Jun 13, 2026 from The Emu Café Social New Features in ActivityPub For WordPress 9.0 ActivityPub for WordPress version 9.0 was just released, and a blog post by lead developer Matthias Pfefferle goes over the new features (you can follow me from Mastodon, Pixelfed, or the like at [...
Jun 12, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal Finding Backlinks to Your Articles and Blog Posts I share various tools for finding backlinks to one's own articles, blog posts and other online media.
Jun 12, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 06-12-26 I have an assignment I need to finish today. But I will not let that stop me from capping off the work-week with one more edition of Pook-Emu Bee links. Pook-Emu Bee will be off tomorrow for Newsle...
Jun 12, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Missing Brand Music Video Ads According to a May 27, 2026 report in Marketing Brew by Katie Hicks titled Why so many brands are releasing music videos, ” it seems brand-created music videos are making a comeback as marketers ar...
Jun 12, 2026 from Noahie's Blog Mundanity Your browser does not support the video tag. Last night while falling asleep, I was reflecting on the last ten years or so of my life, as one does. Looking back into the past, despite my attempts t...
Jun 11, 2026 from Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy Doctor Who: Into the Wilderness! Eighteen months is too long to wait… but it looks like we’ll have to wait even longer than that. After previously announcing that Doctor Who would return with a Christmas special in 2026 – a bit ov...
Jun 11, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Turning a Blog Into a Book Wouter Groeneveld published a blog post on his blog, Brain Baking, titled The Archivist In Me Turned This Blog Into a Book. I have thought about creating a book from the millions of words I have pu...
Jun 11, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Static Site Webmentions Blogger Michael Harley wrote a post about adding webmention support to his blog. I am pro-webmention (see my NLJ post on site-to-site conversations, so I sent my congratulations in webmention form....
Jun 11, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 06-11-26 I missed Pook-Emu Bee links yesterday, but I am making sure to make up for it by starting this post yesterday. 1. Uzbek Fighters in Syria Face Tensions with Al-Sharaa’s Government (Jacob Zenn for J...
Jun 11, 2026 from The Public Domain Review Venetian Bridge Brawls in 17th and 18th Century Art Paintings from an era when Venetians brawled on bridges.
Jun 11, 2026 from The Emu Café Social A Moka Pot Pen I came across a blog post on Extra Fine Writing titled Check it out, a weird little pen that looks like a coffee pot. When I saw the headline on The Well Apportioned Desk, I was not sure what to ex...
Jun 11, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal Discovering the Former “The New Leaf Journal” I learned some time ago that there was a former thenewleafjournal.com. Today, we examine our domain name predecessor.
Jun 11, 2026 from Noahie's Blog Bird Among Monkeys Your browser does not support the video tag. I keep returning to this thought on IQ, so I have to write it down before it drives me insane. I've been in a lot of online spaces where people place so...
Jun 10, 2026 from The Public Domain Review Genevieve Stebbins’ Delsarte System of Dramatic Expression (1886) A philosophical system and a practical guide for the cultivation of dramatic genius.
Jun 10, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Giving Defunct Blogs Proper Burials Robert Birming published an interesting short blog post titled Where do blogs go when they die? He noted having noticed that many blog posts shared in recent years by participants in his Junited in...
Jun 10, 2026 from Noahie's Blog Unknown Bugs "I don't know what you are, but you have to die." That's what I said to a bug that flew in my face while I was smoking on my back patio the other night. I'm scared of bugs, okay? Anyway, saying som...
Jun 09, 2026 from The Emu Café Social The History Blog and Japanese Saws I follow The History Blog by psuedynmous blogger livius. It features blog posts about history (surprise?) focusing significantly on archaeology news. Significantly, The History Blog links to source...
Jun 09, 2026 from The Autodidacts The search for a good offline dictionary for Linux … proved longer than expected