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I’m currently trying to write some fiction, and conversation transcripts are a key part of this. However, there doesn’t seem to be any standard way of displaying a conversation transcript in Markdown, with plain text looking pretty ugly! Here’s a few approaches, and my recommendation.

Heartbreaking: the most terminally online reporter you know just made a great print.

Steve Jobs is one of the founders of Apple Computers; and he led the development of the Macintosh computer. In 1985 he founded NeXT Computer. It's mission is to develop customized software for businesses; two of their applications are OPENSTEP and NEXTSTEP. Jobs is also the owner of the computer animation company, Pixar. They've made the first feature-length computer-animated film, "Toy Story," in conjunction with Walt Disney, Inc. Jobs will talk with Terry about the future of computer technology.

Is Honor Levy the Zoomer prophet of the perennially logged on?

Inside Spotify’s emotional surveillance-driven quest for total ad domination.

With unprecedented access and unsparing analysis, this …

It takes a lot to be the “King of TV.”

Sam and Noodle ponder a past regret, before slipping and falling on tech and art discourse find us on spogify and apple podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/final_export_v3_final/id1750128088 https://open.spotify.com/show/1iq1Sz2HrIGzsm9R7b2KuF AUDIO EDITING: Billy https://twitter.com/SirMeowMusic Sam's stuff: @SampersonMakes https://twitter.com/SamNChiet Julian's stuff: @noodlefunny https://twitter.com/NoodleVEVO

Ukrainian-American, social media star, publicist, line cook. Emily Fedner has been it all and now she’s hungry for more.

From ultrarunning to shooting sports, in some competitions women have the edge.

Three new features that allow the exploration of more Fediverse instances.

Reply controls for GoToSocial, an allow-list based federation network, automatic video transcription for PeerTube, and more!

Discover alternatives to bit.ly for URL Shortening. The best alternative is Polr – free and Open Source – other great apps are YOURLS, T2M, Anchr.io and Shlink.

Which is the best phone to buy is always a relevant question. We have an answer to it for a few different categories, check them out...

Fun phones are back.

I look forward to your feedback.

10 Things We Learned at AnnotatED 2024 If you thought social annotation was just an EdTech buzzword, AnnotatED 2024 was here to prove you wrong. This year’s conference was a […]

This is an active and growing series of blog posts toward helping local journalism thrive anew in our digital age. They include a collection of original ideas (most notably from Dave Askins of the …

GLAAD’s Social Media Safety Program reported the following anti-trans hate content across Instagram, Facebook, and Threads; Meta deemed all of it non-violative or did not take action on it.

As Twitter was crumbling under Elon Musk’s new leadership in 2023, various online circles found themselves flocking to alternative platforms. While some may have kept using Twitter (now known as… X), a non-negligible number of communities migrated over to Mastodon and other smaller platforms. Meanwhile, Meta shipped its own textual social media platform, Threads. The

Google can tell you if your info shows up in a data leak.

When you factor in the engineering and time that went into some of these models, they were more than flops.

Perkins has a big mission — and a big plan.

Pandoc makes it really easy to convert existing HTML into Markdown plain text format. Read on for some simple examples.