Category: Read

Read 2020/Austin/fromflowtostock (indieweb.org)
From Flow to Stock was a session at IndieWebCamp Austin 2020.
I’d love to see the video for this conversation once posted. The notes give a reasonable idea, but there’s a lot of discussion of silos going on here. I’m curious how those who attended might begin to own some of the ideas on their own websites in the future.

I see a lot of overlap with the ideas of commonplace books with what is going on here. Looking at the list of participants I’m not seeing any that I think might actually have both “stock” and “flow” on their personal websites yet. I feel like I’m getting ever closer to having them on mine.

Read 2020/Austin/mfmicro by IndieWeb (indieweb.org)
Learn microformats by fixing micro.blog was a session at IndieWebCamp Austin 2020.
I really want to see the video from this session once it gets posted. Building out and testing themes for various systems in the IndieWeb space is something we need to do some additional significant work on improving.

This is definitely an area I’m actively hacking in lately.

Read Why I Quit Twitter, a List by Derek Powazek (Medium)
After 12 years and over 41,700 tweets, I’ve deactivated my Twitter account. Here’s a few reasons why.
A solid list of reasons why to quit Twitter. Someone pointed out to me that he’s actually returned since. I find that my new use from a more IndieWeb perspective is a lot happier and healthier. I ought to document how I’ve been using it lately to diminish the harms.
Read - Want to Read: IndieWeb NYC Meetup 2020-02-19 Wrap-Up by Marty McGuireMarty McGuire (martymcgui.re)
IndieWeb NYC's meetup for February 2020 met at Think Coffee on Mercer St on January 25th around 2pm. Here are some notes from the meeting! jmac.org — Is now in NYC for the foreseeable! Looking forward to more IndieWeb events in NYC. Put up a "Now" page in December, and ended up chatting with the p...
Liked Using IFTTT to syndicate (PESOS) your Reddit saved post to your own IndieWeb website by Cédric BousmanneCédric Bousmanne (Cedric.io)
This post has been heavily inspired by Chris Aldrich's recent post Using IFTTT to syndicate (PESOS) content from social services to WordPress using Micropub and finally finds an answer to the frustration I had ever since I realised it was not that easy to post bookmark on my Known-based...
Maybe I ought to be reading Reddit more often now? Good to see this method spreading!
Read a thread by Imran Khan (Twitter)
Read A fresh look for your Microblogs, Twitter and Facebook Feeds by Inoreader (Inoreader blog)
If you’ve browsed your Twitter or Facebook page feeds in the last week, you have probably noticed that we changed the presentation of the posts, so they are more coherent with how a microblog post should look like. Initially, Inoreader started as a pure RSS reader and titles are an essential part ...
titleless posts!
Read Inoreader mobile apps updated to support Automatic Night Mode, Microblogs, Sort by Magic and popularity indicators. by Inoreader (Inoreader blog)
Hey, it’s been quite some time without updates on this front, but our latest updates to our Android and iOS apps should make up for it. Our apps are now both at version 6.2 and include several cool new features. Automatic Day/Night mode This feature automatically detects if your OS is in Dark mode...
Read Why You Should Use Timezone Offsets Not Timezone Names by Tantek ÇelikTantek Çelik (tantek.com)
As I started writing my Alaska Cruise Log Day 3 post, the first thing I started describing was the shipboard timezone change, which I realized exposed yet another likely hole or bug in timezone implementations. “Timezone implementations” sounds specialized, yet any application, program,...
Read My One Word for 2020 is Space by Aaron DavisAaron Davis (Read Write Respond)
Reflecting on my year as a failed flânerie, I take on space as a new word and a new approach to my one word. I am not exactly sure what I thought 2019 would be, but I certainly did not not expect what I got. My one word was flânerie. So many aspects of my life are structured, I therefore felt I ne...
Read Always. Own. Your platform. (alwaysownyourplatform.com)

Stop giving away your work to people who don't care about it. Host it yourself. Distribute it via methods you control. Build your audience deliberately and on your own terms.

Be in charge of the relationship with your audience.

Deliver value and then ask for money. Avoid unnecessary middlemen.

I’ll admit that I love the meta data cards that Twitter, Facebook, et al. will display for this website will look roughly like this:

Stock photo of a punk 9 year old holding up his arms to make an X with text below from the meta data fields that reads I refuse to display meta data for other platforms. Nope. Not doing it. Always own your platform.

Reminds me a bit of Kevin Marks’ experiment Decaying Silos as Dead Malls, though I’ll have to see if this site went to the extremes that Kevin did.

Makes me think I should do something similar when I syndicate my content to social silos? Hmmm….

Liked Post social by Colin WalkerColin Walker (colinwalker.blog)
As Simon commented there was a lot of naivety in the early days of what we now refer to as "social media" - no one really knew what they were doing or where the road would take us. One thing is for certain, however, we didn't imagine we'd be where we are now. When I switched from my old way of blogg...
Read Can This Even Be Called Music? by Kicks Condor (Kicks Condor)
When I first discovered this link, it seemed that the music became more and more unlistenable as I scrolled down the page. Now that I’ve had time to listen to CTEBCM further, there is actually quite a bit of tame music here that is just strangely genred. Such as ‘the loser’, a solo opera based on the wonderful Thomas Bernhard novel of the same name which feels reminiscent of the meandering ‘Shia LeBeouf’ storysong. Or the sometimes-metal, sometimes-harpsichord of Spine Reader’s ‘Recorded Instruments’.
Shia!