We need to critically examine all of our assumptions about conferences. How they are run. Who leads them. What kind of learning should happen there?
Reads, Listens
Reading list of books, magazines, newspaper articles, other physical documents, or online posts
Playlist of posts listened to, or scrobbled
Playlist of posts listened to, or scrobbled
WordPress Transients API offers a simple and standardized way of storing cached data in the database temporarily by giving it a custom name and a
Jacky Alciné (Jacky Alciné)Finally began working on the new instance of Fortress. The goal is to have the main site attempt to register and acknowledge accounts for sites that expose a h-card. It’ll just show the authorization endpoint found when attempting to resolve the site as well as a normalized [h-card] for the URL in question. Ideally, I should have that much ready for testing for the IndieWeb before this week’s newsletter is out!
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The next prompt for Blogging Futures is on Infrastructure.
I had a conversation with Tom yesterday, and one of the things we talked about was why more people don't have websites. The tooling around it is better than ever, so why aren't more people getting their own internet spaces?
Part of the Blogging Futures course. Feel free to contribute to the conversation!
Infrastructure makes me think of not specific application but of broad application. How can we foster a multiplicity of blogging infrastructures?
Because there seems to be an understanding in this conversation that no single solution will solve our problems. Constant experimentation of writing possibilities is needed. For that to happen, we need places where that kind of activity can happen – where people can join in blogchains, where people can engage in anonymous publication as mentioned in the previous post, where people can get lost in labyrinths, where people can be a part of a new kind of republic of letters.
What if writing on the web could be as easy as writing on paper?
That is the kind of infrastructure I want on the web - a world where I could write anywhere, even if I didn't have a blog or a website or anything like that. I mean, do you need an account to write on a piece of paper?
I guess Telegraph is a good example of that in action. But why make anonymous publishing platforms second-class citizens? What if they were also integrated into blogs and other platforms? Don't know what that would look like but it would be like little slips of paper inside books, y'know, like newspaper clippings and grocery lists inside used books.
More freedom of where I can write and how I can write.
👓 How you can contribute to WordPress (yes, YOU!) | Jeff Paul
Me: Do you regularly use WordPress?
You: Yes, I love it, it’s fantastic!
Me: Have you ever thought about helping contribute to WordPress?
You: No, I am not a developer.
Me: Well, good news, you do not have to be!
You: Ok, tell me more…
Whether you have considered it...
👓 The Truth About Pregnancy Over 40 | NYT Parenting
More than 100,000 Americans give birth in their 40s each year, but what does that mean for the health of their pregnancies and their babies?
How this phenomenon translates into absolute, rather than relative, risk, however, is a bit thorny. A large study published in 2018, for instance, found that among women who had children between 34 and 47, 2.2 percent developed breast cancer within three to seven years after they gave birth (among women who never had children, the rate was 1.9 percent). Over all, according to the American Cancer Society, women between 40 and 49 have a 1.5 percent chance of developing breast cancer.
The rates here are so low as to be nearly negligible on their face. Why bother reporting it?
November 14, 2019 at 06:49PM
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👓 Free Bundt Cakes: Get In On Giveaway Friday In Greater LA | Patch
Swing by your local Nothing Bundt Cakes shops before the sweets run out. Or be among first 22 in line, and win free "Bundtlets" for a year.
👓 New Feature: Sort by Magic and Article Popularity Indicators | Inoreader blog
The best part of using RSS is that you see all the news, unfiltered and sorted exactly chronologically without a smart “AI” messing with your data and deciding what to feed you. It is, however, useful sometimes to have the power to sort through thousands of articles and see the most interesting ...
👓 Meetup Alternatives | Marcus Noble
Marcus Noble (marcusnoble.co.uk)A look at the various alternatives to Meetup.com after recent online backlash to their proposed new pricing model.
A nice recap of what is potentially happening in the online events space and a quick review of the potential platforms that are currently available. I have some ideas about how to do this in an IndieWeb way.
Jesse Stommel (Twitter)When you worry students won’t understand an assignment, the answer is often not to add more instructions, but to take instructions away.
— Jesse Stommel (@Jessifer) November 14, 2019
👓 Ditching Event Platforms for the IndieWeb | Jamie Tanna
Recently there's been a big shift to move away from Meetup.com as a platform. Something that may come as a shock to most attendees of events is that organisers have to pay for each of you to be part of the Meetup group, even if you are just there to keep up to date on events, but don't attend anything.
🎧 Fifty ways to cook a carrot: More than a snack, Jack | Eat This Podcast
Jeremy Cherfas from Eat This Podcast
A rainbow handful of carrots graces the cover of Peter Hertzmann’s new book. But, as I discovered when I spoke to Peter, you can’t judge a book by its cover. Or even, apparently, by its title: 50 Ways to Cook a Carrot. Because although all the methods (not recipes!) feature carrots in one form or another, they’re intended to offer techniques that, Peter insists, you can apply to many other vegetables, fruits, and even meat and fish.
There is, indeed, much to be learned from the book, even for an experienced cook, and I have already successfully applied one of the methods to some leeks. The UK edition of the book, published by Prospect Books, is available now, but it won’t be available in the US for a couple of months. However, Prospect kindly agreed to send a copy to one lucky winner.
Next Monday (28 October) I will pick someone at random from all of those who subscribe to Eat This Newsletter. If you’re already a subscriber, you don’t need to do anything, although I would appreciate if you spread the word and thereby diminish your own chances. If you’re not a subscriber, do sign up now, and feel free to diminish your chances too by persuading friends to sign up.
Notes
- Peter Hertzmann’s website is à la carte
- You can order 50 Ways to Cook a Carrot directly from Prospect Books.
- Banner photo by Dana DeVolk on Unsplash
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This podcast always sparks such joy for me. Sadly I love it so much that I can not just consume it in the same gourmand way I do the vast majority of the podcasts I listen to. I always feel the guilty-pleasure-need to carve out specific time to sit down and listen to it so that I can be a far more active listener than not. The worst part is that it means I’m not listening to it as frequently as I’d like. Sometimes you just can’t win.
I have to say that I whole-heartedly agree with Peter Hertzmann’s view of cooking pedagogy. It’s NEVER about the recipe, instead it’s all about the method. If you have the knowledge of the methods of cooking and know some ingredients then you’re set. Now of course when it comes to baking and a few other small sub-areas then having the proper ratios of ingredients becomes useful too. The rest is just taking the science of cooking and bring it up to the sublime level of art.
I’ve got a copy of the book on pre-order for it’s release on January 14, 2020 and based on Jeremy’s interview I suspect it’ll take up residence on the shelf right next to McGee’s On Food and Cooking and Ruhlman’s Ratio.