“Even if the entire IndieWeb consisted of a single personal website, it would still “work”, in the sense that the owner of the website would be in control of their own content and would still be able to share that content with their friends on (say) Twitter.”
Syndication Links now supports per-post syndication to Micro.blog from WordPress
indiwebify.me reports that “micro.blog/billbenne… does not link back”. Is that normal? If not, what do I need to do to fix it?
Microsoft dabbling with Android devices…. I can’t decide if this is a stroke of genius or a sign the end times are upon us.
Spark has updated its free Kupu Te Reo Māori mobile app and included a version for desktop computers and tablets.
The original app was launched a year ago in a joint project with Te Aka Māori Dictionary and Google. In that time it had over 177,000 downloads, over 2.7million translated images and around 6000 daily users.
So Westpac gave me a new credit card after a security scare. No problem. Until today. My domain registration should have auto-renewed, but it failed because of the new card. Even though I manually paid the invoice, my site and email have been offline now for 48 hours.
Found a web site that blatantly scraps my site and publishes my stories under its own bylines removing any internal links. Sure this has always happened, but the latest example is the most extreme copyright theft I’ve seen in recent times.
When I was a child in the UK, a TV advert would tell me: “A million housewives every day would pick up a tin of beans”. I now suspect that was never true.
Navigating the Huawei story is one of the toughest jobs in technology journalism at the moment. There are many facts and statements, lots of suppositions swirling around, but no smoking guns, no hard evidence of wrong doing.
Huawei may have a case to answer, but that question is almost submerged now. A lot of damage is already done, not just to Huawei but to supply chains as well. I can’t ever remember seeing a company taken down like this before. One danger is that it could have created a precedent. Who might be next?
Orcon first to trial residential 10Gbps broadband
I’m impressed. Orcon makes a fetish of being the fastest, geekiest ISP, this is another feather in its cap.
12 years with WordPress. I started about the time of the first iPhone.
Last night I was thinking: “Why didn’t Samsung’s DeX pad do better". On paper it looks great but it doesn’t seem to have fired up the market. Then I remembered how dreadful Android can be on anything other than a phone.
One of my biggest frustrations with the iPad, and a reason I can’t drop using a tradition computer yet, is that it’s difficult to do something trivial like copy a document from OneDrive to Dropbox. Never mind what you think of OneDrive and Dropbox, it’s a productivity barrier.
Also, I like the idea of bringing back webrings. Researching that will keep me out of mischief this weekend.
Matthias Ott just reminded me to check the microformat stuff was working on my billbennett.co.nz site (it wasn’t).
These things are important.
I can do about 95 to 97 percent of the things I need to do on my iPad Pro, the main problem stopping me from going all in is web-based aps that insist on treating the iPad like an iPhone.
Pretty soon I’m just going to cut those apps from my life.
The term “content” is a barbarism that bit by bit devalues what journalists do.
May not be wise if the reports of screen breaks on review machines extend to the production run.
“You may wonder if there’s a market for a 7.9-inch iPad when you can buy a 6.5-inch iPhone.”
Well yes there is. It’s bigger than you might think.
Started working on a review of the Audiofly AF56W wireless headphones. One of the points I was planning to make was that they are harder to lose than the Apple AirPods.
Went out for coffee. Came back to carry on testing.
I think you can guess what happened next.
I have a micro.blog as well as my website:
My segment on RNZ Nine-to-Noon programme yesterday.
For non-NZ readers: RNZ is Radio New Zealand.
When I first came to New Zealand from London I was invited to a cocktail party. Following my experience I put my best suit on and was thinking about Martinis or a Tom Collins. In the event it was Lion Brown, Jacobs Creek and old men wearing shorts.
“It’s not a direct comparison, but is some ways Huawei is the Apple of China’s eye.”
