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AgileBits Blog | Introducing Travel Mode: Protect your data when crossing borders
AgileBits Blog | Introducing Travel Mode: Protect your data when crossing borders
We often get inspired to create new features based on feedback from our customers. Earlier this month, our friends at Basecamp made their Employee Handbook public. We were impressed to see they had a whole section about using 1Password, which included instructions for keeping work information off their devices when travelling internationally. We knew right away that we wanted to make it easier for everyone to follow this great advice. So we hunkered down and built Travel Mode. Travel Mode is a new feature we’re making available to everyone with a 1Password membership. It protects your 1Password data from unwarranted searches when you travel. When you turn on Travel Mode, every vault will be removed from your devices except for the ones marked “safe for travel.” All it takes is a single click to travel with confidence.
#privacy
·blog.agilebits.com·
AgileBits Blog | Introducing Travel Mode: Protect your data when crossing borders
Messaging startup Slack is secretly an acronym for Searchable Log of All Communication and Knowledge — Quartz
Messaging startup Slack is secretly an acronym for Searchable Log of All Communication and Knowledge — Quartz
The name “Slack” has always felt like a wink and a nod. The popular messaging service is designed to replace traditional office email and increase productivity, but it can also be fun to the point of distraction. Hence the irony in what Slack terms its users (“slackers”) and how it’s come to be used as a verb (I’m slacking). But it turns out that Slack is an acronym as well. It stands for Searchable Log of All Communication and Knowledge. Slack co-founder and CEO Steward Butterfield revealed that last night in response to an inquiry on Twitter. He included a screenshot of a chat from Nov. 14, 2012, in which he announces having come up with “a better code name” for the program.
#slack
·qz.com·
Messaging startup Slack is secretly an acronym for Searchable Log of All Communication and Knowledge — Quartz
Building the Serverless Superman · Raymond Camden
Building the Serverless Superman · Raymond Camden
So yes - I built something stupid again. Recently I discovered the awesomeness that is @Big Data Batman. This is a twitter account that simply copies tweets with “Big Data” in them and replaces it with “Batman.” It works as well as you may think - either lame or incredibly funny. (At least to me.)
#twitter#bot#behindscenes
·raymondcamden.com·
Building the Serverless Superman · Raymond Camden
WordPress Performance in Theme Development • Calvin Koepke
WordPress Performance in Theme Development • Calvin Koepke
I’ve once again updated my theme, but for good reasons. I wanted to explore two areas of front-end web development that I needed more experience in: WordPress performance in building themes, and the new CSS kid on the block — Grid. This post is a review of the strategies I used in the theme, and how you can leverage performance gains and layout options using modern technologies. If you like the theme, you can get it for free on GitHub.
#wordpress#behindscenes
·calvinkoepke.com·
WordPress Performance in Theme Development • Calvin Koepke
The New York Times Told Me to Take This Down – - meta - – Medium
The New York Times Told Me to Take This Down – - meta - – Medium
It’s been five months since the New York Times dropped their mammoth digital story “Snow Fall,” and some people still talk about it as if it came out last week. At a conference recently, the editor-in-chief of the Times said that “Snow Fall” has become a verb inside the newsroom. Om Malik suggested that projects like this are where media companies should be investing their money. I was thrilled when I first saw “Snow Fall.” For the past few years I’ve been working to help publishers break from their templates and craft powerful digital stories. I work on a startup designed to streamline this process called scroll kit. So, instead of tweeting about how awesome “Snow Fall” was, I wanted to do something that would show its admirers that they can do it too—I made a replica. It took about an hour to put together, and I recorded a video of the process. I recently opened my email to see a cease and desist:
#web2storytelling
·medium.com·
The New York Times Told Me to Take This Down – - meta - – Medium
How We Made Snow Fall - Features - Source: An OpenNews project
How We Made Snow Fall - Features - Source: An OpenNews project
The New York Times’ astonishing Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek, launched in the final days of 2012, capped a year of extraordinary work in interactive journalism, both at the Times and in newsrooms around the world. In the six days after Snow Fall’s launch on December 20th, 2012, it had received more than 3.5 million page views and 2.9 million visitors, nearly a third of whom were new visitors to the Times website.
#web2storytelling#behindscenes
·source.opennews.org·
How We Made Snow Fall - Features - Source: An OpenNews project
Automattic Buys Scroll Kit, A Code-Free Website Builder That Once Got Legal Heat From The NYT | TechCrunch
Automattic Buys Scroll Kit, A Code-Free Website Builder That Once Got Legal Heat From The NYT | TechCrunch
WordPress maker Automattic’s acquisition spree to build out its platform continues apace. Today comes news that it has acquired Scroll Kit, a New York-based startup that had developed a platform for people to build websites without needing to know any code, or, in the words of co-founders Cody Brown and Kate Ray announcing the news, “a process for making the web that was more like drawing on a piece of paper.” The Scroll Kit editor is being shut down in three months as its co-founders integrate some of the features into WordPress. “I can’t go into details about what we’re working on but I can say that we’re shutting down Scroll Kit so we can work on the core WordPress.com product,” Brown tells me. “We’re drawn to WordPress because it’s an opportunity to take the best features inside Scroll Kit and reach an audience that is many magnitudes larger.”
#wordpress
·techcrunch.com·
Automattic Buys Scroll Kit, A Code-Free Website Builder That Once Got Legal Heat From The NYT | TechCrunch
About - The Physics Factbook
About - The Physics Factbook
The Physics Factbook is an encyclopedia of scientific essays written by high school students that can be used by anybody. It is an exercise in library research methods in which students are sent out in search of a measurement with the intent of having them find more than just a number with a unit. It is an ongoing project with no foreseeable end date or limits.
#ideas
·hypertextbook.com·
About - The Physics Factbook
inequaligram
inequaligram
What do millions of social media images shared in New York, Bangkok, Sao Paolo, or London tell us about each city? Which parts of a city receive most attention and which remain invisible? How can we quantify and measure these patterns?   Inequaligram project analyzes 7,442,454 public Instagram images shared in Manhattan over five months. We use measures of inequality from economics to analyze differences in sharing between parts of a city. The ratio between a Census tract with most images and the tract with least images is staggering: 250,000 : 1. For locals, 50% of their images are shared only in 21% of Manhattan area. For tourists, this proportion is 12%. The significant parts of the city are thus largely invisible on Instagram. The inequality of locals' Instagram sharing turns out to be bigger than inequalities in levels of income, rent, and unemployment.  The inequality of visitors' sharing is larger than income inequality in the most unequal countries. (See Analysis).  
#equity#socialmedia#netnarr
·inequaligram.net·
inequaligram
Measuring Fair Use: The Four Factors - Copyright Overview by Rich Stim - Stanford Copyright and Fair Use Center
Measuring Fair Use: The Four Factors - Copyright Overview by Rich Stim - Stanford Copyright and Fair Use Center
Unfortunately, the only way to get a definitive answer on whether a particular use is a fair use is to have it resolved in federal court. Judges use four factors to resolve fair use disputes, as discussed in detail below. It’s important to understand that these factors are only guidelines that courts are free to adapt to particular situations on a case‑by‑case basis. In other words, a judge has a great deal of freedom when making a fair use determination, so the outcome in any given case can be hard to predict. The four factors judges consider are: the purpose and character of your use the nature of the copyrighted work the amount and substantiality of the portion taken, and the effect of the use upon the potential market.
#fairuse#copyright
·fairuse.stanford.edu·
Measuring Fair Use: The Four Factors - Copyright Overview by Rich Stim - Stanford Copyright and Fair Use Center
An introductory Arduino class design – Dave's Educational Blog
An introductory Arduino class design – Dave's Educational Blog
I started working with Arduino hardware at the beginning of 2016, thinking of it as a potential platform for real world projects for kids. I have ZERO electronics background, so it really took me a year of playing with it on and off to get my mind around how you could use it with kids and still make it fun. Most of the introductory lessons I saw online involved “attach this wire to a light, make the light blink” kind of activities that are designed to provide a SET OF SKILLS in small steps along a linear pathway. I hate this approach to learning. I wanted something that got to a useable project very, very quickly and then allowed for discovery after the project was built.
#ideas#inspiration#teaching#diy
·davecormier.com·
An introductory Arduino class design – Dave's Educational Blog
Paperstorm
Paperstorm
An epic battle is playing out over Copyright Reform in Europe. Key things that make the internet awesome are at stake, and policy makers are making important decisions right now. Help us throw as many leaflets as we can on The European Parliament! Are you ready?
#copyright
·paperstorm.it·
Paperstorm
Giving Students an Authentic Voice - Connecting is Learning
Giving Students an Authentic Voice - Connecting is Learning
I ask my students to send reviews of my courses at the end of each semester. Some write as a blog entry, some create videos short and long. Here I include a selection (I have well over a hundred of these) that I will share in the session as well as others I cannot due to time. Note that these are all hosted on their own blogs and YouTube accounts, this is their data and their material to share. My role is to give them the opportunity to express themselves.
#teaching
·blog.kenbauer.me·
Giving Students an Authentic Voice - Connecting is Learning
Teach@CUNY Handbook – Online, Annotatable 2017 Edition
Teach@CUNY Handbook – Online, Annotatable 2017 Edition
The primary audience for the Teach@CUNY Handbook is Graduate Center students preparing for their first semesters as college professors in CUNY’s classrooms. The handbook has been built in dialogue with students at the Graduate Center who have sought guidance and assistance from the Teaching and Learning Center (TLC) in the two years since we opened. Hundreds of GC students have visited our office hours, attended our workshops and other events, emailed us for support, and pulled us aside in the hallway to share suggestions for how we might support their teaching. The TLC team logs these conversations, and has used them to shape both our programming and this first iteration of the Teach@CUNY Handbook.
#teaching
·handbook.commons.gc.cuny.edu·
Teach@CUNY Handbook – Online, Annotatable 2017 Edition
42 Visions For Tomorrow From The Golden Age of Futurism
42 Visions For Tomorrow From The Golden Age of Futurism
It's 2015. But sometimes it feels like our futuristic dreams are stuck in the 1950s and 60s. And there's actually a good reason for that. The period between 1958 and 1963 might be described as a Golden Age of American Futurism, if not the Golden Age of American Futurism. Bookended by the founding of NASA in 1958 and the end of The Jetsons in 1963, these few years were filled with some of the wildest techno-utopian dreams that American futurists had to offer. It also happens to be the exact timespan for the greatest futuristic comic strip to ever grace the Sunday funnies: Closer Than We Think. Jetpacks, meal pills, flying cars — they were all there, beautifully illustrated by Arthur Radebaugh, a commercial artist based in Detroit best known for his work in the auto industry. Radebaugh would help influence countless Baby Boomers and shape their expectations for the future. The influence of Closer Than We Think can still be felt today. How many of these visions of the future are we still waiting on?
#retro#art#future
·gizmodo.com·
42 Visions For Tomorrow From The Golden Age of Futurism
Platform Cooperativism
Platform Cooperativism
Platform cooperativism is a growing movement that builds a fairer future of work. By organizing businesses that value democratic governance and the co-ownership of platforms, a broad range of freelancers and co-op members have created a concrete, near-future alternative to the extractive “sharing economy.” Whilst avoiding techno-solutionism, these new platform cooperatives are poised to reclaim principles like innovation, solidarity, and resilience by bringing together the rich heritage of cooperativism with the newest Internet technologies, while acknowledging the needs of core constituents.
#coop
·platform.coop·
Platform Cooperativism
10 Rules to Follow When Composing a Photo – PhotographyTalk – Medium
10 Rules to Follow When Composing a Photo – PhotographyTalk – Medium
You can have the most stunning subject to photograph in the most gorgeous lighting, but if you don’t take care to compose the shot well, no amount of good light and inherent beauty will prevent the image from being a dud. There are plenty of photography composition tips to help you create a better photo. That’s the good news. The bad news — if you can call it that — is that it just takes a bit of practice to become adept at using a compositional technique. What’s more, it can get a bit overwhelming trying to decide which compositional techniques to learn, let alone which ones to implement. Again, a little bit of practicing a handful of compositional techniques will help you determine what you like to do to give your photos a boost. Let’s take a look at 10 compositional rules that will help you create a more impactful photo.
#photography#thruthelens
·medium.com·
10 Rules to Follow When Composing a Photo – PhotographyTalk – Medium
USAFacts
USAFacts
USAFacts is a new data-driven portrait of the American population, our government’s finances, and government’s impact on society. We are a non-partisan, not-for-profit civic initiative and have no political agenda or commercial motive. We provide this information as a free public service and are committed to maintaining and expanding it in the future. We rely exclusively on publicly available government data sources. We don’t make judgments or prescribe specific policies. Whether government money is spent wisely or not, whether our quality of life is improving or getting worse – that’s for you to decide. We hope to spur serious, reasoned, and informed debate on the purpose and functions of government. Such debate is vital to our democracy. We hope that USAFacts will make a modest contribution toward building consensus and finding solutions. There’s more to USAFacts than this website. We also offer an annual report, a summary report, and a “10-K” modeled on the document public companies submit annually to the SEC for transparency and accountability to their investors.
#data#economics#statistics#Visualization
·usafacts.org·
USAFacts
Breaking Linear Classifiers on ImageNet
Breaking Linear Classifiers on ImageNet
a second group of seemingly baffling results has emerged that brings up an apparent contradiction. I’m referring to several people who have noticed that it is possible to take an image that a state-of-the-art Convolutional Network thinks is one class (e.g. “panda”), and it is possible to change it almost imperceptibly to the human eye in such a way that the Convolutional Network suddenly classifies the image as any other class of choice (e.g. “gibbon”). We say that we break, or fool ConvNets
#image#machinelearning
·karpathy.github.io·
Breaking Linear Classifiers on ImageNet
Life on a Möbius Strip: The Greatest Moth Story Ever Told, About the Unlikely Paths That Lead Us Back to Ourselves – Brain Pickings
Life on a Möbius Strip: The Greatest Moth Story Ever Told, About the Unlikely Paths That Lead Us Back to Ourselves – Brain Pickings
In this storytelling masterpiece, a testament to poet Mark Strand’s notion that life is “such a lucky accident … that we’re almost obliged to pay attention,” Levin uses her scientific research into whether the universe is infinite or finite as a springboard for leaping into the infinitely complex, infinitely messy mysteries of the human heart — those largely arbitrary events we spend our lives arranging into a mosaic of meaning.
#Storytelling#inspiration
·brainpickings.org·
Life on a Möbius Strip: The Greatest Moth Story Ever Told, About the Unlikely Paths That Lead Us Back to Ourselves – Brain Pickings
How I Present – dy/dan
How I Present – dy/dan
I will share some of my workflow and style choices with you but a lot of that is just how I present, not how you should present. I’ll offer only two words of advice that I think every single presenter should take seriously. To preface that advice, I’d like you to make a list of what you like and dislike about presentations you attend. Keep that list somewhere in view.
#presentations
·blog.mrmeyer.com·
How I Present – dy/dan