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Reading list of books, magazines, newspaper articles, other physical documents, or online posts
👓 Wardley map | Wikipedia
A Wardley map is a map of the structure of a business or service, mapping the components needed to serve the customer or user. Wardley maps are named after Simon Wardley who claims to have created them in 2005.
👓 What is Discourse? | Discourse
Discourse is the 100% open source discussion platform built for the next decade of the Internet.
As I look at this it makes me wonder when small, single-purpose services might allow themselves to be white listed and/or custom styled to live on a users personal domain, yet still look like they’re part and parcel of that user’s native site.
As an example, Disqus and Webmention.io are interesting examples of how a company could specialize into handling comments for user’s sites. These two are both doing things very differently and at much different price points. Disqus is large and bloated and seems to have quite innovating and iterating. I have to wonder what it would look like with more players and more competition in the space?
In fact, I’m still wondering why hasn’t Disqus picked up and run away with the Webmention spec?
👓 Why I’m Leaving Medium | Praxis – Medium
I’ve been writing on Medium for three and a half years.
Some of these reasons are very pragmatic for everyone, but he’s also got some business specific ones that touch on things many small businesses would want control over as well. He additionally points out some very subtle changes in media for people who are reaching out to niche audiences. Some of this is reminiscent to things Leo Laporte has spoken about in the past with respect to leaving television and cable to start a podcast network, except in that case there really wasn’t a huge amount of competing media, so instead of moving to silos (which didn’t exist at the time for his use case) he went straight to using his own platform.
👓 twenty eighteen | Matthias Pfefferle
Matthias Pfefferle (notiz.Blog)2018 war ein durchwachsenes Jahr!
Mein privates „Ich“ hat letztes Jahr sehr viel Raum eingenommen und auch beruflich hat sich viel verändert.
Das heißt ich hatte generell wenig Zeit für mein online „Ich“ und wenn ich doch etwas Zeit hatte, war das Ergebnis meistens eher frustrierend.
My German is atrocious, but it’s well worth stumbling through to see what Matthias is up to lately, particularly with regard to his work on the IndieWeb.
I’ll have to revisit some of his work on OStatus and ActivityPub with respect to WordPress. It would be nice to be able to follow @chrisaldrich on Mastodon wouldn’t it?
Thanks, as always Pfefferle, for keeping the web open!
👓 My New Posting Workflow | grant.codes
Grant Richmond (grant.codes)So I have been working away on some new features on my site for quite a while now and it looks like everything is about ready. Honestly I don't particularly enjoy writing long-form content, so it is kind of strange that I have really enjoyed working on this new functionality.The Inspiration I was ra...
This is awesome Grant!
May have been a nice addition to add some links to the browser extensions (or maybe I missed them?) and make it more explicit that they’re publicly available. Can’t wait to try this out!
👓 Now | Christopher Chelpka
Christopher Chelpka (christopherchelpka.com)This now page was updated on January 11, 2018. I microblog about new updates when I shift my focus. Here’s What I’m Doing Now Because of my amazing church, I’m on a one-week study leave listening to some really smart theologians teach on the Trinity. I’m also researching the office of deacon...
Interesting and brief set up for a now page.
👓 I don’t want to be a brand. | Cheri Baker
Cheri Baker (social.cheribaker.com)I attended a training program on author marketing recently, and while I appreciated most of the advice, and the speaker was excellent, I’m struggling with one piece of it, which I’ll paraphrase here:
“You should write down your brand statement, and then EVERYTHING you communicate online (or around your customers) should be in line with that statement. In short, if it doesn’t advance your brand, don’t share or say it.”
And my heart rose up in revolt and shouted: F@CK THAT SH*T!
Some great sentiment here on just being a person.
👓 RSS is not dead. Subscribing is alive. | Colin Devroe
👓 Wife ordered this little friend for our home library. | gmatthewthurman
gmatthewthurman (micro.blog)Wife ordered this little friend for our home library.
👓 6 million users had installed third-party Twitter clients | TechCrunch
Twitter tried to downplay the impact deactivating its legacy APIs would have on its community and the third-party Twitter clients preferred by many power users by saying that “less than 1%” of Twitter developers were using these old APIs. Twitter is correct in its characterization of th…
👓 H4xx0r3d! – how I found out that I am running a spam blog | Christian Heilmann
Yesterday, actually ten minutes before I had to leave for Kilburn to give my talk at ignite I had a shocking moment. I found in one of the sub-folders of my vast server a blog that offers cheap OEM software:
👓 A more complicated web | Christian Heilmann
Christian Heilmann (christianheilmann.com)One of the amazing things about the web used to be its simplicity. It was not too hard to become your own publisher on it. You either used one of the now defunct services like Geocities, Xoom, Apple Web Pages, Google Pages and so on… Or you got a server, learned about HTML and CSSand a dash of JavaScript and created your own site. Training materials were online and largely free and open.
We definitely need to do more work on making the web more accessible to the average person…
👓 Facebook's '10 Year Challenge' Is Just a Harmless Meme—Right? | Wired
Opinion: The 2009 vs. 2019 profile picture trend may or may not have been a data collection ruse to train its facial recognition algorithm. But we can't afford to blithely play along.
👓 In the Shadow of the CMS | The Nation
Kyle Chayka (The Nation)How content-management systems will shape the future of media businesses big and small.
With all these self-made CMSes for distributing journalism, why not go a half step further and create a full-on network of hosted and managed IndieWeb websites? These could be for both their journalists to use (the way many do with Twitter, Facebook, Instagram) in their research as well as for their own users which could also incidentally use them to interact with the paper itself as well as their surrounding communities?
For a low cost per month, it could be an interesting side business, or even be bundled with paid subscriptions?