.@schmarty Thanks to your terrific write-up I amazed myself and got #Audiogram working. Looking forward to trying it for real.
The futility of science communication conferences -- John Hawks weblog
A link to a paper by Rich Borschelt, describing his frustration at the failed model of science communication. As Hawks notes:
The sad thing is that such workshops and conferences are funded again and again by organizations on the logic that they are going to do something about science literacy.
Amen.
Post Kinds Plugin for WordPress
Really super, fully comprehensive explanation that should make life easier for anyone wanting to make more use of WordPress in the IndieWeb.
Really interesting write up from Marty McGuire about how he made use of WNYC's Audiogram to create audio snippets to syndicate to silos. Aside from the use of Docker -- which I don't understand in the slightest -- this seems like something I could manage. clammr was a complete bust for me. It'll be interesting to see how this works out for Marty, whether it brings new listeners.
I wonder what Jonathan Meades means when he describes a specific kind of English meatball as "a big ralph"