Campfires - mostly blogging for me, though I know some folks gather around private slack groups too. My blog functions as a digital campfire (or a series of campfires) that are slower burn but fade relatively quickly over the timeframe of years. Connection forming, thinking out loud, self referencing and connection forming. This builds muscle, helps me articulate my thinking and is the connective tissue between ideas, people and more. While I’m not a daily blogger I’ve been blogging on and off for 10+ years. ❧
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📑 Building a digital garden | Tom Critchlow
I immediately thought of a post from Mike Caulfield (Hapgood). Interesting to see that Tom has already read and referenced it in his prior post.
📑 High Cadence Thoughts | Ryan Dawidjan
📑 High Cadence Thoughts | Ryan Dawidjan
In reference to:
^ personally wish blogging was more about peeking behind the curtain into one's mind rather than shipping a polished contained unit
— ryan (@ryandawidjan) May 22, 2015
📑 What the earliest fragments of English reveal | BBC
So sad to see that they’ve abrogated their responsibility for comments on their site to Twitter and Facebook
📑 Read Write Respond #037 | Read Write Collect | Aaron Davis
I’m almost losing count of how many racial health disparity stories I’ve been seeing lately. It’s so common I’ve got tags for it on my site now.
https://boffosocko.com/2019/01/09/i-was-pregnant-and-in-crisis-all-the-doctors-and-nurses-saw-was-an-incompetent-black-woman-time/
📑 Read Write Respond #037 | Read Write Collect | Aaron Davis
Thanks for aggregating a variety of sources here!
I’d recently come across Robert Talbert’s post Traditional Grading: The Great Demotivator which likely fits into this same sub-topic.
📑 Read Write Respond #037 | Read Write Collect | Aaron Davis
Ha! I recently ran across sever people pushing fasting apps including one called Zero which encourages fasting for 16 hours (or essentially skipping one meal a day.)
Many have been quietly pushing this for the past few years in relation to things like the paleo diet, etc. I’ll also note that Nassim Nicholas Taleb has mentioned something like it frequently (since you mention flaneuring below).
📑 Read Write Respond #037 | Read Write Collect | Aaron Davis
You might take a quick search into some of the writings of Nassim Nicholas Taleb relating to the idea. He mentions some of the benefits of being a flâneur interspersed in several of his books as side topics, but I’m sure he’s got to have an essay or two on the overall topic.
He’s one of the people I’ve noticed using the word (in his case as a title which he might put as a profession on his business card) in the past 20 years who seems to have brought it to the social forefront to the point that many of your other references have been influenced by it.
I think there’s a lot to be learned about the overarching idea, so I’m interested to see what you come up with on an extended survey of the word as you progress.
📑 Read Write Respond #037 | Read Write Collect | Aaron Davis
You might be interested in the last section of a recent episode of On the Media. It discusses a documentary (bordering on reality show) relating to indigenous peoples of Canada, which I think made brief mention of Australia and a similar project there. While I’m sure there are some very striking differences between these indigenous peoples, there are also some not surprising similarity in the ways in which they are exploited and marginalized.
In general I liked the idea of what the documentary was and represented and wish there were versions for other countries.
📑 Read Write Respond #037 | Read Write Collect | Aaron Davis
This reminds me that I need to listen to a recent long-form interview she gave to Leo Laporte on Triangulation.
📑 Read Write Respond #037 | Read Write Collect | Aaron Davis
There are other options out there, though in many cases distribution is uneven. There are new specs like JSONFeed which many sites and feed readers support just in the last year.
There are also simpler methods than RSS now including the microformats-based h-feed which one can use to create a simple feed that many feed readers will support.
Part of RSS’s ubiquity is that it is simply so prevalent that most common CMSs still support it. The fact that the idea of RSS is so old and generally un-evolving means there isn’t a lot of maintenance involved once it’s been set up.
📑 Scoop: Leaked private schedules show Trump spent 60% of last 3 months in “Executive Time” | Axios
They just don’t say very much or anything very good.