TeamRetro

TeamRetro facilitates online agile retrospective meetings for distributed teams. Brainstorm, Group, Vote and Action - we make it fun, easy and productive. Automated idea grouping (using Natural Language Processing) get you to the important bits - discussing and actioning ideas - faster than ever.

https://www.teamretro.com/

How Aretha Franklin’s ‘Respect’ Became a Battle Cry for Musicians Seeking Royalties

When Ms. Franklin died on Thursday at age 76, fans celebrated the song all over again as a theme for the women’s rights movement. But in the music industry, “Respect” has also played a symbolic role in a long fight over copyright issues that, advocates say, have deprived artists like Ms. Franklin of fair royalty payments.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/17/arts/aretha-franklin-respect-copyright.html

Find the best books set in cities around the world

Destination Reads is a platform that helps travelers find books set in places around the world. I previously spent almost a year as a digital nomad, and realized that travelers often want to read fiction and creative non-fiction set in the places they go for business or pleasure -- reading beyond the guidebook is one of the best ways to build rapport with a new destination and get a real sense of its culture. But there isn't an easy way to find the best novels, memoirs, histories and essays set in or written about a certain city.

https://www.destinationreads.com/

I'm joining the campaign to deactivate my Twitter account on August 17

I deleted my Facebook account a few months ago and am not sorry I did. For the last couple of months, I've been thinking about deleting my Twitter account, too. It has become a creepy, toxic place. I'm stunned that Twitter has no problem with people who want to inflict additional misery on the parents of murdered children. It's not about the first Amendment. Twitter is a company -- it can choose whomever it wants to be on its platform.

https://boingboing.net/2018/08/12/im-joining-the-campaign-to-d.html