For Micro Monday I’ll recommend a handful of educators and researchers on micro.blog. Each and everyone of them has something to teach us.
* @kfitz
* @jgmac1106
* @mrkrndvs
* @dancohen
* @kimberlyhirsch
* @johnjohnston
* @ayjay
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For Micro Monday I’ll recommend a handful of educators and researchers on micro.blog. Each and everyone of them has something to teach us.
* @kfitz
* @jgmac1106
* @mrkrndvs
* @dancohen
* @kimberlyhirsch
* @johnjohnston
* @ayjay
@c Thanks for this! I was pleased to discover that there were only two I wasn’t already following.
@rnv I suspect that there are far more, these are just the ones I’m aware of presently. I’d love to hear from others.
@c I agree, especially since it helps dispel the myth that Micro.blog is heavily biased toward or overpopulated by the tech/web nerds. I think teachers — and librarians! — are often every bit as much on the front lines of new technologies as the techies are. That, at any rate, was my impression during the first big blog rush of the late 90s & early aughts — and the email/BBS of the 80s & early 90s.
@c @rnv
Historians of Micro.blog (though I think only @schuth is in academia at the moment):
@schuth
@jonesbp
@donmacdonald
@macgenie
@smokey
Two archaeologists-to-be:
@alice
@aclaman
Educators (I also ran across a gentleman this weekend whose bio included “high school principal” but can’t recall who):
@craigmcclellan (also @theclassnerd podcast)
@jonrjordan
And last but not least, one more librarian:
@cygnoir
(I really wish we had lists and better access to our list of people we follow, and/or searching of bio text, so I wouldn’t have to top-of-my-head these sorts of things every time someone asks “who are the foo on Micro.blog”—but, in time, it will come 😉 )
@smokey Thanks for tagging me in this. It helped me see some more people I should be following!
@craigmcclellan 👍
@smokey very well done. Helpful as I try to find more folks here!
@jonrjordan Thanks. Hat to to @c for the Micro Monday post that originated the educator/researcher list.
@c thanks I’ve certainly learnt a brain full from you in a short time. Another educator I ‘found’ this morning is @ryanboren
@c I think of micro.blog as a sort of RSS reader. Nearer inoreader than twitter in my imaginary social dock. Still use twitter as a lot of teachers have no other presence.
@johnjohnston I port several Twitter lists and other social like that into my feed reader with twitter-atom.appspot.com
@c @rnv Also, in terms of researchers/scientists, @dcpace is a “plasma physicist researching fusion energy”.
@c Thanks, that works, need to organise some more lists now.
@smokey thank you for mentioning me in this list! I’m sorry it took me so much time to see it 🙁
@alice No worries 🙂 Nice to see you around here again; hope the writing is going well!
@smokey thank you! I’m a bit stuck at the moment, but I guess it’s a normal thing, haha.
@alice Hoping you don’t stay stuck for too long 🤞
@smokey hope so, thanks!
For Micro Monday, I’m following and recommending @rickwysocki, another in the growing list of educators on micro.blog as well as practicing IndieWeb principles.
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Come on in, the water’s fine! There’s a growing group of educators, researchers, librarians, and technologists listed in the IndieWeb wiki. And here’s the start of a list on Micro.blog.
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I saw Kristian Serrano join Micro.blog recently….
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Adam, as you describe “dumb Twitter”, I can’t help but think about many of the design decisions that Manton Reece has made while more consciously designing and building micro.blog which specifically leaves out reposting, likes, and quote tweets as you’ve indicated. Admittedly micro.blog is still relatively small in scale compared to Twitter, and perhaps that size also helps guard against some of the toxic behaviors seen in Twitter. However, I might also suggest that since people are paying for a product and/or using one that has their personal identity built right into it with their own custom domain name, they are far less likely to proverbially “shout from their front porch” at passerby.
I notice you have a micro site which you were using with a micro.blog account, though I suspect you may have given up experimenting with them? Admittedly there is a bit of a technical hurdle in dovetailing either a WordPress or WithKnown site into the platform, but even tying RSS feeds from these platforms into the system isn’t too difficult.
I suspect that as a proponent of DoOO, you may find it fruitful to take another crack at micro.blog which, to a great extent, is really just a DoOO platform for the broader public. For a small monthly fee it allows users to bring their own domain name and get inexpensive hosting to own their own content including articles, status updates, photos, and podcasts. Otherwise, for free, you can use your own site (as you started to) and interact with the community by syndicating your content into it via RSS instead of crossposting via other means they way you’ve done with Twitter in the past.
I might suggest you try using your WithKnown site with micro.blog instead of WordPress, particularly as Known supports webmention out of the box. As a result, anything you syndicate into the system will automatically provide you notifications of any replies. You could then have just the “dumb Twitter” you wanted along with a solid DoOO solution at the same time. Ultimately you’d be using the micro.blog interface as a feed reader to scroll through content while posting your content from your own site.
If it helps to join the community there I’ve got a post that lists several micro.blog users who are in the education space, many of whom are tinkering around in areas like DoOO and IndieWeb, and a few of whom you may recognize.
I’m happy to help if you need any getting set up or experimenting. There’s a lot more power and value in the hybrid set up that micro.blog provides than it gets credit for.
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I’m adding @cplong to my ever-growing list of educators, researchers, and scholars on micro.blog. Looks like he’s playing in the DoOO space, but perhaps not the IndieWeb space yet.
boffosocko.com/2018/07/2…
It’s not Monday, but adding Georgia Tech Professor @blair to the list of educators and researchers on micro.blog.
Who else are we missing?
@c just helped @whiskeydragon1 join.
@c hoops, sorry, I responded to the wrong thread. Meant to recommend John, but did not mean to spam your recommendations of educators. Sorry.
@c this made me very happy, thanks for tagging me, I’ve now got a bunch more interesting folks to follow!
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Another useful tip on this front is to post a Micro Monday following recommendation aggregating a few people you know are interested in a particular topic. As an example, I posted one about a few educators and researchers I knew on micro.blog in July 2018 and it quickly blew up with lots of additional recommendations from others following me within the community.
Over time I’ve kept up with adding to it, and even within the last month that post is still helping to benefit others on the service:
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It’s been a while since I’ve added to my ever-growing list of educators and researchers, but I ought to add @willtmonroe and @daveymoloney to it. Is there anyone else I’m missing? – @c
It’s such a glaring oversight that I can’t wait until the official micro @Monday, so I’m adding @adamprocter to our collective list of educators, researchers, and librarians on micro.blog.
@c thank you
For Micro Monday, I’m following and recommending @jennifermjones, another in the growing list of educators and altacs on micro.blog. Do stop by and welcome her to micro.blog.
Be sure to check out how you can post your content to your own website and syndicate your material into micro.blog (maybe via RSS or using plugins). If your site uses the Webmention and Semantic Linkbacks plugins, then any replies to your posts will be automagically ported directly back to the comment section of your post.
In addition to some of the others in education who you’ve mentioned, I’ve got a list with some others (be sure to check the comments too–both for the others you’ll find, but also for the example Webmentions I’ve received from Micro.blog.)
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A lot of the posts I make to my WordPress site are done in a headless manner using the Micropub spec and the Micropub plugin with a huge wealth of Micropub clients.
I did a presentation on this at a WordCamp a while back: https://wordpress.tv/2019/06/26/chris-aldrich-micropub-and-wordpress-custom-posting-applications/
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By linking my site here, Jim has sent a Webmention notification, so I know he posted about my site: https://telegraph.p3k.io/webmention/14qD8olgI7lyGjRy0q/details
Annotated on September 26, 2020 at 02:27PM
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Be sure to check out how you can post your content to your own website and syndicate your material into micro.blog (maybe via RSS or using plugins). If your site uses the Webmention and Semantic Linkbacks plugins, then any replies to your posts will be automagically ported directly back to the comment section of your post.
In addition to some of the others in education who you’ve mentioned, I’ve got a list with some others (be sure to check the comments too–both for the others you’ll find, but also for the example Webmentions I’ve received from Micro.blog.)
Annotated on September 26, 2020 at 01:57PM
A lot of the posts I make to my WordPress site are done in a headless manner using the Micropub spec and the Micropub plugin with a huge wealth of Micropub clients.
I did a presentation on this at a WordCamp a while back: https://wordpress.tv/2019/06/26/chris-aldrich-micropub-and-wordpress-custom-posting-applications/
Annotated on September 26, 2020 at 01:59PM
By linking my site here, Jim has sent a Webmention notification, so I know he posted about my site: https://telegraph.p3k.io/webmention/14qD8olgI7lyGjRy0q/details
Annotated on September 26, 2020 at 02:27PM
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