WWII Fighter in the street!
Notes
Short content: a microblog of status updates or short notes
Is it mean to call someone average?
For those having issues with Kinja this week, know that IndieWeb.org may have some useful ideas and solutions for the possible site-death.
There are lots of ideas for back up at https://indieweb.org/archival_copy, including Ben Welsh’s savemy.news which will help you to quickly archive your pages.
There are lots of ideas for back up at https://indieweb.org/archival_copy, including Ben Welsh’s savemy.news which will help you to quickly archive your pages.
I thought it would be interesting to try out ordering a box-o-meat from Butcherbox and someone refereed to it as “fancy meat”. I suppose that’s better than being called a meatbag…
I’ve been seemingly “away” from my online presence for several months, but felt it’s time to come back to posting publicly a bit more frequently. Some of the hiatus has been set aside for crafting some new workflows for posting more content privately for a slightly different version of my commonplace book.
While I’ve learned a lot in my experiment, I’ll have to ruminate on it a bit longer before writing any specific takeaways. One of my favorite portions has been some work to pull more data out of the books I’m reading in terms of highlights, notes, and marginalia for research purposes.
In general, not much has changed here directly, but I will have to get used to the the posting interface and some of my old workflows again. I’ll also need to get around to some general updates and fixes that I’ve let slide for far too long. I’ll also have to catch up on some change logs for things that have improved since my hiatus began.
I will say that while I’ve been very productive during my hiatus, which has included stepping away significantly from other forms of social media consumption as well, I also very much miss interacting with a lot of my online friends and colleagues on a more regular basis. It’ll be good to ease back into my feed reader and see what everyone has been up to for the past several months.
He became a mark because there was an imbalance of information between himself and the grifters who had targeted him.
The key to dealing with information is having some sort of memory for it.
@jafurtado is one of my long-time favorite aggregators on Twitter. He’s always got such great stuff. I do wonder though, what his process is. Is it manual? Automated? What tools (besides Hootsuite) is he using to find, read, filter, & post his content?
I was considering doing a follow post for Malcolm Blaney’s unicyclic IndieWeb Planet, then I realized that I’m already on it! Definitely an interesting experiment here. Nice that he includes an OPML file too.
I’ve slimmed down the list of the types of posts I’m syndicating to my micro.blog account. It’s now only notes, photos, listens, watches, favorites, bookmarks, articles, and quotes. Curious to see what a difference it does or doesn’t make.
The live stream for IndieWebSummit 2019 is now up on Twitch. We should be ready to go at 10:05 am (Pacific).
https://www.twitch.tv/indieweb
I’m under the weather in LA attending IndieWeb Summit remotely today. There’s some good documentation, but ping me if you need help getting into the chat, finding streaming video, or accessing resources.
https://indieweb.org/2019
https://indieweb.org/IndieWebCamps/Attendance
https://chat.indieweb.org/indieweb/
Another Hypothes.is test. This time let’s throw a via.hypothes.is-based link (which seems to be the only way to and shove it all in) into an iframe! What will be orphaned? What will be native? Will annotating the iframed version push the annotations back to the original, will they show up as orphaned, or will they show up on the parent page of the iframe, or all of the above?
I also wonder if we could use fragments to target specific portions of pages like this for blockquoting/highlighting and still manage to get the full frame and Hypothes.is interface? Let’s give that a go too shall we? Would it be apropos to do a fragment quote from Fragmentions for Better Highlighting and Direct References on the Web?
Shazam!! That worked rather well didn’t it? And we can customize the size of the iframe container to catch all of the quote rather well on desktop at least. Sadly, most people’s sites don’t support fragmentions or have fragmentioner code running. It might also look like our fragment is causing my main page to scroll down to the portion of the highlighted text in the iframe. Wonder how to get around that bit of silliness?
And now our test is done.
My last post to Facebook was almost a year ago on July 31, 2018, a day before Facebook turned off their API and prevented my website from interacting with their service. Other moral and ethical concerns with Facebook aside, I’ve got what I hope to be a useful method for people’s interactions with my Facebook account to come back to my site. This will let me better own and control my data while still interacting with people “stuck” on this problematic service.
This return post will serve as a test to see if I might return to and occasionally post there again.