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Month: June 2019
An important piece to owning your content is also having a direct connection to people who want to hear from you.
Hm. As I debate replying to one of my tweets with another just to make a digital connection, I realize I’ve started to use Twitter as a public memex. Other than actually building one (@TrevorFSmith) have folks tried this? Probably you, @t?
— ᴛɪᴍᴏɴɪ ᴡᴇsᴛ (@timoni) May 28, 2018The closest app in terms of matching the docs+trails design of Bush's memex would be a local rich wiki like VoodooPad. But, I have daydreamed about a personal web app with those features and a bit of sharing. The DYI web community (including @t) often work in that 'hood.
— Trevor Flowers (@TrevorFSmith) May 28, 2018s/DYI/DIY/
— Trevor Flowers (@TrevorFSmith) May 28, 20181 year later notification from your like!@Timoni #IndieWeb folks are building & using their sites as memexes, with unique personal features.
— Tantek Çelik (@t) June 1, 2019
Twitter is not anyone’s memex but theirs; we POSSE copies there to invite others to explore ours. https://t.co/31FnrG1nv9
A concept closely related to the memex, but which significantly predated it is the commonplace book and #IndieWeb definitely has some examples of that:
https://indieweb.org/commonplace_book
https://indieweb.org/commonplace_book
This one is certainly nowhere near as gory as yesterday’s but I imagine the smell of a person being vaporised is probably somewhat pungent.
I’ve got a few vaporisations in the 30 days so I might follow this one up with more of the disintegration process (like in that TNG episode with the bugs and that guy’s face melts off in possibly one of the weirdest tonal changes in the show).
30 Days of red shirts is a cool concept for an art series and it’s pretty well executed.
Sebastiaan Andeweg (seblog.nl)I’ve attended both IndieWebCamp Düsseldorf and Utrecht last month. At the first one, we had a very good session about the UI side of private posts. The blogpost I wrote about it unfortunately stayed in draft. The summary: I used to denote private posts by adding the word ‘privé’ in bold below the post, next to the timestamp. Since the hackday I now show a sort-of header with a lock icon, and a text telling you that only you can see the post, or you and others, if that’s the case.
A big takeaway from Düsseldorf was that I don’t need to do it all at once. To me, the first step to private posts is letting people login to your site. This can be done with IndieAuth, or by using IndieAuth.com (which will move to IndieLogin.com at some point). The second step is to mark a post as private in your storage, and only serve it to people who are logged in. The third step is to add a list of people who can see the post, and only show it to those people. This is the place where I was at.
On the 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen crisis, previously unpublished documents shed new light on a moment that came to define modern China.
To learn to draw horses, you can’t just want to draw them; you must NEED to draw them.
Quirky…
Where does this strange empire start or stop?
As you may have read on the WooCommerce blog, Prospress blog, WP Tavern, Post Status, or Techcrunch, the team at Prospress is joining forces with WooCommerce at Automattic to help accelerate the adoption and democratization of ecommerce across the web. Whew that’s a lot of links! Prospress was bes...
As part of the Indieweb Book Club for Ruined by Design by Mike Monteiro I just acquired a paperback copy of this book. Just did a fast skim page through: I expect I’ll agree with some of Monteiro’s basic premises about design, I also noticed that the a...