Category: Social Stream
I’m watching this with high hopes something similar would work with @obsdmd. Come to think if it, if such an app were a Micropub client and these platforms all supported publishing via Micropub, then the one application would work across more platforms.
Mine does. I also keep a list of people who have IndieWeb sites and most (though not all) will support Webmentions: https://boffosocko.com/about/following/
Most under the IndieWeb and some under the IndieWeb for Education and Blogger headings will support webmentions.
You can find others by browsing through Brid.gy users, the vast majority of whom will support it as will users of Micro.blog. Another good source of discovery is the IndieWeb webring: https://🕸💍.ws.
If you’d like, you can add a Webmention button to your site to visually indicate that you support it.
Update: Also, if you want to meet some “in person”, I’d welcome you to join one of our virtual meetups coming up: https://events.indieweb.org/
"Finally, the biography that Sylvia Plath deserves . . . A spectacular achievement." --Ruth Franklin, author of Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life
The highly anticipated new biography of Sylvia Plath that focuses on her remarkable literary and intellectual achievements, while restoring the woman behind the long-held myths about her life and art. With a wealth of never-before-accessed materials--including unpublished letters and manuscripts; court, police, and psychiatric records; and new interviews--Heather Clark brings to life the brilliant daughter of Wellesley, Massachusetts who had poetic ambition from a very young age and was an accomplished, published writer of poems and stories even before she became a star English student at Smith College in the early 1950s. Determined not to read Plath's work as if her every act, from childhood on, was a harbinger of her tragic fate, Clark evokes a culture in transition, in the shadow of the atom bomb and the Holocaust, as she explores Plath's world: her early relationships and determination not to become a conventional woman and wife; her conflicted ties to her well-meaning, widowed mother; her troubles at the hands of an unenlightened mental-health industry; her Cambridge years and thunderclap meeting with Ted Hughes, a marriage of true minds that would change the course of poetry in English; and much more.
Clark's clear-eyed portraits of Hughes, his lover Assia Wevill, and other demonized players in the arena of Plath's suicide promotes a deeper understanding of her final days, with their outpouring of first-rate poems. Along with illuminating readings of the poems themselves, Clark's meticulous, compassionate research brings us closer than ever to the spirited woman and visionary artist who blazed a trail that still lights the way for women poets the world over.
Two awesome and interesting WordPress query strings for browsing websites:
?orderby=modified
- Example: https://ma.tt/?orderby=modified (Today, this indicates that for his 37th birthday post, Matt apparently went back and made a few tweaks/updates to some prior birthday posts.)
?orderby=comment_count
- Example: https://ma.tt/?orderby=comment_count
These could be used in combination with a /feed/
path to get an update of a WordPress site, potentially for updating posts within one’s digital garden and distributing as a feed.
In addition to what’s on the IndieWeb wiki, I’ve written quite a bit: https://boffosocko.com/research/indieweb/.
If you have specific questions, there are a lot of us who can help in the IndieWeb chat or WordPress specific chat.
A lot of it depends on what you what to do with it—which features and functionalities. Hopefully one or even a few of the plugins with minimal configuration will get you what you want.
Syndicating content can be a bit more involved, but only because there are so many methods depending on the level of control you want for the output and what sort of results you may want back from social silos.
Fell down a happy #IndieWeb rabbit hole today & wrote a colophon for my website: https://t.co/sY5HaJ4e7n Turns out I've been at this since I built my first website about Walt Whitman for an enterprising English prof in the late 90s. Was randomly assigned to the "learn html" group
— Dr. Tamar Marvin (@tamar_marvin) January 17, 2021
This site is hosted by Reclaim Hosting. Its primary and associated domains are also registered through Reclaim Hosting. It is built with WordPress and uses the (free) Simple Responsive Blogily theme, based on Responsive Blogily, by Superb Themes/ThemeEverest. I maintain a separate installation ...
I feel like comfort with being wrong is one of the most underrated part of language learning. If you want to work on writing or speaking skills you just need to get very chill about being extremely wrong and weird all the time.
— Jessica Rose (@jesslynnrose) January 17, 2021
This is incredibly true. One needs to throw caution to the wind and focus on making as many mistakes as possible.
— Dr. Simone A. Douglas-Green (@DrSimoneDouglas) January 17, 2021
People who are into crochet: can you send me all your favourite blogs/pattern stores/etc? I am ready to run full throttle at this hobby.
— kirsty (@keinegurke_) January 17, 2021
The Democrats are at least two parties. The progressive wing of the party (which is by no means unified) and the finance wing of the party, which is also the party leadership. 1/ During...…
An interesting broad level dissection of the Democratic party at the moment.

Or: 14 ways to rebuild your hell site
Nice overview of New_Public’s recent Signals work here.
I always like to start the year by reading a biography; something about experiencing a life outside of my own to get perspective etc. But so many are...quite dry! So, what is the best biography you’ve ever read? One whose sentences stuck with you...
— rachel syme (@rachsyme) January 17, 2021
Some threads with great biography recommendations
Zignal Labs charted a 73 percent decline on Twitter and beyond following historic action against the president.