dollar by comparison. Most of the rest are working additional jobs and only making peanuts on their influencer income. The majority of stories we hear about the super-influencers (Kardashians, etc.) are making these jobs popular, but I don't think on the whole that they're actually providing a living wage.
In fact, the $2,000 and change that PopSugar apparently made on the stolen content in the article, if true, gives me great pause. I find it a bit sad that the article didn't find a blogger/influencer that was making a full-time income from the incident to quote. Perhaps they couldn't? The best they offered was someone who was doing it as a "side-hustle" which is code to me for "low paid internship" type of money.
@kimberlyhirsh I like the idea of what you've laid out here. Similar to a "Now" page (https:/
BTW, if you're okay with the show Daniel Tiger on PBS, there's a potty-training episode with fun little song that might be useful.
@malcolmblaney It looks like the RSS feed advertised at https:/
John, I like your much broader view of the syndication idea. I keep it in the back of my head, but too often just deal with the immediate idea with regard to silos. I'd love to have additional examples of the type you mentioned.
Separately, in Ben's original post, I don't think he explicitly mentioned it, but I suspect one of the motivating reasons behind his having written it was the fact that Facebook had just announced that on August 1st they're going to cut off the part of their API that allows outside services to syndicate content into Facebook. They recently just shut off the ability to RSVP to events remotely.
In addition to my "Now" page, I've been thinking about having a projects/planning page where I keep my own copy of my longer term goals or to do type lists. It might be something akin to my IW user page where I list the things I'd like to work on. Then on my "Now" page I could add the things I'm actively working on completing this week/month.
@mattmaldre Nice find. KQED has something similar with a slightly different audience: https:/
@mattmaldre Mashing this up with your prior blog+log concept: http:/