I spent the weekend hacking away with a small group of very smart folks, at the Reclaim Your Domain Hackathon in Los Angeles. Fifteen of us gathered at Pepperdine University in west LA, looking to move forward the discussion around what we call “Reclaim Your Domain”.
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One of many definitions of IndieWeb: The IndieWeb is about hacking the web to make it more useful for real people. Here we're using hacking with a decidedly positive connotation.
Syndication Links now supports per-post syndication to Micro.blog from WordPress
The inimitable David Shanske released the 4.2.0 version of the Syndication Links plugin for WordPress this evening. In addition to some other useful upgrades and bug fixes, the big new feature this release adds is excellent syndication support for Micro.blog. While many people use RSS feeds, JSONfeed, or other plugin methods for syndicating their WordPress…
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GSV Steen Comer [Shunn SMF] (Twitter)Thank you. I'm working on a piece right now about alternate/ rhizomatic modalities of communication in opposition to "social networks" and this is really timely.
— GSV Steen Comer [Shunn SMF] (@mediapathic) December 13, 2019
Improving RSS Subscription Workflows with SubToMe
I love that WordPress has some built-in functionality within WordPress.com and many themes to allow one to easily build and display a social media menu on a website. Frequently these are displayed in headers, footers, or even sidebars of websites. I have one in the footer of my website that looks like this: The RSS…
Laura Kalbag (24ways.org)Is it just me or does nobody have their own website anymore? OK, some people do. But a lot of these sites are outdated, or just a list of links to profiles on big tech platforms. Despite being people who build websites, who love to share on the web, we don’t share much on our own sites. Of course ...
Jemima Kiss from the GuardianKevin Marks, Google's developer advocate for Open Social, talked today about the unpredictable, organic growth of social networks
Jemima Kiss interviews Kevin about Open Social at FOWA. Thu 9 Oct 2008 15.50 EDT
Kevin Marks, Google's developer advocate for Open Social, talked today about the unpredictable, organic growth of social networks. Even the biggest networks have seen their audience bases grow exponentially in unexpected communities; this is partly because of the dynamics of relationships between people, who mostly want to connect - or feel most comfortable connecting to people like themselves.
Despite some derogatory write-ups of Google's Orkut social network in the US press - "it's not a proper social network and is full of Brazilian prostitutes" - it's a perfect example of a social networking site with a strong community in one language. A community tends to mould the site to its own culture, which makes it less appealing for other languages and cultures. Clearly those with a strong English-language audience have a big advantage, despite the cultural differences of the Anglo-speaking world.
I asked Marks to explain a bit more about trends in social networking and how Open Social is trying to both facilitate growth, and respond to change. Open Social doesn't have a three-year road map, but is constantly adjusting its templates around the mapping of social information.
Function's Anil Dash joins Matt to discuss how Big Tech broke the web and how we can get it back.
Todd Conaway (Teaching and Learning on the Open Web)We should make some agreements about our focus.
- Are we continuting with various tools and sharing them on this site?
- Should we focus more on building out our own domains and share that process?
- Both? Other?
- Where shall we go?
Jane Van Galen (Teaching and Learning on the Open Web)We talked in our group last week about the time that it requires to develop course websites and "open" assignments, and to make new tech function as it should when there may not be enough support, and when these sorts of investments may not be valued in faculty reviews.
I talked briefly about the "innovation" part is often simply building off the work of others, when so many faculty now share their work on the open web.
A great example of this just came through my Twitter feed. I have a column set up in Tweetdeck where I'm following the # Domains19 conference. With a Tweetdeck column, I can just glance or scroll for a minute between other things I'm doing, to see if anything looks interesting. People at this conference are working on open pedagogies, particularly via the Domains of Ones Own work we've talked about. Most sessions are being live-tweeted, with a rich trove of links.
One attendee Chris Aldrich, has created a Twitter list of past attendees at the conference and others who do work related that that presented at this meeting. I can skim this to find new people from whom to learn. I can follow them and then, as I have time, check their Twitter feeds for updates on what they're doing. If I don't find myself learning from these new follows, I just unfollow and move on.
And inevitably, over months and years, I'll find people who will generously invest in teaching me and others about the work they're doing, about why they're doing it, and about how that work is recieved by their students.
This is the open web I hope we're teaching our students about -- place of innovation, generosity, value-driven discourse and always, always, something new to learn.
Dr. Ryan Straight (Twitter)Has anyone gathered a collection of interesting and/or unexpected ways of using @hypothes_is beyond its standard use case? @xolotl #SquadGoalsNetwork
— Dr. Ryan "Rebel Without a Clause" Straight (@RyanStraight) December 7, 2019
Kevin Smokler (Kevin Smokler)Inspired by Matt Haughey’s public posting of the RSS Feeds he subscribes to, I’m doing the same (below).
What is RSS, you ask? A method to subscribe to what your favorite websites publish and have their updates all in a single place. Think of it as DVR for the Internet, food delivery instead of pickup except for the web. Podcasts would on the same technology and concept: Subscribe once, receive forever without asking again.
Allie Nimmons (your friendly neighborhood pain in the ass) (Twitter)As a personal project, I want to build my own application that will help me plan my wedding. Basically an online wedding binder. I know there are sites and apps out there but I want to build my own. What all could/should it do?
— your friendly neighborhood pain in the ass (@allie_nimmons) December 4, 2019
Alexandra Samuel (JSTOR Daily)Fourteen years ago, a dozen geeks gathered around our dining table for Tagsgiving dinner. No, that’s not a typo. In 2005, my husband and I celebrated Thanksgiving as “Tagsgiving,” in honor of the web technology that had given birth to our online community development shop. I invited our guests...
Aaron Davis (Read Write Collect)Alexandra Samuel reflects on tagging and its origins as a backbone to the social web. Along with RSS, tags allowed users to connect and collate content using such tools as feed readers. This all changed with the advent of social media and the algorithmically curated news feed. Samuel wonders if we h...