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Danger Danger! by Alan Levine
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Danger Danger! by Alan Levine
April 14, 2004
Finding the End in the Middle
Tony Hoagland, et al., on karma: 'Finding the End in the Middle'
[Image: “Lemme Out!,” by Alan Levine. Found it on Flickr, of course; there, the photographer explains that he released the wasp unharmed after taking the photo — and pleads, jokingly, for a bit of karmic payback for his good deed. But in the context of this week’s post, I couldn’t help thinking of the wasp’s own experience of karma, before and after release…] Let’s talk about karma — that…
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On This Day functionality for WordPress
Last night while catching up on some of my feeds and I ran across a new WordPress plugin for creating On This Day-type functionality from Alan Levine.
Having enjoyed the mobile app TimeHop and its functionality for a long time, I’d spent a long time a while back searching for what I was sure would be multiple WordPress plugins that might offer such functionality. At the time I could only find one and seemed deeply hidden: the Room 34 Presents On This Day plugin which has served my needs for a while.
While the two are implemented somewhat differently and have different levels of UI features, it’s nice that there’s now a bit of competition and options available in the space. Alan’s excellent version is a shortcode-based plugin with some options for configuring the output and he’s got lots of additional details for customizing it. The Room 34 version creates an archive view of most of its data and also includes a widget for adding the output to various widget locations.
I’ve added some of these examples and links to the On This Day page of the IndieWeb wiki, so that others looking for UI examples, options, and brainstorming for their WordPress-based or other sites might have an easier time tracking them down and building additional iterations or coming up with new ideas.
These sorts of plugins provide some useful functionality commonly found in other social media sites, including Facebook which allow you to go back in time. I find they’re even more valuable on my own site as my content here is generally far richer and more valuable to me than it is on other social sites which often have a “throw away” or a more ephemeral feel to some of their content. It’s nice to be able to look back at old thoughts, revisit them, possibly reshape them, or even see how far I’ve come in some of my thinking since those older days.
Now, if we could only get Timehop to dovetail with the WordPress API so that they could add WordPress websites to their offerings…
💬 Alan Levine's Magic (RSS) Box
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💬 Alan Levine's Magic (RSS) Box
Alan, I threw a few links into the Magic Box (on the CCourses page) recently as I was just testing out a few things. I found that even though Post Kinds produces a feed, the box was not picking this up and instead giving me back the basic feed for the whole site. Just thought I’d share …
Learning Technologies
Often discussions around technologies and transformation focus on tools. Another question to consider is the way technologies entangled with learning.
I met up with Alan Levine recently and we talked about everything from politics to open education to experiences. The thing that came up again and again though was the place of the technology within learning and education. I have explored this bef…
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Imagina??? Esse Lindo invadindo a sua festa de casamento???
I just received the sad news that my old pal Al Levine has passed. Many of you knew him, a fixture at North East conventions for DECADES… Alan was one of the originals, his ads for comics going back to some of the earliest issues of the Comics Buyers Guide. He also sold pulps, and […]
Alan Levine, "Original Dealer," 79 Years Old, R.I.P.
Alan Levine, “Original Dealer,” 79 Years Old, R.I.P.
I just received the sad news thay my old pal Al Levine has passed. Many of you knew him, a fixture at North East conventions for DECADES… Alan was one of the originals, his ads for comics going back to some of the earliest issues of the Comics Buyers Guide. He also sold pulps, and perhaps most famously, movie material, and memoribilia. (Al wound up helping to sell the E. Nelson Bridwell…
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