Ten WP bloggers speak out on Ferguson, a really fascinating spectrum of viewpoints from protesters to media to a blog by an anonymous police officer on duty in Ferguson.
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Awesome Screenshot URL tracking and niki-bot, some pretty sketchy things going on in the Chrome extension world. Hope Google starts cleaning these up soon. BTW if you want a better screenshot tool my Automattic colleague Davide makes Blipshot which contains no tracking or spyware.
The Time I Spent On A Commercial Whaling Ship Totally Changed My Perspective On The World — I know the title sounds baity but this is the best writing I’ve read online in a while, almost like it’s from a different time.
Ethan Zuckerman writes for the Atlantic on The Internet’s Original Sin, advertising.
From Kathy Sierra, here’s “One of the longest deep studies on negative impact of external reinforcers (e.g. rewards) on long-term motivation”: Multiple types of motives don’t multiply the motivation of West Point cadets. Academic, but interesting.
Why Do Mosquitoes Bite Some People More Than Others? I’m pretty lucky in the mosquito-biting department, they tend to go for others around me. So this article is for those that take one for the team.
An oldie from Scott Berkun on Why Jargon Feeds on Lazy Minds. The link to the Politics and the English Language essay seems to be broken, here’s a better one.
NomadList has list of cities around the world sortable by cost of living, temperature, and internet speed, so if you can work from anywhere you can choose someplace fun to do so. Hat tip: Matt Galligan.
wpgo.go is a command-line tool to interact with WordPress blogs, written in Google’s Go language. It’s cool to see this new generation of apps built on WP.com + Jetpack’s new APIs, like Postbot.
Kottke: The surprising ages of the Founding Fathers on July 4, 1776. While we’re talking about the Founding Fathers, Marc Andreessen thinks that the Founding Fathers Arguably Designed US System Specifically To Be Dominated By Moneyed Interests
Sara Rosso writes 10 Lessons from 4 Years Working Remotely at Automattic. (Lesson 11, left out: Always give list articles an odd number of items.)
Nick Hanauer advocates for $15 minimum wage in The Pitchforks Are Coming… For Us Plutocrats. He was the first non-family investor in Amazon.com, and as he puts it, a “zillionaire.”
Chris Lema writes on how WordPress gives you tools to change lives.
Longreads’ Best of WordPress, Vol. 1 is now up, and it’s a great reminder of the huge diversity and incredible quality of what people are publishing on WP across the web, on both .com and .org WordPresses. Great for picking up a few meatier reads for this holiday weekend.
The big daddy of WordCamps is open about another week for speaker submissions, if you have something interesting you’d like to say to the WordPress world send in your application to speak at WordCamp SF here.
Jessica Pressler in New York Magazine has an unintentionally funny look at Silicon Valley’s Laundry-App Race.
Socket.IO 1.0 is available with a number of new features, including binary support. Socket.IO is one of the most useful tools in the Node.js world.
Naval Ravikant writes on Bitcoin (and more) as The Fifth Protocol. Fantastic read, and reminds me to read Snow Crash.
I did one of the “On My Phone” interviews for Vanity Fair, which is especially funny during Lent. You can read it here: WordPress’ Matt Mullenweg on Calm, Childish Gambino, and Giving Up His iPhone for Lent.