Wait! Aren’t you researching Twitter?
I am indeed and the preceding discussion has largely centred on pingbacks, a feature of blogs, rather than microblogs. I have two points to make here: firstly that microblogs and Twitter may have features which function in a similar way to pingbacks. The retweet for example provides a similar link to a text or resource that someone else has produced. I’ll admit that it has less permanence than a pingback, patiently ensconced at the foot of a blog and ready to whisk the reader off to the linked blog, but then the structure and function of Twitter is one of flow and change when compared with a blog; it’s a different beast. The second is that my point of entry to the blogs and their interconnected web of enabling pingbacks was a tweet. Two actually. Andrea’s tweet took me to another tweet which referenced Aditi’s blog post; had I not been on Twitter and had Andrea and I not made a connection through that platform, the likelihood of me ever being aware of Aditi’s post and the learning opportunities that it and its wider assemblage brings together would be minimal.
I'm finding your short study and thoughts on pingbacks while I was thinking about Webmentions (and a particular issue that Aaron Davis was having with them) after having spent a chunk of the day remotely following the Dodging the Memory Hole 2017 conference at the Internet Archive in San Francisco. It's made me realize that…
Create high-fidelity, interactive web archives of any web site you browse.
This looks like a cool archiving tool! h/t: Dodging the Memory Hole 2017
In honor of Dodging the Memory Hole 2017 this week, for free (hosting and domain registration not included) I'll offer to build one journalist or academic a basic IndieWeb-capable WordPress-based portfolio website to display and archive their personal work. Preference will be given to those in attendance at the conference, but any who need an "author…
GitHub have published some guidance on persistence and archiving of repositories for academics https://help.github.com/articles/about-archiving-content-and-data-on-github/ #openscience
The crowd from Dodging the Memory Hole are sure to find this interesting!
As many know, for the past 6 months or so, I've been slowly improving some of the IndieWeb tools and workflow I use to own what I'm reading both online and in physical print as well as status updates indicating those things. [1][2][3] Since just before IndieWebCamp LA, I've been working on better ways to…
An entertaining meeting at Yahoo's Headquarters in LA
How many more times do people have to get stiffed by a free web service that just bites the dust and leaves you bubkas?
A monster post, some ranting on companies like Storify who offer free services that leverage our effort to get worth enough to get sold – when they do they just yank our content, an approach for local archiving your storify dying content, a new home spun tool for extracting all embeddable content links and how to use it to create your own archives in WordPress.
Storify Is Nuking, for no credible reason, All Your Content
Okay there are two kinds of people or organizations that create things for the web. One is looking to make money or fame and cares not what happens once they get either (or none and go back to flipping burgers). The other has an understanding and care for the history and future of the web, and makes every effort to make archived content live on, to not leave trails of dead links.
I like Alan Levine's take on type one and type two silo services. Adobe/Storify definitely seems to be doing things the wrong way for shutting down a service. He does a great job of laying out some thought on how to create collection posts, particularly on WordPress, though I suspect the user interface could easily…
🔖 Want to read: Personal Archiving: Preserving Our Digital Heritage by Donald T. Hawkins H/T to Sawyer Hollenshead. This may also be of interest to those who've attended Dodging the Digital Memory Hole related events as well as those in the IndieWeb who may be concerned about their data living beyond them. [caption id="attachment_55675359" align="aligncenter"…