Looking at some rough statistics for the Fediverse tonight and it appears that since November 4 that there are now 1,785 more instances or nodes in the network. About 60 of those are WordPress-based sites!
Notes
Short content: a microblog of status updates or short notes
Yes, I live in Altadena, CA. Yes, I’ve purchased lottery tickets from Joe’s before. No, it (sadly) wasn’t me that won 2.04 billion dollars in the Powerball Lottery.
Seeing privileged Westerners complaining about their miniscule issues relating to their reactions to an online dictator in #TwitterMigration, makes me extra mindful of war, climate, and other human refugees who need to physically relocate their homes from one country to another and don’t have any support systems at all.
Some will think I’m in the pocket of #BigIndexCard, but I’m thinking it’s time to re-introduce #IndexCards to the #EdTech scene. It will dramatically personalize learning while locking out the #SurveillanceCapitalism crowd.
#CriticalPedagogy #WissenschaftlichenArbeitens #zettelkasten
#CriticalPedagogy #WissenschaftlichenArbeitens #zettelkasten
A great thread. Though why not use the web as your platform? Micro.blog can do the work to help you own your identity & data, and as @EthanZ suggests it will also allow you to crosspost to both Twitter & Mastodon to stay in touch with the people you chose.
Long thread – buckle up. TL:DR; yes, you should join Mastodon. But you should stay on Twitter as well. What we need are more and different online communities, not just an exodus from a troubled platform.
— Ethan “no blue check before it was cool” Zuckerman (@EthanZ) November 4, 2022
Quote of the week. This really made my day, and somehow sounds so much more elegant in French.
NaNoWriMo Day 1
- 29 fleeting notes over an hour and change – 1,680 words
- 2 full permanent notes – 830 words
- 2 links – 168 words
- 2 bibliographic entries – 168 words
Total today: 2,846 words
Total for the month: 2,846 words
A semi-regular reminder that all my posts are on my website where you can follow or subscribe in a number of ways (including as a Mastodon instance!).
You can also find me on micro.blog if you move there. It’s a spectacular, healthy platform and community that would appreciate your contribution and presence. I recommend it highly.
If you need help finding an “exit”, I’m both happy and well-equipped to not only suggest but to provide direct technical help. Reach out in any way that feels most comfortable to you.
I’ve already been doing the work anyway, so I’ve updated my NaNoWriMo profile to reflect the research and writing work I’m doing on a book related to note taking and its historical traditions. I’m writing it using my commonplace book and Luhmann-esque zettelkasten as tools.
My website surely gets more traffic than it deserves, but thanks everyone for taking an interest in one of the most niche and geeky topics I may have ever written about and creating a 3x spike in traffic.
Commemorating Indigenous Peoples’ Day by contemplating the power and ideas inherent in the third archive of the works of Robin Wall Kimmerer and Margo Neale.
Cosma by Arthur Perret et al seems to be just the sort of interoperable, open, & standards-based tools for thought app that Friends of the Link will appreciate
@flancian @JerryMichalski @MathewLowry @Borthwick @dwhly @An_Agora @ZsViczian
https://cosma.graphlab.fr/en/docs/user-manual/
@flancian @JerryMichalski @MathewLowry @Borthwick @dwhly @An_Agora @ZsViczian
https://cosma.graphlab.fr/en/docs/user-manual/
In homage to Roland Barthes’ fichier vert, I’ve refilled my TWSBI 580 fountain pen with Diamine green/black ink. ✒️🟩🗃️
On hand held objects and material culture
Should we view it as a coincidence or not that the information management carrier of the early 20th century is the same size and scale as the carrier at the opening of the 21st century?
The humble index card and the cellular phone have more in common than we might expect.
Next month’s allotment of index card supplies have arrived.