So I’m collaborating with some local colleagues on a Futurize Your Course competition as part of AUC’s Research and Creativity Convention in April. If you are an AUC faculty member or s…
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Dries Buytaert (dri.es)An in-depth analysis of how Drupal's development was sponsored between July 1, 2018 and June 30, 2019.
I love the depth and reflection Dries puts into this report. Having recently watched the State of the Word for WordPress, I wonder if WordPress publishes these sorts of numbers and analysis? Could they in the future?
Folksonomy is all very well, but my own set of tags leaves a lot to be desired. I'm forever giving things a tag and thinking I'll remember it and then discovering that not only do I not remember the tag, but also that the tag applies only to a single item, neither of which is very helpful. So I reso...
Interesting I came across this via a Google search for Curator’s Code, and lo, and behold! There is my friend Jeremy holding forth with some wisdom on the topic. I’m not sure how I may have missed his having written it the first time around.
Attributing your source of discovery should never obscure attributing the creator or originator of the content. For instance, if you repost a compelling poster you found on your favorite design blog, first credit the person who designed the poster, and then attribute discovery to the design blog that brought it to your attention.
USE THE UNICODES–OR DON’T
We’ve proposed two unicode characters for attributing. They’re clean and short, and they help spread the message of The Curator’s Code itself, but they are not the only way to attribute. You can always use words like “via,” or simply hyperlink to your source — the link is the important part.
ᔥ VS. ↬
Part of what The Curator’s Code aspires to do is evolve our thinking about the levels of attribution. “Via” ᔥ tends to denote a direct repost — something you found elsewhere and shared with your audience with little modification or elaboration. “HT” ↬ tends to stand for indirect discovery — something for which you got the idea at your source, but modified or elaborated on significantly when sharing with your audience.
I like the general idea of this website, and if nothing else the definitions. I’ve always wanted a plugin or functionality on my website for doing this more quickly. Sadly the Curator’s Code site is dead and with it the bookmarklet.
and of course, I’ll give this the obligatory:
[ᔥ IndieWeb chat]
THE CROWN season 3 has landed on Netflix now with 10 more episodes for fans to lap up. The show depicts an interview between Irish journalist John Armstrong and Princess Alice of Green and Denmark. But was the newspaper reporter real and did he really speak to Prince Philip’s mother?
Update: Material below the (old) marker is still wrong. I’m going to go live in a cave and never touch a computer again, but before I pack my bags, here’s the real scoop. A person mention is what it’s called when you link to someone’s homepage as a way of mentioning them in post content. Bec...
gRegor Morrill (gregorlove.com)Since I’m co-organizing a meetup soon, I have been thinking about RSVPs. My event posts support indieweb RSVPs, but I would like to make it easier for a wider audience. One thought I had: since I am using Bridgy to send public Twitter replies back to my site, I could do some basic text parsing and...
I love the idea for allowing people to easily RSVP via Twitter.
It has come to the attention of Creative Commons that there is an increased use of CC licenses by cultural heritage institutions on photographic reproductions and 3D scans of objects such as sculptures, busts, engravings, and inscriptions, among others, that are indisputably in the public domain wor...
Ghanaian postgraduate student left feeling ‘unwelcome in the union, Oxford and the country’
Kicks Condor (Kicks Condor)Fraidycat 1.0.4 is out today in the Firefox and Chrome stores.
I love how slick and cool this video for Fraidycat is. It also does a good job of showing how interesting the service can be.
Online Tools like Beautifiers, Editors, Viewers, Minifier, Validators, Converters for Developers: XML, JSON, CSS, JavaScript, Java, C#, MXML, SQL, CSV, Excel
With the new Web Share Target API you can register your progressive web application as a share intent on Android devices. This is supported on mobile Chrome from version 71.
Leslie Michael Orchard (decafbad.com)Ah hah. Here's a use case where I agree OPML has undeniably become king: Exporting and importing feed aggregator subscriptions. Because Radio UserLand was the first aggregator to really take off—and because OPML is Radio's lingua franca, any new aggregators have needed to speak OPML to facilitate migration. It grew from there, with nearly every aggregator supporting some basic form of OPML import/export for subscription lists. OPML has won the "feed subscription list format war" before there was ever a notion that there might be such a war.
Ben Werdmüller (Ben Werdmüller)Last year, on a whim, I left social media on Thanksgiving, and didn't return until January 1st. It led to massive improvements in my mental and physical health, overall happiness, attention span, and engagement with the world. This year I've been with my mother while she spent months in the hospital...
Definitely worth serious consideration.
Jacky Alciné (Jacky Alciné)The progress I’ve been making with projects like https://lwa.black.af and https://fortress.black.af are giving me more hope in seeing what I’d like to for the IndieWeb. I really want to build stuff that I can gladly show to friends and help them join as well. That’s part of the reason why I jo...