I have put all the tech in place that I need to, I think, for my publishing to happen here at kimberlyhirsh.com, go out to my various social places, and then have responses come back here.
Kimberly, Congratulations and welcome to the #indieweb! Interestingly, I'm seeing your post via Superfeedr piped into an IRC channel on freenode rather than webmention to my own site (since upgrading to the most recent version of Webmention for WordPress, I apparently need to re-enable exotic webmentions to my homepage). I'm amazed that such a short…
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…
I've discovered a spectacular tool for owning my own bookmarks and replacing Pocket and InstaPaper! It's IndieWeb and POSSE friendly Does link forwarding in a flexible/responsible manner Allows for proper attributions Keeps tons of metadata for analyzing reading behavior Taggable Allows for comments/commenting Could be used easily as a linkblog Archives the original article Is…
As of October 30, 2016, I've slowly but surely begun posting what I'm actively reading online to my blog. I've refined the process a bit in the last couple of weeks, and am becoming relatively happy with the overall output. For those interested, below is the general process/workflow I'm using: As I read a website,…
After Friday’s rather angsty post about feeling unsettled and unsure about my work … I’m pleased to say that I now feel vastly better. I feel more in control, although little may have changed to the average onlooker!
Thanks for the thoughts here Liz. Somehow I hadn't heard of ReadCube, but it looks very interesting and incredibly similar to Mendeley's set up and functionality. I've been using Mendeley for quite a while now and am reasonably happy with it, particularly being able to use their bookmarklet to save things for later and then…
Thoughts on post types/kinds relating to reading within the Indieweb construct
The second in an occasional look at the technology I use regularly F riends, family and colleagues are frequently asking my advice on what kind of devices and software I find most useful. So following in the tradition of Bernard Pivot and subsequently the Actor's Studio, and sites like LifeHacker, Supersite for Windows, and many others, I've borrowed a…
"Hi, my name is Chris, and I'm a Read-aholic." I 'll be the first to admit that I'm a reading junkie, but unfortunately there isn't (yet) a 12 step program to help me. I love reading lots of different types of things across an array of platforms (books, newspapers, magazines, computer, web, phone, tablet, apps)…
The amount of information carried in the arrangement of words is the same across all languages, even languages that aren't related to each other. This consistency could hint at a single common ancestral language, or universal features of how human brains process speech. "It doesn't matter what language or style you take," said systems biologist…
The research this article is based on is quite interesting for those doing language research.
“The Information,” by James Gleick, is to the nature, history and significance of data what the beach is to sand.
This book is assuredly going to have to skip up to the top of my current reading list. “The Information” is so ambitious, illuminating and sexily theoretical that it will amount to aspirational reading for many of those who have the mettle to tackle it. Don’t make the mistake of reading it quickly. Imagine luxuriating…
Over the summer, Ars Technica and others reported about the new feature Tab Candy being built into Firefox by Aza Raskin. Essentially it’s a better graphical way of keeping “tabs” on the hundreds of tabs some of us like to keep open for our daily workflows. One can now group series of related tabs together…
Finally, after 140 years, Robert Strain and Philip Gressman at the University of Pennsylvania have found a mathematical proof of Boltzmann's equation, which predicts the motion of gas molecules. Abstract This is a brief announcement of our recent proof of global existence and rapid decay to equilibrium of classical solutions to the Boltzmann equation without…
In the last two years, at least 10 law schools have made their grading systems more lenient to give their students a better chance in a soft job market.
Is GPA tampering and grade inflation going too far with changes like this?