Jordan Merrick (jordanmerrick.com)I've added some basic support for webmentions to my Jekyll-powered site using webmention.io and this Jekyll plugin. If any of my posts are mentioned elsewhere and my site receives a webmention, it's displayed below the post content. Since Jekyll is a static site generator, the plugin can only check ...
Directed by Brian Grant. With Clare Higgins, Raquel Cassidy, Bella Ramsey, Meibh Campbell. One of the prospective students at the Witches Academy loses her eyeglasses and accidentally bumps into Mildred. She needs Mildred's help to get to the academy. Mildred also takes the exam, fails, but helps everybody survive the day.
Taylor Jadin (Twitter)I'm tossing around the idea of starting a podcast network. Not some much for ad revenue but to make it easy and cheap for people who want to start a podcast to get hosting.
— Taylor Jadin (@TaylorJadin) July 22, 2018Basically I'd cover the hosting and standing up the site + RSS feed for people. Then I'd offer guides on equipment to buy and give editing tutorials for newbies.
— Taylor Jadin (@TaylorJadin) July 22, 2018Registered a domain: https://t.co/nDDlCSHopP
— Taylor Jadin (@TaylorJadin) July 22, 2018
Additionally Aaron Parecki had some thoughts a while back on his microcast (episode 9: Streamlining My Microcast Workflow) about improving his production workflow. Earlier today he also created a discovery website (with subtle hints of a webring) that acts as a discovery mechanism and network of sorts for microcasts which you might find interesting in light of your plans.
I might also submit that if you’re doing it for students, starting with small, short microcasts are always a quick way to get started.
All this to remind me that I just got a Yeti Blue for my birthday and I need to fire it up to continue on with both my microcast and my longer format podcast.
Directed by Brian Grant. With Bella Ramsey, Meibh Campbell, Clare Higgins, Raquel Cassidy.
Directed by Brian Grant. With Clare Higgins, Raquel Cassidy, Bella Ramsey, Meibh Campbell. Flying becomes difficult for Mildred when she is paired with a cat who is afraid of heights.
Heather Staines (Hypothesis)Social media networks provided immediate solutions to a few problems with those early blogging networks: they relieved the moderately heavy lift in getting started and they created the possibility of connections that were immediate, dense, and growing. But as those networks expanded, they both pulled authors away from their own domains — so much quicker to tweet than to blog, and with a much speedier potential response — and they privatized and scattered conversations. ❧Exactly the use case that annotation is hoping to solve! Enabling the connection between different sites.
Directed by Brian Grant. With Clare Higgins, Raquel Cassidy, Bella Ramsey, Meibh Campbell. Maud gets jealous when the daughter of magical celebrities transfers to the school, and starts hanging out with Mildred.
Heather Staines (Hypothesis)Social media networks provided immediate solutions to a few problems with those early blogging networks: they relieved the moderately heavy lift in getting started and they created the possibility of connections that were immediate, dense, and growing. But as those networks expanded, they both pulled authors away from their own domains — so much quicker to tweet than to blog, and with a much speedier potential response — and they privatized and scattered conversations. ❧Exactly the use case that annotation is hoping to solve! Enabling the connection between different sites.
I say this because I know that her website now supports sending and receiving Webmentions (she notes as much and references a recent article I wrote on the topic within her text.) If Hypothes.is supported sending Webmentions (a W3C recommendation) for highlights and other annotations on the page they occurred on, then the author of the post would get a notification and could potentially show it on the site (as an inline annotation) or in their comment section, which might also in turn encourage others to open up the annotation layer to do the same. Hypothesis could then not only be an annotation system, but also serve as an ad hoc commenting/conversation tool as well.
You may notice in her comment section that there are 60+ reactions/comments on her site. One or two are done within her native comment interface, and one directly from my website, but the majority are comments, likes, reshares, and mentions which are coming from Twitter by webmention. Imagine if many of them were coming from Hypothesis instead… (try clicking on one of the “@ twitter.com” links following one of the commenter’s avatars and names. What if some of those links looked like:
instead?
https://boffosocko.com/2018/07/22/connections-by-kathleen-fitzpatrick-a-reply-to-heatherstains-annotation-2/
Directed by Daniel Nettheim. With Julie Hesmondhalgh, David Tennant, Olivia Colman, Jodie Whittaker. DC Harford discovers a new suspect who doesn't have an alibi. Cath reveals new information about the night of her party. Hardy and Ellie get a match on the male DNA found on Trish.
Things have been heating up since the tape was reported Friday.
Kathleen Fitzpatrick (Kathleen Fitzpatrick)My last post, Connections, gathered a fair bit of response — enough that you can see a good example of Webmentions in action below it. There’s a little back-and-forth discussion there that mostly took place on Twitter, as well as a lot of likes and mentions that came from there as well.
Greg McVerry (jgregorymcverry.com)@kfitz Realized I can just use the list here to make my #IndieWebEdu feed: https://indieweb.org/Indieweb_for_Education Its okay about iOS..nobody is perfect.
My following page may have other feeds of interest as well.
Nir Zicherman (Medium)Thanks to modern cloud services, the cost of storing and serving content on the internet is incredibly cheap in 2018. With a podcasting platform like Anchor, there is no need for podcasters to pay anymore. So why are traditional podcast companies still charging creators to host files like it’s 2008?
I’ve had friends online who’ve noted that this is at least the third time that Anchor.fm has “pivoted”, always seemingly to a larger and larger audience. I find myself wondering when the company is going to finally eat itself? Given that their product seems to change every six months or so, I also wonder if they last another 6 months?
Apparently he’s so bought into the idea of not owning your own data, that at least he’s posting this on one of the worst social silos out there. Just give it all away.
James Shelley (jamesshelley.com)I recently purged the data from my Facebook account. This effort was shockingly labour intensive: it took a browser script all weekend to crunch, and still many aspects of the process required manual execution. Torching years and years of old Facebook activity felt so liberating that I found another...
