Taiwan’s ‘Butcher Princess’ Is Fed Up With All the Sexism and StalkersThe heightened visibility also comes with real-life risk. A couple years ago, Zhang tried live-streaming at her stand to help increase sales. The pork industry rallied behind her, she quickly became one of the most popular Taiwanese livestreamers, and sales skyrocketed. But she was […]
Year: 2021
Weekly Web Harvest for 2021-05-16
Data & Society — The Constant BossIn The Constant Boss, author Aiha Nguyen—Data & Society’s Labor Futures Program Director—chronicles the crucial yet underrepresented perspectives of workers in the debate about workplace surveillance and data privacy, especially (primarily) low-wage and hourly workers who are subject to workplace surveillance and algorithmic management. Dan Harmon Making First Blockchain […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2021-05-09
Kim Weeden on Twitter: “I’m a bit surprised by how many students don’t know that Canvas records their site use, page views, and when and for how long they had Zoom lectures open. I’d think students of this generation would just assume every app, especiallWhat and how should we tell students about the data being […]
Slack Bot! SLACK BOT!!
via GIPHY I don’t know why these two things are connected in my head but they are. So this is another one of those odd workflow posts. Here’s the scenario. I built a Slack App in their Bolt javascript SDK. That app has a command /courseupdate that triggers a modal with a selection and three […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2021-05-02
OERxDomains21 Guideconference guide – A thing worth checking out for many reasons. Hat’s of to Michael Branson Smith for the js work. What is journalism? Chapter Five: Why Bother?Interesting topic and display. The Isolator: A 1925 Helmet Designed to Eliminate Distractions & Increase Productivity (Created by SciFi Pioneer Hugo Gernsback) | Open CultureSomething to use […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2021-04-25
No, ‘Jeopardy!’ Champ Kelly Donohue Didn’t Make the ‘White Power’ Hand Gesture | Snopes.com […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2021-04-18
Tom Liam Lynch, Ed.D. on Twitter: “For #WorldBookDay & #ShakespearesBirthday, let’s have some computational fun! ?? Here’s a chart showing word frequencies of TIME, FEAR, NIGHT, & SPEAK in 1 of Shakespeare’s plays. Tell me via comments whiNice little example using dataviz in English in a creative way. Sun Sonification in Spooky Sounds from Across […]
Data Games with Google Sheets
This is for a workshop with students on Saturday. It’s a revision of a thing Jeff and I did a way back in 2018. I think I’ve come up with some improved examples and I’ve revised a few things. The goal is to let any skill level start to see how spreadsheets can be useful […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2021-04-11
Share Target – WordPress plugin | WordPress.orgBy using this plugin, you can share content like images, media, URLs and text directly to your WordPress site from a capable device and browser. For example, you can share a photo that you just took on your phone to your WordPress site in the same way that you […]
WordPress and Slack Workflow Experiments
Every place I’ve ever worked we’ve ended up talking about paths to deal with support emails and follow ups. Generally there is an existing technology helpdesk support system but it is usually unpleasant to use and hard to customize.1 What we have currently at Middlebury is a fairly typical combination of things going on. We […]