Podcast appearances and mentions of Jessamyn West

You can learn a lot about a town and its history by visiting the local library. The Goodrich Memorial Library in Newport has a taxidermy collection that includes an alligator, bob cat, porcupine and birds. The Rutland Free Library originally served as a post office and courthouse. There are also jail cells in the basement. In this episode, Jessamyn West, a library technologist from Randolph, talks about what makes Vermont libraries fascinating places. She also shares what's she's learned on her quest to visit all of Vermont's libraries.  happyvermont.com patreon.com/c/happyvermontpodcast

This episode, hosted by Delaney, we take a look into perspectives and experiences related to tech and cybersecurity.  Ty touches on tips and strategies to safeguard your personal information and deter cyberattacks.  Katelyn interviews Jessamyn West to discuss modern tech literacy and its implications.  We also have insights from John on the CyberPatriot program, which engages students and Civil Air Patrol Cadets in cybersecurity. Created by the Podcast Team at the Harris County Public Library.www.hcpl.netPodcast Team Members include: Beth Krippel, John Harbaugh, Mary Mink, Dylan Smith, Sadina Shawver, Gisella Parker, Kara Ludwig, Delaney Daly, Jennifer Finch, Katelyn Helberg, Logan Tuttle, Darcy Casavant, Darla Pruitt and Nancy Hu Original Music created by Bryan Kratish

Metafilter contains the seeds for everything from Twitter to Reddit to comments sections on blogs, and it’s older than podcasts, the blog boom, Facebook, and well, basically everything online. Owner Jessamyn West sat down for a deep conversation with Mike about how MetaFilter’s reliance on community-focusd governance and person-scale moderation has helped it achieve its […]

Laura Carney is the author of My Father's List: How Living My Dad's Dreams Set Me Free. It's the story of how the author found the courage to go after her own dreams after tackling an ambitious 50+ item "bucket list" compiled by her late father Mick Carney, who had been killed by a distracted driver more than a decade prior. Host Nikhil Torsekar deeply enjoyed speaking with Laura, as he had lost his own father-in-law earlier this year after a grueling decades-long struggle with Parkinson's disease and many other illnesses. Like this week's guest, he finds comfort in listening to the messages and guidance his father-in-law continues to send messages from beyond. Nikhil and Laura touch on many topics in this episode, including: The origin and contents of the "bucket list" compiled by Mick, which includes skydiving, surfing the Pacific Ocean, and talking with a US President. The power of belief and surrender in coping with loss. The significance of simple inanimate objects such as the horseshoe, and how can they take on an entirely new meaning when inverted or placed upright. Note: all you Mad Men fans out there, stay tuned for some Easter eggs. How we can achieve a richer fuller life through documenting and capturing stories, thereby illustrating Jessamyn West's maxim that "people who keep journals have life twice." In addition to writing this book, Laura is a New York City-based copy editor who has been published in Washington Post, Associated Press, and many other outlets, and has worked as a copy editor in Vanity Fair, GQ, People, and other journals. To learn more about her journey, visit bylauracarney.com, or connect with her on Instagram. You can also pick up a copy of My Father's List on Amazon. Connect with Nikhil to learn more about ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Untether Your Life⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and other projects: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠LinkedIn⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠GIOSTAR Chicago⁠

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 897, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: european cities 1: This capital lies 5 miles from the Bay of Phaleron, an arm of the Aegean Sea. Athens. 2: This city is central to works by James Joyce; after all, he was born there. Dublin. 3: The World Health Organization is headquartered in this Swiss city. Geneva. 4: In Krakow, Poland you'll find the former factory, now a museum, of this righteous businessman. (Oskar) Schindler. 5: Signed in 1975, the accord named for this city was an effort to ease tensions between the Soviet Bloc and the West. Helsinki. Round 2. Category: literary relatives 1: Their father, an Irish-born clergyman named Patrick Brunty, changed the spelling of the family name. Brontandeuml; Sisters (The Brontandeuml;s). 2: Sara Coleridge wrote children's verse but was best known for editing the works of this man, her father. Samuel Coleridge. 3: Her mother, feminist author Mary Wollstonecraft, died 11 days after her birth. Mary Shelley. 4: "Lord Jim" author whose father, Apollo Korzeniowski, was a Polish poet. Joseph Conrad. 5: Quaker novelist Jessamyn West was a second cousin of this Quaker president. (Richard) Nixon. Round 3. Category: howdy, partner! 1: 19th century printing partner of Nathaniel Currier. Ives. 2: After his partner's death in 1809, he partnered with Nicholas Biddle to complete the expedition report. (William) Clark. 3: Born in 1895, this lyricist partnered with composers Friml, Romberg, Kern and Rodgers. Hammerstein. 4: He partnered with Edward Williams in 1866 to "Cover the Earth" with paint. Sherwin. 5: In 1673, he and his exploring partner Joliet became the first Europeans to visit the area of Chicago. Marquette. Round 4. Category: actual mlb announcer quotes 1: "Ron Guidry is not very big, maybe 140 pounds, but he has an arm like" this king of beasts. a lion. 2: "Today is Father's Day, so everyone out there, Happy" this, a 1968 Beatles tune. Birthday. 3: "The first pitch to Tucker Ashford is grounded into left field. No, wait a minute. It's" this 2-word term, "low and outside". ball one. 4: "Winfield goes back... He hits his head on the wall and it rolls off! It's rolling" to here, the usual position of Robbie Alomar. second base. 5: "If Don Mattingly isn't the American League MVP, something isn't kosher in" this Asian country. China. Round 5. Category: he was in that? 1: He appeared fleet-ingly in "Sailor Beware" with Martin and Lewis before "East of Eden" made him a star. James Dean. 2: Kevin Spacey played a sleazy businessman in this Melanie Griffith film about an ambitious secretary. Working Girl. 3: This boxing champ played a bartender in "The Hustler", and that's no "Raging Bull". (Jake) LaMotta. 4: Wayne Knight, who played Newman on "Seinfeld", got to interrogate Sharon Stone in this revealing thriller. Basic Instinct. 5: Before "Starsky and Hutch", Paul Michael Glaser played Perchik in this movie musical (Hint: Topol got top billing). Fiddler on the Roof. Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia! Special thanks to https://blog.feedspot.com/trivia_podcasts/

Library technologist, owner of MetaFilter, and author of Without a Net: Librarians Bridging the Digital Divide, Jessamyn West shares the joys of hands-on technology education in the public library - and how modeling behavior may just work better than scaling it.

This week Tayla is joined by librarian and activist Jessamyn West and RI Attorney General Peter Neronha to discuss cybersecurity basics. They also discuss non-fiction reading and Netflix hacks. During The Last Chapter they discuss: What is one book that you kist couldn't finish? Like what you hear? Rate and review Down Time on Apple Podcasts or your podcast player of choice! If you'd like to submit a topic for The Last Chapter you can send your topic suggestions to downtime@cranstonlibrary.org. Our theme music is Day Trips by Ketsa and our ad music is Happy Ukulele by Scott Holmes. Thanks for listening! Books Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin You've Been Played by Adrian Hon The First World War by John Keegan Camino Island by John Grisham M is For Monster by Talia Dutton How to Look Expensive by Andrea Pomerantz Lustig AV Borgen (2010-2022) Shetland (2013- ) Road to Perdition (2002) House of the Dragon (2022- ) The U.S. and the Holocaust (2022- ) She-Hulk: Attorney at Law (2022- ) Other Librarian.net Rhode Island Office of the Attorney General - 401-274-4400 Upflix.net

In part 2 of our interview with Jessamyn West, the new MetaFilter owner tells us about her day job as a librarian in rural Vermont and her years spent working to close the digital divide. Inevitably, we talk about the library as a new battleground for right-wing reactionaries and its role as one of the few remaining public institutions.

Jessamyn West is not just one of the web's favorite librarians, but the new owner of Metafilter, an incredibly long-running social network that dates back to a very different Internet. In the first part of our interview with Jessamyn, she tells us just how Metafilter has kept going and stayed healthy since 1999.

Checking in on The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. Checking in on House of the Dragon. Sweeping Children's Online Safety Bill Is Passed in California. 'I turned my back on my film career to protect children online'. Kiwi Farms removed by Cloudflare. He used AI to win a fine-arts competition. Was it cheating? @negar_rz: Can't believe Stable Diffusion is out there for public use and that's considered as "ok"!!! Exploring 12 Million of the 2.3 Billion Images Used to Train Stable Diffusion's Image Generator. Illustrating Books from the Gutenberg Project. Trint AI transcription. Trint vs Otter. DALL·E: Introducing Outpainting. Yachts and Watches? The Real CEO Flex Is Washboard Abs. Apple's 'Pro' Products Will Steal Show at iPhone 14 Launch Event. Fitness bike usage down 23%. Take Control of Find My and AirTags by Glenn Fleishman. Proof Collective raises $50 million in funding led by Andreessen Horowitz. Hacker steals $185,000 in ethereum from Bill Murray after NFT charity auction. Crypto.com mistakenly paid a woman millions. She bought a mansion. Jessamyn West - @jessamyn USB 4 Version 2.0 Announced With 80 Gbps of Bandwidth. Take Control of Untangling Connections by Glenn Fleishman. T-Mobile and Verizon home internet is a new threat to cable. Doctor Uses His Rivian R1T To Perform Vasectomy During Power Outage. The Animal Translators. Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Paris Martineau, Glenn Fleishman, and Dan Moren Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: podium.com/twit ClickUp.com use code TWIT zapier.com/TWIT Stamps.com promo code TWiT

Checking in on The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. Checking in on House of the Dragon. Sweeping Children's Online Safety Bill Is Passed in California. 'I turned my back on my film career to protect children online'. Kiwi Farms removed by Cloudflare. He used AI to win a fine-arts competition. Was it cheating? @negar_rz: Can't believe Stable Diffusion is out there for public use and that's considered as "ok"!!! Exploring 12 Million of the 2.3 Billion Images Used to Train Stable Diffusion's Image Generator. Illustrating Books from the Gutenberg Project. Trint AI transcription. Trint vs Otter. DALL·E: Introducing Outpainting. Yachts and Watches? The Real CEO Flex Is Washboard Abs. Apple's 'Pro' Products Will Steal Show at iPhone 14 Launch Event. Fitness bike usage down 23%. Take Control of Find My and AirTags by Glenn Fleishman. Proof Collective raises $50 million in funding led by Andreessen Horowitz. Hacker steals $185,000 in ethereum from Bill Murray after NFT charity auction. Crypto.com mistakenly paid a woman millions. She bought a mansion. Jessamyn West - @jessamyn USB 4 Version 2.0 Announced With 80 Gbps of Bandwidth. Take Control of Untangling Connections by Glenn Fleishman. T-Mobile and Verizon home internet is a new threat to cable. Doctor Uses His Rivian R1T To Perform Vasectomy During Power Outage. The Animal Translators. Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Paris Martineau, Glenn Fleishman, and Dan Moren Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: podium.com/twit ClickUp.com use code TWIT zapier.com/TWIT Stamps.com promo code TWiT

Checking in on The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. Checking in on House of the Dragon. Sweeping Children's Online Safety Bill Is Passed in California. 'I turned my back on my film career to protect children online'. Kiwi Farms removed by Cloudflare. He used AI to win a fine-arts competition. Was it cheating? @negar_rz: Can't believe Stable Diffusion is out there for public use and that's considered as "ok"!!! Exploring 12 Million of the 2.3 Billion Images Used to Train Stable Diffusion's Image Generator. Illustrating Books from the Gutenberg Project. Trint AI transcription. Trint vs Otter. DALL·E: Introducing Outpainting. Yachts and Watches? The Real CEO Flex Is Washboard Abs. Apple's 'Pro' Products Will Steal Show at iPhone 14 Launch Event. Fitness bike usage down 23%. Take Control of Find My and AirTags by Glenn Fleishman. Proof Collective raises $50 million in funding led by Andreessen Horowitz. Hacker steals $185,000 in ethereum from Bill Murray after NFT charity auction. Crypto.com mistakenly paid a woman millions. She bought a mansion. Jessamyn West - @jessamyn USB 4 Version 2.0 Announced With 80 Gbps of Bandwidth. Take Control of Untangling Connections by Glenn Fleishman. T-Mobile and Verizon home internet is a new threat to cable. Doctor Uses His Rivian R1T To Perform Vasectomy During Power Outage. The Animal Translators. Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Paris Martineau, Glenn Fleishman, and Dan Moren Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: podium.com/twit ClickUp.com use code TWIT zapier.com/TWIT Stamps.com promo code TWiT

Checking in on The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. Checking in on House of the Dragon. Sweeping Children's Online Safety Bill Is Passed in California. 'I turned my back on my film career to protect children online'. Kiwi Farms removed by Cloudflare. He used AI to win a fine-arts competition. Was it cheating? @negar_rz: Can't believe Stable Diffusion is out there for public use and that's considered as "ok"!!! Exploring 12 Million of the 2.3 Billion Images Used to Train Stable Diffusion's Image Generator. Illustrating Books from the Gutenberg Project. Trint AI transcription. Trint vs Otter. DALL·E: Introducing Outpainting. Yachts and Watches? The Real CEO Flex Is Washboard Abs. Apple's 'Pro' Products Will Steal Show at iPhone 14 Launch Event. Fitness bike usage down 23%. Take Control of Find My and AirTags by Glenn Fleishman. Proof Collective raises $50 million in funding led by Andreessen Horowitz. Hacker steals $185,000 in ethereum from Bill Murray after NFT charity auction. Crypto.com mistakenly paid a woman millions. She bought a mansion. Jessamyn West - @jessamyn USB 4 Version 2.0 Announced With 80 Gbps of Bandwidth. Take Control of Untangling Connections by Glenn Fleishman. T-Mobile and Verizon home internet is a new threat to cable. Doctor Uses His Rivian R1T To Perform Vasectomy During Power Outage. The Animal Translators. Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Paris Martineau, Glenn Fleishman, and Dan Moren Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: podium.com/twit ClickUp.com use code TWIT zapier.com/TWIT Stamps.com promo code TWiT

Checking in on The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. Checking in on House of the Dragon. Sweeping Children's Online Safety Bill Is Passed in California. 'I turned my back on my film career to protect children online'. Kiwi Farms removed by Cloudflare. He used AI to win a fine-arts competition. Was it cheating? @negar_rz: Can't believe Stable Diffusion is out there for public use and that's considered as "ok"!!! Exploring 12 Million of the 2.3 Billion Images Used to Train Stable Diffusion's Image Generator. Illustrating Books from the Gutenberg Project. Trint AI transcription. Trint vs Otter. DALL·E: Introducing Outpainting. Yachts and Watches? The Real CEO Flex Is Washboard Abs. Apple's 'Pro' Products Will Steal Show at iPhone 14 Launch Event. Fitness bike usage down 23%. Take Control of Find My and AirTags by Glenn Fleishman. Proof Collective raises $50 million in funding led by Andreessen Horowitz. Hacker steals $185,000 in ethereum from Bill Murray after NFT charity auction. Crypto.com mistakenly paid a woman millions. She bought a mansion. Jessamyn West - @jessamyn USB 4 Version 2.0 Announced With 80 Gbps of Bandwidth. Take Control of Untangling Connections by Glenn Fleishman. T-Mobile and Verizon home internet is a new threat to cable. Doctor Uses His Rivian R1T To Perform Vasectomy During Power Outage. The Animal Translators. Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Paris Martineau, Glenn Fleishman, and Dan Moren Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: podium.com/twit ClickUp.com use code TWIT zapier.com/TWIT Stamps.com promo code TWiT

Checking in on The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. Checking in on House of the Dragon. Sweeping Children's Online Safety Bill Is Passed in California. 'I turned my back on my film career to protect children online'. Kiwi Farms removed by Cloudflare. He used AI to win a fine-arts competition. Was it cheating? @negar_rz: Can't believe Stable Diffusion is out there for public use and that's considered as "ok"!!! Exploring 12 Million of the 2.3 Billion Images Used to Train Stable Diffusion's Image Generator. Illustrating Books from the Gutenberg Project. Trint AI transcription. Trint vs Otter. DALL·E: Introducing Outpainting. Yachts and Watches? The Real CEO Flex Is Washboard Abs. Apple's 'Pro' Products Will Steal Show at iPhone 14 Launch Event. Fitness bike usage down 23%. Take Control of Find My and AirTags by Glenn Fleishman. Proof Collective raises $50 million in funding led by Andreessen Horowitz. Hacker steals $185,000 in ethereum from Bill Murray after NFT charity auction. Crypto.com mistakenly paid a woman millions. She bought a mansion. Jessamyn West - @jessamyn USB 4 Version 2.0 Announced With 80 Gbps of Bandwidth. Take Control of Untangling Connections by Glenn Fleishman. T-Mobile and Verizon home internet is a new threat to cable. Doctor Uses His Rivian R1T To Perform Vasectomy During Power Outage. The Animal Translators. Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Paris Martineau, Glenn Fleishman, and Dan Moren Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: podium.com/twit ClickUp.com use code TWIT zapier.com/TWIT Stamps.com promo code TWiT

This week, host June Thomas talks to Jessamyn West, a librarian in rural Vermont who's working to improve computer literacy and access to library services in her community. In the interview, Jessamyn explains her process for helping people to learn basic computer skills, like building a resume, setting up an online dating profile, or learning how to use a mouse. She also talks about her broader mission to make sure technology is intuitive and accessible to everyone who needs it.  After the interview, June and co-host Isaac Butler discuss mantras and understanding your strengths and weaknesses.  In the exclusive Slate Plus segment, Jessamyn talks about her experience editing Wikipedia pages.  Send your questions about creativity and any other feedback to working@slate.com or give us a call at (304) 933-9675. Podcast production by Cameron Drews. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Big Mood, Little Mood—and you'll be supporting the work we do here on Working. Sign up now at slate.com/workingplus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, host June Thomas talks to Jessamyn West, a librarian in rural Vermont who's working to improve computer literacy and access to library services in her community. In the interview, Jessamyn explains her process for helping people to learn basic computer skills, like building a resume, setting up an online dating profile, or learning how to use a mouse. She also talks about her broader mission to make sure technology is intuitive and accessible to everyone who needs it.  After the interview, June and co-host Isaac Butler discuss mantras and understanding your strengths and weaknesses.  In the exclusive Slate Plus segment, Jessamyn talks about her experience editing Wikipedia pages.  Send your questions about creativity and any other feedback to working@slate.com or give us a call at (304) 933-9675. Podcast production by Cameron Drews. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Big Mood, Little Mood—and you'll be supporting the work we do here on Working. Sign up now at slate.com/workingplus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, host June Thomas talks to Jessamyn West, a librarian in rural Vermont who's working to improve computer literacy and access to library services in her community. In the interview, Jessamyn explains her process for helping people to learn basic computer skills, like building a resume, setting up an online dating profile, or learning how to use a mouse. She also talks about her broader mission to make sure technology is intuitive and accessible to everyone who needs it.  After the interview, June and co-host Isaac Butler discuss mantras and understanding your strengths and weaknesses.  In the exclusive Slate Plus segment, Jessamyn talks about her experience editing Wikipedia pages.  Send your questions about creativity and any other feedback to working@slate.com or give us a call at (304) 933-9675. Podcast production by Cameron Drews. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Big Mood, Little Mood—and you'll be supporting the work we do here on Working. Sign up now at slate.com/workingplus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: August 30th, 2021A brief history of talking computersWe've been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour. Even though it's not (yet?) a feature of Twitter Spaces, we have been recording them all; here is the recording for our Twitter Space for August 30, 2021.In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, speakers on August 30th included special guest Matt Campbell, as well as MattSci, TVRaman, Jessamyn West and Dan Cross. (Did we miss your name and/or get it wrong? Drop a PR!)Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them: Brian Dear's The Friendly Orange Glow Brodie Lockard created amazing software on PLATO Control Data Corp Homework [@2:47](https://youtu.be/b9GVJg0LRX4?t=167) Matt's intro  Deane Blazie created TotalTalk, a speaking terminal. See his 2004 interview. Apple IIe computer and the Echo II speech synthesizer card. [@4:15](https://youtu.be/b9GVJg0LRX4?t=255) The Echo ][ sound sample Wargames computer: GREETINGS PROFESSOR FALKEN. Listen > SHALL WE PLAY A GAME? > Love to. How about Global Thermonuclear War? > … > Is this a game or is it real? > WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE? > … > What's it doing? > It's learning… > … > A STRANGE GAME. > THE ONLY WINNING MOVE IS > NOT TO PLAY. [@7:46](https://youtu.be/b9GVJg0LRX4?t=466)  Prose 2000 sample DECtalk audio sample [@12:14](https://youtu.be/b9GVJg0LRX4?t=734) Apple to PC Keynote Gold, Master Touch, Zoom Text [@14:53](https://youtu.be/b9GVJg0LRX4?t=893) Keynote Gold sample Talking Moose. Watch a sample. [@17:17](https://youtu.be/b9GVJg0LRX4?t=1037) GUI screen readers  outSPOKEN used QuickDraw Window Bridge 1992 [@21:58](https://youtu.be/b9GVJg0LRX4?t=1318) Meeting another sight impaired person on a MUD pwWebSpeak Emacspeak [@26:44](https://youtu.be/b9GVJg0LRX4?t=1604) Early programming experiences Apple IIGS [@28:47](https://youtu.be/b9GVJg0LRX4?t=1727) Emacspeak user base [@31:34](https://youtu.be/b9GVJg0LRX4?t=1894) Things were getting better on the Windows side..  JAWS, patch parody sample Microsoft Narrator [@36:12](https://youtu.be/b9GVJg0LRX4?t=2172) Linux  Speakup Mixing multiple sound streams, hardware limitations Slackware ZipSpeak by Matthew Campbell [@44:53](https://youtu.be/b9GVJg0LRX4?t=2693) Editors for the visually impaired?  ed text editor Edbrowse [@49:36](https://youtu.be/b9GVJg0LRX4?t=2976) Working on accessibility (a11y) for pay  FreedomBox GNOME EsounD KDE aRts Gnopernicus Orca [@57:46](https://youtu.be/b9GVJg0LRX4?t=3466)  Microsoft Active Accessibility AT-SPI CORBA, D-Bus [@1:03:11](https://youtu.be/b9GVJg0LRX4?t=3791) Handheld devices  Apple VoiceOver Google TalkBack iPhone Screen Recognition article [@1:08:09](https://youtu.be/b9GVJg0LRX4?t=4089) What should software engineers know about accessibility?  Use a mature UI framework! Microsoft UI Automation is the successor to MSAA. AccessKit by today's speaker Matt Campbell! [@1:12:34](https://youtu.be/b9GVJg0LRX4?t=4354) DECtalk samples! [@1:15:25](https://youtu.be/b9GVJg0LRX4?t=4525) One of the most important settings a blind person will want to change in their speech synthesizer is how fast it talks. JAWS parody clip Alt text image captions Topical recent conference presentation: - Emily Shea (2019) Voice Driven Development videoIf we got something wrong or missed something, please file a PR! Our next Twitter space will likely be on Monday at 5p Pacific Time; stay tuned to our Twitter feeds for details. We'd love to have you join us, as we always love to hear from new speakers!

Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: August 23rd, 2021The episode formerly known as ℔We've been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour. Even though it's not (yet?) a feature of Twitter Spaces, we have been recording them all; here is the recording for our Twitter Space for August 23rd, 2021.In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, speakers on August 23rd included Neal Gompa, Tom Lyon, Laura Abbott, Jeremy Tanner, Matt Campbell, Simeon Miteff and others. (Did we miss your name and/or get it wrong? Drop a PR!)Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them: Last week's recording on “Showstopper” with author G. Pascal Zachary, and Jessamyn West. Ashton-Tate history (there never was any Ashton, and dBASE II was the first version)  dBASE IV was “slow, buggy” and didn't get fixed in a timely manner Last week, Pascal mentioned that CEO Ed Esber “in a fit of insanity admitted to me (a journalist) he didn't know how to use his company's own product!” Friday! personal information manager, and Sidekick from Borland (like Google calendar for DOS) [@3:01](https://youtu.be/-ZRv6EHaQYM?t=181) Phrasing: operating program (vs operating system)  Steve Jobs 1992 MIT Sloan talk ~72mins on consultants, hiring people and leaving Apple (see mit.edu summary) > Jobs: NeXTSTEP is not an operating system, it's an operating environment July 5th recording discussing NeXT. Randall Stross book: Steve Jobs and the NeXT Big Thing (1993) > Mac OSX focused on user capabilities of the desktop environment, but they considered it one and the same with the operating system [@7:42](https://youtu.be/-ZRv6EHaQYM?t=462) Windows NT had “multiple personalities” > Adam: I was instantly transported to the 90's. > Bryan: I could hear Smashing Pumpkins playing on the radio.  Sun's Spring OS was the ne plus ultra of this approach Mach microkernel, GNU Hurd, Apple M1, Windows Subsystem for Linux WSL > Adam: Docker takes static linking to the extreme and just ships everything [@12:40](https://youtu.be/-ZRv6EHaQYM?t=760) Microkernels > Simeon: (Oxide) is working on a microkernel for Hubis, tell us about that  Minix, and the Tanenbaum-Torvalds 1992 microkernel vs monolithic debate QNX Unix-like real-time OS  See ACM ByteCast interview with Rashmi Mohan, Bryan tells the story ~3mins of coming to QNX after reading about it in the “Operating Systems Roundup” of Byte Magazine 1993 (see also Bryan's blog post and remembering Dan Hildebrand) L4 microkernel The QNX 1.44M demo diskThe GUI was called Photon. > Bryan: why would we not run this (QNX) absolutely everywhere? Oberon OS. Photon microGUI [@15:49](https://youtu.be/-ZRv6EHaQYM?t=949) Laura on writing a microcontroller operating system  Cliff Biffle's website Microkernels, root of trust, embedded systems There is very little (or no) dynamic memory allocation in Hubris. Tock multitasking embedded OS, and Bryan's “Tockilator: Deducing Tock execution flows from Ibex Verilator traces” video ~12mins In Tock, dynamic program loading is central. Hubris functions as a security-minded service processor. The programs it will use are all known in advance; so dynamic loading (and the accompanying security concerns) can be left out. Fit-to-purpose OSs [@24:19](https://youtu.be/-ZRv6EHaQYM?t=1459) ROPI/RWPI (aka “Ropy Rippy”) and the growing pains of RISC-V  GitHub issue ROPI/RWPI Specification (Embedded PIC) OpenTitan, ARM Cortex-M > When we set out to write Hubris, we spent a lot of time reading > and learning what's out there. QNX vs monolithic systems. QNX was robust against module failure, so bugs in modules were tolerable. At Sun, faults in a module were system faults, so bugs were unacceptable. Memory protection. Stack growing into (and corrupting) data segment, hard to debug. Stack corruption, a hit and run. [@32:39](https://youtu.be/-ZRv6EHaQYM?t=1959) Humor: Oxide rustfmt bot is named Ozymandias  Percy Bysshe Shelley's “Ozymandias” poem > LOOK UPON MY REFORMATTING YE MIGHTY AND DESPAIR! stale bot, open source maintainers, communicating bugs and issues [@39:54](https://youtu.be/-ZRv6EHaQYM?t=2394) Fun QNX bug story  QNX wrote their own POSIX utilities, they wrote their own AWK QNX developers, incl. Peter van der Veen [@43:00](https://youtu.be/-ZRv6EHaQYM?t=2580) How do you say…  vi, ed > Tom: Off with their eds! sed, ps, kubectl, /etc/passwd, QNX (quick UNIX) [@49:34](https://youtu.be/-ZRv6EHaQYM?t=2974) Octothorpe  number sign, pound sign, hash ! pronounced “bang” (see shebang) * pronounced “star”, “splat”. (see regex Kleene star) ^ pronounced “caret”, “hat”. [@53:45](https://youtu.be/-ZRv6EHaQYM?t=3225) INTERCAL > Bryan: is INTERCAL deliberately designed to be unusable? > Tom: it's designed to be hilarious. INTERCAL was created by Don Woods and Jim Lyon (Tom's brother!) see the manual Character Name | .  | spot | :  | two-spot | ,  | tail | #  | mesh | =  | half-mesh | !  | wow | ?  | what | "  | rabbit-ears | %  | double-oh-seven | ()  | wax/wane | {}  | embrace/bracelet | $  | big money | /  | slat |   | backslat | @  | whirlpool | ^  | shark or sharkfin IBM 3270 terminal, EBCDIC Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code [@55:25](https://youtu.be/-ZRv6EHaQYM?t=3325) Matt on screen readers, accessibility  NonVisual Desktop Access NVDA & ampersand as “et” Emacspeak DECtalk If we got something wrong or missed something, please file a PR! Our next Twitter space will likely be on Monday at 5p Pacific Time; stay tuned to our Twitter feeds for details. We'd love to have you join us, as we always love to hear from new speakers!

Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: August 16th, 2021The Showstopper ShowWe've been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour. Even though it's not (yet?) a feature of Twitter Spaces, we have been recording them all; here is the recording for our Twitter Space for August 16th, 2021.In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, speakers on August 16th included special guests G. Pascal Zachary (see gpascalzachary.com), and Jessamyn West (see jessamyn.medium.com), as well as Dan Cross, Tom Lyon, Josh Clulow, and others. (Did we miss your name and/or get it wrong? Drop a PR!)Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them: G. Pascal Zachary's “Showstopper! The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft” book Tracy Kidder's “The Soul of a New Machine” book [@0:46](https://youtu.be/hlQuF75L4TE?t=46) “The endless debate of NT vs Unix.” Bryan: My whole career was kind of defined by going where Windows wasn't. I don't know what I was expecting, but what I found was a real time capsule from software development in the 90's. [@2:46](https://youtu.be/hlQuF75L4TE?t=166) Jessamyn: There was some familial impact (from developing DG Eclipse) that wasn't mentioned in the book. “O, Engineers!” retrospective from wired [@6:30](https://youtu.be/hlQuF75L4TE?t=390) What was Kidder's process? “He lived in my house!” [@8:32](https://youtu.be/hlQuF75L4TE?t=512) Zachary interviewed family members extensively. > People couldn't leave, they were staying at the office all the time. [@14:23](https://youtu.be/hlQuF75L4TE?t=863) I do feel this is a time capsule. A time before two mega-trends hit: the Internet and open source. [@17:33](https://youtu.be/hlQuF75L4TE?t=1053) Microsoft was kind of a joke software company in the early 90's. > Dave Cutler was a force of nature. [@19:59](https://youtu.be/hlQuF75L4TE?t=1199) No one understood why someone was good at coding. It was a mystery to everyone, why there was such a wide stratification of coders. > There were projects that never saw the light of day.  Ashton-Tate, dBase > There was a sense from Cutler and Perazzoli, that leadership of the team, > that these guys at Microsoft really didn't get how serious the process > of building this battleship was. I think the level of anguish did surprise me. [@23:59](https://youtu.be/hlQuF75L4TE?t=1439) In “Soul of the New Machine,” the machine was the star, and people served it. East Coast vs West Coast attitudes. > On the West Coast, the personal computer were supposed to help you > actualize your counter-cultural values.  Ken Olsen of DEC > Computing is equivalent with IBM. There was no software industry > so long as IBM gave all the software away for free. [@26:09](https://youtu.be/hlQuF75L4TE?t=1569) Crashes. > Wozniak dreamed of owning > his own PDP > computer, which cost as much as a house. So he was aware of the robustness > of the minicomputer, and by contrast, the puny power of a personal computer.  Thirtysomething > Dave Cutler was not cuddly. He was menacing, he could lose his temper. > And I tried not to get to close to him physically for that reason. > There were two looming father figures in Cutler and Gates. > And I think it created a lot of anxiety. [@29:52](https://youtu.be/hlQuF75L4TE?t=1792) The stakes for NT at Microsoft were high.  Fred Brooks' “The Mythical Man-Month” book > It was a watershed moment in the history of computing. > It was more like the last battleship, rather than the next frontier. Bryan: I didn't realize this, that Gates was arguing against memory protection with Cutler. From our perspective, shipping an operating system without memory protection, in an era when microprocessors supported it, is malpractice. [@33:14](https://youtu.be/hlQuF75L4TE?t=1994) Cutler's vendetta against Unix. > Conflict was at the heart of innovation at Microsoft at that time.  Mitch Kapor of Lotus. > These early personal computer innovators were dismissed and sometimes > humiliated by mainstream big iron people of the 60's and 70's. Bill Gates' “The Road Ahead” book doesn't mention the internet. Zachary's “Endless Frontier: Vannevar Bush, Engineer of the American Century” book > Computers on the West Coast were seen as extensions of your creativity, > and a tool for liberation. And for a long time that dominated the horizons. In 2005 Gates and Ballmer don't want to do cloud computing. “Who's gonna want to put their stuff in the cloud?” We've found that computing is a collective experience. [@38:28](https://youtu.be/hlQuF75L4TE?t=2308) Email and personal messaging  Sun Ray thin client computer Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson's “The UNIX time-sharing system” paper > Unix was an experiment in collaboration. RSX-11 for the PDP-11. And VMS for the VAX. > The attitude of looking down on Unix (as undesigned, academic) is > carried forward by Microsofties today. Tom: You can forgive Cutler's misgivings, because Unix pretty much stole the thunder out of VMS. [@42:24](https://youtu.be/hlQuF75L4TE?t=2544) Interviews for the book. Family members perspective on workplace behavior.  Betty Shanahan, Society of Women Engineers. Brief Q&A EAGLE (Eclipse Appreciation and Gratitude for Lonely Evenings) award > Betty's husband got an award for having to do his own laundry… Jessamyn's “Women in Early Tech” blog entry about Shanahan [@48:10](https://youtu.be/hlQuF75L4TE?t=2890) Where did these engineers end up? They are broadly no longer engineers. This project burned people out.  Short 1993 article by Zachary: “After two years in ship mode… a lot of people are angry, tired, and burned out.” Johanne Caron, linkedin Pascal: Kidder was like a fly on the wall. I was doing reconstruction as well as observation. I talked to family members to get the whole picture. [@53:20](https://youtu.be/hlQuF75L4TE?t=3200) Cutler got to run his own show. > Ken Olsen was like the LBJ > of the computer industry: he's waist deep in the big money.  Corporate culture. Hotshot coders. Renegades, rebels, hero programmers. > It's the majesty and mystery of code writing, that there's such a wide > range of performance. Pascal: I wasn't invited to the 25 year anniversary of the NT team.. [@1:01:47](https://youtu.be/hlQuF75L4TE?t=3707) Journalists and companies. > Soul of a New Machine was very flattering to the company.  Jobs backdated stock options, in violation of clear federal law. Gates repeatedly stole things. > The hobbyists were a small market, Microsoft needed to sell to corporations. Zachary's “Software, the Invisible Technology” 2016 essay > Where we used to relate to programs, we now relate to services. I think there needs to be a greater literature of software: the making of it, its purpose, its vulnerabilities, its values.Tom: It's because us practitioners are too embarrased about it all.. [@1:05:49](https://youtu.be/hlQuF75L4TE?t=3949) Josh compares and contrasts. > Coders don't have to test their own stuff. The second stringers do that.  Pascal: I would encourage people to write more about software and how it's created. Zachary's “Code Rush” film ~56mins about Netscape. [@1:08:58](https://youtu.be/hlQuF75L4TE?t=4138) The rise of open source. Software as immutable artifact: once it's written, it's written. > Amazon, Google, Netflix are not possible without open source. [@1:10:50](https://youtu.be/hlQuF75L4TE?t=4250) Jessamyn on helping people use tech. Accessibility > I'm a service oriented person. I work with > people who are struggling with technology. [@1:15:24](https://youtu.be/hlQuF75L4TE?t=4524) Agency of users. > Bryan: Without memory protection, you would lose hours of work. > One bad application could cause the computer to reboot.  Open source tools, and user accessible scripting/modding. Gary Larson's “The Far Side” comic “Blah blah blah Ginger” Tweet series about Internet Explorer's 25 year anniversary [@1:22:01](https://youtu.be/hlQuF75L4TE?t=4921) Pascal's parting thoughts. > The transformation of software from artifact into service, > is both fabulous and also scary. It changes all the time. > When NT was done, it was a fixed unchanging thing.  Bryan: The darker side to services is people need to attend to it whenever it breaks. Adam: It's the death march with no end. > Pascal: Thanks everyone, I'd love to hear from you individually. > I'm interested in why people continue to turn to Showstopper > and find some value in it. Pascal: I encourage you to think about the literary aspects of software. I think it's valuable for society and civilization, for our culture, because there really is an artistic, artisanal side to software. Thanks again for including me. If we got something wrong or missed something, please file a PR! Our next Twitter space will likely be on Monday at 5p Pacific Time; stay tuned to our Twitter feeds for details. We'd love to have you join us, as we always love to hear from new speakers!

This week Michelle is lucky enough to be chatting with one of the best people on the Internet (and real life, too) - Jessamyn West. Jessamyn is a library person in Vermont who speaks a lot about how to better serve rural communities. She's bringing to the Library Land Loves table her top five tips on how to be more accessible to your communities. Her tips are quick and easy and likely don't even require help from your IT department! Follow Michelle Arbuckle @citybrarian Follow Jessamyn West @jessamyn Subscribe to Jessamyn's Tiny Letter Find details on OLITA's Digital Odyssey conference on accessibility here: https://accessola.com/events/digital-odyssey/ More information from today's discussion: Tommy Edison Experience Blind vs Legally Blind Showing Twitter's Alt Text requires two things 1. Greasemonkey or Tampermonkey (depending on your browser) add-on 2. the script to Show Twitter Image Alt Text Live captions on Zoom Live Captions on Google Meet YouTube Creator Academy on captioning Accessibility options for phones iPhone Android Speech to text/dictation on phones iPhone Android Speech to text/dictation for computers Mac PC

On today's episode, we are talking all about words. This is something we have been discussing for a while, but not as loudly as we wanted. So, we now are digging deeper and sharing this important conversation with you today. Tune in today to hear how words can create our reality, rather than reality creating our chosen words. We also share how our language is used and how this has been a life-long process for us. According to an article in Psychology Today, from 2012 researchers have found that you need to replace every negative thought with at least 5 positive thoughts to counteract the effect on the brain. The good news is that our thought patterns are habits, and habits can be changed. We can rewire our brains, and our entire existence by changing the language we use to talk to ourselves and the people around us. We can acknowledge the negative thoughts by saying no thank you and releasing. We can also acknowledge the critical thoughts and use a mantra to help refocus on positive thoughts. Language also impacts culture, both on a micro and macro level which we get into today. How do you speak to your family? How do you interact with your friends? Once we key ourselves in to listening for the repetition of certain words, phrases, or ways of speaking about ourselves and the world it becomes much easier, but it is an active process not passive. MENTIONED IN THE SHOW "A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever." Jessamyn West "If we understood the power of our thoughts, we would guard them more closely. If we understood the awesome power of our words, we would prefer silence to almost anything negative. In our thoughts and words, we create our own weaknesses and our own strengths. Our limitations and joys begin in our hearts. We can always replace negative with positive." Betty Eadie “By holding a positive and optimistic [word] in your mind, you stimulate frontal lobe activity. This area includes specific language centers that connect directly to the motor cortex responsible for moving you into action. And as our research has shown, the longer you concentrate on positive words, the more you begin to affect other areas of the brain.” Newburg, Waldman GO BOLDLY HOMEWORK Start listening to your inner monologue more closely for negative framing and words. Start also listening to how you talk to other people about yourself. Are you repeatedly critical? Are you making yourself smaller? Keep a notebook handy where you can write down the negative and limiting thoughts. Pick one word or phrase from the list that you made and focus in on that specifically. Think about words like can't, only, just, and always. You may find that you are noticing other people's negativity now too. Probably not the best time to point it out. Once you have that word use the tools we talked about today, or any of the suggestions in the further reading to work towards removing it from your lexicon. RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW Did you enjoy this episode? We would love to hear your thoughts. Head to Apple Podcasts and then rate, review, and subscribe. This way you will get notified once a new episode goes live. CONNECT WITH RIELLY AND TOVAH Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/goboldlytogether/ Website: goboldlythepodcast.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Go-Boldly-Together-105942584706928 LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/company/go-boldly-initiative YouTube: http://bit.ly/boldlyyoutube Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/GoBoldlyTogether/_saved/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/goboldlypodcast

País Estados Unidos Dirección William Wyler Guion James R. Webb, Sy Bartlett, Robert Wilder, Jessamyn West, Robert Wyler (Novela: Donald Hamilton) Música Jerome Moross Fotografía Franz Planer Reparto Gregory Peck, Jean Simmons, Charlton Heston, Burl Ives, Carroll Baker, Charles Bickford, Chuck Connors, Alfonso Bedoya, Chuck Hayward, Buff Brady, Dorothy Adams, Jim Burk Sinopsis James McKay (Peck), un capitán de navío retirado, viaja desde el Este a las vastas llanuras de Texas para casarse con Pat Terrill (Baker), la hija de un rico ganadero. El choque entre McKay, hombre pacífico, culto y educado, y los violentos y toscos rancheros es inevitable. No sólo tendrá que enfrentarse con el capataz Steve Leech (Heston), sino que incluso su novia se sentirá decepcionada por su comportamiento. Mientras tanto, el padre de Pat y el clan de los Hannassey luchan encarnizadamente por el control del agua para abrevar el ganado.

We are pleased to announce our newest session of The Library is Open Podcast! This session features an interview with Jessamyn West, a librarian and community technologist living in central Vermont. Jessamyn returns to the Library is Open Podcast to chat about how librarians are adapting during the pandemic, tools she uses to help with technology needs in her community, what skills librarians need to adapt to the environment we are currently living in, and finding your personal center.What's Jessamyn ReadingA Place for Everything: The Curious History of Alphabetical Order by Judith FlandersAncestral Night (White Space # 1) by Elizabeth BearWhat's Jessamyn Listening toQI PodcastAbout Jessamyn WestJessamyn Charity West is a library technologist and writer known for her activism and work on the digital divide.Checkout her blog librarian.net putting the rarin back in librarian since 1999.Read more about Jessamyn on her website!

We’ve been doing a lot of coverage this month of schools and colleges closing and shifting online to try to finish out their semesters amid this pandemic. And of course, libraries that are being forced to shut their doors are trying to shift online too. To get a sense of what the widespread closure of libraries could mean, and hear some creative ways libraries are reaching out digitally, I connected yesterday with Jessamyn West, an educational technologist who runs the librarian.net blog and is author of "Without a Net: Librarians Bridging the Digital Divide."

The childlike, cartoonish typeface Comic Sans is the most hated font in the world. Twenty-five years after its release, it's become notorious for showing up in seemingly inappropriate contexts, from office memos to newspapers and government documents. But librarian and technology educator Jessamyn West argues that hating on Comic Sans is elitist. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The childlike, cartoonish typeface Comic Sans is the most hated font in the world. Twenty-five years after its release, it's become notorious for showing up in seemingly inappropriate contexts, from office memos to newspapers and government documents. But librarian and technology educator Jessamyn West argues that hating on Comic Sans is elitist. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A number of writers (including Virginia Woolf, Jessamyn West, and Paulo Coelho) have famously spoken about a writer's need for solitude, and have described writing as a solitary pursuit. But how solitary does the writing life need to be? I acknowledge the importance of solitude in my life as a writer, but also discuss how belonging to a writing group has benefited me. Let me know what you think! Please leave me a voice message at Anchor, or email me at marisadellefarfalle@gmail.com. Also, I'd really appreciate it if you could take a moment to rate & review me at Apple Podcasts.

Earlier this month, Verizon Media, the parent to Yahoo, announced that users of Yahoo Groups had until October 28th to continue posting in their groups and until December of this year to archive all of their conversations. After December, 18+ years of conversations will be erased from Verizon Media’s servers and the internet entirely. Obviously, the community is fighting back. Administrators of these groups, most of whom are unpaid volunteers, are working tirelessly to download their data, collect the email addresses of their community members and, in some cases, move people over to a new platform. As community professionals, we know that a migration like this can take months of planning, research, and communication to our communities. In this case, administrators had two weeks to figure things out. In this episode, Patrick talks to two avid organizers of Yahoo Groups about the next steps for their communities and what they hope will come out of this situation. In both cases, they want the connections and resources fostered in their Yahoo Groups to be preserved. Patrick and our guests, Susan Kang and Deane Rimerman, also discuss: The new tools that Deane and Susan will use to host their communities and why Nextdoor isn’t one of them What it’s really like to download your data from Yahoo Groups The importance of communities as archives and spaces for political action Big Quotes Will legislators step in to protect our data? (11:59): “I find it fascinating that in Europe, they passed legislation to give you the right to be forgotten on the internet and this is almost like the opposite. It’s like what rights do we have? Obviously, we’re all guilty of entrusting our personal data, our community’s data, to a corporation that didn’t make very many good decisions, but at the same time we as a community created this data and it’s going to take legislation, it’s going to take new laws to actually protect this data. Unless there’s a lot of political pressure before December 14th, we’re going lose this data.” –@deanerimerman The Yahoo Groups shutdown is diluting the impact and purpose of communities (35:24): “I posted something recently asking people to call Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s office [in response to ConEdison raising utility rates to subsidize their fracking practices]. … Ordinarily, this would have gotten much more of a response. People are so hung up right now on ‘What’s the future of Yahoo Groups?’ [that] I didn’t get much of a response. … There’s a lot of interesting and important political work that we need to be doing. That’s getting lost in the fray because people are like, ‘Where’s my Google Group invite?'” –@Solidaritybitch The inevitable loss of members due to this change (44:46): “We’re definitely going to lose quite a lot of people because many of the people who are members of the group, they didn’t even check their emails. They just occasionally log onto the interface and see what’s going on. We’re just going to lose them. I’m really sad about that.” –@Solidaritybitch On the importance of archiving (47:20): “My biggest concern in terms [of] online data and archiving is that I want people fifty years from now, a hundred years from now, who are researching projects and want to know the origins of great ideas and origins that made the world a better place, I want them to be able to dig through all of this information and find gems and find great stories and find, especially when it comes to the genealogy, remarkable people in their last years started sending emails and started writing some of their thoughts and ideas, and we’ll never know who those people were. There was a chance we could have if we had more protection of our data.” –@deanerimerman About Deane Rimerman Deane Rimerman is an archivist and content editor who manages Warrior Poets Society, an eco-poetry group that dates back to 2001. He’s also involved with several other groups. About Susan Kang Susan Kang is an associate professor at John Jay College. She is responsible for the Jackson Heights Families Yahoo Group for parents, caretakers, and families living in Jackson Heights, New York who are interested in building a community with other families. It was started in 2004 and has over 4,000 members. Related Links Susan Kang on Twitter Deane Rimerman on Twitter Yahoo’s announcement about the coming changes to Yahoo Groups eGroups.com Yahoo Groups Is Winding Down and All Content Will Be Permanently Removed via VICE Community Signal episode about Photobucket’s changes with Jessamyn West and Jonathan Bailey Community Signal episode about IMDB’s message board closure with Timo Tolonen Robert D. Putnam on social capital Archive.org Deleting Yahoo Groups will leave a permanent stain on Yahoo’s legacy via Fast Company Groups.io Yahoo users united to right the Yahoo wrongs Nextdoor Rolls Out Product Fix It Hopes Will Stem Racial Profiling via Buzzfeed News In Jackson Heights How New York Politics Has Changed via Jacobin Posterous Jackson Heights Life bulletin board Armed with Visions The Armed with Visions blog Transcript View transcript on our website Your Thoughts If you have any thoughts on this episode that you’d like to share, please leave me a comment, send me an email or a tweet. If you enjoy the show, we would be so grateful if you spread the word and supported Community Signal on Patreon.

How lawmakers held Equifax accountable… almost.  How consumers are doing it themselves.  Inventing consequences for the worst breach ever. Read about Jessamyn West’s experience taking Equifax to small claims court here. Read about Christian Haigh’s experience taking Equifax to small claims court here.

How did hackers steal the *best* info on 145 million Americans? How did Equifax let them? Get into the details with the guys who (literally) wrote the report on the worst breach ever.

Jessamyn West sued Equifax - and won. A hopeful case study in taking action against Big Tech. Tomaš Dvořák - "Game Boy Tune" - Machinarium Soundtrack - "Mark's intro" - "Interview with Jessamyn West" - "Uncanny Valley" - "Your calls and comments 201-209-9368" Cult Fantastic - "Screens" http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/81392

Jessamyn West sued Equifax - and won. A hopeful case study in taking action against Big Tech. Tomaš Dvořák - "Game Boy Tune" - Machinarium Soundtrack - "Mark's intro" - "Interview with Jessamyn West" - "Uncanny Valley" - "Your calls and comments 201-209-9368" Cult Fantastic - "Screens" https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/81392

Tomaš Dvořák - "Game Boy Tune" - Machinarium Soundtrack - "Mark's intro" - "Recap of first year, part 1" - "Scott Heiferman excerpt" - "Vicki Boykis excerpt" - "Jessamyn West excerpt" - "Courtney Maum excerpt" - "Eric Zimmerman excerpt" - "Andrew Beccone excerpt" - "Roger Anderson excerpt" - "Andy Rehfeldt excerpt" - "Janelle Shane excerpt" - "Zaire Dinzey-Flores excerpt" - "Cheyenne Hohman excerpt" - "College student excerpt" - "Nir Eyal excerpt" - "Kirby Ferguson excerpt" - "Steven Levy excerpt" - "Mark reads Botnik's Harry Potter - excerpt" - "Ken Freedman excerpt" - "Jace Clayton excerpt" - "Jonathan Taplin excerpt" - "Scott Williams rec" - "Gabriel Weinberg excerpt" - "Christopher Potter excerpt" - "Botnik's Bob Mankoff and Jamie Brew excerpt" - "Matt Klinman excerpt" - "Yong Zhao excerpt" - "Recap of first year, part 2" - "Irwin Chusid excerpt" - "Kimzilla excerpt" - "Mathew Ingram excerpt" - "Alex George excerpt" - "Dylan Curran excerpt" - "Henry Lowengard (aka Webhamster Henry) excerpt" - "Catherine Price excerpt" - "Len Sherman excerpt" - "Corey Pein excerpt" - "Anya Kamenetz excerpt" - "David Sax excerpt" - "Felix Salmon excerpt" - "Meredith Broussard excerpt" - "Andrew Keen excerpt" - "Brett Frischmann excerpt" - "John Keating excerpt" - "Siva Vaidhyanathan excerpt" - "Mobile Steam Unit excerpt" - "Jaron Lanier excerpt" - "Paul Ford excerpt" - "Dr. Robert Epstein excerpt" - "Matt Warwick excerpt" - "James Bridle excerpt" - "Ali Latifi excerpt" Recap of the first year! Episode 50 of Techtonic, finishing the first year of the show, with a clip from every guest so far. https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/81296

Tomaš Dvořák - "Game Boy Tune" - Machinarium Soundtrack - "Mark's intro" - "Recap of first year, part 1" - "Scott Heiferman excerpt" - "Vicki Boykis excerpt" - "Jessamyn West excerpt" - "Courtney Maum excerpt" - "Eric Zimmerman excerpt" - "Andrew Beccone excerpt" - "Roger Anderson excerpt" - "Andy Rehfeldt excerpt" - "Janelle Shane excerpt" - "Zaire Dinzey-Flores excerpt" - "Cheyenne Hohman excerpt" - "College student excerpt" - "Nir Eyal excerpt" - "Kirby Ferguson excerpt" - "Steven Levy excerpt" - "Mark reads Botnik's Harry Potter - excerpt" - "Ken Freedman excerpt" - "Jace Clayton excerpt" - "Jonathan Taplin excerpt" - "Scott Williams rec" - "Gabriel Weinberg excerpt" - "Christopher Potter excerpt" - "Botnik's Bob Mankoff and Jamie Brew excerpt" - "Matt Klinman excerpt" - "Yong Zhao excerpt" - "Recap of first year, part 2" - "Irwin Chusid excerpt" - "Kimzilla excerpt" - "Mathew Ingram excerpt" - "Alex George excerpt" - "Dylan Curran excerpt" - "Henry Lowengard (aka Webhamster Henry) excerpt" - "Catherine Price excerpt" - "Len Sherman excerpt" - "Corey Pein excerpt" - "Anya Kamenetz excerpt" - "David Sax excerpt" - "Felix Salmon excerpt" - "Meredith Broussard excerpt" - "Andrew Keen excerpt" - "Brett Frischmann excerpt" - "John Keating excerpt" - "Siva Vaidhyanathan excerpt" - "Mobile Steam Unit excerpt" - "Jaron Lanier excerpt" - "Paul Ford excerpt" - "Dr. Robert Epstein excerpt" - "Matt Warwick excerpt" - "James Bridle excerpt" - "Ali Latifi excerpt" Recap of the first year! Episode 50 of Techtonic, finishing the first year of the show, with a clip from every guest so far. http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/81296

Can you recall the community-related news and trends of last summer? Let us refresh your memory. YouTube announced new guidelines for advertisers that inadvertently led to significant changes in revenue for many creators on its platform. Photobucket broke countless images across the web without notice. The city of Charlottesville, Virginia was descended upon by white supremacists during the violent, hateful, and deadly Unite the Right rally, yet Twitter still gave them (and still gives them) a place to convene and organize online. These topics were covered on Community Signal as they happened and this week’s episode is a gathering of unreleased clips from last summer. These were originally released to our Patreon supporters between July and September of 2017. If you’d like more behind the scenes clips and the chance to contribute potential questions and conversation topics to the show, please consider backing our show on Patreon. In this compilation, you’ll hear from Jonathan Bailey, Jessamyn West, Christina Shorter, Alessio Fattorini, Lilah Raptopoulos, Josh Millard, and Randy Farmer. These clips touch on the events mentioned above, the following topics, and more: Having a backup plan when you rely on third-party software Creating a culture of reciprocity in support communities The goldmine waiting for journalists in the comments section Our Podcast is Made Possible By… If you enjoy our show, please know that it’s only possible with the generous support of our sponsors: Higher Logic and Structure3C. Big Quotes “If you base any significant part of your business or your community on a third-party, you need to have … some means of how to replace them should they shift, should they change, should they pivot or just outright pull the rug out. [You should] be thinking about who you’re working with, who your hosts are, who your advertising partners are [and] then determine, ‘Well, if they go away tomorrow, what do I do? What’s my plan?'” -@plagiarismtoday “You can’t always rely on the technology but you can often rely on the people.” -@jessamyn “People are hard. … Code is easier than people, sometimes. It’s harder to deal with people. You have to be personal. You have to be there. Automation can help but it’s not enough. It’s hard to replace a good community manager or a good personal touch.” -@ale_fattorini “I didn’t really want to just encourage our journalists to jump into the comments just because the audience engagement team says they should just because that’s engagement, and whatever engagement means, you have to do it now. That’s not what our role is and that’s not useful for anyone. If someone told me that, I would think, ‘What’s in it for me? It doesn’t make any sense.’ I have been careful to angle it with what’s in it for them, which is how can it then improve your journalism or add some insights that might be of interest to you. What do your readers want to know? What are your readers not understanding in your stories? That’s all stuff you can get from the comments.” -@lilahrap “People don’t care about the feelings of white supremacists. … Like when GoFundMe bans them from their platform and they complain on Twitter, GoFundMe doesn’t respond, because why respond? Nobody cares if these people are unhappy. You drive them away to whatever platform that will take them at that time: Reddit, Gab, The Daily Stormer, whoever will take those people, that’s where you push them because they’ll always find each other and will exist but you don’t have to have them on your platform.” -@patrickokeefe Related Links Sponsor: Higher Logic, the community platform for community managers Sponsor: Structure3C, expert community strategy for large organizations Jessamyn West, librarian and former director of operations for Metafilter (Community Signal episode) Jonathan Bailey, copyright expert and voice behind Plagiarism Today (Community Signal episode) Christina Shorter, community manager for National Geographic (Community Signal episode) Alessio Fattorini, community manager for NethServer (Community Signal episode) Lilah Raptopoulos, community editor and comments advocate at the Financial Times(Community Signal episode) Josh Millard, owner and manager of Metafilter (Community Signal episode) Randy Farmer, co-creator of Habitat, often regarded as the first graphical virtual world (Community Signal episode) YouTube’s “advertiser-friendly” guidelines WhatCulture Wrestling, a wrestling promotion that saw a dip in revenue after YouTube changed its advertising policies In the Company of Givers and Takers by Adam Grant Unite the Right Descends on Charlottesville, Virginia How Photobucket broke images across the web, without notice to their users Patrick talks discusses the Photobucket debacle with Jessamyn West and Jonathan Bailey Spi.ne, a container hosting platform Transcript View transcript on our website Your Thoughts If you have any thoughts on this episode that you’d like to share, please leave me a comment, send me an email or a tweet. 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It was fun to catch up with Jessamyn as we chat about non-librarian or online community things. We went deep into Learned League, the shadowy internet nerd trivia league with what I consider impenetrable rules and traditions.

Kurt talks with Ruth Carter, the costume designer who recreated historically accurate clothing for period pictures like “Malcolm X,” “Selma,” and “The Butler,” but for “Black Panther” came up with a bold look for the future. Randy Levin is one of those Billy Joel obsessives who even has recordings of Joel when he played in a psychedelic rock band in the 1960s, but after Levin had kids, he heard one familiar Joel song in a new — and profound — way. Comic Sans is the most hated font, hands down, but Jessamyn West likes it and says you should, too. And John McWhorter tells Kurt why he hates the book that every writer and nitpicky grammarian loves: “The Elements of Style” by Strunk and White.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kurt talks with Ruth Carter, the costume designer who recreated historically accurate clothing for period pictures like “Malcolm X,” “Selma,” and “The Butler,” but for “Black Panther” came up with a bold look for the future. Randy Levin is one of those Billy Joel obsessives who even has recordings of Joel when he played in a psychedelic rock band in the 1960s, but after Levin had kids, he heard one familiar Joel song in a new — and profound — way. Comic Sans is the most hated font, hands down, but Jessamyn West likes it and says you should, too. And John McWhorter tells Kurt why he hates the book that every writer and nitpicky grammarian loves: “The Elements of Style” by Strunk and White.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Usually, at 18-year-old online community MetaFilter, a U.S. presidential election year means a big increase in heated political discussion. But once a victor is declared, and the transfer of power occurs, things go back to normal. Not this time. The 2016 presidential election – MetaFilter’s fifth – has created a situation where, six months after the election, they are still dealing with far more political discussion than they would normally be seeing. For a community that isn’t focused on politics, this is an incredible burden on moderators and has “measurably affected both the distribution and tone of discussion,” according to owner Josh Millard. It has become the election year that will not end. We also discuss: MetaFilter’s recent ownership transfer from Matt Haughey to Josh Member suicide deaths and the impact they have had on the community How MetaFilter has addressed casual sexism, racism and transphobia Our Podcast is Made Possible By… If you enjoy our show, please know that it’s only possible with the generous support of our sponsor: Higher Logic. Big Quotes “‘How did this happen? How did we not know? Is there something we could have done?’ [Suicide in an online community] can leave people rethinking their assumptions about the place as a community. You stop and think, ‘This person, who was a long time contributor here, it turns out that they were suffering. They were really not doing well, and we didn’t know.’ Or maybe, there were signs. [They left] comments that they were maybe struggling a lot lately, but we didn’t really know to do something. We guessed that something was up, and then this happened. That can be really challenging. That can be really emotionally devastating to find yourself second-guessing your relationship with that person.” -@joshmillard “As much as we’ve been getting steadily better on [casual sexism and misogyny at MetaFilter], in general, it has remained an incremental process because you have to get people on board. You have to set that expectation, you have to do education. You have to teach people to question things that they had taken for granted previously and that includes things like, who is impacted when you’re just joking? Who actually takes the brunt of your disinclination to re-examine the stuff that you learned in middle school? It’s very step-by-step. Every once in a while it feels a little three steps forward, two steps back, because you can’t teach everybody and new people join and some people come out of the woodwork and something sets someone off. Even when people are trying, it’s really easy when you’re dealing with discussions of isms, in general, for someone to have a fairly defensive reaction to being told that they’re doing something, even if their intent is reasonably good, even if they aren’t a real jerk.” -@joshmillard “The last thing we want [at MetaFilter] is to say, ‘Good enough. We’re pretty not sexist, we’re pretty not racist. Everybody just chill. I think we found a good compromise.’ It’s going to keep being a thing. It’s going to be an ongoing, difficult effort because that’s how improving at this stuff works.” -@joshmillard About Josh Millard Josh Millard is an artist, musician, programmer and generalized weird-creative-stuff-maker from Portland, OR. Josh is the owner and manager of the 18-year-old web community MetaFilter, where he’s worked for the last ten years as a community moderator. Related Links Sponsor: Higher Logic, the community platform for community managers Josh’s website MetaFilter, an 18-year-old online community, where Josh is owner and manager Patrick’s South by Southwest 2018 proposal, based partially on past episodes of the show about IMDb, closing communities and Photobucket’s hotlinking change Community Signal episode with Matt Haughey, MetaFilter founder, where we discussed how he stepped away from the community Community Signal episode with Jessamyn West, former director of operations at MetaFilter, where she talked about how MetaFilter could have dealt with LGBT and gender issues better than they did “mathowie Transfers Ownership of MetaFilter to cortex” by Josh about MetaFilter’s recent ownership transfer “Sixteen Years” by Matt Haughey, about his decision to move on from the day-to-day management of the community, passing the baton to Josh LobsterMitten, a MetaFilter staff member MetaTalk, a section on MetaFilter where members discuss site-related topics “Where I’m Off To” by Jessamyn West, about her decision to leave the MetaFilter staff “The Road Ahead” by Jessamyn West, also about her exist from the staff “Help Build MetaFilter’s Savings” by Josh, asking the community to contribute financially to MetaFilter’s future. The comments of this post include criticism of the financial side of the MetaFilter ownership transfer “holdkris99’s Death Was a Hoax” by Josh, about the fake suicide that occured on MetaFilter years ago “A Member of Your Online Community Lies About Committing Suicide: What Do You Do?”by Patrick “RIP Bill Zeller” by Matt Haughey, about the suicide of MetaFilter member null terminated Wikipedia page for Eternal September, which we discussed on the Community Signal episode with Howard Rheingold FanFare, a section of MetaFilter for entertainment discussions Josh on Twitter Josh’s paintings Josh’s retro game programming work Transcript View transcript on our website Your Thoughts If you have any thoughts on this episode that you’d like to share, please leave me a comment, send me an email or a tweet. If you enjoy the show, we would be so grateful if you spread the word and supported Community Signal on Patreon. Thank you for listening to Community Signal.

Many online communities do not allow members to upload images to include in their posts. In such cases, members often rely on third party image hosting services. Among the most popular of these, for a long time, has been Photobucket. But last month, Photobucket made a change. After 14 years of allowing people to upload images for free and embed them within posts on online communities, in blogs and on websites – they stopped. Without notice. Immediately, quite possibly billions of images across the web broke, and were replaced with what some have compared to a ransom note, imploring people to pay if they want their image to be displayed. The price: $39.99 a month or $399.99 a year. This has led to widespread media coverage and criticism, much of it coming from online communities impacted by the change. Former MetaFilter director of operations Jessamyn West, who recently participated in a community-led effort to migrate from one image sharing service to another, joins the show, alongside copyright expert Jonathan Bailey, to sift through this story and what online communities should take away from it. Including: Why Photobucket’s rollout of this change guaranteed people would leave their service How online communities can respond to situations like this What copyright implications community owners should be aware of Big Quotes “Regardless of [whether or not Photobucket had a community], they created a community by making this change. They created a community of people uniting in the fact that Photobucket has taken them for granted. … They’ve created a community of criticism and people who are literally on Twitter coming together, and on online communities coming together, over the fact that they trusted Photobucket and now they cannot.” -@patrickokeefe “Legally speaking – and this is part of what’s really frustrating about it – Photobucket is pretty much in the right here. They have the right to modify their terms of service at any time. … You agree to it, and they can do it. Now the caveat to that is we, as users, trust them not to abuse that. We understand they need that right because new legal issues come up, or they might need to make shifts here and there, but we also trust that they aren’t going to abuse that to hurt us. This is a situation where Photobucket did that.” -@plagiarismtoday “[The Photobucket situation] allows you to have a community conversation. … A lot of the management [of communities] has to do with the personality issues, more than the tech issues, because the software just does what it does. So hotlinking and images were always seen as someone else’s problem. … I feel like communities in general have gotten more sophisticated but that doesn’t mean everybody’s more sophisticated. And so it might be worth having conversations about what the options are.” -@jessamyn “A lot of people, with Photobucket, made a whole bunch of assumptions that were completely reasonable. Only they turned out not to be true.” -@jessamyn “If hosting images raises significant legal issues to you, it’s likely because your community has significant legal issues, regardless of the images. Basically, you’re already sitting on a landmine, you’re not going to make it significantly worse.” -@plagiarismtoday About Jessamyn West Jessamyn West is a librarian and community technologist who writes a column for Computers in Libraries magazine. She runs a regular drop-in time to help digitally divided people use technology in Central Vermont. Jessamyn is the author of Without a Net: Librarians Bridging the Digital Divide and is a frequent public speaker at library conferences throughout North America. She’s a Harvard Law School Library Innovation Lab Fellow for 2016 through 2017. About Jonathan Bailey Jonathan Bailey is the webmaster and author of Plagiarism Today and works as a copyright and plagiarism consultant at CopyByte. Though not an attorney, he has resolved hundreds of cases of plagiarism involving his own work and has helped countless others protect their work and develop strategies for protecting their content and avoiding infringement. Related Links Our first panel episode, from last week Photobucket, a popular free image hosting service that launched in 2003 “Amazon and eBay Images Broken by Photobucket’s ‘Ransom Demand'” by Leo Kelion for BBC News, which also includes details about how online communities were impacted TILT, where Jessamyn shares links and resources for librarians Plagiarism Today, Jonathan’s site Without a Net: Librarians Bridging the Digital Divide, Jessamyn’s book MetaFilter, which recently turned 18 years old, where Jessamyn was on staff for 10 years MLTSHP, an image sharing community that is owned by previous members of MLKSHK, an identical site that closed CopyByte, Jonathan’s copyright consulting agency “Update to Our Terms of Service” from Photobucket’s blog, a nondescript blog entry that didn’t actually point out the big change that was about to occur Photobucket’s paid plans and pricing “Photobucket Launches Unlimited 3rd Party Hosting Plan,” a press release issued after the initial wave of criticism Google search showing discussion about this situation in numerous online communities Photobucket’s blog, which, before this news, had not been updated in about 20 months “Photobucket and a Different Kind of Content Theft,” Jonathan’s article on this topic Flickr Pro, a paid subscription service from popular image sharing site Flickr PlayStation Vue, a live streaming TV service from Sony, which Jonathan cited as a good example of good customer service surrounding a negative change Imgur, another free image sharing service “Photobucket ‘Ransom’ is Making Your Amazon, eBay Listings Pricier” by Alyssa Newcomb for NBC News “Photobucket Addresses Complaints Over New Policy That Charges Heavy Users $400” by Tamara Chuang for The Denver Post Archive Team, “a loose collective of rogue archivists, programmers, writers and loudmouths dedicated to saving our digital heritage,” led by Jason Scott Internet Archive, which archives websites (and much more) ImageShack, a service that used to be free, that Patrick referred to as being free, but is no longer actually free Chaos Dwafs, an online community dedicated to the Warhammer gaming series “Photobucket Migration to the Darklands – Stage I,” a thread on Chaos Dwarfs about their efforts to help members migrate the photos they had shared on the community, that were hosted on Photobucket, from Photobucket to the community server rank2traffic.com, a site with historial Alexa website ranking data Listing for photobucket.com on rank2traffic.com Previous Community Signal episode with Jessamyn, where we discussed death in online communities “Photobucket Migration to the Darklands – Stage II,” a thread on Chaos Dwarfs, detailing their efforts to migrate photos posted by members who are no longer present on the community Wikipedia page for the Digital Millennium Copyright Act Cyber Civil Rights Initiative, which Jonathan works with to help combat revenge porn Copyright.gov, the website for the U.S. Copyright Office Register a DMCA designated agent with the U.S. Copyright Office, as Jonathan suggested librarian.net, Jessamyn’s blog Transcript View the transcript on our website Your Thoughts If you have any thoughts on this episode that you’d like to share, please leave me a comment, send me an email or a tweet. 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“The branch of anthropology concerned with the study of human societies and cultures and their development.” That’s cultural anthropology, per Oxford. Elizabeth Koenig has a degree in cultural anthropology. She’s also an account manager at The Social Element (formerly Emoderation), where she manages teams of moderators and community engagement specialists that scale based upon client needs. We talk about how cultural anthropology applies to online communities. Plus: What happens when companies rely on automated moderation too much How to motivate community pros to invest in client communities when they don’t choose the clients Why The Social Element, a company powered by a remote workforce, has a strong workplace community Big Quotes “Data science and anthropology had this baby, and it’s called sentiment analysis or emotional artificial intelligence. Instead of hiring an anthropologist to read through an entire community’s worth of data or every post or reaction to a new story and then writing a report on it, we have the power now with data science to use sentiment analysis to get an emotional report on how people react to certain stories within certain time frames. That technology is really interesting, because it works the way a filter works but with some artificial intelligence involved, because it attributes words to emotions, and then it keeps on learning from there. For example, if somebody says something like, ‘This makes me happy,’ the sentiment analysis would see the word happy and attribute that to a positive emotional reaction. That allows for brands or agencies like The Social Element to analyze huge amounts of data and to get a snapshot of the emotional reaction that people may have, which is like what anthropological field work is. “But the thing about it is that it’s 70% accurate, which is pretty good; but you still need someone to take that and make it meaningful for the group that is interested in that data, whoever they may be. The combination of using the sentiment analysis stuff that’s coming out now, with someone who understands some basic social science procedures, can create a really powerful snapshot, a look at how community is feeling hour by hour, even. It could be real-time; it could be over the period of an entire election cycle.” -@ElizKoenig “My favorite example [of what can go wrong if you just apply data without analysis] is C-3PO. I’m a huge Star Wars nerd. Of course, C-3PO is a droid [and] his whole primary purpose is to interpret languages. He’s just a language robot, but he has trouble with human emotion. That is the exact issue that we run into with any kind of artificial intelligence right now. I think that the sentiment analysis really struggles with sarcasm. It’s not going to get it right all the time. You have to have somebody on the ground keeping the process in check, doing quality assurance using real-time examples from the actual community. You could even interview people in a community, potentially, to get perspective on what’s really going on. I think it’s important to keep things human. These are tools that are here to assist us. They’re very powerful.” -@ElizKoenig “People who rely 100% on automated moderation are, right now and, I feel, in the foreseeable future, doomed to mediocre performance when it comes to moderation. I think they’re doomed to mediocrity, which means mediocre communities, mediocre results from communities, and this role, this task, this discipline, being viewed as underperforming, because they’re putting in the effort that leads to mediocrity. It’s almost a self-fulfilling principle with people that go all in 100% on automation.” -@patrickokeefe “A lot of people view moderation jobs as pretty low on the totem pole, when the reality is that that’s what makes everything work.” -@ElizKoenig About Elizabeth Koenig Elizabeth Koenig was born and raised in Columbia, South Carolina and decided she loved the internet through AOL Beanie Baby forums and making her own websites documenting email chain letters. Elizabeth went to college and got a Bachelor of the Arts degree in cultural anthropology and wrote her thesis about college student use of Facebook and how it was affecting the culture of being in college (this was when Facebook was new). Since then, Elizabeth worked in recycling and waste management (by choice!) but ended up working for Mind Candy/Moshi Monsters on the side, which led her to Emoderation, who recently rebranded as The Social Element, where she has found a home and a career for her passion in digital culture as a moderator, project manager and now account manager. Elizabeth has a hilarious dog, who is usually under her desk at all times. Her long time boyfriend is a blacksmith (he makes kitchen knives) and they love to go hiking and traveling. Related Links Wikipedia page for The Twilight Zone, a TV series created by Rod Serling Elizabeth on LinkedIn Moshi Monsters (from Mind Candy), where Elizabeth was first hired to work in online communities The Social Element, formerly Emoderation, where Elizabeth is an account manager Oxford’s definition of anthropology Urban Dictionary, a crowdsourced dictionary of slang words and phrases Community Signal episode with Jessamyn West of MetaFilter Nextdoor, a private social network for those in your local neighborhood Second Life, a virtual world Wikipedia page for C-3PO, a robot from Star Wars who interprets languages “Facebook Will Add 3,000 Moderators After Video Killings” by Colin Lecher for The Verge Amazon Mechanical Turk, a “marketplace for work” which some have used for moderation-related tasks musical.ly, a video community known for performance videos tied to music Community Signal episode with Brian Pontarelli of Inversoft Jigsaw, an incubator within Google-parent Alphabet, that “builds technology to tackle osome of the toughest global security challenges facing the world today,” some of which are tied to online communities and moderation, including their collaboration with The New York Times The Social Element’s Sue John (project manager), Tamara Littleton (CEO), Kate Hartley (COO of subsidiary Polpeo) and Ashley Cooksley (chief sales officer), all of which Patrick has connected with in person in different locations Transcript View the transcript on our website Your Thoughts If you have any thoughts on this episode that you’d like to share, please leave me a comment, send me an email or a tweet. 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Jessamyn West is a member of mlkshk, an online community that’s closing. She’s part of a community-led effort to build the next place where this group of people will get together. Best known for her work in the library space, she’s also an experienced online community practitioner, having spent 10 years on staff at MetaFilter, leaving as director of operations. Building on our recent discussions about the thoughtful way to close a community, we look at mlkshk as an example of a group that has done it right. Plus: The differences and similarities between dying and being banned from an online community Why it’s easy for community members to love new ideas, but hard to get them to commit to helping make them real The disconnect between wanting to be a moderator and actually being good at it Big Quotes “One of the things that happens with hobbyist communities, as opposed to giant corporate communities, is the person who’s running it has to kind of love being there as one of the primary things in their life.” -@jessamyn “I like to joke that I’ve created 20, 30, 40 online communities just by banning people, where they get mad and they say, ‘I’m going to create a new community.’ I’m like, ‘Okay. That’s fine. Create your own thing. That’s great. We just can’t do that thing here any longer, because it’s not what we’re about.'” -@patrickokeefe “For some people, I really do feel like the internet kind of flattens who we are to a certain extent. Not in a negative ‘the internet isn’t real’ way, but just in a ‘the internet can’t tell you certain things about people you interact with, and some of those things may matter’ way. It’s hard to say it without sounding really judgmental.” -@jessamyn “It’s so important for [some people] to not be judgmental about personality problems that you wind up with people who are borderline sociopaths, who are unmoderatable, just because people are like, ‘Well, that’s just how that person is.’ You’re like, ‘Well, how that person is, is that they harass female Wikipedians.’ You’ve got to make a choice, right? You just have to make a choice.” -@jessamyn “If you make a decision to leave [our community], that’s your choice, and maybe you’ll come back. You’re welcome, even as a non-member, to talk to us about what the issue is. But for people within the community, they’re like, ‘The goal is that nobody leaves.’ To me, that’s like saying the goal is that nobody dies. Sure, that sounds like a good idea at some level, but realistically, if nobody died, there would be huge problems and, if nobody left the community, you would wind up with a stagnation that would be difficult in its own way, that the community is not supposed to be everything to everyone.” -@jessamyn About Jessamyn West Jessamyn West is a librarian and community technologist who writes a column for Computers in Libraries magazine. She consults with small libraries and businesses in Central Vermont to help them use technology to solve problems and runs a regular drop-in time to help digitally divided people use technology. She is the author of Without a Net: Librarians Bridging the Digital Divide and is a frequent public speaker at library conferences throughout North America. She has a library newsletter and a blog. Related Links Jessamyn on Twitter Computers in Libraries magazine, which Jessamyn writes for Without a Net: Librarians Bridging the Digital Divide, Jessamyn’s book MetaFilter, an online community where Jessamyn was a member of staff for 10 years, resigning as director of operations TILT-Y MAIL, Jessamyn’s librarian-themed newsletter librarian.net, Jessamyn’s blog David Lee King, digital services director at the Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library, mutual friend of Jessamyn and Patrick Community Signal episode with David Lee King Nashua Public Library, one of Patrick’s libraries as a kid Community Signal episode about the IMDb message board closure with Timo Tolonen Community Signal episode with Gail Ann Williams mlkshk, an image sharing community Andre Torrez, application engineer at Slack and founder of mlkshk Matt Haughey, founder of MetaFilter, who works in editorial at Slack Amber Costley, design lead at Begin and founder of mlkshk “Beloved Image Sharing Site mlkshk Saunters Off Into the Sunset” by Matthew Panzarino at TechCrunch, about mlkshk’s plans to close in 2014 Post from mlkshk’s blog about why they didn’t shut down in 2014 Discardia, a book by Dinah Sanders, that provides “a flexible, iterative method for cutting out distractions and focusing on more fulfilling activities” Josh Millard, who currently runs MetaFilter Paul Bausch, known as pb on MetaFilter, who previously served as the community’s sole developer and technical administrator Greasemonkey script that enables you to see, on MetaFilter, who has been marked as a librarian by Jessamyn Ask MetaFilter, the community’s question and answer section “mlkshk Shutting Down”, about the site’s forthcoming closure GitHub, a development platform where some current members of mlkshk are collaborating to build the next place they will hang out at “holdkris99’s Death Was a Hoax” by Josh Millard, about a MetaFilter user who faked their own suicide Community Signal episode with Matt Haughey, where we talked about the fake suicide “A Member of Your Online Community Lies About Committing Suicide: What Do You Do?” by Patrick, which Jessamyn left a comment on Wikipedia page for Godwin’s law LearnedLeague, the online trivia league that Jessamyn is a member of “Jeopardy! Contestant Who Died Before Show Aired Keeps Win Streak Going” by Keith Allen for CNN, about a former member of LearnedLeague LearnedLeague’s in memoriam page, created at Jessamyn’s suggestion Community Signal episode about managing a cancer community with the online community manager of Breast Cancer Network Australia’s online community Details about MetaFilter’s “brand new day” policy, which allows banned members to return ColdChef, a MetaFilter member who is a third-generation undertaker and funeral home manager Jessamyn’s consulting website Jessamyn’s personal blog Transcript View the transcript on our website Your Thoughts If you have any thoughts on this episode that you’d like to share, please leave me a comment, send me an email or a tweet. If you enjoy the show, we would be grateful if you spread the word. Thank you for listening to Community Signal.

In this week's podcast are guests Lori Ayre, Library Technology Consultant at Galecia Group, and Jessamyn West, Librarian and Community Technologist. Lori works with libraries to optimize their operations and find ways to leverage state-of-the-art technologies to reduce operating expenses without reducing service quality to library patrons. Jessamyn can teach anyone to use a computer and enjoys using free and open source tools to help libraries better serve their patrons. Join us as we talk about Bookpoints, software that helps public libraries manage their summer reading programs. Bookpoints allows library staff to connect more people with summer reading through gamification and an engaging interface. This program helps librarians assess and demonstrate the their programs' impact using built-in evaluation tools. Bookpoints also efficiently manage and report on their summer program. You can watch the video version of this conversation on our YouTube channel, listen right here, subscribe to our podcast, or all of the above. Enjoy! Interested in Learning more about Bookpoints? Check out Reading By Design for more information.

She mucks about at the intersection of libraries, technology and politics. Then reports back...

Paul Ford is a technologist and a writer, sometimes these two things blur. For example, he’s currently working on a book about webpages, but he’s also building a content management system for webpages –  because you know it could help with the writing.  (yeah his book is late) Its not like he’s trying to procrastinate, this is just what life is like when you are Paul Ford.  A couple of Monday night’s ago he was sitting on his couch drinking some rye whisky and chatting with his friends on twitter  and he accidentally a brand new webpage community.  This is the true origin story of his tilde.club. Yours truly also started a new thing it is called dislike.club. We also check in with Librarian and community manager Jessamyn West for advice on how to start an online community that doesn’t suck. The Dislike Club is  a story-in-progress, it will play out on the podcast over the next few weeks and then culminate December 21 on Radiotonic, from ABC RN’s Creative Audio Unit.  

Matt Haughey founded MetaFilter, a well-moderated forum for discussions about interesting things that expanded to also answer questions. At just a few months over 15 years old, it's a veterans of many Internet lifecycles. In the last couple of years, however, MetaFilter began to face an existential challenge, which we'll talk about in this episode, along with its history, nature, and future. Sponsors & patrons This podcast is made possible through the support of sponsors and patrons. Thanks to our sponsor, Harry's: A great shaving experience for a fraction of the price of its competitors. $15 gets you a set that includes a handle, three blades, and shaving cream shipped to your door. Use coupon code DISRUPT for $5 off your first order. We've started a new kind of ad: "indie ads"! If you're a solo creator or small firm, we're offering discounted short ads with the kind underwriting of Cards Against Humanity. (CAH just launched a site where you can buy directly from them, including their Bigger Blacker Box and their 2012 and 2013 holiday packs, the profits from which are donated to charity.) Thanks also to patrons Bryan Clark, Rönne Ogland, and Mike Mansor for supporting us directly through Patreon! You can back this podcast for as little as $1 per month. At higher levels, we'll thank you on the air and send you mugs and T-shirts! Show notes Atex was the first digital composition system, used widely in the newspaper and magazine world into the 1990s, when PageMaker, QuarkXPress, and other software superceded it. Matt worked at Pyra Labs on Blogger for a short stint in its early days with Ev Williams, Meg Hourihan. We mention Tim O'Reilly, a publisher and thinker who invested in Blogger and a number of other interesting early-stage ventures. He founded Global Network Navigator (GNN) in 1993, which was sold to AOL in 1995. He is part of O'Reilly Alphatech Ventures. David Carr, the New York Times' media critic, used the terrible, terrible term platisher to refer to Medium, which is a combination of a platform and a publisher in a recent article. An OC-12 line is up to 622 Mbps of throughput. MAE-West was once the major interconnection point for ISPs on the west coast. The MAE stands for Metropolitan Area Exchange. In 1995, I wrote "The Experiment Is Over," about the how the National Science Foundation was shutting down its contracts for NSFNet, because commercial organizations could now directly operate the Internet backbone. A Virtual Private Server (VPS) is a virtualized instance of an operating system running on a host alongside potentially many others, each of which is allotted guaranteed amounts of CPU usage, storage, and the like. VPSes are just like running a virtual machine on one's own computer, but designed for efficiency and reliability. Glenn uses Linode, which recently switched all its drives to SSDs and doubled many system parameters. Digital Ocean is slightly cheaper (it used to be much more so). Amazon EC2 is another alternative for rapid scaling. After years of pictures of cats in scanners, MetaFilter set up cat-scan.com to house those and its memories. BREAKING! Cat-scan is dead and its file lost forever! BREAKING! File were found and it's fixed. As you were. The community at Ask MetaFilter produces some remarkable answers. A poster asked for help deciphering coded messages her grandmother on index cards before she died in 1996. Within 15 minutes, there was an answer. Andy Baio asked about an image he used a decade ago for the soon-to-be-revived Upcoming, and Boing Boing's Rob Beschizza had an answer four minutes later. Einstein probably didn't tell a story about "no cat," but it's an interesting history of where the apocryphal quote came from; and my original Google Answers query, for which I was willing to pay $15 if someone had an accurate reply. Jessamyn West is part of the lifeblood of the interesting part of the Internet. Matt blames his PVRblog for the rise of content farms. On Medium, Matt explained MetaFilter's Google search and AdSense predicament. But the good news is that even after we recorded this episode, donations continued to pour in. They've now received about $40,000 in one-time donations and a commitment of $10,000 per month in recurring ones. That monthly figure is about one-third of the site's Google ad revenue, and thus a good cushion against future drops. (Photo by Chris Ryan.)

Sherman Alexie reads "The Lesson," by Jessamyn West.

Today's show features interviews with the two most trouble-making librarians in the country "radical" librarian Jessamyn West discusses the revived US Patriot Act - it's supposedly modified, but is it? - and Foetry.com founder Alan Cordle discusses some new guidelines for literary prizes that seem to be a response to his work.

Today's show features interviews with the two most trouble-making librarians in the country "radical" librarian Jessamyn West discusses the revived US Patriot Act - it's supposedly modified, but is it? - and Foetry.com founder Alan Cordle discusses some new guidelines for literary prizes that seem to be a response to his work.

Radical Librarian, Jessamyn West, joins us to discuss roving Camel libraries in Kenya and the widening divide between the digital world and rural libraries.

Radical Librarian, Jessamyn West, joins us to discuss roving Camel libraries in Kenya and the widening divide between the digital world and rural libraries.