Alan Levine (Domains of Our Own)Domain Camp 2019 is starting June 11! What should you pack and prepare for?
What if we stopped sharing our lives on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter and tried to use networks that don’t sell our data instead?
I've been working on the next River product. This time I'm using a MySQL database. Three tables -- feeds, items and subscriptions. The folder structure is exactly as in River5, except there is no data folder (the data is in the database). I am still a relative newbie in SQL databases, but I think this model works. I'm documenting as much as I can and of course I will release the Node.js source. I hope it serves as a basis for distributing RSS intelligence around the net. Last time around (Google Reader) we centralized. That was a mistake. If enough people run instances of this database we'll have a less interruptable base of functionality. I want to try out more new ideas as well. We've been really stuck for a long time.
For the first ever Humanities Commons Twitter conference, we not only want to give our users a space to showcase what they’ve built, but we also want to further explore how Humanities Commons fits within larger conversations of open access scholarship, inclusivity, and scholarly communications.
Hacking Wi-Fi, cracking passwords, and spying on mysterious handshakes is an easy game for babies.
Black and white and RSS is an RSS feed of black and white photographs, updating throughout June 2019. There is no associated website. You can only see the photos if you use an RSS feed reader and subscribe to the feed.
Sometimes for as much time and effort as I put into making my site look the way I want it, I often worry that it’s all for naught as I suspect many of my readers are just reading it in a feed reader or interfaces like Pocket or Instapaper that are stripping away all my CSS and reformatting it in some vanilla way for simpler reading.
I remember reading about Instagrammers making their accounts private as a means of getting more people to subscribe to them for the fear of missing out on their content. Maybe stopping posts to your site, but simply maintaining a feed could be the IndieWeb equivalent of this?
Hat tip: Jason McIntosh.
Jason McIntosh (Fogknife)Kicks Condor and Giles Turnbull are doing a couple interesting things with RSS this month.
This year, I’ve written about how digital marginalia — those notes, clippings, likes, and kindle book highlights — have re-shaped the way we read. In particular, I believe that we are entering a new era of reading, an era that has a social reading element similar to reading in the 18th and 19th centuries, a time when commonplace books and note-sharing were standard. Recently, I came across an article in The Verge by Thomas Houston that covers this topic. Part of “The Verge at Work” series, Houston talks about the history of reading and note-taking, and delves into his personal 21st-century version of this:
It’s not a gender thing.
Here are the members of the House of Representatives who favor starting an impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump.
It’s a crisis that has left, by some estimations, billions on the table unpaid to musicians
It’s an Ontario Extend tradition to offer up a Daily Extend Challenge for the month of June. Can you do one every day? This June is no different. Except for one difference. This year, we take the weekends off.
It’s the June Daily Extend Challenge, Weekdays Only Edition! Challenge one: accept or reject the challenge in GIF format. Check out Giphy or any GIF repository for a GIF that sums up your response to this challenge.
Will you go for the full 20 Daily Extends in June? You can do it! We believe in you. Watch for a new Daily every weekday in June! You are also free to do any past Dailies during June to count towards achieving this lofty goal.
Small daily challenge to extend your online skills
Can you rise to the top of this list for Daily Extend activity (mOOC Edition)? Our current board reflects the June 2018 Challenge of doing at least 20 this month (weekends off for good extending).
App Review’s previous stated rationale for rejecting the Gab app was that the service didn’t do a good enough job of moderating the user-generated content. Gab claimed that they try their best to do this but that Apple’s requirements are impossible to meet. Clearly, Twitter and other social networks don’t always meet them, either. But Twitter is too-big-to-reject, and Gab has a reputation for offensive content, attracting a community of users that were banned or had their posts deleted from Twitter.
