It’s been a month since I’ve been on Twitter – I didn’t delete my account, just logged off from it. If you’re curious where I am learning over the course of the week, it’s not from there.

• PlayMakers Laboratory is the new name for Barrel of Monkeys, a non-profit youth arts/education organization in Chicago I have support and was on their Board a few years back. Part of their offering is That’s Weird, Grandma, a live performance of sketch comedy adapted from the writing of their students. They have now taken this online and you can watch and support them through Patreon.
• I read a couple of great articles this week. One was by Marc Andreessen with a great assessment of what we need to do to get beyond this pandemic, saying It’s Time To Build. If you’re not familiar with Marc, he’s the co-creator of the first graphical Web browser Mosaic.
• The other article I read was by my friend John Wall on The Great Shutdown. If you’re not familiar with John, he’s been podcasting before most people knew what it was, and is co-host of the long-running and highly informative and entertaining podcast Marketing Over Coffee.
• When everything is important, nothing is important. The same holds true if everything is !important… and the exclamation point before the word is not a typo. It is a “hack” that bad Web developers make when coding the cascading style sheets or CSS of a Web site, and something good developers avoid. As you may guess, I also learned about the bad Web developers doing this.
• Following examples like the one I mentioned last week from Crowded House, the school music teachers in my kids school system did a virtual rendition of the Bill Withers hit Lean On Me, and I think it’s awesome, though I think the flute-playing teacher may not like that she got cut, twice.
• In 2008 I participated in Nokia OpenLab, a social media gathering of people from around the world hosted in Helsinki, Finland by the then-world leader in mobile technology. Leading up to it a Wiki page was created and updated by the attendees to connect, and thanks to Cybette I know it’s still out there.
• Starbucks reopened many stores around the country this week, and mainly ones with drive-thru windows. And just in time for gas prices to rise, but I digress. One thing I noticed in the updated version of their mobile app is the tipping options have expanded to $5.

Congrats Christine and Colin!

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This is from The Hot Iron, a journal on business and technology by Mike Maddaloni.

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