From the Mailbag on 10 July 2018 with comments from Paul O'Mahony, Greg Dickson, and Dave Lara.

First touch of the Spreaker Live Audio app on Android.

Skimming the surface of Code Switching with the help of Sheeren Marisol Meraji and NPR.

Sharing thoughts from Holly Jackson on 4 July Dr. Jackson is at work on a book about 19th-century radical movements in the United States. Jackson writes in NYT. "How do you celebrate Independence Day? A cookout? Maybe take the kids to a parade? "William Lloyd Garrison, the 19th-century abolitionist, had a different idea for how to observe the holiday. Every flag should be either taken down or flown at half-staff, he wrote in his newspaper, The Liberator, and 'all signs of exultation, parade and boasting should be studiously suppressed.' The usual rounds of celebratory music, marching and fireworks must be abandoned until 'the millions of our oppressed countrymen are emancipated.” In the meantime, the Fourth of July “should be made THE DAY OF DAYS for the overthrow of slavery.' "In our time, July 4 has become detached from the politics of protest. But the history of the United States suggests that this need not — indeed, ought not — be the case. "Garrison borrowed the July 4 protest tradition from a group of black activists in Albany. When slavery was legally abolished in New York on July 4, 1827, they resolved not to celebrate. Instead, they mourned all those who remained in bondage and came out the following day for public reflection on the nation that allowed it. This became a tradition that continued until the Civil War."

About the cows and drones on the Clonmel Digital Campus.

Sharing other snaps of the sunny southeast in albums at http://flickr.com/irisheyes

Using Trint as part of my Audiomo experience. Thanking @barbarakb for the pointers.

After a day of lecture, discussion, and hands-on sessions about publishing for academics. Includes thoughts from Paul O'Mahony as well.

Letting WhatsApp from afar influence my local purchases.