I’ve just submitted a session proposal for the upcoming WordCamp Los Angeles in September.
Submissions are due before midnight. Get yours in now.
Notes
Short content: a microblog of status updates or short notes
Webrings have come back to the web! I’ve proudly joined Marty McGuire’s new IndieWebring which you’ll find in the sidebar of my front page. ⚜
Apparently I missed a major show at the gate of my late flight. I just arrived to see 15 police including a dog, a few airport security and 4 paramedics responding to an allegedly drunk couple who were upset about the late flight. The couple may have been having issues and the woman was having problems standing up. An officer attempting to help hold her up allegedly grabbed the woman’s shoulders to assist her at which point the man yelled that the officer sexually harassed her. She then parroted him and things escalated.
When I arrived the man was in hand cuffs and being led away as he yelled,”This is what happens when you support Donald Trump.”
Bizarre…
Publishing something via Quill as a test.
Glad to be participating in person at IndieWebSummit 2018.
I was doing some reading and thinking about how one might translate the idea of blogging into Latin. I tried entering “I am blogging.” into Google translate just to see what would come out. Perhaps it’s just a glitch in their translation algorithm, but the response felt apropos to me.
“Ego nullam dolore.” translated back into English is “I have no pain.”
📖 Read pages 58-77 of The Celtic Myths by Miranda Aldhouse-Green
📖 Read pages 58-77, Chapter 3: A Plethora of Irish Spirits of The Celtic Myths: A Guide to the Ancient Gods and Legends by (Thames & Hudson, , ISBN: 978-0500252093)
A synopsis of the Irish gods and stories.
There was an unexpected note on page 66 that indicated that J.R.R. Tolkien may have been fascinated by a cursed ring described on a lead tablet in Lydney and a very similar (the same?) gold ring found at the Roman city of Silchester in Hampshire. The text posits that perhaps the Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings were potentially inspired by these archaeological finds from Irish myth.
📖 Read 22-24% of Suicide of the West by Jonah Goldberg
📖 Read 22-24% from Chapter 5 “The Eternal Battle” of Suicide of the West: How the Rebirth of Tribalism, Populism, Nationalism, and Identity Politics is Destroying American Democracy by (Crown Forum, , ISBN: 978-1101904930)
I maintain a few lists of #IndieWeb related influencers:
Twitter List: https://twitter.com/ChrisAldrich/lists/indieweb/members
Following list: https://boffosocko.com/about/following/#Indieweb
OPML file (for more easily mass following via RSS): https://www.boffosocko.com/wp-links-opml.php?link_cat=1521
Please ping me if you or someone you know should be included or was overlooked somehow. Obviously you have more street cred if the canonical place to follow you is on your own website.
I find that it’s nice that I can follow fewer and fewer people on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Google+, et al. because they’ve begun owning all of their content on their own website where I can get as much of it as I like in my feed reader without having to subscribe to or try to read their content in dozens of different places with algorithms impeding my personal preferences.
Finally getting around to updating Social Network Auto Poster on my personal website. I’ve been putting it off for ages because of some conflicts. I find there are other reasons I haven’t been using it over time now, so I’m doing a basic reset.
I’m thinking that, just to show the concept and an implementation, I’m going to support creating dislike posts on my website.
Testing out a new (secret) micropub client for read posts. It’s got way more functionality than I though it would have to start and has a stunning and clean UI. There are some smart choices all around and it’s naturally got some fantastic semantic markup hiding behind the curtains.
Even without the micropub portion it makes a fantastic microblog for those who are into reading.
More details later as I try to get all the moving pieces working properly.
Wrapping up recording yet another episode of An IndieWeb Podcast with David Shanske. Tonight was a wide ranging impromptu discussion about a variety of topics mostly surrounding WordPress, but likely applicable to other areas.
📖 22% done with Suicide of the West by Jonah Goldberg
📖 Read 16-22% Chapter 4 “The Birth of Capitalism: A Glorious Accident” of Suicide of the West: How the Rebirth of Tribalism, Populism, Nationalism, and Identity Politics is Destroying American Democracy by (Crown Forum, , ISBN: 978-1101904930)
Here Goldberg goes into the complexity of potential causes of capitalism. His discussion of The Miracle and what it represents gains a lot more flavor and nuance than the one word construct it’s had up until now in the text.
He discusses Common law as an emergent property of a society. Again here I note some vocabulary stemming from the “Complexity” science movement of the past several decades as well as that of David Christian et al in the Big History conversation. (Speaking of which, I’ve noted he’s got a new book out on the topic.)
I will take some issue with what looks like a logical problem toward the end of the chapter here:
Therefore the demise of our civilization is only inevitable if the people saying and arguing the right things stop talking.
I do take his broader point, but what, praytell, are the right things, particularly when you’ve just made the argument that you’re not exactly sure what complex system caused it all? We really need to know exactly what caused it to be able to fight to maintain the correct parts of the Goldilocks conditions.
In general, I find myself agreeing with the broadest points here and find the arguments and ideas quite intriguing.
Thank you Pantheon for the catering at tonight’s Pasadena WordPress Meetup and the local WordPress 15th Anniversary celebration! It’s always great to watch our not-so-little community continue to grow.
As an aside, it’s interesting to take a look back at the original blogpost announcing the release of WordPress and see which commenters are still online and which pingbacks still resolve without linkrot. Photomatt’s first comment still resolves while many others don’t.