Some gems from my Pinboard this week

• Howdy, Pardner! Round Up For #Western106
  

  We are doing DS106 with a wide open theme of Western Stories– not West like the Western Hemisphere, but West like the Wild Wild West. It’s your standard Cowboy tales, and then not.

  Another round of DS106, if you want to learn lots about digital storytelling, blogging learning on line I cannot recommend DS106 enough. A constant inspiration. Anyone can join in.

• Ian Stuart on Twitter: “Nihilistic password security questions anyone? https://t.co/4yVnvImseG” Just great.
• Starting a podcast for people who don’t want their lives taken over by podcasting — Dispatches from Paul Jarvis — Medium via Doug Belshaw, a nice post explaining how to podcast in a pretty simple way.
• GIF IT UP – DigitalNZ
  

  Calling all GIF-makers, creatives, history nuts, and animators! GIF IT UP is a challenge coordinated by DigitalNZ and the Digital Public Library of America to find the best GIFs created from copyright-free heritage material.

  There is a section for New Zealand school students. I’ve often though that making gifs would be a great way of learning some graphics in school. There are a lot of possible skills to cover and I imagine motivation would be high.

• Open GIFs Speaking of Gifs these ones from public domain content.

Featured image, my own gif, Source, public domain: Book on Swordsmanship and Wrestling.   found on europeana