Wade’s weekly Twitter log for 2018-08-26
By Wade KwonSunday, August 19, 2018
- #DailyBlogTip Getting started: What will your site look like to a mobile user? A tablet user? Design for them, too. 07:00:46
- What are you reading? What should you read? Let’s share on Sundays. #sundayread
My picks: https://t.co/6SyVQe82xq 08:00:05
- Flashback: Why consistency matters most in successful communication
https://t.co/b6dSnF8xkK #sundayread 09:00:29 - .@Time Magazine’s special issue on the South
https://t.co/oCszSTiswI #sundayread 10:00:10 - The Guardians Con Game: How the Elderly Lose Their Rights
By @RachelAviv
https://t.co/zL9wPSyeCg #sundayread 11:00:05 - From the archive: 7 hard-won lessons from creating my latest blog series and ebook: https://t.co/XWrn5xddg9 11:10:08
- Flashback: Y’all Connect – The post-conference high has passed
https://t.co/xAquwWcQEz #sundayread 12:00:31 - Philosopher and political theorist Hannah Arendt on what freedom and revolution really mean
https://t.co/C42cAcHWJF #sundayread 13:00:01 - All Birmingham headlines in one Facebook list: https://t.co/TK23DgeTIk #bham 13:50:05
- The Mind of John McPhee
By Sam Anderson @shamblanderson
https://t.co/OiJ2vcubqm #sundayread 14:00:15 - Flashback: 1 year ago, Alabama picks its nominees for an open Senate seat: Doug Jones and Roy Moore
http://itswa.de/2vBPCFI #sundayread #alpolitics 15:00:19 - When Werner Herzog Was My Dad: Of Post-Natal Visions and Other Wonders
By Rachel Yoder @yoderama
https://t.co/Jub51grZkv #sundayread 16:00:23 - Excerpt from “My Life As a Goddess: A Memoir Through (Un)Popular Culture” by @GuyBranum on pop culture’s destructive depictions of the humanity of fat people.
https://buff.ly/2mPwY7W #sundayread 17:00:08 - Flashback: Auto-play videos are (still) ruining websites
https://t.co/uWR8cGLyZX #sundayread 18:00:15 - The Ringer’s 100 Best TV Episodes of This Century
https://t.co/5BEvOtkcKy #sundayread 19:00:29 - The female price of male pleasure
By Lili Loofbourow @Millicentsomer
https://t.co/OlV9DWCsyT #sundayread 20:00:20 - How to Fight Voter Suppression in 2018
By Edward Burmila @gin_and_tacos
https://t.co/sFN8CJJCOz #sundayread 21:00:00 - Roxane Gay @rgay on writing, her painful childhood and more, from PBS’ “Breaking Big”
https://t.co/Hb66undtHt #sundayread 22:00:21
Monday, August 20
- #DailyBlogTip Getting started: Determine the goal of your site. Will it be customer service, sales or ideas? 07:00:41
- Aw, my high school calculus teacher Mary Ann McCollum died Saturday. She let this 9th grader take her Calculus class, and then taught me and a friend AP BC-Calculus in 12th grade.
She was patient, kind and a mathematical whiz, of course. RIP. https://buff.ly/2L7ipq0 #Bham http://pic.twitter.com/Ql5Lhef98v 08:30:33
- WATCH: “Weinstein” on @frontlinepbs: https://t.co/vVOfOQzGIl 15:48:20
- From the archive: Is blogging still a thing? Hell yes. https://t.co/AR93q5juUN 18:30:13
- I’m always on the lookout for new projects and opportunities: https://t.co/3s8U00OFco 20:20:05
- I think about this Washington Post piece a lot lately. My headline would’ve been …
“Many Alabamians are going to hell”
- Inside Nike’s Most Successful Failure: Breaking the 2-Hour Barrier in Marathons: https://t.co/wrObkfgnb8 22:12:17
Tuesday, August 21
- #DailyBlogTip Getting started: Spend extra time on usability. Make navigation and leaving a comment dead simple. 07:00:45
- ESSAY: Kelly Marie Tran: I Won’t Be Marginalized by Online Harassment: https://t.co/AcXvbgmPKD
//I really hope people will listen. 15:31:14
- A gallant 500 follow me on Facebook. You could be one of them. https://t.co/CZ0cCfkKtv 18:30:17
- From the archive: 500 posts! https://t.co/iABkkz1eQB 20:05:04
- Not sure I want a phone line anymore. Spammers/bots-to-real callers are running about 50-to-1. Just a waste of time blocking all of them.#firstworldproblems 21:59:36
- I guess we drained the swamp a little today.
But we have a long, long way to go. 22:06:43
- TV: As a huge “Veronica Mars” fan, I wonder if a revival will work.
The movie and the two recent novels lack what made her a scrappy hero in S1 and S2: true underdog status, a lone high schooler against a rigged system. https://buff.ly/2nX6XnS
- WATCH: The Birmingham channel: Down home hospitality: https://t.co/6UKjaIcz7p #bham 22:33:21
- HEALTH: Measles in Europe, Recently at Record Low, Jumps to Highest Level Since ’90s: https://t.co/04ebt0wsDW #SIGH 22:47:27
Wednesday, August 22
- #DailyBlogTip Getting started: Ask colleagues and friends to test the site, and act on their best feedback. 07:00:51
- sunday sleepies
Saturday was fun
but today demands notice.
Where has weekend gone? - My free ebook shows off the Top 37 people and brands in Birmingham on social media: https://t.co/Ockb4d2yC3 11:02:41
- ENVIRONMENT: Contact Lenses Are a Surprising Source of Pollution: https://t.co/296YdNHiBk
//Guilty as charged. 13:13:21
- “The ruling is a victory for #Bham residents robbed of a much-needed raise & who will get their day in court. This case could open the door for communities to challenge discriminatory laws that deny [cities] power to improve the lives of people of color.”
https://buff.ly/2wi2Uq9 13:20:52 - How racism becomes further institutionalized: Trump, the leader of the Republican Party, promotes racism in word and in deed. Party members have no comment. https://buff.ly/2LhHf6Y 13:22:33
- From the archive: Addictive content: https://t.co/vtB8ygA7Sa 15:10:07
- WATCH: “Sea Change,” about #climatechange and the huge impact (economy, quality of life, tourism) the rising tide is having on the South Carolina/Georgia coast: https://buff.ly/2LicAq9 16:01:48
- *me standing at an intersection holding cardboard sign*
“WILL COLLUDE FOR FOOD”*flips sign*
“(WINK)” 19:09:35 - TECHNOLOGY: How a phone app and a database served up Imran Khan’s Pakistan poll win: https://t.co/zmfSyxi7Oj (via @Natrani) 20:07:29
Thursday, August 23
- #DailyBlogTip Getting started: Make contact info prominent: email, phone number, contact form or Twitter handle. 07:00:51
- Clayton Bigsby’s diary. #bham (@ The Edge 12 in Irondale, AL) https://t.co/KegSOeF6wi 13:15:42
- From the archive: Good things come in fives É https://t.co/IZljA5EFTN 15:20:05
- Birmingham videos from:
• @thunderboltspxp
• @hairnailsbeauty
• @dionnewhetstone
• @jr_shipp
• @ParresiaMin
• @kimtownsel
• @greigroselli
• @oraclestheater
• @alnewscenter
• @birmballet
• @bhamballet
• and more! - I show off my results and my accomplishments via LinkedIn: https://t.co/1AFrmOpGFP 22:25:03
- POP CULTURE: The Lazy Trope of the Unethical Female Journalist: https://t.co/eZCawTMRfV (via @MereCummings) 23:58:36
Friday, August 24
- #DailyBlogTip Getting started: Sprinkle images and videos throughout the site to add flair, color and energy. 07:00:52
- Find a cause among the many Birmingham nonprofits: https://t.co/6ZewpjQvQU #bham 16:01:04
- From the archive: Regions Bank uses video to focus on outstanding team members: https://t.co/ojovHZAJQ2 22:25:02
- Critics say Berkeley Police Dept’s unusual practice of posting anti-fascist protesters’ mugshots on Twitter endangers activists and violates free speech rights. https://buff.ly/2NleEzy (via @OakMorr) 23:27:33
- JOURNALISM: Even ethical journalism can have collateral damage: https://t.co/dyl5hdbcpo (via @MereCummings) 23:30:51
- Oy – It Is Now Even Harder for Trafficking Survivors to Get Visas: https://t.co/2kdSmj4J4C (via @morganmpage) 23:32:45
- Between the Russians and domestic disenfranchisement forces, it’ll be a wonder if any Nov. 6 elections remain untainted … https://buff.ly/2w9XJJs 23:39:29
Saturday, August 25
- #DailyBlogTip Getting started: What is the promise your site is making with the reader? Never forget it. 07:00:47
- From the archive: 61 ways I’ve used blogging: https://t.co/vubj3wPVby 08:05:09
- My blogs, all available as Kindle subscriptions: https://t.co/PQ6d8h2pNP 21:00:17
- Birmingham videos from:
• @ZeekeeInc
• @KingdomInkEnt
• @rethinkcancer
• @skatebham
• @latinensemble
• @2080ball
• @agentcoryjames
• @adamwbassett
• @SugarshackLive
• @cruisincareys
• and more! - RIP John McCain, 81
• Senator
• Vietnam decorated war hero
• Vietnam POW
• Voted to save ACA
• Inadvertently re-ignited populism in GOP
• NYT obit: https://buff.ly/2PBTzSR
• @frontlinepbs: https://buff.ly/2LsHVpZ
Also:
- Past Twitter logs
- Follow @WadeOnTweets on Twitter
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