Musings of a Modern Day Cyberneticist
Jeffrey Goldberg on Twitter (Twitter)I'm very pleased to announce that the great @jemelehill is joining @TheAtlantic as a staff writer. She'll be covering the intersection of sports, race, politics, gender, and culture for us. Welcome, Jemele.
— Jeffrey Goldberg (@JeffreyGoldberg) October 1, 2018
I Wish Opinions Were as Useful; window display at small art gallery in Brooklyn. #graygram
This weekend, I attended part of Oxford’s first ever IndieWebCamp! As a long (long, long) time proponent of IndieWeb philosophy (since long before anybody said “IndieWeb”, at least) I’ve got my personal web presence pretty-well sorted out. Still, I loved the idea of attending and pushing some of my own tools even further: after all, a personal website isn’t “finished” until its owner says it is! One of the things I ended up hacking on was pretty-predictable: enhancements to my recently-open-sourced geocaching PESOS tools… but the other’s worth sharing too, I think.
The Indie Web movement is a movement all about content ownership, in the current times of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and so on. It has been something I’ve been interested in ever since hearing Jeremy Keith talk about it at a conference last year. So I was super excited to hear that the wonderful Garrett was organising an Indie Web Camp in Oxford! Here’s a summary of what I did over the two days:
Henry James Blyth (henryblyth.com)This weekend, the lovely and amazing Garrett put together an IndieWeb camp for two days, for free, in Oxford! After hearing about it through Garrett a few months back, just before an amazing talk at Oxford Geek Nights by Jeremy Keith, I thought: This is cool, but… how… how does it??? How does it...
Dan Cohen (Twitter)When they announced the search for a Prince archivist, I envisioned someone obsessively creating an amazing Prince Metadata Schema, rather than just monetizing the archive. https://t.co/h9QmCjLLeD
— Dan Cohen (@dancohen) September 20, 2018
This image looks like western language book but it's actually Japanese when they tried to use western printing technology with Japanese text in 1593. It's Amakusa edition Aesop's Fables "The Dog and Its Reflection" pic.twitter.com/F8PZlKiOOH
— tkasasagi (@tkasasagi) September 10, 2018
Christopher Tomlinson (christophertomlinson.com)Wanted to write down something like “Hello World”. Does it count for IndieWeb? Anyway, this is the first post i’m sharing using this technology. Hope everything goes well. Also on:
Sarah Osment (Twitter)today i asked my class to come up with a pair of terms that share a denotative meaning but whose connotative meanings differ and one student offered BUTT DIAL and BOOTY CALL anyway that student's the professor now
— Sarah Osment (@sm_osment) August 27, 2018
Kevin Marks (Twitter)Pearl-clutching twitter users: but what if the hobbyist sysadmin gives up on my mastodon instance? Me: have you met venture funded social sites? https://t.co/RK483sl1yX
— Kevin Marks (@kevinmarks) August 19, 2018
Justin Pagano (Twitter)My wife and I recently got married and decided that neither of us would change our last names. Some people disagree with this approach, commonly critiquing with "what will you do with your children's last names?? How will they know they're a family?!" My solution: the blockchain
— Justin Pagano (@jp4gs) August 13, 2018
Jon Tennant (Twitter)Questions we need to articulate better answers to:
— Jon Tennant (@Protohedgehog) August 13, 2018
1. What is open science fighting against?
2. Who is open science for?
3. What is the ultimate vision for an 'open science ecosystem'.
If we can't answer these for ourselves, don't expect the message to be heard by others.
Robin DeRosa (Twitter)A Provocation for the #OpenPedagogy Community, from @holden. On self- and institutional hosting, and where we should be building our stuff on the web. #digped #indieweb #OpenPed https://t.co/x98BVJyHtc
— Robin DeRosa (@actualham) August 10, 2018
vil (Twitter)You can get an IndieWeb user's avatar in one line of python:
— vil (@vilhalmer) August 10, 2018
site = 'https://t.co/5tn70Ey5Kj'; import bs4, requests, urllib.parse; urllib.parse.urljoin(site, bs4.BeautifulSoup(requests.get(site).content, 'html.parser').select('.h-card .u-photo')[0].attrs['src'])
Katlyn Foster (msmartinez8118.com)I saw this and instantly connected to it. I think its really comical. The first week or so of this course I have felt old/out of touch and behind trying to navigate all these sites, and meet expectations. Now that I have a better sense of things I just have all ...
