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Reply to Brad Enslen about The Future of Blog Snoop

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I’m hitting a fork in the road with this site and the experiment of using a blog as a directory of blogs. The problem here is me: I’m running out of time. I’m duplicating a lot … Source: Announcement: The Future of Blog Snoop – Blog Snoop Weblog Directory We’ll see what happens. It...

Brad, much like Kicks Condor, I think you're making a laudable effort, and one of the ways our work grows is to both keep up with it and experiment around. If I recall, programming wasn't necessarily your strong suit, but like many in the IndieWeb will say: "Manual until it hurts!" By doing things manually,…

An IndieWeb Magazine on Flipboard

This morning I set up an IndieWeb Magazine on Flipboard. While it is "yet another silo", it's one that I can easily and automatically syndicate content from my site (and others) into. I've already seeded it with some recent posts for those who'd like to start reading. Until more tools and platforms like micro.blog exist to…

Reply to Ryan Boren et al on the WordPress Link Manager, Calypso, and Indie Blogging

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Ryan Boren (Twitter)

@photomatt I recall the jokes made about crusty blogrolls when we deprecated the links manager. Now, folks are exhuming it for use as their canonical OPML source to feed OPML subscriptions. https://t.co/Lt6cpWwkuj
— Ryan Boren (@rboren) July 17, 2018

So... should I “update” the link manager? On one hand, it has a 2-year warning. On the other, do we want it to show prominently in search?
— Andrew Nacin (@nacin) July 17, 2018

There’s a part of me that wants links to come back first class and be added to Calypso (with some Reader integration). That’d be a nice thing for IndieWeb and indie ed-tech movements. Also, an easier IndieWeb onboarding experience. Gimme an IndieWeb toggle on .com.
— Ryan Boren (@rboren) July 17, 2018

There's an open web and ownership moment happening right now. It's pretty cool. The flow is rough, though. One small but impactful example: title-less microblogging means an interface full of (no title) in Calypso.
— Ryan Boren (@rboren) July 17, 2018

Oh there's just so much to say about the start of this thread, and it gives me so much hope for the open web as well as potential growth for WordPress. Link Manager Update The Link Manager still seems relatively solid and much of the infrastructure still works well, despite the warnings and lack of…

Reply to Tom Critchlow on feeds

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Tom Critchlow (tomcritchlow.com)

This is a list of the feeds I'm reading. The page auto-updates every 10 minutes or so. Why? Because we need to resist the hyperfeeds and build our own small feeds in the open

I'm curious how you're generating your particular feeds. For over a year now I've been using a simple bookmarklet system to post what I'm reading, listening to, and watching to my own website and providing it as various feeds (RSS, JSON, and a microformats-based hfeed/h-feed) for others as well as syndicating some of these to…

Reply to Ian O’Bryne on annotations

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William Ian O'Byrne (Twitter)

Also, if this post is the best example of @hypothes_is annotations baked into WordPress site, I'd like to see some #IndieWeb connections so the great discussion with @heatherstaines is pulled into the comments/mentions on the post. This would be just like tweets or other comments
— William Ian O'Byrne (@wiobyrne) July 5, 2018

Ian, thanks for putting together all of these examples. I think my preference is for option three which provides the most context and seems easiest to read and understand. I like the way you've incorporated the blue arrow, which makes semantic sense as well. I'm sure I've seen other versions, but Jon Udell has at…

👓 Brainstorming on Implementing Vouch, Following and Blogrolls | David Shanske

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David Shanske (David Shanske)

Vouch is an extension to the webmention protocol. Webmentions usually have two parameters…source and target. Target is the URL on your website that the Source URL is linking to. The vouch parameter is a third URL to help the target determine whether or not they should accept the webmention. This...

I like the sound of where this is going already! All these small little pieces loosely joined to build a much larger edifice is certainly interesting. I've got a somewhat reasonable bookmarklet for quickly following people, though it's not marked up with XFN data (yet) -- perhaps another data field for Post Kinds? I do…

An Outline for Using Hypothesis for Owning your Annotations and Highlights

I was taken with Ian O'Byrne's righteous excitement in his video the other day over the realization that he could potentially own his online annotations using Hypothesis, that I thought I'd take a moment to outline a few methods I've used. There are certainly variations of ways for attempting to own one's own annotations using Hypothesis…

Some thoughts on highlights and marginalia with examples

Earlier today I created a read post with some highlights and marginalia related to a post by Ian O'Bryne. In addition to posting it and the data for my own purposes, I'm also did it as a manual test of sorts, particularly since it seemed apropos in reply to Ian's particular post. I thought I'd…

🔖 ❤️ Protohedgehog tweet

Bookmarked a tweet by

Jon Tennant (Twitter)

DO NOT add this as the URL for a bookmark:

javascript:location.hostname += '.sci-hub.tw'

Which when you click on a paywalled research article, automatically takes you to the @Sci_Hub version of it.

And DO NOT try this, see that it works wonderfully, and share it with others.
— Jon Tennant (@Protohedgehog) June 10, 2018

This suggests some interesting bookmarklet functionality.

🔖 Taft Test – Web Dev Placeholder Image Generator

Bookmarked Taft Test - Web Dev Placeholder Image Generator (tafttest.com)

Does your site pass the Taft Test? Generate or swap images of Taft for web development.

I wish I had lots of bookmarklets that did quirky things like this. Interestingly this one has a relatively useful use-case in addition to its unintended comedic service.

On the topic of RSS audio feeds for The Gillmor Gang

Some suggestions for extracting audio only podcast-friendly feeds for one of my favorite shows.

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wiobyrne (Scholar Social)

@mrkrndvs I've really been interested in the collection/curation I see from you & @chrisaldrich - I'm in the process of figuring out how to build up a WordPress site to serve as the "commonplace book" on the WordPress site, keep it simple, and have it pump into my weekly newsletter. Any links/guidance/plugins on how to make this happen is definitely appreciated. I want to keep this as simple/lightweight as possible. :)

@wiobyrne@scholar.social @mrkrndvs@mastodon.cloud I've written in a little bit of depth before about Organizing my research related reading. My favorite piece of the puzzle is using the Post Kinds Plugin for WordPress which has some useful browser bookmarklets for quickly saving what I read, bookmark, and interact with online. Having the ability to add categories, tags,…

Organizing my research related reading

There's so much great material out there to read and not nearly enough time. The question becomes: "How to best organize it all, so you can read even more?" I just came across a tweet from Michael Nielsen about the topic, which is far deeper than even a few tweets could do justice to, so…

Enabling two way communication with WordPress and GitHub for Issues

This week, using the magic of open web standards, I was able to write an issue post on my own website, automatically syndicate a copy of it to GitHub, and later automatically receive a reply to the copy on GitHub back to my original post as a comment there. This gives my personal website a…