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2 episodes with wikiquote
3 episodes with wikiquote
2 episodes with wikiquote
Continuing our series of "So Easy Social Media", we're diving into how to gain followers on Instagram without any money and hardly any effort 1. SETTING UP YOUR ACCOUNT: Don't be Empty Start with 5-10 pictures when opening a new account. Don't start following people or creating stories with an “empty” page. One Link. One Shot. IG only let's you post one link in your profile. You can NOT post a link anywhere else, including your posts & stories (unless they're a paid promotional post on a business page) Linktr.ee let's you post all your links in a mobile friendly looking site with buttons. (You must upgrade for in-depth stats, auto updates, and color customization) I recommend a A “Subscribe” button at the TOP A “Listen/Watch/Play” button A “Visit Website” Button Maybe a contact/email button Or design it on your own site... Use bit.ly or google link shortener to track clicks from Instagram Keep it Personal Instagram is following the footsteps of Facebook (since they are Facebook, basically, anyway) and showing brands less and people more. You get stats with a business page. You need stats to track which posts are doing well, but you can get a good idea based on “likes”. With a business page you also get insights on stories to see how many people visit your profile, do a call of action (phone, e-mail, or website), exit your story, view the next story. This can be useful to look at but the price you pay of less exposure isn't worth it, in my opinion. You can make promotional posts/ads, which allows you to post links (but that costs money) You can add an e-mail or call button as well as products you can tag for Facebook shopping or integrate it with Shopify/BigCommerce. You can also link a Facebook page to cross post ( otherwise your posts will go to your personal Facebook page) BUT... Instagram punishes business profiles. They are shown less, given less priority. Your followers may NOT see your posts, which is bullsht You can always switch back and forth between the two types though at anytime. You do NOT lose your stats. There may be some exposure punishment to do this if you do it too often. 2. MAKING YOUR POSTS What to Post Memes your niche would laugh at Quotes your niche would be inspired by from big influencers or your own blog. Shots of activities your niche would enjoy (ones that you're doing anyway if you're targeting a niche you're personally active in and a part of) Make your page look like there's plenty of variety. Don't have all your posts be of the same exact thing but with different angles Make lighting, colors, and fonts different. A page that looks too much of the same looks boring and people won't follow it. Make a short video up to 60 seconds (limit). Give quick insight, informative commentary or a humorous opinion. Take clips from your YouTube videos if you're creating content there or from your podcast Create an audiogram with Headliner (free) Put a custom waveform shape & color on a background image you choose and include a logo. You can caption it too. There's an auto caption feature but it's not that accurate, so you'll have to edit it manually. Just type what you hear. Most people are browsing with sound off, seeing a moving waveform may encourage them to turn up volume. Seeing captions let's them read the content without adjusting volume, which they may not be able to do depending on where they are. Captioning videos and audiograms is optional but may help with views and engagement. Create a Collage (on “Layout” separate app) with multiple photos of an event relevant to your niche (ComiCon, Car Show, Hogwarts at Universal Studios, etc.) You can repurpose these collages in a story too. Make a mix of albums, layouts single photos, and videos on your profile. Don't stick to one format or media type. You can post promotional content but remember the 80/20 rule. Find the Content Use your own content and repurpose it for the platform. Quotes for your blog, clips from your videos and podcasts, etc. Find quotes on WIkiQuote or BrainyQuote or just google “[Name] quote” or “quotes about [niche]” Find memes on 9Gag, Memecenter, 4Chan, or Reddit Look on on t-shirt sites (Redbubble, TeeSpring, Threadless, TeeFury) and find niche related designs. Credit the author always. Tag them if you can. Sell the designs in your own TeePublic store ...or post & sell your own designs Follow hashtags relevant to your niche and large influencers Design it Use a site likeGetFunky or Canva to create “Quote-a-Grams” GIMP or ArtWeaver for FREE photoshop. Create a template with your logo. Play around with saturation, brightness, color balance, layout, and transparency. Font Squirrel or 1001 Fonts - free commercial use fonts FreePik and Needpix for background images (creative commons license photos) Repost it There's no native feature to repost or share someone else's post, so you have to use a third party app Use Repost App to well, repost. It'll put a slug of the username of who you reposted it from. You have to manually tag that person. Caption it Write something witty. One liners. No more than a paragraph. If you can't think of anything, copy & paste a comment from the original meme. Give a plug at the end. Mention how the post is relevant to a recent blog or video then say “Link in bio” You can't hyperlink in IG posts, unfortunately. You only get that one link in your profile and that's it (unless you pay for promotion but we like doing this the cheap way, cause we're chepa & lazy) Tag It There is a 30 limit per post hash tag limit per post For the most exposure, use as many hash tags as possible Use a tool like Display Purposes to search for relevant hash tags and copy them Instavast let's you select specific hash tags then copy the ones you check in a box. You can also upload image or URL 3-5 hash tags is the sweet spot to not seem too spammy. You could start with the max 30 and later delete most of the hash tags. IG is mostly focused photos, but people do read the captions and comments. I wouldn't recommend EVERY post being filled to the max with hash tags for that reason. Otherwise, you'll come across as annoying and spammy. You can also leave a comment or two on your own post with even more hash tags, but again don't be overzealous. Are you likely to follow an account with nothing but hash tags in the captions and comments? Probably not, so don't do it too much,Most of the engagement comes from stories on IG. People are swiping through stories more than scrolling the feed (now in 2018). Make compelling stories. Give context. Every story has a Beginning, Middle, and End Use one or two hash tags Behind the scenes, “daily life”, more personal than posts Each video is limited to 15 secs. Use Story Cutter app or iOS equivalent to automatically cut up a long video into segments. Remember: consistency. You can start out doing a post or story once or twice a week and eventually level up your game to do something daily. Just be consistent with your post time. Pick a day, any day you want. Pick a time, any time you want. There are charts and graphs out there that show you the peak time of engagement but typically it's between 2-4pm. Don't worry about hitting that deadline though. You can choose when you like to post and your audience will follow you, as long as it's consistent. Also, you can make promotional announcements “Hey I just posted a new blog/video/podcast” but again, follow the 80/20 rule. You can see who views your story. Keep this in mind later when you decide who to interact with, strategically. 4. LIKE, FOLLOW, UNFOLLOW Follow hash tags relevant to your niche. Like the “most recent” posts. Look at the top posts in a hash tag or from someone big in your niche and follow the people who like and commentthere. Keep your follow count less than double of your followers. People might think you're just a spam account if your follower/following proportion is too skewed. Some people unfollow everyone, but that might get your actual followers to unfollow you To find out your unfollowers, you must use a third party app. The Follow Cop Android app lets you unfollow in batches. 20 for free and 200 for paid. One time fee. CopyFollowers by Dominator House is a good app for copying the followers of big influencers The down side of this is you blindly copy the followers and don't see who's actually engaging so you'll get a lot more “duds” this way, but it will be on auto pilot. Limits: Trusted account Likes: one like in 28 – 36 seconds (1000 at a time, with a 24 hour break); Follows: one in 28 – 38 seconds and below 200 an hour (1000 a day, with a 24 hour break); Follow + Like: below 2000 (1000 + 1000) a day, at the rate of once every 28 – 38 seconds; Limit of Comments: below 12-14 an hour with a 350 - 400 seconds break New accounts: The actions interval for the first 12-20 days after the account has been created is 36-48 seconds; The total limit is 500 actions a day (follow, unfollow, like); 5. INTERACT* IG is starting to punish “spam” accounts They are hiding posts of people who do what I just told you to do: follow a bunch of people, unfollow the unfollowers, and tag your posts with a bunch of hash tags So to avoid being labeled as a “spam” account, have some meaningful comments and DMs with your current followers Meaningful does not mean effortful. Think about your most favorite movie moments. It all comes down to one memorable and powerful line. One meaningful sentence. “Luke, I am your father” “Asta La Vista Baby. “We're not flying; we're falling with style” Make it short but have impact. Questions are an easy way to get interaction. The person will likely answer. If IG sees people are replying to and liking your posts and comments, they'll see you're providing value and not just spam. Comment on posts and reply to stories of your followers. Target your active followers - the people that like and comment on your posts, the ones that watch your story from beginning to end. Develop a relationship with your actives. Show them you're a real person and not just a spammy bot or billboard. Just a couple per day. No need to spend hours doing this and no need to get every single follower. In other words, use IG as you normally would, if you weren't trying to promote your own website/brand Follow me on IG: @a_procrastin8r Check out the Lazy R' Us T-Shirt Shop: http://www.LazyRUs.com or http://www.procrastin8r.com/shop SUMMARY: SETUP: Start w/ 5- 10 posts. Keep your profile as personal. Make that one link count POSTS: gather memes, quotes, activities, reposts from top influencers, repurpose your own content, hash tag the heck out of it. Be consistent with your post schedule. STORIES: include beginning, middle end, behind the scenes and personal life, make special announcements (but limit it) GET FOLLOWERS: follow people liking and commenting on top influencers and posts, unfollow your unfollowers, like most recent posts in your niche INTERACT: leave short comments on your current followers posts and send them DMs, like you normally would using IG.
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You are invited to call in to 816-931-KKFI (816-931-5534) with questions and comments about Wikipedia and other Wikimedia Foundation projects like Wikiquote. Or use the following Zoom credentials: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86352321546 Meeting […] The post Wikimedia call-in appeared first on KKFI.
Guest Simon Minton Panelists Richard Littauer | Justin Dorfman Show Notes Hello and welcome to Sustain! The podcast where we talk about sustaining open source for the long haul. Richard and Justin are super excited to have as their guest today, Simon Minton, who's the CEO of Ringer, which we'll hear all about. Simon tells us how Ringer is different by the ways they provide for their maintainers, how they give back to projects, handle consultancy with projects, and he explains their recruitment process. Simon shares his long-term plan for Ringer, and a new tool they are building to help the ecosystem in the long-term. Go ahead and download this episode now to hear more! [00:01:54] Simon tells us how Ringer was born, what it is, and how many people use it. [00:05:00] Find out how Ringer is different. [00:08:59] Besides a payment gateway, we hear about some other infrastructure and services Simon is providing for the maintainers. [00:12:01] How does Ringer make sure that the money doesn't just flow to the people on the top of the projects, but also to the projects as a whole? [00:14:16] Richard wonders how Simon teaches the next generation to become the next generation of Ringer HQ/maintainers besides the 5%. [00:15:19] Richard brings up a concern around consulting and Simon explains how they handle this with larger and smaller projects. [00:17:32] We learn about some projects where Ringer will be their consultancy platform. [00:19:19] Ringer's recruitment process is explained. [00:21:33] Justin thinks the Ringer site is really cool and Simon shares where the inspiration came from. [00:23:30] Richard wonders if Simon has a long-term plan, and as he scales up his team if services will be provided to the consultants., and he tells us about the educational services he offers. [00:30:58] Simon informs us about a tool they are building right now to help the ecosystem in the long-term. [00:33:20] Justin brings up thanks.dev and the founder, Ali Nehzat. [00:35:58] We learn the meaning of Ringer and where you can follow Simon online. Spotlight [00:37:04] Justin's spotlight is NextAuth.js. [00:37:30] Richard's spotlight is Wikiquote and the works of Seneca the Younger. [00:38:13] Simon's spotlight is Spatie and Freek Van der Herten. Links SustainOSS (https://sustainoss.org/) SustainOSS Twitter (https://twitter.com/SustainOSS?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor) SustainOSS Discourse (https://discourse.sustainoss.org/) podcast@sustainoss.org (mailto:podcast@sustainoss.org) Richard Littauer Twitter (https://twitter.com/richlitt?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor) Justin Dorfman Twitter (https://twitter.com/jdorfman?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor) Simon Minton LinkedIn (https://uk.linkedin.com/in/minton) Simon Minton Twitter (https://twitter.com/simonminton) Ringer (https://www.ringerhq.com/) filament (https://filamentphp.com/) Sustain Podcast-Episode 142: Nicholas Zakas on Sponsoring Dependencies, All the Way Down (https://podcast.sustainoss.org/142) Electron (https://www.electronjs.org/) Ali Nehzat Twitter (https://twitter.com/nehzata) thanks.dev (https://thanks.dev/home) NextAuth.js (https://next-auth.js.org/) Wikiquote-Seneca the Younger (https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Seneca_the_Younger) Spatie-GitHub (https://github.com/spatie) Freek Van der Herten-GitHub (https://github.com/freekmurze) Credits Produced by Richard Littauer (https://www.burntfen.com/) Edited by Paul M. Bahr at Peachtree Sound (https://www.peachtreesound.com/) Show notes by DeAnn Bahr Peachtree Sound (https://www.peachtreesound.com/) Special Guest: Simon Minton.
Your mind is a powerful tool, and understanding how your brain works can be life-changing. In part two of Brandy's session with her wonderful volunteer, Dave, Brandy helps him go deep to identify key programming that has been counterintuitive and affecting his health and happiness. This is the perfect podcast episode for anyone who wants to understand their mind better. It will make you think about your brain in a whole new way! Come join us! Wikiquote link: https://www.wikiquote.org/ Additional links and resources: Email contact: support@brandygillmore.com Website: https://brandygillmore.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/brandy.gillmore/ IG: https://www.instagram.com/brandygillmore/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/BrandyGillmore Training: https://brandygillmore.com/healing TEDx Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dEbqRYqY_0
Para este episodio contamos con la compañía de Rubén Ojeda, coordinador de proyectos en Wikimedia España, la asociación sin ánimo de lucro que promueve el conocimiento libre y los proyectos Wikimedia, siendo Wikipedia el más conocido de todos. Pero Wikimedia es mucho más que la Wikipedia, y en este episodio Rubén nos contará todo el trabajo que se realiza desde la asociación y cómo favorecen un mejor acceso a la cultura y el conocimiento libre. Wikimedia está detrás de proyectos de difusión tan interesantes como Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, Wikiquote o Wikisource, pero también de otros muchos que constituyen un formidable repositorio de información compartida y libre. Con Rubén Ojeda hablamos mucho sobre Wikipedia pero también de varias cuestiones sobre Wikimedia y sus proyectos: ¿Qué es la Asociación Wikimedia España y cómo se constituye aquí? En qué consiste una wiki y cómo se organiza a nivel editorial. ¿Cómo pueden participar los ciudadanos de los proyectos Wikimedia? ¿Conoce el sector público y las instituciones culturales cómo compartir conocimiento a través de vuestros proyectos? ¿Cuáles son las mayores amenazas al conocimiento libre en la era digital? ¿Cómo pueden ayudar los proyectos Wikimedia a combatir la desinformación? En definitiva una conversación muy completa para conocer la labor de Wikimedia, aspectos sobre derechos digitales, contenidos libres y conocer cómo poder colaborar en los proyectos.
Para este episodio contamos con la compañía de Rubén Ojeda, coordinador de proyectos en Wikimedia España, la asociación sin ánimo de lucro que promueve el conocimiento libre y los proyectos Wikimedia, siendo Wikipedia el más conocido de todos. Pero Wikimedia es mucho más que la Wikipedia, y en este episodio Rubén nos contará todo el trabajo que se realiza desde la asociación y cómo favorecen un mejor acceso a la cultura y el conocimiento libre. Wikimedia está detrás de proyectos de difusión tan interesantes como Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, Wikiquote o Wikisource, pero también de otros muchos que constituyen un formidable repositorio de información compartida y libre. Con Rubén Ojeda hablamos mucho sobre Wikipedia pero también de varias cuestiones sobre Wikimedia y sus proyectos: - ¿Qué es la Asociación Wikimedia España y cómo se constituye aquí? - En qué consiste una wiki y cómo se organiza a nivel editorial. - ¿Cómo pueden participar los ciudadanos de los proyectos Wikimedia? - ¿Conoce el sector público y las instituciones culturales cómo compartir conocimiento a través de vuestros proyectos? - ¿Cuáles son las mayores amenazas al conocimiento libre en la era digital? - ¿Cómo pueden ayudar los proyectos Wikimedia a combatir la desinformación? En definitiva una conversación muy completa para conocer la labor de Wikimedia, aspectos sobre derechos digitales, contenidos libres y conocer cómo poder colaborar en los proyectos. Notas del episodio con enlaces: https://republicaweb.es/podcast/wikimedia-es-mucho-mas-que-wikipedia-con-ruben-ojeda/ ¡Contribuye a este podcast!. A través de la plataforma Buy me a coffee puedes realizar una mínima aportación desde 3€ que ayude a sostener a este podcast. Tú eliges el importe y si deseas un pago único o recurrente. ¡Muchas gracias! Sitio web de Javier Archeni: https://javierarcheni.com Sitio web de Andros Fenollosa https://programadorwebvalencia.com Sitio web de David Vaquero https://cursosdedesarrollo.com
Para este episodio contamos con la compañía de Rubén Ojeda, coordinador de proyectos en Wikimedia España, la asociación sin ánimo de lucro que promueve el conocimiento libre y los proyectos Wikimedia, siendo Wikipedia el más conocido de todos. Pero Wikimedia es mucho más que la Wikipedia, y en este episodio Rubén nos contará todo el trabajo que se realiza desde la asociación y cómo favorecen un mejor acceso a la cultura y el conocimiento libre. Wikimedia está detrás de proyectos de difusión tan interesantes como Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, Wikiquote o Wikisource, pero también de otros muchos que constituyen un formidable repositorio de información compartida y libre. Con Rubén Ojeda hablamos mucho sobre Wikipedia pero también de varias cuestiones sobre Wikimedia y sus proyectos: - ¿Qué es la Asociación Wikimedia España y cómo se constituye aquí? - En qué consiste una wiki y cómo se organiza a nivel editorial. - ¿Cómo pueden participar los ciudadanos de los proyectos Wikimedia? - ¿Conoce el sector público y las instituciones culturales cómo compartir conocimiento a través de vuestros proyectos? - ¿Cuáles son las mayores amenazas al conocimiento libre en la era digital? - ¿Cómo pueden ayudar los proyectos Wikimedia a combatir la desinformación? En definitiva una conversación muy completa para conocer la labor de Wikimedia, aspectos sobre derechos digitales, contenidos libres y conocer cómo poder colaborar en los proyectos. Notas del episodio con enlaces: https://republicaweb.es/podcast/wikimedia-es-mucho-mas-que-wikipedia-con-ruben-ojeda/ ¡Contribuye a este podcast!. A través de la plataforma Buy me a coffee puedes realizar una mínima aportación desde 3€ que ayude a sostener a este podcast. Tú eliges el importe y si deseas un pago único o recurrente. ¡Muchas gracias! Sitio web de Javier Archeni: https://javierarcheni.com Sitio web de Andros Fenollosa https://programadorwebvalencia.com Sitio web de David Vaquero https://cursosdedesarrollo.com
What does it mean to implement “hailing a cab” in software and how does this new translation stack up to the existing institution? Discussions based around “The Software Arts: Chapter 2”, "Translation"with the author Warren Sack. We talk about the differences of the humanities understanding of translation where meaning is lost, created, or changed, and compare it with the software concepts of perfect translation like compiling code. Make sure to check out Part 1.Francis Bacon - WikipediaHistory of calculus - WikiquoteLudwig Wittgenstein - WikipediaSoftware is not problem solving... What I am saying is that software is an art and a form of design. Where you don’t necessarily know what the problem is. Narrative IntelligenceIn the after-show Warren mentions a chapter he pulled from the book about narrative.. here is a paper and talk on the subject: Narrative Intelligence JS.everywhere(2013): Warren Sack – JS in Research – YouTube
Welcome to the History of Computing Podcast, where we explore the history of information technology. Because understanding the past prepares us for the innovations of the future! Todays episode is on the history of Wikipedia. The very idea of a single location that could store all the known information in the world began with Ptolemy I, founder of the Greek dynasty that ruled Egypt following the death of Alexander the great. He and his son amassed 100s of thousands of scrolls in the Library and Alexandria from 331 BC and on. The Library was part of a great campus of the Musaeum where they also supported great minds starting with Ptolemy I's patronage of Euclid, the father of geometry, and later including Archimedes, the father of engineering, Hipparchus, the founder of trigonometry, Her, the father of math, and Herophilus, who gave us the scientific method and countless other great hellenistic thinkers. The Library entered into a slow decline that began with the expulsion of intellectuals from Alexandria in 145BC. Ptolemy VIII was responsible for that. Always be weary of people who attack those that they can't win over especially when they start blaming the intellectual elite for the problems of the world. This began a slow decline of the library until it burned, first with a small fire accidentally set by Caesar in 48BC and then for good in the 270s AD. In the centuries since there have been attempts here and there to gather great amounts of information. The first known encyclopedia was the Naturalis Historiae by Pliny the Elder, never completed because he was killed in the eruption of Vesuvius. One of the better known being the Encyclopedia Britannica, starting off in 1768. Mass production of these was aided by the printing press but given that there's a cost to producing those materials and a margin to be made in the sale of those materials that encouraged a somewhat succinct exploration of certain topics. The advent of the computer era of course led to encyclopedias on CD and then to online encyclopedias. Encyclopedias at the time employed experts in certain fields and paid them for compiling and editing articles for volumes that would then be sold. As we say these days, this was a business model just waiting to be disrupted. Jimmy Wales was moderating an online discussion board on Objectivism and happened across Larry Sanger in the early 90s. They debated and became friends. Wales started Nupedia, which was supposed to be a free encyclopedia, funded by advertising revenue. As it was to be free, they were to recruit thousands of volunteer editors. People of the caliber that had been previously hired to research and write articles for encyclopedias. Sanger, who was pursuing a PhD in philosophy from Ohio State University, was hired on as editor-in-chief. This was a twist on the old model of compiling an encyclopedia and a twist that didn't work out as intended. Volunteers were slow to sign up, but Nupedia went online in 2000. Later in the year there had only been two articles that made it through the review process. When Sanger told Ben Kovitz about this, he recommended looking at the emerging wiki culture. This had been started with WikiWikiWeb, developed by Ward Cunningham in 1994, named after a shuttle bus that ran between airport terminals at the Honolulu airport. WikiWikiWeb had been inspired by Hypercard but needed to be multi-user so people could collaborate on web pages, quickly producing content on new patterns in programming. He wanted to make non-writers feel ok about writing. Sanger proposed using a wiki to be able to accept submissions for articles and edits from anyone but still having a complicated review process to accept changes. The reviewers weren't into that, so they started a side project they called Wikipedia in 2001 with a user-generated model for content, or article, generation. The plan was to generate articles on Wikipedia and then move or copy them into Nupedia once they were ready. But Wikipedia got mentioned on Slashdot. In 2001 there were nearly 30 million websites but half a billion people using the web. Back then a mention on the influential Slashdot could make a site. And it certainly helped. They grew and more and more people started to contribute. They hit 1,000 articles in March of 2001 and that increased by 10 fold by September, By And another 4 fold the next year. It started working independent of Nupedia. The dot-com bubble burst in 2000 and by 2002 Nupedia had to lay Sanger off and he left both projects. Nupedia slowly died and was finally shut down in 2003. Eventually the Wikimedia Foundation was built to help unlock the world's knowledge, which now owns and operates Wikipedia. Wikimedia also includes Commons for media, Wikibooks that includes free textbooks and manuals, Wikiquote for quotations, Wikiversity for free learning materials, MediaWiki the source code for the site, Wikidata for pulling large amounts of data from Wikimedia properties using APIs, Wikisource, a library of free content, Wikivoyage, a free travel guide, Wikinews, free news, Wikispecies, a directory containing over 687,000 species. Many of the properties have very specific ways of organizing data, making it easier to work with en masse. The properties have grown because people like to be helpful and Wales allowed self-governance of articles. To this day he rarely gets involved in the day-to-day affairs of the wikipedia site, other than the occasional puppy dog looks in banners asking for donations. You should donate. He does have 8 principles the site is run by: 1. Wikipedia's success to date is entirely a function of our open community. 2. Newcomers are always to be welcomed. 3. “You can edit this page right now” is a core guiding check on everything that we do. 4. Any changes to the software must be gradual and reversible. 5. The open and viral nature of the GNU Free Documentation License and the Create Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License is fundamental to the long-term success of the site. 6. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia. 7. Anyone with a complaint should be treated with the utmost respect and dignity. 8. Diplomacy consists of combining honesty and politeness. This culminates in 5 pillars wikipedia is built on: 1. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia. 2. Wikipedia is written from a neutral point of view. 3. Wikipedia is free content that anyone can use, edit, and distribute. 4. Wikipedia's editors should treat each other with respect and civility. 5. Wikipedia has no firm rules. Sanger went on to found Citizendium, which uses real names instead of handles, thinking maybe people will contribute better content if their name is attached to something. The web is global. Throughout history there have been encyclopedias produced around the world, with the Four Great Books of Song coming out of 11th century China, the Encyclopedia of the Brethren of Purity coming out of 10th century Persia. When Wikipedia launched, it was in English. Wikipedia launched a German version using the deutsche.wikipedia.com subdomain. It now lives at de.wikipedia.com and Wikipedia has gone from being 90% English to being almost 90 % non-English, meaning that Wikipedia is able to pull in even more of the world's knowledge. Wikipedia picked up nearly 20,000 English articles in 2001, over 75,000 new articles in 2002, and that number has steadily climbed wreaching over 3,000,000 by 2010, and we're closing in on 6 Million today. The English version is 10 terabytes of data uncompressed. If you wanted to buy a printed copy of wikipedia today, it would be over 2500 books. By 2009 Microsoft Encarta shut down. By 2010 Encyclopedia Britannica stopped printing their massive set of books and went online. You can still buy encyclopedias from specialty makers, such as the World Book. Ironically, Encyclopedia Britannica does now put real names of people on articles they produce on their website, in an ad-driven model. There are a lot of ads. And the content isn't linked to as many places nor as thorough. Creating a single location that could store all the known information in the world seems like a pretty daunting task. Compiling the non-copywritten works of the world is now the mission of Wikipedia. The site receives the fifth most views per month and is read by nearly half a billion people a month with over 15 billion page views per month. Anyone who has gone down the rabbit hole of learning about Ptolemy I's involvement in developing the Library of Alexandria and then read up on his children and how his dynasty lasted until Cleopatra and how… well, you get the point… can understand how they get so much traffic. Today there are over 48,000,000 articles and over 37,000,000 registered users who have contributed articles meaning if we set 160 Great Libraries of Alexandria side-by-side we would have about the same amount of information Wikipedia has amassed. And it's done so because of the contributions of so many dedicated people. People who spend hours researching and building pages, undergoing the need to provide references to cite the data in the articles (btw wikipedia is not supposed to represent original research), more people to patrol and look for content contributed by people on a soapbox or with an agenda, rather than just reporting the facts. Another team looking for articles that need more information. And they do these things for free. While you can occasionally see frustrations from contributors, it is truly one of the best things humanity has done. This allows us to rediscover our own history, effectively compiling all the facts that make up the world we live in, often linked to the opinions that shape them in the reference materials, which include the over 200 million works housed at the US Library of Congress, and over 25 million books scanned into Google Books (out of about 130 million). As with the Great Library of Alexandria, we do have to keep those who seek to throw out the intellectuals of the world away and keep the great works being compiled from falling to waste due to inactivity. Wikipedia keeps a history of pages, to avoid revisionist history. The servers need to be maintained, but the database can be downloaded and is routinely downloaded by plenty of people. I think the idea of providing an encyclopedia for free that was sponsored by ads was sound. Pivoting the business model to make it open was revolutionary. With the availability of the data for machine learning and the ability to enrich it with other sources like genealogical research, actual books, maps, scientific data, and anything else you can manage, I suspect we'll see contributions we haven't even begun to think about! And thanks to all of this, we now have a real compendium of the worlds knowledge, getting more and more accurate and holistic by the day. Thank you to everyone involved, from Jimbo and Larry, to the moderators, to the staff, and of course to the millions of people who contribute pages about all the history that makes up the world as we know it today. And thanks to you for listening to yet another episode of the History of Computing Podcast. We're lucky to have you. Have a great day! Note: This work was produced in large part due to the compilation of historical facts available at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia
Continuing our series of "So Easy Social Media", we're diving into how to gain followers on Instagram without any money and hardly any effort 1. SETTING UP YOUR ACCOUNT: Don't be Empty Start with 5-10 pictures when opening a new account. Don't start following people or creating stories with an “empty” page. One Link. One Shot. IG only let's you post one link in your profile. You can NOT post a link anywhere else, including your posts & stories (unless they're a paid promotional post on a business page) Linktr.ee let's you post all your links in a mobile friendly looking site with buttons. (You must upgrade for in-depth stats, auto updates, and color customization) I recommend a A “Subscribe” button at the TOP A “Listen/Watch/Play” button A “Visit Website” Button Maybe a contact/email button Or design it on your own site... Use bit.ly or google link shortener to track clicks from Instagram Keep it Personal Instagram is following the footsteps of Facebook (since they are Facebook, basically, anyway) and showing brands less and people more. You get stats with a business page. You need stats to track which posts are doing well, but you can get a good idea based on “likes”. With a business page you also get insights on stories to see how many people visit your profile, do a call of action (phone, e-mail, or website), exit your story, view the next story. This can be useful to look at but the price you pay of less exposure isn't worth it, in my opinion. You can make promotional posts/ads, which allows you to post links (but that costs money) You can add an e-mail or call button as well as products you can tag for Facebook shopping or integrate it with Shopify/BigCommerce. You can also link a Facebook page to cross post ( otherwise your posts will go to your personal Facebook page) BUT... Instagram punishes business profiles. They are shown less, given less priority. Your followers may NOT see your posts, which is bullsh*t You can always switch back and forth between the two types though at anytime. You do NOT lose your stats. There may be some exposure punishment to do this if you do it too often. 2. MAKING YOUR POSTS What to Post Memes your niche would laugh at Quotes your niche would be inspired by from big influencers or your own blog. Shots of activities your niche would enjoy (ones that you're doing anyway if you're targeting a niche you're personally active in and a part of) Make your page look like there's plenty of variety. Don't have all your posts be of the same exact thing but with different angles Make lighting, colors, and fonts different. A page that looks too much of the same looks boring and people won't follow it. Make a short video up to 60 seconds (limit). Give quick insight, informative commentary or a humorous opinion. Take clips from your YouTube videos if you're creating content there or from your podcast Create an audiogram with Headliner (free) Put a custom waveform shape & color on a background image you choose and include a logo. You can caption it too. There's an auto caption feature but it's not that accurate, so you'll have to edit it manually. Just type what you hear. Most people are browsing with sound off, seeing a moving waveform may encourage them to turn up volume. Seeing captions let's them read the content without adjusting volume, which they may not be able to do depending on where they are. Captioning videos and audiograms is optional but may help with views and engagement. Create a Collage (on “Layout” separate app) with multiple photos of an event relevant to your niche (ComiCon, Car Show, Hogwarts at Universal Studios, etc.) You can repurpose these collages in a story too. Make a mix of albums, layouts single photos, and videos on your profile. Don't stick to one format or media type. You can post promotional content but remember the 80/20 rule. Find the Content Use your own content and repurpose it for the platform. Quotes for your blog, clips from your videos and podcasts, etc. Find quotes on WIkiQuote or BrainyQuote or just google “[Name] quote” or “quotes about [niche]” Find memes on 9Gag, Memecenter, 4Chan, or Reddit Look on on t-shirt sites (Redbubble, TeeSpring, Threadless, TeeFury) and find niche related designs. Credit the author always. Tag them if you can. Sell the designs in your own TeePublic store ...or post & sell your own designs Follow hashtags relevant to your niche and large influencers Design it Use a site like GetFunky or Canva to create “Quote-a-Grams” GIMP or ArtWeaver for FREE photoshop. Create a template with your logo. Play around with saturation, brightness, color balance, layout, and transparency. Font Squirrel or 1001 Fonts - free commercial use fonts FreePik and Needpix for background images (creative commons license photos) Repost it There's no native feature to repost or share someone else's post, so you have to use a third party app Use Repost App to well, repost. It'll put a slug of the username of who you reposted it from. You have to manually tag that person. Caption it Write something witty. One liners. No more than a paragraph. If you can't think of anything, copy & paste a comment from the original meme. Give a plug at the end. Mention how the post is relevant to a recent blog or video then say “Link in bio” You can't hyperlink in IG posts, unfortunately. You only get that one link in your profile and that's it (unless you pay for promotion but we like doing this the cheap way, cause we're chepa & lazy) Tag It There is a 30 limit per post hash tag limit per post For the most exposure, use as many hash tags as possible Use a tool like Display Purposes to search for relevant hash tags and copy them Instavast let's you select specific hash tags then copy the ones you check in a box. You can also upload image or URL 3-5 hash tags is the sweet spot to not seem too spammy. You could start with the max 30 and later delete most of the hash tags. IG is mostly focused photos, but people do read the captions and comments. I wouldn't recommend EVERY post being filled to the max with hash tags for that reason. Otherwise, you'll come across as annoying and spammy. You can also leave a comment or two on your own post with even more hash tags, but again don't be overzealous. Are you likely to follow an account with nothing but hash tags in the captions and comments? Probably not, so don't do it too much, CREATING YOUR STORIES Most of the engagement comes from stories on IG. People are swiping through stories more than scrolling the feed (now in 2018). Make compelling stories. Give context. Every story has a Beginning, Middle, and End Use one or two hash tags Behind the scenes, “daily life”, more personal than posts Each video is limited to 15 secs. Use Story Cutter app or iOS equivalent to automatically cut up a long video into segments. Remember: consistency. You can start out doing a post or story once or twice a week and eventually level up your game to do something daily. Just be consistent with your post time. Pick a day, any day you want. Pick a time, any time you want. There are charts and graphs out there that show you the peak time of engagement but typically it's between 2-4pm. Don't worry about hitting that deadline though. You can choose when you like to post and your audience will follow you, as long as it's consistent. Also, you can make promotional announcements “Hey I just posted a new blog/video/podcast” but again, follow the 80/20 rule. You can see who views your story. Keep this in mind later when you decide who to interact with, strategically. 4. LIKE, FOLLOW, UNFOLLOW Follow hash tags relevant to your niche. Like the “most recent” posts. Look at the top posts in a hash tag or from someone big in your niche and follow the people who like and commentthere. Keep your follow count less than double of your followers. People might think you're just a spam account if your follower/following proportion is too skewed. Some people unfollow everyone, but that might get your actual followers to unfollow you To find out your unfollowers, you must use a third party app. The Follow Cop Android app lets you unfollow in batches. 20 for free and 200 for paid. One time fee. CopyFollowers by Dominator House is a good app for copying the followers of big influencers The down side of this is you blindly copy the followers and don't see who's actually engaging so you'll get a lot more “duds” this way, but it will be on auto pilot. Limits: Trusted account Likes: one like in 28 – 36 seconds (1000 at a time, with a 24 hour break); Follows: one in 28 – 38 seconds and below 200 an hour (1000 a day, with a 24 hour break); Follow + Like: below 2000 (1000 + 1000) a day, at the rate of once every 28 – 38 seconds; Limit of Comments: below 12-14 an hour with a 350 - 400 seconds break New accounts: The actions interval for the first 12-20 days after the account has been created is 36-48 seconds; The total limit is 500 actions a day (follow, unfollow, like); 5. INTERACT IG is starting to punish “spam” accounts They are hiding posts of people who do what I just told you to do: follow a bunch of people, unfollow the unfollowers, and tag your posts with a bunch of hash tags So to avoid being labeled as a “spam” account, have some meaningful comments and DMs with your current followers Meaningful does not mean effortful. Think about your most favorite movie moments. It all comes down to one memorable and powerful line. One meaningful sentence. “Luke, I am your father” “Asta La Vista Baby. “We're not flying; we're falling with style” Make it short but have impact. Questions are an easy way to get interaction. The person will likely answer. If IG sees people are replying to and liking your posts and comments, they'll see you're providing value and not just spam. Comment on posts and reply to stories of your followers. Target your active followers - the people that like and comment on your posts, the ones that watch your story from beginning to end. Develop a relationship with your actives. Show them you're a real person and not just a spammy bot or billboard. Just a couple per day. No need to spend hours doing this and no need to get every single follower. In other words, use IG as you normally would, if you weren't trying to promote your own website/brand Follow me on IG: @a_procrastin8r Leave me Voicemail: +1(267) 332-1050 Check out the Lazy R' Us T-Shirt Shop: http://www.LazyRUs.com or http://www.procrastin8r.com/shop SUMMARY: SETUP: Start w/ 5- 10 posts. Keep your profile as personal. Make that one link count POSTS: gather memes, quotes, activities, reposts from top influencers, repurpose your own content, hash tag the heck out of it. Be consistent with your post schedule. STORIES: include beginning, middle end, behind the scenes and personal life, make special announcements (but limit it) GET FOLLOWERS: follow people liking and commenting on top influencers and posts, unfollow your unfollowers, like most recent posts in your niche INTERACT: leave short comments on your current followers posts and send them DMs, like you normally would using IG.
"The wrong man. In the wrong place. At the right time." Is this a Wikiquote for Good Morning Vietnam or Happy Life Studios? Listen and see, maybe it's both. "Sometimes you got to specifically go out of your way to get into trouble. It's called fun." Adrian Cronauer Good Morning Vietnam Special thanks to www.lindseylouphotos.com for this weeks "Good Morning Happy Life" podcast pic. Can you find the hidden Happy? www.HappyLife.lol www.Facebook.com/HappyLifeStudios www.Instagram.com/HappyLife_Studios www.Twitter.com/HappyLifStudios www.PayPal.me/StevoHays Camp Daniels social media http://www.campdaniel.org www.facebook.com/camp.daniel.5 www.instagram.com/camp_daniel
This week on Story Web: the Coen Brothers’ film Fargo. I suppose I must have a dark sense of humor indeed to think of the Coen Brothers’ film Fargo as a comedy – even if I do realize that it is a dark comedy. I mean, what can you say about someone who shrieks, then laughs uproariously, at the woodchipper scene? Yes, Fargo is a weird and dark tale – from William H. Macy as Jerry Lundegaard, the pathetic car dealership manager who pays two sleazy criminals to kidnap his wife, to Steve Buscemi as the “funny-looking guy” in that criminal pair, from Frances McDormand as Marge Gunderson, a pregnant police detective, to Steve Park as Mike Yanagita, the high school classmate who visits her in one of the film’s many bizarre scenes. All of the actors in the movie are outstanding, but my favorite by far is McDormand, who also happens to be married to Joel Coen and who acts in a number of the Coen Brothers’ films. Apparently, I am not alone in my assessment of McDormand’s portrayal of Marge Gunderson, as she won a Best Oscar Actress for this role. Part of what made Fargo fascinating and compelling to me when I first saw it was the film’s opening claim that it is based on a true story. The viewer sees the following text on screen: This is a true story. The events depicted in this film took place in Minnesota in 1987. At the request of the survivors, the names have been changed. Out of respect for the dead, the rest has been told exactly as it occurred. But as it turns out, the story may not actually be true – or then again, it may be. The Coen Brothers have both asserted that it is true and laughed off questions about its veracity. As Ethan Coen says, “You don’t have to have a true story to make a true story movie.” Learn more about the truth or fiction of Fargo by visiting Snopes, the Huffington Post, and Film School Rejects. Now if you haven’t seen Fargo, I don’t want to give anything away. Suffice it to say, watching Fargo won’t be your average viewing experience. And as you watch events unfold, you may be thinking, “She finds this funny?!” As I said, it’s a dark sense of humor that draws me to this film. Fans of the Coen Brothers’ other films will know what I mean. From one of their earliest films, Raising Arizona, Joel and Ethan Coen have shown themselves to find humor in the strangest of settings. I know people who are such ardent fans of Raising Arizona that they can recite virtually every line, and that is even more the case with their cult classic The Big Lebowski (anyone for a White Russian?). Probably their “biggest” film to date is O Brother, Where Art Thou? It stars George Clooney as a modern-day Ulysses on an odyssey through the Depression-era South. Of course, laughs are once again in big supply. To dig deeper into Fargo, check out The Atlantic’s in-depth consideration of the film that “brought it all together” for the Coen Brothers. You can watch a television interview with the Coen Brothers and Frances McDormand about Fargo, and you’ll also enjoy a short video about the seven things you probably didn’t know about Fargo. A great deal of dialogue from the film can be found at Wikiquote. To go all scholarly on the film, check out The Coen Brothers’ Fargo, a Cambridge Film Handbook. To think more fully about the Coen Brothers’ long career in filmmaking, read The New Yorker’s assessment of their work. A three-minute video tribute to their many films is also available. You might also find it interesting to read Ian Nathan’s new book, The Coen Brothers: The Iconic Filmmakers and Their Work, or Mark T. Conard’s book The Philosophy of the Coen Brothers. Also useful is a collection of interviews with the Coen Brothers. Of course, Fargo was so successful that it spawned a TV spin-off twenty years later! There are mixed reports about whether the Coen Brothers like the television series, but for my money, the original film is all you need. If you want to add Fargo to your DVD collection, consider buying Coen Brothers Collection, which includes Blood Simple, Fargo, Miller’s Crossing, and Raising Arizona. Or you might just want to stick with the special edition DVD of Fargo. Visit thestoryweb.com/fargo for links to all these resources and to watch the scene in which police detective Marge Gunderson (played by Frances McDormand) says, “’m not so sure I agree 100% with your policework there, Lou.” However you watch Fargo, just be sure to laugh. It’s not all grim and macabre – at least not to me!
Heute geht es um freie Daten, viele Daten. Manche wurden unfreiwillig freigelassen, zum Beispiel durch die republikanische Partei in den USA. Datenschutz ist gefragt. Viele gute freie Daten stellt Wikimedia bereit. Neben der Wikipedia gibt es viel mehr. Wikimedia Commons, Wiktionary, Wikidata, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikibooks und weitere Projekte. Ein Kurzbericht der letzten Mitgliederversammlung in Bamberg zeigt typisches Vereinsleben. Google macht Objekterkennung für alle zugänglich und Lenovo bringt das Retro ThinkPad. Ein Gedankenexperiment zu einem moralischen Dilemma ist das Trolley-Problem. Da fehlt nur noch der Staatstrojaner für alle.Gro-Ko ist nichts für eine demokratische Weiterentwicklung. Ich hab halt nix zu verbergen oder? Was sagen da die Chinesen zur Geldwäsche? Raubkopierer sind Terroristen und alle vertrauen der unsicheren Biometrie.
Are we alone in the universe? "Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying" (Arthur C. Clarke, Wikiquote) (https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alien_life) "Our sun is one of 100 billion stars in our galaxy. Our galaxy is one of billions of galaxies populating the universe. It would be the height of presumption to think that we are the only living things in that enormous immensity" (Wernher von Braun, Wikiquote) (https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alien_life) The Fermi Paradox: Where are all the aliens? (Kurzgesagt, YouTube) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNhhvQGsMEc) The Fermi Paradox II: Solutions & ideas - Where are all the aliens? (Kurzgesagt, YouTube) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fQkVqno-uI) The Fermi Paradox (Wait But Why) (http://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/fermi-paradox.html) The difference between UK & US billions & trillions (Oxford Living Dictionaries) (https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/explore/how-many-is-a-billion) What does 'life as we know it' mean? (SETI) (https://www.seti.org/faq#csc24) World's oldest fossils found in Canada, say scientists (The Guardian) (https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/mar/01/worlds-oldest-fossils-found-canada-say-scientists-quebec-haematite-377bn-428bn-years) We've been wrong about the origins of life for 90 years (The Conversation) (http://theconversation.com/weve-been-wrong-about-the-origins-of-life-for-90-years-63744) Life's working definition: Does it work? (NASA) (https://www.nasa.gov/vision/universe/starsgalaxies/life%27s_working_definition.html) Life (Wikipedia) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life) Extraterrestrial life (Wikipedia) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life#Extraterrestrial) NASA finds evidence of a vast ancient ocean on Mars (The Guardian) (https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/mar/05/nasa-finds-evidence-of-a-vast-ancient-ocean-on-mars) What did Mars looks like when it had water? (IFL Science) (http://www.iflscience.com/space/what-did-mars-look-when-it-had-water/) The secret of how life on Earth began (BBC) (http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20161026-the-secret-of-how-life-on-earth-began) How did life arise on Earth? (LiveScience) (http://www.livescience.com/1804-greatest-mysteries-life-arise-earth.html) Where did life originate? There's new thinking that hydrothermal vents were important (University of California) (http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/0_0_0/origsoflife_03) Has life only started once on Earth? (The Naked Scientists) (https://www.thenakedscientists.com/articles/questions/has-life-only-started-once-earth) "The Moon is thought to have formed about 4.51 billion years ago, not long after Earth" (Wikipedia) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon) Where did the moon come from? (NASA) (https://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/questions/question38.html) Origin of the moon (Wikipedia) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_the_Moon) Religion for the non-religious: An article about consciousness, among other things; kinda related to thinking about aliens operating on a much higher level than us (Wait But Why) (http://waitbutwhy.com/2014/10/religion-for-the-nonreligious.html) Plasma aliens could live inside “Black Clouds”: Extraterrestrial life can be stranger than we even dare to imagine (Message To Eagle) (http://www.messagetoeagle.com/plasma-aliens-could-live-inside-black-clouds-extraterrestrial-life-can-be-stranger-than-we-even-dare-to-imagine/) Your lifetime by the numbers (Big Think) (http://bigthink.com/paul-ratner/how-many-days-of-your-life-do-you-have-sex-your-lifetime-by-the-numbers) 100 blocks a day: An article that gets you thinking about how many times you have left to do certain things (Wait But Why) (http://waitbutwhy.com/2016/10/100-blocks-day.html) Q (Star Trek) (http://www.startrek.com/database_article/q) NASA confirms evidence that liquid water flows on today's Mars (NASA) (https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-confirms-evidence-that-liquid-water-flows-on-today-s-mars) What kind of life would we find on Titan? (Phys.org) (https://phys.org/news/2015-10-kind-life-titan.html) Stephen Hawking on non-carbon-based alien life (The Daily Galaxy) (http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2011/05/stephen-hawking-on-non-carbon-based-alien-life.html) Neil deGrasse Tyson discusses how the laws of physics hold across the universe (Neil deGrasse Tyson) (http://www.haydenplanetarium.org/tyson/read/2000/11/01/on-earth-as-in-the-heavens) Is Stephen Hawking right about aliens? (The Guardian) (https://www.theguardian.com/science/2010/apr/30/stephen-hawking-right-aliens) Humanity only has around 1,000 years left on Earth, Stephen Hawking predicts (Science Alert) (http://www.sciencealert.com/humanity-only-has-around-1-000-years-left-on-earth-stephen-hawking-predicts) Prof. Stephen Hawking says alien life is real, warns humans not to make contact (Anonymous) (http://anonhq.com/professor-stephen-hawking-says-alien-life-real-warns-humans-not-make-contact/) Elon Musk announces his plan to colonise Mars & save humanity (Wired) (https://www.wired.com/2016/09/elon-musk-colonize-mars/) The billion-year technology gap: Could one exist? (The Daily Galaxy) (http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2009/11/the-billionyear-technology-gap-could-one-exist-the-weekend-feature.html) Dark energy, dark matter (NASA) (https://science.nasa.gov/astrophysics/focus-areas/what-is-dark-energy) Dark matter & dark energy (National Geographic) (http://science.nationalgeographic.com/science/space/dark-matter/) Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI Institute) (http://www.seti.org) SETI@home: The project where SETI uses your computer when you're not (SETI) (https://setiathome.berkeley.edu) Folding@home: The project where the protein folding people use your computer when you're not (Stanford University) (https://folding.stanford.edu) SKA telescope to generate more data than entire internet in 2020 (Computer World) (http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/392735/ska_telescope_generate_more_data_than_entire_internet_2020/) Broadcasting messages into space (SETI) (https://www.seti.org/seti-institute/project/details/broadcasting-message) Why do you think an extraterrestrial civilisation will broadcast in the microwave part of the radio spectrum? (SETI) (https://www.seti.org/faq#obs8) SETI has tried to see if any radio signals are coming from TRAPPIST-1 (Wikipedia) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRAPPIST-1#Radio_signal_search) Where is the search for extraterrestrial life up to? (ABC, Australia) (http://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2016-10-10/extraterrestrial-life-where-is-the-search-up-to/7885364) Advanced alien civilisations rare or absent in the local universe (Phys.org) (https://phys.org/news/2015-09-advanced-alien-civilizations-rare-absent.html) How far has the first radio signal/data transmission to space travelled? (Quora) (https://www.quora.com/How-far-has-the-first-radio-signal-data-transmission-to-space-traveled-to-date) This date in science: First intentional radio message to space (EarthSky) (http://earthsky.org/space/this-date-in-science-first-radio-signal-beamed-to-space) What are gravitational waves? (LIGO) (https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/page/what-are-gw) What is a Dyson sphere? (EarthSky) (http://earthsky.org/space/what-is-a-dyson-sphere) 7 types of advanced cosmic civilisations (Big Think) (http://bigthink.com/paul-ratner/this-mind-bending-scale-predicts-the-power-of-advanced-civilizations) Arrival: The Movie (IMDb) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2543164/) If we ever came across aliens, would we be able to understand them? (Phys.org) (https://phys.org/news/2016-07-aliens.html) If aliens contact us, we won't understand (Astronomy) (http://www.astronomy.com/bonus/alien-contact) V: The TV show (IMDb) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086822/) Philosophical concepts in Star Trek: Using Star Trek as a curriculum guide introducing fans to the subject of philosophy (James Gunn's Ad Astra) (http://www.adastrasf.com/philosophical-concepts-in-star-trek/) The economic lessons of Star Trek's money-free society (Wired) (https://www.wired.com/2016/05/geeks-guide-star-trek-economics/) The 'no dickheads' policy (Golden Plains) (http://aunty.goldenplains.com.au/what-goes-on/dickhead-policy/) Where are Voyagers 1 & 2 right now? (NASA, JPL) (http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/where/) Enceladus, moon of Saturn (Wikipedia) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enceladus) Tidal friction: How the moon stretches Earth & causes tides (HyperPhysics) (http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/Astro/tidfrict.html) Where are you from? Send us a postcard! Strange Attractor, c/ PO Box 9, Fitzroy, VIC 3065, Australia Corrections We were kind of vague about how cells might have evolved...here's a little more detail (University of California) (http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/_0/endosymbiosis_03) How life made the leap from single cells to multicellular animals (Wired) (https://www.wired.com/2014/08/where-animals-come-from/) Endosymbiotic theory of evolution of eukaryotic cells (University of Sydney) (http://bugs.bio.usyd.edu.au/learning/resources/CAL/Microconcepts/Evolution/theory.html) Check out our new Fireside home Find aaaaall the great episodes & show notes & handy instructions should you feel like leaving us a cheeky iTunes review...go on...we know you want to! (http://strangeattractor.random.productions) Image credit: NASA
What is quantum physics? Quantum mechanics 101: Demystifying tough physics in 4 easy lessons (TEDed) (http://blog.ed.ted.com/2014/12/07/quantum-mechanics-101-demystifying-tough-physics-in-4-easy-lessons/) Quantum physics for 7 year olds: Dominic Walliman TED talk (YouTube) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARWBdfWpDyc) 6 things everyone should know about quantum physics (Forbes) (http://www.forbes.com/sites/chadorzel/2015/07/08/six-things-everyone-should-know-about-quantum-physics/#7c7722f941f8) What is quantum mechanics good for? (Scientific American) (https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/everyday-quantum-physics/) What has quantum mechanics ever done for us? (Forbes) (http://www.forbes.com/sites/chadorzel/2015/08/13/what-has-quantum-mechanics-ever-done-for-us/#1b24ecee6759) Quantum mechanics (Wikipedia) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_mechanics) The map of physics: Dominic Walliman animation (YouTube) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZihywtixUYo) Classical mechanics vs quantum mechanics (Cambridge University Press) (http://assets.cambridge.org/97805218/29526/excerpt/9780521829526_excerpt.pdf) Newton's laws of motion, the foundation of classical mechanics, break down at the very small scales addressed by quantum mechanics & at the very high speeds addressed by relativistic mechanics (livescience) (http://www.livescience.com/46558-laws-of-motion.html) Kepler's laws of planetary motion...apparently he didn't even have a telescope to figure them out! 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Georgia slaves Ellen and William Craft made a daring bid for freedom in 1848: Ellen dressed as a white man and, attended by William as her servant, undertook a perilous 1,000-mile journey by carriage, train, and steamship to the free state of Pennsylvania in the North. In this week's episode of the Futility Closet podcast we'll follow the couple's harrowing five-day adventure through the slave-owning South. We'll also discover the best place in the United States to commit a crime and sample the aphoristic poetry of Danish mathematician Piet Hein. Our post on Ellen and Willliam Craft appeared on July 19, 2012. Here are the two as they normally appeared: And here's Ellen dressed as a rheumatism-ridden white man: In order to show her likeness clearly, this image omits the poultice that she wore on her chin. Their book Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom appeared in 1860. Here's an excerpt explaining what awaited them if they were confronted at any point on their 1,000-mile journey: If [a] coloured person refuses to answer questions put to him, he may be beaten, and his defending himself against this attack makes him an outlaw, and if he be killed on the spot, the murderer will be exempted from all blame; but after the coloured person has answered the questions put to him, in a most humble and pointed manner, he may then be taken to prison; and should it turn out, after further examination, that he was caught where he had no permission or legal right to be, and that he has not given what they term a satisfactory account of himself, the master will have to pay a fine. On his refusing to do this, the poor slave may be legally and severely flogged by public officers. Should the prisoner prove to be a free man, he is most likely to be both whipped and fined. At several points whites upbraided Ellen for treating William decently. On the steamer to Charleston, a Southern military officer told her: You will excuse me, Sir, for saying I think you are very likely to spoil your boy by saying 'thank you' to him. I assure you, sir, nothing spoils a slave so soon as saying 'thank you' and 'if you please' to him. The only way to make a nigger toe the mark, and to keep him in his place, is to storm at him like thunder, and keep him trembling like a leaf. Don't you see, when I speak to my Ned, he darts like lightning; and if he didn't I'd skin him. Our post about the Woodrow Wilson Bridge appeared on June 4, 2014, and we wrote originally about the Yellowstone loophole on Feb. 3, 2012. Michigan State law professor Brian Kalt's paper about the loophole is titled "The Perfect Crime." He points out that civil actions and lesser criminal charges await anyone who commits a felony in Yellowstone; nonetheless he calls the current state of affairs "a constitutional rusty nail." We've published Piet Hein's poetry previously on Futility Closet, in 2012 and 2013. Wikiquote has the fullest online collection I know of. You can listen using the player above, or subscribe on iTunes or via the RSS feed at http://feedpress.me/futilitycloset. You can support Futility Closet by taking a 5-minute survey. Your answers will help match our show with advertisers that best fit our listeners, like you, and allow us to keep making these podcasts. Listeners who complete the survey will be entered in an ongoing monthly raffle to win a $100 Amazon Gift Card. We promise not to share or sell your email address, and we won't send you email unless you win.Many thanks to Doug Ross for the music in this episode.If you have any questions or comments you can reach us at podcast@futilitycloset.com. Thanks for listening!
The Enemy of the World is the fourth of the of the British series , which originally aired in six weekly parts from 23 December 1967 to 27 January 1968. The story is a break from the monsters and "bases under siege" of season five, highlighted by a dual role for lead actor . Believed to be mostly lost for decades, with only Episode 3 surviving destruction, the recovery of the remaining episodes was announced by the on 11 October 2013, with the complete serial released to iTunes at midnight the same day, alongside , which had also been recovered save for one episode. Contents [] Plot[] This article's plot summary may be or. Please by removing unnecessary details and making it more concise. (October 2010) The , and are enjoying themselves on a beach in Australia in 2018 when the Doctor is subject to an assassination attempt. The controller of the would-be assassins, an agent named Astrid Ferrier, rescues them by helicopter. She takes them to her boss Giles Kent. It seems the Doctor is the physical double of Salamander, a ruthless megalomaniac who is dominating the United Zones Organisation. Salamander has ascended to power via exploiting new technology to yield more food, concentrating and harnessing the sun's rays to generate more crops, but is set on increasing his power. When Kent, who was once Deputy Security Leader for North Africa and Europe, crossed Salamander, the dictator ruined him and removed his various allies. The only remaining Kent ally with any authority is Alexander Denes in Central Europe. The Doctor is persuaded to impersonate Salamander as a way of gathering more information on his designs. His first test comes when Kent's home is surrounded by security troops and their leader, Security Chief Donald Bruce, arrives. Bruce is a bully who intimidates those in his path, but the Doctor's impersonation is strong enough to persuade him that he is Salamander – even though the real Salamander is supposed to be at a conference in the Central European Zone. Bruce leaves, albeit with suspicion, while the Doctor turns on Kent, realising he called Bruce there himself to test the impersonation. The Doctor is not yet convinced Salamander is a villain, but Kent presses ahead with a plan. Jamie, Victoria, and Astrid are to infiltrate Salamander's retinue while he's still in the Central European zone, via Denes' support, and gather evidence on Salamander. Meanwhile, Kent and the Doctor will travel to Salamander's research station in Kanowa to gather intelligence there. The real Salamander, in the Central European Zone, warns that a dormant volcano range in Hungary is about to explode. Denes does not believe this is possible and resist the calls to send pre-emptive relief. Jamie, Victoria, and Astrid have by now reached the Central European Zone. Jamie is to try to infiltrate Leader Salamander's retinue, while Astrid contacts Denes for a meeting. Jamie manages to get himself promoted to Salamander's personal staff by preventing a bogus attempt on the Leader's life, and also ensures Victoria is given a position as assistant to Salamander's personal chef. When Astrid meets Denes she tells him of the two spies who have entered the Leader's staff. Salamander now works on Denes' deputy, Fedorin, to turn him against Denes. Fedorin is a weak man and gives in to Salamander's blackmail easily, but is scared when he hears the prediction that Denes will soon be killed and Salamander will be asked to take over the Zone following the imminent natural disaster. On cue an earthquake begins as the promised volcanic eruption starts. Donald Bruce arrives but is unable to mention the Salamander in Australia issue before Denes returns to the palace too, blaming Salamander for somehow engineering the volcano. Salamander responds by saying Denes failed to heed his warnings on the volcanoes and is thus negligent and must be removed from office. Denes is arrested and Salamander now tells Fedorin to poison him before he can be brought to trial and repeat his allegations. When Fedorin fails to do so, Salamander uses the poison on him instead. Donald Bruce has meanwhile started to have serious suspicions about the situation. He evidently does not trust Salamander, and tries unsuccessfully to get Jamie to explain the Australia incident. Another man with suspicions is Theodore Benik, Salamander's unpleasant deputy, who has heard from Bruce that Salamander was supposed to be in two places at one time. He visits and intimidates Giles Kent, but the Doctor stays hidden while the unsolicited visitor is there destroying Kent's property. Jamie and Victoria meanwhile use their new roles in the palace to get close to Fariah, Salamander's food taster, hoping to gather information on the Leader's intentions. Jamie also causes a diversion to try to facilitate a rescue attempt on Denes by Astrid. However, things fall apart and Denes is shot dead. Though Astrid escapes, Jamie and Victoria are arrested. This prompts Bruce to ask Salamander in private about his relationship with Jamie and his presence with him and Kent in Australia – which prompts Salamander to decide to return to Kanowa immediately and unmask the impersonator. Astrid returns to Australia too and contacts the Doctor and Kent to tell them of the outcome of the botched rescue attempt. Fariah has followed Astrid and makes contact with her, Kent and the Doctor, telling them that Jamie and Victoria have been brought as prisoners to the Kanowa Research Centre. Fariah also hands over the file made by Salamander to blackmail Fedorin - which finally convinces the Doctor of Salamander's evil. However, before they can act, the building is raided by Benik and his troops and Fariah is killed and the file recovered. The others escape. Salamander, Benik and Bruce meet at the Centre and realise the severity of the situation. When he is alone, Salamander dons a radiation suit and enters a secret lift, which transports him to a secret bunker below the Centre. In the bunker are scientists who believe Salamander has just ventured to the surface of the allegedly irradiated planet to look for food. He claims to have found a safe new food stock to sustain them after their five years below ground. He also urges them to continue fighting the war against the surface by using technology to create natural disasters. Most of the scientists accept this but one, Colin, urges Salamander to take him to the surface the next time, even though no one who has accompanied Salamander there has ever returned. When the Doctor and his friends return to Kent's caravan they are soon discovered by Donald Bruce, who has traced their car. Bruce affirms he is a servant of the world government, not Salamander, and shows he can be persuaded by the case that the Leader is, in Astrid's words, a traitor, blackmailer and murderer. The Doctor and Bruce reach a deal: they will travel to the Research Centre where the Doctor will impersonate Salamander to gain more evidence, while Kent and Astrid are kept under guard; but if no evidence is found they will all be arrested for conspiracy. Bruce and the Doctor leave and shortly afterward Kent and Astrid escape their captor by means of a ruse. In the shelter the promised new food has arrived and the scientists unpack it. However, one of them, Swann, finds a stray newspaper clipping and realises there is normal life on the surface rather than the continuing nuclear war they had all been told. He confronts Salamander, who agrees to take him to the surface to show him the world is now full of hideous, depraved mutants and their actions in causing natural disasters are helping to wipe them out. Swann is unmoved but agrees to go the surface without revealing his concerns. This incenses Colin, another scientist who had been told he might get to the surface soon. Above ground Benik has begun interrogating Jamie and Victoria. He gets menacing and is only stopped when Bruce and the fake Salamander arrive, sending Benik away. While the travellers are reunited, deepening Bruce's trust of the Doctor, Benik discovers from a guard that Salamander does not seem to have returned from the records room. The Doctor now obtains evidence that the food supplies for the Research Centre vastly exceed the expected amount of supplies needed. He heads off alone and accesses the Records Room, where he impersonates Salamander. A visitor soon arrives – Giles Kent – who has a key to the secret room and knows much more of Salamander's plans than he ever let on. In the grounds of the research centre Astrid finds Swann. He has been bludgeoned by Salamander and is close to death but manages to tell her of the bunker below before he passes away. She now uses the secret lift to access the bunker and with some difficulty explains the truth to the scientists. Colin is the first to believe her and he and Mary join Astrid in the small lift for its journey to the surface. When they reach the Records Room, they encounter the Doctor and Kent – and the latter is denounced as the person who took them all below ground in the first place. It seems that Kent and Salamander were allies all along, and the Doctor reveals he had been slow to support Kent because he feared all along he was being used just to topple Salamander for Kent to take over. Kent manages to flee into the cave system beyond the Records Room. Donald Bruce has meanwhile asserted his authority and taken over the Research Centre, arresting Benik in the process. The Doctor contacts Bruce and tells him of the situation, after which the Doctor himself heads into the tunnels to seek out Kent and Salamander. The two felons have met, with Salamander fatally wounding his one-time ally, who seeks revenge by blowing up the cave system. Astrid co-ordinates the relief effort to get the other scientists out of the shelter The Doctor, who has emerged unscathed from the tunnels, arrives on the beach with the . Jamie and Victoria are waiting for him there and he pleads exhaustion when they enter the ship, asking Jamie to pilot it for him instead. Jamie's suspicions are proved true when the real Doctor arrives and denounces Salamander's impersonation of him. The dictator responds by activating the dematerialisation control and the TARDIS heads away from Earth with its doors still open. Salamander is sucked out into the vortex while the others cling onto the TARDIS console for dear life. Continuity[] In Episode 2, the Doctor says, 'disused Yeti?' after mishearing Astrid's comment about a disused jetty. This refers to his experience with the Yeti in .[] A single shot of Jamie from this story is used when the character is seen, along with a number of other companions, as the Daleks attempt to scan the 's mind in .[] Production[] Serial details by episode EpisodeBroadcast dateRun timeViewers(in millions)Archive "Episode 1" 23 December 1967 23:45 6.8 16mm t/r "Episode 2" 30 December 1967 23:48 7.6 16mm t/r "Episode 3" 6 January 1968 23:05 7.1 16mm t/r "Episode 4" 13 January 1968 23:46 7.8 16mm t/r "Episode 5" 20 January 1968 24:22 6.9 16mm t/r "Episode 6" 27 January 1968 21:41 8.3 16mm t/r This was the last story to be produced under the aegis of Doctor Who creator , who left his position as at the BBC upon the expiration of his contract at the end of 1967. The four key production roles for this story were all taken by men heavily involved in the development of Doctor Who. Author had been the show's first Script Editor; , directing the show for the first time, later became the show's producer (for the majority of the era), executive producer, and occasional script writer; Script Editor became the show's producer from the next story; was the show's current producer, but left after this story. Much like the serial , this serial was influenced by the lead actor's desire to play roles other than the Doctor. Initially, it was planned that Troughton's two characters would meet more than once, but due to the technical complexity, there was eventually only the one confrontation scene, at the story's climax (utilising editing and a split-screen technique). Barry Letts planned six shots. He called for a to mask half of the camera lens, having read about the technique used for old films. The film was rewound after the first take and Troughton was then filmed in his other costume. However, after the first such shot, the camera jammed, and no more split-screen takes were filmed. Later, Letts mentioned this to, director of the , who brought Letts up to date with the contemporary technology of filming normally then using an to combine the material. British television's shift from 405-line technology to 625-line, in preparation for colour transmissions, went into effect for Doctor Who as of Episode 1 of this serial. Originally, Episode 3 was the only episode of this story to survive in the BBC archives, while Episode 4 was one of the few Doctor Who for which, for unknown reasons, no were taken. On 11 October 2013, the announced that the remaining five episodes had been recovered from a in following search efforts, making the serial complete in the BBC television archives for the first time since the mass junkings of Doctor Who episodes between 1972 and 1978. It was subsequently released on iTunes at midnight. Cast notes[] This section does not any . Please help improve this section by. Unsourced material may be challenged and .(November 2013) Frazer Hines and Deborah Watling did not appear in episode 4, as they were on holiday. Milton Johns later appeared as Guy Crayford in , and Castellan Kelner in . Colin Douglas later played Reuben in . George Pravda later played Jaeger in and Castellan Spandrell in . Troughton's son makes his first Doctor Who appearance as an uncredited extra. His later appearances in the series would be as Private Moore, as King Peladon and finally as Professor Hobbes in the revived series. Christopher Burgess (Swann) also appeared as Professor George Philips in Terror of the Autons and Barnes in Planet of the Spiders. Andrew Staines (Sergeant to Benik) also appeared in Terror of the Autons (as Goodge), Carnival of Monsters (as the Captain) and Planet of the Spiders (as Keaver). Commercial releases[] In print[] book Doctor Who and the Enemy of the World Series Release number 24 Writer Publisher Cover artist ISBN Release date 17 April 1981 A novelisation of this serial, written by , was published by in March 1981, entitled Doctor Who and the Enemy of the World. David Whitaker had been working on his own version of the novelisation at the time of his death. Home media[] Episode 3 was released on in The Troughton Years. A restored and version was released on in 2004, as part of the boxset. In 2002, a remastered CD version of the audio was released with linking narration by Frazer Hines. See . Following the October 2013 recovery of the remaining episodes, the complete serial was released on iTunes on 11 October 2013. Following its release it shared the top two spots on the iTunes download chart for TV serials with following and also newly recovered serial The Web of Fear, above and . A DVD was released on 25 November 2013. Unlike previous Doctor Who DVDs, this release contained no commentaries, information text or other special features, merely the restored episodes and a "Coming Next" trailer for The Web of Fear. The Region 4 release does not feature the coming soon trailer. References[] ^ Berriman, Ian (11 October 2013). . SFX. Bath: Future Publishing Limited. Retrieved 11 October 2013. ^ . Doctor Who TV. 11 October 2013. Retrieved 11 October 2013. . Doctor Who Reference Guide. Retrieved 2008-08-30. Sullivan, Shannon (2005-05-10). . A Brief History of Time Travel. Retrieved 2008-08-30. ^ Barry Letts, Who and Me[] , "Season 5, In Production: Heroes and Villains," Special Edition #4, 4 June 2003 (The Complete Second Doctor), , p. 37, col. 2. . 2013-10-11. Retrieved 2013-11-18. . Seenit.co.uk. London: MayorWatch Publications Limited. 11 October 2013. Retrieved 2013-10-22. 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DOCTOR WHO TIN DOG PODCAST REVIEWS Prologue [] "She Said, He Said" is a to the episode, in which the Doctor and Clara each have a monologue about how little they know about each other and that they discovered each other's secret at Trenzalore. It was released on 11 May 2013 on and on-line. Viewers using Red Button were able to access the prequel between 7:40 until midnight every evening, until "The Name of the Doctor" aired on 18 May 2013. Episode [] The (Madame Vastra, Jenny Flint and Commander Strax) are given information concerning the Doctor by a man convicted of multiple murders in 1893, who speaks to himself in rhyme about "Whisper Men". They use drugs to bring themselves, , and Clara Oswald across space and time to a dream realm as a sort of "conference call". Vastra repeats the man's words: "It is a secret he will take to the grave--and it is discovered," and reiterates the prophecy about the Doctor's name on the planet Trenzalore (""), as well as showing the planet's coordinates. During their conference, strange faceless humanoids called Whisper Men attack the gang and appear to kill Jenny in her trance. River shocks the others to wake them out of the dream to save themselves. Clara awakes in contemporary London to find the Doctor visiting her for their weekly outing. Clara retells the events from the conference call, and the Doctor, deeply shocked, decides he must go to Trenzalore to save his friends, even though visiting the location of his own grave is dangerous for a time traveller. The TARDIS resists the Doctor's efforts to pilot the machine, but they eventually arrive after a crash landing at Trenzalore. The planet is covered with tombstones, the result of a great war according to the Doctor, while a future version of the TARDIS, having deteriorated and grown to enormous size due to its failing transdimensional circuits, stands above the graveyard. The duo are attacked by Whisper Men. River, still telepathically linked to Clara but apparently unseen by the Doctor, helps direct the two to an escape route - disguised as her own grave - that leads to the giant TARDIS. River also reveals that she died saving the Doctor, and is now only the echo saved by him (in the episode ""). Meanwhile, Vastra and Strax awaken by the structure, and Strax revives the comatose Jenny. The three are surrounded by Whisper Men and meet their controller, the in the form of Dr Simeon's body (""). The Doctor and Clara arrive at the TARDIS, and the Great Intelligence threatens to kill the Doctor's allies unless he says his true name to open the TARDIS doors. The Doctor refuses but River, still only visible to Clara, says the Doctor's name (unheard by the viewer) and opens the doors. Inside, a pulsating column of light representing the Doctor's traversal of time and space sits where the console would be. Crossing his own time stream sends the Doctor into convulsions. The Great Intelligence sees the light as a wound in the fabric of space-time and enters it in order to undo the Doctor's past as revenge for all the defeats it's been dealt; though this will kill it, the Doctor will be "destroyed." The Great Intelligence and its Whisper Men disappear, and Vastra finds the stars above are going out. Jenny too disappears, followed by Strax after he forgets his association with Vastra. Clara, who has had recollections of the erased timeline from "" due to the telepathic link with the TARDIS, realises that she has helped the Doctor in other places in time and space ("", "The Snowmen"). She decides to enter the column of light to restore the Doctor's timeline by helping to undo all the damage the Great Intelligence tries to do. The Doctor and River try to stop her, but she calls back "Run, you clever boy--and remember me" before disappearing into the light. Clara is seen falling through space-time and appearing throughout the Doctor's past incarnations. She now considers this the end of the "impossible girl." The Doctor, Jenny, Strax, and the universe are restored to normal. The Doctor prepares to enter the column to save Clara, instructing the others to get away in the TARDIS in case he fails to return, but River yells at him to stop, as it is perilous for him to enter his own time stream. The Doctor finally reveals that he could hear, see and even touch her all along but did not acknowledge it because it was too painful. They share a kiss, and River asks him for a goodbye spoken as if they will see each other again, which the Doctor grants her. After River disappears, the Doctor enters the column of light. Clara lands in a misty place and sees flashes of the various incarnations of the Doctor pass by her. Unseen, the Doctor calls out to her, telling her that she is caught in his timeline which is now collapsing on itself. He provides her with the leaf that was responsible for her existence ("") to guide her to him. After their reunion, Clara spots another figure in the shadows which she does not recognise from the Doctor's past. The Doctor reveals that this is another incarnation of himself, but not "The Doctor," explaining that his chosen name is a promise he made to himself, and that this incarnation is his secret: he is "the one who broke the promise." As Clara falls unconscious from exhaustion, the stranger defends himself, stating that his actions were done "in the name of peace and sanity", to which the Doctor replies angrily: "But not in the name of the Doctor!" As he leaves, carrying Clara, the figure () turns to look at them and the screen credits identify him as "The Doctor". Continuity [] Imagery of all the Doctor's prior incarnations is used during scenes in which Clara and the Great Intelligence interact with the Doctor. Archive footage of the (colourised, from ), , (both from ), (), () and () Doctors is utilised, with doubles used for some other brief appearances (including all the other Doctors) during the final scenes. The opening scene also includes a representation of and reference to the Doctor's original exodus from (as a globed city, previously seen in "", and later seen destroyed in ), with Clara directing him to steal the Type 40 TARDIS as it would be much more of an adventure. Audio of the First (from ), Second (from ), Third (from ), Fourth (from ), (from ), (from ), (from "") and (from "") Doctors is also heard. The Great Intelligence says that the Doctor has been cruel several times, telling about the leader of the Sycorax, whom the kills in "" (2005), Solomon the merchant, whom the Eleventh Doctor sent to his death in "" (2012), the and the . The Great Intelligence also states that the Doctor will be known as the before the end of his life. The Valeyard appears in the 1986 serial , where he is described as an amalgamation of the darker sides of the Doctor's nature, somewhere between his twelfth and final incarnation. He also mentions the Doctor will be called the Storm - one of the names the Daleks have for the Doctor is the Oncoming Storm. He also mentions that The Doctor will be referred to as the beast. The reason for this is unclear. Vastra mentions the Doctor dying on Androzani. This is a reference to in which the regenerates. Production [] Lead writer stated that he wanted to have a new monster in the finale, after the series had seen the reappearance of old monsters such as the , Weeping Angels, and the . The idea of the Whisper Men came from "the thought of stylish whispering almost faceless creatures" which seemed frightening and appropriate for "an episode that looks forward and back". Broadcast and reception [] Leak [] On 12 May 2013, a week before the official premiere of "The Name of The Doctor", it was announced that a small number of Doctor Who fans in the had received their box set of the second half of the early due to a production error, and asked for those who had received the final episode early not to spoil it for other fans. Ratings [] "The Name of the Doctor" received overnight ratings of 5.46 million viewers on the BBC. Critical reception [] This section requires . (May 2013) The episode received positive reviews. Mark Snow of gave the episode 9.1/10, praising the final conversation between the Doctor and River Song, as well as the revelation about Clara, however he noted that the Great Intelligence was "a little underwhelming" and "not very threatening", and that while the Whispermen impressed initially, they did not "[make] a great villain." Michael Hogan of said that the episode was "even better" than the previous two. He noted that it was "momentous, moving and thrilling". However, he also noted that the episode had "a tad too much clunking exposition, the odd spot of creaky CGI and some unconvincing metaphors about soufflés and leaves." Despite this, he called it a "breathless, brilliant finale". References [] . . 19 April 2013. Retrieved 19 April 2013. . 26 March 2013. ^ . BBC. 27 April 2013. Retrieved 27 April 2013. Jones, Paul (3 May 2013). . . Retrieved 8 May 2013. Johnston, Rich (18 May 2013). . bleedingcool.com. Retrieved 19 May 2013. . 12 May 2013. 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