The IndieWeb and Academic Research and Publishing
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👓 Customizing WordPress Feeds | Digging Into WordPress

Read Customizing WordPress Feeds | Digging Into WordPress by Jeff Starr (digwp.com)

WordPress feeds enable your visitors to subscribe to your content for use in their favorite feed-reader. For example, subscribing to the main-posts feed and/or the comments feed is a great way for your readers to stay current with all the latest news and content from your website.

With WordPress, you can deliver a wide variety of "Full-text" or "Summary" (partial) feeds in numerous formats, including Atom, RDF, and RSS2. This variety extends the reach of your content by enabling your feeds to be read in more apps, readers, and devices.

As awesome as the default feeds may be, they are also readily customizable using a variety of methods. In addition to WP's built-in ways of configuring your feeds, you can go even further with custom templates, functions, and plugins. In this DigWP post, you'll learn everything you need to customize your feeds with bonus content, recent posts, social media, and much more.

👓 Remember WordPress’ Pingbacks? The W3C wants us to use them across the whole web | The Register

Read Remember WordPress' Pingbacks? The W3C wants us to use them across the whole web by Scott Gilbertson (The Register)
'Webmentions' spec promises future linkspam outbreak

Something called Webmentions – which looks remarkably like the old WordPress pingbacks, once popular in the late 2000s – is grinding through the machinery of the mighty, and slow-moving, World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

But don’t be deceived. Lurking behind that unassuming name lies something that might eventually offer users a way of ditching not just Facebook and Twitter but also those other massive corporations straddling the web.

An awfully inflamatory headline and opening, but the rest was not so up-in-arms and seemed relatively measured. Was it intended to try to be link bait?

📺 “Father Brown” The Bride of Christ | BBC

Watched "Father Brown" The Bride of Christ from BBC
Directed by Ian Barber. With Mark Williams, Penny Downie, Roberta Taylor, Selina Cadell. When two nuns are murdered, Father Brown investigates in the convent with the help of a young nun, very keen on detective fiction.

👓 Social Timelines: Life Lost on the Curated Projections of Other People’s Lives? | James Shelley

Read Social Timelines: Life Lost on the Curated Projections of Other People’s Lives? by James ShelleyJames Shelley (jamesshelley.com)
I’m looking for agreement, disagreement, or reflections on the following proposition: Time spent reading social timelines is time lost. Scrolling through a timeline is time consumed by the curated projections of other people’s lives, which are absorbed wholly and only at the cost of living your ...
An interesting take, I want to think about this for a bit…

📺 “Father Brown” The Devil’s Dust | BBC

Watched "Father Brown" The Devil's Dust from BBC
Directed by Dominic Keavey. With Pip Torrens, Stirling Gallacher, Holly Earl, Jamie Glover. A radioactive girl is missing and only Father Brown can find the responsible for her disappearance.
Some of the characters on the series are so very sterotypical. It’s almost laughable, but somehow it still works. It’s like Murder, She Wrote, but with a British priest in the 50’s.

👓 Everything bad about Facebook is bad for the same reason | Wired

Read Everything bad about Facebook is bad for the same reason by Nikhil Sonnad (Quartz)
The philosophy of Hannah Arendt points to the banal evil beneath Facebook's many mistakes.
We definitely need some humanity and morality in our present mess. More and more I really want to rage quit Facebook for what it’s doing to the world, but I would like to have all my friends and family follow me.

👓 The Language of Gutenberg | WordPress

Read The Language of Gutenberg (WordPress)
At the core of Gutenberg lies the concept of the block. From a technical point of view, blocks both raise the level of abstraction from a single document to a collection of meaningful elements, and they replace ambiguity—inherent in HTML—with explicit structure. A post in Gutenberg is then a col...

👓 Introduction – The new Gutenberg editing experience | WordPress

Read Introduction: The new Gutenberg editing experience (WordPress)
“Gutenberg” is the codename for the new WordPress editor focus. The goal of this focus is to create a new post and page editing experience that makes it easy for anyone to create rich post layouts. This was the kickoff goal: The editor will endeavour to create a new page and post building experi...

Stepping back from POSSE | Ben Werdmüller

Liked Stepping back from POSSE by Ben WerdmüllerBen Werdmüller (Ben Werdmüller)
Just a quick note: ostensibly to fight algorithmic propaganda, Facebook is shutting off API access to publish to profiles tomorrow. I expect other platforms to follow. That's completely their right. The indieweb has this intrinsic idea of Publishing on your Own Site, Syndicating Elsewhere: automatic...