I know there’s a sub-community around pens and stationery on micro.blog. I don’t see it hiding in discovery. Is there a tagmoji for it (yet)?
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I'm a biomedical and electrical engineer with interests in information theory, complexity, evolution, genetics, signal processing, IndieWeb, theoretical mathematics, and big history. I'm also a talent manager-producer-publisher in the entertainment industry with expertise in representation, distribution, finance, production, content delivery, and new media. View all posts by Chris Aldrich
@c The pen people are legion here. This is a good idea.
@macgenie Plus one on that. Pens. Pencils. I’ve seen some notebook posts also.
@c @macgenie @docuguy +2
There’s definitely a strong analog stream on here, and I’d love to be able to jump directly in!
@jessekelber @macgenie @docuguy Has anyone done a micromonday post/thread about people to follow in the space? That’s another good way to approach it too.
@c @macgenie What we believe in.
@jessekelber @c @macgenie @docguy +3
@c @macgenie I don’t recall seeing anything specific to this…but don’t quote me on that.
@c While they are at it, I’d love to see a way to collect the film photography community together as well. cc @manton @macgenie
@cdevroe Film photography 🎞? @macgenie @burk
@odd I am a curmudgeon. I have a really hard time using emoji as tags. I should just get over it! cc @manton @macgenie @burk
@cdevroe I’m the same way. I prefer the magic way that m.b. intuits podcast posts (because it finds an audio tag) to post things into the podcast discovery feed instead of using a microphone🎙. Sadly that’s a more difficult problem for other topics. I specifically mark up watch, listen, jam, and other posts, but that’s another ball of wax that large swaths of people are less likely to necessarily support on their own sites. One day anthropologists will find microblog posts with these emoji and think we may have used these in our speech not knowing that they were being used to indicate something to a computer. 💬🖥️
@c I publish to M.b using RSS and it includes several <category> entities. 🙂
I resemble that remark.
–Credit: Rakhim
Um…
Er… I mean…
I resent that remark. 😉
The point of having a website is putting something interesting on it right?
The IndieWeb wiki does tend toward the technical, but many of us are working toward remedying that. For those who haven’t found them yet, there are some pages around a variety of topics like poetry, crafts, hobbies, music, writing, journalism, education, and a variety of other businesses and use cases. How we don’t have one on art (yet) is beyond me… Hopefully these might help us begin to use our sites instead of incessantly building them, though this can be a happy hobby if you enjoy it.
If you’ve got an IndieWeb friendly site, why not use it to interact with others? Help aggregate people around other things in which you’re interested. One might interact with the micro.blog community around any of their tagmoji. (I’m personally hoping there will be one for the stationery, pen, and typewriter crowd.) One might also find some community on any of the various stubs (or by creating new stubs) on IndieWeb.xyz.
For more practical advice and to borrow a proverbial page from the movie Finding Forrester, perhaps reading others’ words and borrowing or replying to them may also help you along. I find that starting and ending everything from my own website means that I’m never at a loss for content to consume or create. Just start a conversation, even if it’s just with yourself. This started out as a short reply, but grew into a longer post aggregating various ideas I’ve had banging around my head this month.
Rachel Syme recently made me think about “old school blogs”, and as interesting as her question was, I would recommend against getting stuck in that framing which can be a trap that limits your creativity. It’s your site, do what you want with it. Don’t make it a single topic. That will make it feel like work to use it.
The ever-wise Charlie Owen reminds of this and suggests a solution for others reading our content.
Of course if building websites is your passion and you want to make a new one on a new platform every week, that’s cool too. Perhaps you could document the continuing refreshing of the process each time and that could be your content?
Of course if this isn’t enough, I’ll also recommend Matthias Ott‘s advice to Make it Personal. And for those with a more technical bent, Simon Collison has a recent and interesting take on how we might be a bit more creative with our technical skills in This Used to be Our Playground.
In any case, good luck and remember to have some fun!
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