Author: Chris Aldrich
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.
The next Cooking with H5P and Pressbooks webinar takes place Thursday, April 29 at 9:00 am PT (check for your local time). For this episode, we invited into the kitchen Steel Wagstaff, Educational Product Manager for Pressbooks. From his position, he will be able to share much about the features and capabilities of Pressbooks, how H5P integrates with it, examples worth looking at, and maybe some insight into future directions for the platform.
Write in our book.#Annotation with @anterobot from @mitpress is now available. And we'd like you to mark it up. Question. Disagree. Comment. Respond. We want to spark a conversation about #annotation or an #AnnoConvo. As you read, write. As you annotate, take a pic and share pic.twitter.com/zUHPDnEFeq
— Remi Kalir (@remikalir) April 15, 2021
My one hot take: A book about annotation should have had bigger (better) margins. Being part of a pre-existing series understandably made that difficult.
Let’s hear it for the electronic versions, which give us infinite space though!
Evie (taunting me to tuck her in before she gets to 15): …, 9-Mississippi, 10-Mississippi, 11-Mississippi, …
Me: We don’t Mississippi in this house! Maybe we should Tennessee since that’s where Grandma and Grandpa live?
Evie: I’ve Mississippi’ed since I was three.
Me: Maybe since we’re Welsh we should Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch? You know: 1-Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, 2-Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, …
Together: 3-Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch…
Evie (interrupting): Wait, what number are we on now???
Domains at Domains
I mentioned it as an anecdotal observation in my talk, so I went back and counted the appearances of online identifiers on the 159 re-mixable badges for the OERxDomains 21 Conference. I counted 91 twitter handles, 15 domain names, and 1 Instagram handle.
There were a couple people who used email addresses. A few people listed multiple twitter handles, and one enterprising person (not me!) listed three domain names.
Because the badges were customizable, people (or their animals and a few organizations) had the individual choice of what text to put on their personal badges.
Hopefully we’ll do better on using domain names at the next domains-related conference. 😜
Just saw my first news report since the start of the pandemic and introduction of vaccines where a reporter specified in voice over of video of people sitting within a foot or two of each other that everyone was fully vaccinated.
Helps make it feel like we’ve turned some sort of corner.
Of course the segment was about the coming plague of locusts…
I sort of like the idea of “Brain Baking” as a framing for lifelong learning with a bit of commonplace book or digital gardening thrown in. You can’t help but love naming short notes as “new half-baked ideas”.
Thank you @ChrisAldrich for giving these 2 pointers. I am excited to participate in the event; just 1 question though: how to RSVP yes? Checked and clicked a few links but couldn't seem to get it done
— Sholanki Biswas (@BiswasSholanki) April 27, 2021
I’ll put your name on the list, and you can visit that page on the day for the video link to join via Zoom. No need to fuss with a “formal” RSVP unless you want to try it for fun. Incidentally your tweet which mentioned the event post has created an informal RSVP on the page already. 🙂
Most are logged into the system with their website which will give you a one-button RSVP link. However, most have actually RSVP’d on their websites and sent a webmention to that page for their avatars and details to show up on the page. (Here’s mine.) If you don’t have your webmention sender live yet, you can do it manually: https://telegraph.p3k.io/send-a-webmention.
If you want to go through the exercise and need some help, pop into the IndieWebCamp chat and we’ll help you get sorted.
Webmentions haven't really been revisited in some time (and with the advent of people leaning to Webmention.io). This is a chance to see what's been really wanted, what hasn't worked and where we can go with it. Let's webmunch on the riddle of webmentions. How can we get more people hosting their own webmention sending, receiving, and validating? How can we prevent Webmention.io from being the beginning and end of IndieWeb participants' use of webmentions?