Meet LBRY, a content sharing and publishing platform that is decentralized and owned by its users.
This looks interesting, but will require some additional research.
I’ve been thinking about syndicating replies to micro.blog lately. Is anyone using Post Kinds Plugin or other platforms and syndicating (POSSE) to m.b. in a way they like? The way mine work, micro.blog pulls in the reply context first and then my reply which isn’t ideal. I know I could put the reply context underneath (Post Kinds allows that), but then in short replies, it will also add the context underneath my reply which isn’t great either.
Aaron Davis (Read Write Collect)Clio Chang reports on the rise of Substack. Established in 2017 by Chris Best, Hamish McKenzie, and Jairaj Sethi, it was designed as a platform that allowed users to earn an income. A part of this move is to approach potential contributors. The problem is that it still replicates the patterns of mar...
@ChrisAldrich Hi Chris. Any suggestions for a browser extension (or something similar) that replaces the functionality of Press This for WordPress? I'm looking for a way to quickly get a selection of text into a draft post, ideally with attribution metadata included.
— Michael Rowe (@michael_rowe) December 9, 2020
The original Press This spun itself off as a stand-alone plugin, so look there first to recreate its functionality. If that doesn’t suit, try David Shanske’s Post Kinds plugin which incorporates a lot of Press This functionality and extends it quite a bit. You can create bookmarklets with it that work well (including mobile).
Another option is Tom Critchlow and Toby Shorin’s Quotebacks which you might leverage though they won’t necessarily create new posts on your behalf.
If you’ve got some programming experience, you might be able to do something interesting with a set of bookmarklets I just made too.
I think I’ve also shared most of my documented workflow for using Hypothes.is for some of this too, though that may require some work on your behalf.
Another good option is to add Micropub functionality and use some clients like Quill, Omnibear, or others in conjunction with the Post Kinds plugin. I think Quill may also have some useful bookmarklets you can use with it as well.
The narrative fallacy is that past events prefigure the future. It is especially common in biographies, where the subject’s early life is reduced down to a collection of events that suggest that their future path was obvious, if you only knew how to look. It ignores all the other people who did almost the same thing, and ended up somewhere else entirely.
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This would be an interesting college!
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After lots of thought and consideration, I have decided to leave my trusty WordPress site behind and switch to a Jekyll based static site.
I mostly wonder how long it takes him to move to Hugo, or some other platform. If you’re as enamored of the shiny bits as much as he indicates, it’s only a minute or two before you’re moving on to the next platform…
This website is a valid JSON!
Check the source code. Instead of the habitual HTML and CSS, you will see just a plain JSON with the website's information.
WDR is a format to separate the website's information and design.
The website is readily available to be consumed outside the browser via JSON, but also still presentable to users accessing through the web browser.
An interesing(?) idea, but there’s not much I can do with this page because of it’s structure. I’d need a huge amount of infrastructure to be able to parse and read this page with so many tools I use on a regular basis. Even my website parser chokes on it. Ugh…
While it seems nice in concept, it just isn’t compatible with much else on the web… What problem is this really fixing? I only see it making new problems.
Dan Cederholm's logo but now adjusted for the microformat dinners. :D
::dan don't hurt me:: :D
Ideal for the armchair bird enthusiast or dedicated bird watcher, this book includes stunning full-color photographs, revealing each species with unrivaled clarity.
A lavish introduction describes bird characteristics and behavior, while stunning full-color photographs reveal individual species for easy identification.
The 550 most commonly seen birds are pictured in clear, close-up photographs, with images of similar birds provided to make differentiation easy, from game birds and waterfowl to shorebirds and swifts to owls, hummingbirds, finches, and more. Discover which species to expect when and where with up-to-date, color-coded maps highlighting habitation and migratory patterns.
The most commonly seen species are given a whole page in the species catalog, and each full-page profile includes images of plumage variations, subspecies, information on similar birds, and artwork of the bird in flight that reveal their outstretched wings.
Rare birds and vagrants who occasionally stray into North America are also described, making AMNH Birds of North America one of the most comprehensive guides on the market and essential for anyone interested in birding.
Publish Date: November 10, 2020
Pages: 752
8.6 X 11.0 X 1.8 inches | 6.45 pounds
Hardcover
ISBN/EAN/UPC: 9780744020533
After doing some research on various bird books, I’ve picked up this massive textbook as the structure for creating a bird memory palace.
Purchased from Amazon.com for $26.60 on 2020-12-07; arrived today.
But are “labels” and “tags” the same thing?
A long time ago, I read that they're different. The distinction as described was:
- “labels” are when you mark your own content (first party)
- “tags” are when you mark other people's content (third party)
I like the framing you’ve made in the definition of “label” and “tag”. I wish the distinction was respected by a broader range of people and programs as it could be more useful that way.
I’ve mentioned a subtle way of doing this on my site before:
I also find that I have a subtle differentiation using singular versus plural tags which I think I’m generally using to differentiate between the idea of “mine” versus “others”. Thus the (singular) tag for “commonplace book” should be a reference to my particular commonplace book versus the (plural) tag “commonplace books” which I use to reference either the generic idea or the specific commonplace books of others. Sadly I don’t think I apply this “rule” consistently either, but hope to do so in the future.
Now I’m wishing that I had a separate “labels” taxonomy on my site to distinguish between “mine” and “theirs”. In using the Post Kinds Plugin for WordPress, I’m passively collecting labels (though it’s called tags) others put on their content (which is currently hidden in my internal metadata) and that is separate from the metadata tags I place on it. Being able to separately search the two could be a powerful feature.
The real super-power feature missing from Roam Research?
My public Roam Research notebook being able to converse with someone elses’ (or any other page on the internet for that matter). Webmention support might solve this.
Reading about decentralized social media has imagining something like a giant web of independently networked Roam research-like pages where there’s a chat stream where we talk just like Twitter
But also you can post, which links back to a page with longer content
— Frozen Warmth 💙 (@liminal_warmth) December 8, 2020
(See also related conversation at https://boffosocko.com/2020/12/09/55782252/)
Reading about decentralized social media has imagining something like a giant web of independently networked Roam research-like pages where there’s a chat stream where we talk just like Twitter
— Frozen Warmth (@liminal_warmth) December 8, 2020
But also you can post, which links back to a page with longer content
I sort of like the idea of networked thought via digital commonplace books. Being able to carry on longer conversations between notebooks in a sense. It shouldn’t matter how long or short the conversation is.
I attempt to do this with my own website(s) leveraging Webmentions for the back-and-forth portions. Twitter is often just a simple notification mechanism for those who don’t have that support yet.
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)?