A test, of sorts

In the good ol' days of social media, I had a good link sharing workflow. I'd tag articles in Google Reader (RIP), the links would automatically post to a Tumblr, and then IFTTT would repost those to Twitter and Facebook. (I think there might have been a custom RSS feed in there somewhere.) Low effort, but I was able to pollinate all my different social circles with my internet evangelism with just a click click click.

Little by little, the owners of those circles tore that low-energy workflow apart, preventing automatic cross-posting. And of course, Google Reader got nuked, like every good thing at Google.

I've been sporadically posting lists of links to a Ghost site and email newsletter (though that was a side-effect, not the point.) Sporadic is the operative word and I'm no longer interested in paying $180 a year for Ghost, so I've been casually looking for an alternative. Maybe Leaflet is it?

This Week's Links

McSweeny's “They Would Never Use the Death Star on Us”: Alderaan Residents Reflect on Their Support for the Empire as a Large Imperial Installation Enters the System

Good Authority Most Americans don’t see compromise as central to good citizenship

The Guardian Hope out of chaos: how the dark era of Trump is creating a new approach to global politics

Creative Boom We asked: what's the hardest part of being a creative? Your answers were... eye-opening

Boston Review Gramsci’s Gift: For the Italian Communist, there was no road map for social transformation beyond hands-on, bottom-up activism.

Smashing Magazine The Legacy of Polish Posters

LBBOnline Why Local Identity Is the Future of Global Design (disclaimer, I used to work at R/GA)

Oakland Review of Books We don’t debate the library tax

Okay, that's it for this week. Let's see how this goes.