Backlinks in digital gardens, commonplace books, or wikis are just an abstract extension of the accounting concept of double-entry bookkeeping.
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Couple of quick updates for my website, potentially for Homebrew Website Club tonight.
I’ve updated my footer so the copyright dates include 2021. I’ve also updated the Webmention button so that it now points at my standalone endpoint for those who may not see or want to use the input box on individual posts. Finally I modified the text that appears on both the standalone endpoint as well as the individual post boxes on each post so that the same text works to properly describe both cases.
I also spent some time trying to fix my fragmention/fragmentioner, but I’m not quite there yet.
More experimenting with Welsh cakes this morning. I think I’ve settled at baking them on a pizza stone at 450° F for three minutes a side. They come out far nicer and it seems closer to a traditional method. Next up: refining ratios and technique.
It’s been a long time since I’ve made any listen posts. In part, the biggest blocker has been finding time without a commute during the pandemic to listen to much. Another has been the depressing nature of the news. But I find that I miss a lot of the podcasts and shows I used to listen to. They help to make them happy, so I’m going to try to spend more time to get back to them. I particularly miss On the Media and Eat This Podcast. The nice part is that there’s lots of good stuff to catch up on.
It looks like On The Media hasn’t created a Breaking News Consumer’s Handbook for racism, but we desperately need it. (In fact, we really need it for daily news not just breaking…)
Their own coverage usually highlights these sorts of broader issues, but we could all use an explainer/outline to better see when racism is being hidden by other media outlets that don’t take the time or make the effort.
A place to start: Moving the Race Conversation Forward: How the Media Covers Racism, and Other Barriers to Productive Racial Discourse by Race Forward
ᔥ = in #YWCA21DayChallenge ()
Happy 139th Birthday to Virginia Woolf whose essay A Room of One’s Own (1929) is the namesake of the Domain of One’s Own project.
“A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.”
I may be starting a day or two late, but I’m going to participate in the YWCA Glendale‘s 21 Day Racial Equity & Social Justice Challenge. #YWCA21DayChallenge
It looks like they’ve got a wealth of great resources with many things that can fit a variety of schedules with activities each day that take either 5, 20, or 30 minutes.
I encourage others to join us.
Starting it either contemporaneously with Martin Luther King, Jr. Day or even Inauguration day would have been great and highly appropriate, but given what I’m seeing so far, they’ve got a lot more material so I can probably extend it far beyond 21 days to extend through the entirety of Black History month as well.
How awesome would it be if IFTTT supported the W3C recommendation for Micropub? An endpoint like this could immediately be used to publish content to lots of websites with higher data fidelity and potentially better control over display.
I’m using something similar to bootstrap it with Webhooks, but had to jump through some additional hoops that IFTTT could smooth out.
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.
ᔥ in #wordpress 2021-01-18 ()
A few quick notes from the New_Public Festival:
Darius Kazemi:
Darius is running a project called Friend Camp, a Mastodon instance https://friend.camp/about/more
rabble:
Just launched a new social app in the Apple store a few minutes ago. Working on the project https://planetary.social/.
Golda Velez:
Has a proposal for Twitter’s Blue Sky for message encapsulation. More details by searching Blue Sky on Hacker Noon.
rabble:
Building because there is a path in social media 2.0 that we lost. There is a lot of adversiting money to be made, and that’s fine, but it’s deeply problematic.
It’s easy to criticize Twitter and Facebook, but it’s an unfair problem. They have an impossible task because the structure is wrong. How can we come together as humans instead of having the shopping mall do the enforcement?
Bolting on work to existing platforms where one can be deleted is not a good idea.
Darius Kazemi:
Hopes that you’ll have different political places, but other places too. Places built around ethoses that aren’t tied to particular political parties or idologies.
I want to provide a place where people don’t hate their lives. The hook isn’t that it’s decentralized, but that you’ll be happier here.
Golda Velez:
We want to have a safe space where people can do creative things together.
You have to have a federated system with accountability. A graduated system of sanctions. Some democratic way of determining what those things are.
Eli Pariser 🏞📲:
Loved what @tinysubversions wrote on https://runyourown.social/
Golda Velez:
Any tool you build, attackers will use (and abuse) it.
Darius Kazemi:
Keeping nodes of communities smaller (50 people) helps to prevent context collapse. It also minimizes the reporting system from being an attack vector.
Eli Pariser 🏞📲:
Next up https://newpublic.org/festival/event/701/showcase-glimpses-of-our-digital-public-futures
Tracy Chou:
Working on building @blockpartyapp_ https://www.blockpartyapp.com/
I just ran across and am happy to follow Anasuya Sengupta (@Anasuyashh) and
Whose Knowledge? (@WhoseKnowledge) via the New_Public Festival (#NewPublicFestival). Whose Knowledge is “a global campaign to center the knowledge of marginalized communities (the majority of the world) on the internet.”
As I’m reading Margo Neale and Lynne Kelly‘s (@Lynne_Kelly) Songlines: The Power and Promise, I’m curious to explore how the work of Whose Knowledge might possibly help to empower oral cultures that are neither written down nor on the internet? Also how might this also empower their “third archive”?
I’ve been thinking about an broad idea for over two years and have distilled it down to this important and pressing question for society:
Where is the digital pale?
Los Angeles is having a bad day. Both Tommy Lasorda and Tom LaBonge have died.
I’m pained to discover that @HBOMax only has English dubs of the Studio Ghibli collection. I was really hoping for the originals in Japanese.
The Christmas tree was becoming too dry, so I took it down on Wednesday. I boxed up the rest of the decorations late this morning/early this afternoon.