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Farewell Google+: “Save your Google+ content before March 31, 2019” 2019 Mar 20

Today in Google shutdown notices:

You’ve received this email because you have content in Google+ for your personal (consumer) account or a Google+ page you manage.

This is a reminder that on April 2, 2019 we’re shutting down consumer Google+ and will begin deleting content from consumer Google+ accounts. Photos and videos from Google+ in your Album Archive and your Google+ pages will also be deleted.

Downloading your Google+ content may take time, so get started before March 31, 2019.

No other Google products (such as Gmail, Google Photos, Google Drive, YouTube) will be shut down as part of the consumer Google+ shutdown, and the Google Account you use to sign in to these services will remain. Note that photos and videos already backed up in Google Photos will not be deleted.

For more information, see the full Google+ shutdown FAQ.

From all of us on the Google+ team, thank you for making Google+ such a special place.

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You have received this mandatory email service announcement to update you about important changes to your Google+ Page, product or account.

I requested a backup. I don’t expect it will be very big.

Birthday Cake March of Robots Robot 2019 Mar 20

Final #sketchnotes on http://vantynegroup.com/ presentation on Innovation and Design Thinking Talk #PCampSd18 @ProductCampSD 2019 Mar 17

An inspiring morning at the downtown @sdpl with @SanDiego_CM1 — speaker @jaybuys of @ThisIsVisceral talking about balancing profit and purpose. #cmsandiego #CreativeMornings #SanDiego #sketchnotes 2019 Mar 17

Love @ellengustafson speaking on creating a better food culture @SanDiego_CM1 #creativemornings #inspirational #hopeful #sketchnotes 2019 Mar 17

My #sketchnotes: “Identifying & prioritizing issues w/yr #userinterface”—@arthur_ux @SDStartupWeek #sketchnote #ux 2019 Mar 17

Wonderful talk by @CeliaHodent at @Qualcomm tonight hosted by @UXSpeakeasy. My #sketchnotes here attached! 2019 Mar 17

Prototyping at the Advanced Manufacturing Expo 2019 2019 Mar 17

From February 7 this year:

Very fun rough prototyping exercise at #AdvMfgExpo with @design_concepts & other attendees including @starblade68 ! Very fun #UX #industrialdesign #sketchnotes

“Old man” 2019 Mar 17

Last month I put this into my drafts on this blog:

Dude slumped in mobile wheelchair playing Old Man by Neil young and carrying 4 pack of Starbucks drinks. What’s his story?

I’ve been blogging here for a lot of years. I’m feeling the need to be more… creative.

Am I the old man? Am I like that old man? Is he like me.

Yes.

“Old man, Take a look at my life.”

The years tick onward and I am neither famous nor rich. I am Happy though.

I have things I want to write. I attended open mic poetry at Verbatim Books last week. I have written poetry in my day. I have ideas that need expression. I have “bad drawing” in my twitter biography, and I know that’s not the best way to express myself, despite how much I love it.

But maybe it’s comics. Words + Pictures.

More later.

Voicemail Spam: From (602) 529-3518 2019 Mar 15

From (602) 529-3518.

The voice seems synthetic and there’s some static:

…in your state.

It’s very time sensitive as urgent that I do hear back from you before we proceed further with the suspension of your social and assets.

Please press one to speak to the officer.

I repeat, please press one to speak to the officer right away.

Thank you.

Do you know what Lynx is? 2019 Mar 15

Lynx is a text-based web browser, first released in 1992! In my mind there is no better window to what search engines see of your websites than running them in Lynx. Now the web is full of images and video and stunning in-page interactivity, but it’s really a text delivery system.

On the left of this image is what you see when you log into LinkedIn with Lynx. Kudos for allowing authentication to work at all! But it’s not usable. I’ve not inspected the underlying code to know why all that JSON is visible but I expect that’s source data for the single page app that runs the landing page. I trust LinkedIn knows that supporting text-only for logged in use is of marginal value considering even the lowest end smartphone can run JavaScript.

On the right is what a web crawler for a search engine would “see!” And it’s not bad at all! No errors, no accessibility issues, a minimum of duplication. At core, SEO is about whether your text is well structured and available to the web crawlers. And that screen shows the goods. Kudos again, LinkedIn.

 

Drawing in Starbucks, 2011 2019 Mar 13

This is fun. In 2011 I did this drawing in a Starbucks. At the time I did it in Brushes App, on an iPod Touch. I love how primitive it is. Now that I’m drawing more regularly on the iPad it’s not great, but it certainly has an appeal. I was reminded of this by the Foursquare/Swarm App, which I just hit 10 years on. Sometimes throwback posts actually do show progress and change!

See also: Sat. Sketch., “Thanks Clairemont Coffee Bean & Tea… for the wireless”, Ray at Night and Other Delights.