Deborah Edwards-Oñoro

Deborah Edwards-Oñoro enjoys birding, gardening, taking photos, reading, and watching tennis. She's retired from a 25+ year career in web design, usability, and accessibility.

It’s Back! BirdCast Launched March 1

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Outline of the 48 contiguous states in the United States showing green or red dots for weather relay stations on a black background. Bands of bright color highlight migration and a legend describes what the bright colors represent on the map. Three bands of blue color indicate low levels of migration in southern California, Texas, and Florida moving north.

One of my favorite online birding resources returned March 1, 2024, highlighting bird migration in the United States.

A free online tool, Birdcast is the result of 20+ years of research, providing real-time predictions of bird migration using weather surveillance radar to gather information.

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Photo of the Week: An Unexpected Snowy Owl

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White owl with dark barring across the underbelly, white face with yellow eyes peers down from a post.

I never would imagine I would find an Eastern Meadowlark, one of the signs of spring in southeast Michigan at a nearby birding site this week, only to find a sign of winter at the same location the next day.

But that’s exactly what happened when an unexpected Snowy Owl appeared at a local airport.

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WordPress.com, AI Training, and User Control

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Screenshot of WordPress.com about page highlighting: At WordPress.com, our mission is to democratize publishing and eCommerce one website at a time. We’re a hosted version of the open source software, WordPress. Because when you have the freedom to create, express yourself, and earn money online, the impossible becomes business as usual.

Rumors about Automattic, the company that owns WordPress.com and Tumblr, making deals with AI (Artificial Intelligence) companies to provide training data scraped from users’ posts was in the news yesterday as 404Media and The Verge reported possible deals.

As you might imagine, many WordPress users were worried about what the rumors might mean for their content and websites.

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