Replied to #oext355 #oextend The June Daily Challenge Survival Pack | The Daily Extend (extend-daily.ecampusontario.ca)

What are you packing in your Daily Extend Challenge survival pack? Phone/Laptop? First aid kit? Kool-aid?  Share a photo or description of your suggested addition. The more ideas for things to help us meet the challenge, the more of us will survive. Let’s do this together!

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@ontarioextend I'm going to try to do it without opening Twitter. I'm packing: 1. My IndieWeb-enabled website from which all my replies will be composed and originate. 2. My feed reader tuned into the challenge feed and this Twitter #​​​​oextend feed. #​​​​oext355 #​​​​​oextend
Read Black and white and RSS by Giles Turnbull (gilest.org)
Black and white and RSS is an RSS feed of black and white photographs, updating throughout June 2019. There is no associated website. You can only see the photos if you use an RSS feed reader and subscribe to the feed.
This is certainly a cool looking experiment Giles Turnbull is attempting. I'm almost half tempted to hide my actual website and just make my content available via RSS, h-feed, or JSON-feed. Sometimes for as much time and effort as I put into making my site look the way I want it, I often worry that…

Lurking, Twitter, The Commons, and Private Posts

Lurking Yesterday I was catching up on chat logs and ran across a stub for lurking on the IndieWeb wiki. I cleaned up the formatting a bit and added some additional material. Later Ton Zijlstra dropped a link to his excellent article from 2004 on the topic: Lurking and Social Networks (though honestly, I first came…
Replied to a thread by Timoni West, Trevor Flowers, Tantek Çelik (Twitter)
A concept closely related to the memex, but which significantly predated it is the commonplace book and #IndieWeb definitely has some examples of that: https://indieweb.org/commonplace_book
Read About (Own Your Content)
What is this for? It’s for you—someone who creates work to tell stories, to educate and empower, to share a point of view. Whether it’s through essays, illustrations, or photographs, your work is your livelihood. In 2018, we launched Season 1 of Own Your Content with 9 creative leaders that ha...
This site has a very IndieWeb flavor about it. While it takes a very WordPress-slanted view of life and is geared toward the Creative Mornings crowd, it's expanding on many basic IndieWeb principles including own your own domain name, have your own website, and (obviously) own your content.
RSVPed Attending IndieWeb Summit - June 29-30, 2019 - Portland, Oregon
The ninth annual gathering for independent web creators of all kinds, graphic artists, designers, UX engineers, coders, hackers, to share ideas, create and improve their personal websites, and build upon each others creations.
I'm still working out a conflict to figure out if I'll physically be in Portland in person, but at the very worst, I'll definitely attend remotely. This is my favorite event of the entire year, so I definitely won't miss it. There are still some tickets left so RSVP now! I hope you'll join me.
Replied to a post by Johan BovéJohan Bové (Johan's Known)
Interesting experiment Chris. Too bad that the spam-bots found this site so fast. Especially for that reason I'm keeping the public comments on my own instance closed. What are you using for keeping webmentions to your site spam-free?
To my knowledge, there has yet to be an instance of spam within the broader community using Webmention. Of course, if it does become a problem there are community-based plugins like Akismet which have been very effective in the past. Others are also experimenting with building the idea of Vouch to extend Webmention as well.…
Listened to Steven Johnson on the Importance of Play and the Decisions We Make by Alan Alda from Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda

How do we come up with ideas? How do we make decisions? And how can we do both better? Steven Johnson has explored this question and written a dozen books about it. In this playful, thoughtful episode, Steven has some fascinating stories, like how Darwin made the decision to get married — or how a defecating duck helped lead to the invention of the computer. Through their own stories, Steven and Alan Alda share their thoughts about the transformative nature of ideas and what sort of environments best give rise to creativity.

I love the idea of the slow hunch discussed here. It's part of the reason I keep a commonplace book. Johnson also discusses his own personal commonplace book, though he doesn't give it that particular name here. The commercial about Alda Communication Training makes me wonder if they recommend scientists and communicators have their own…

🎧 Our Favorite Answers By Listeners to the 7 Questions | Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda

Listened to Our Favorite Answers By Listeners to the 7 Questions by Alan Alda from Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda

We love hearing from our listeners! Through social media and email, you've been sending us your own answers to "Alan's 7 Questions" and we've been having a great time reading through all your witty, smart, and often poignant responses. In this episode, we're highlighting all of our favorites! We want to keep hearing from you, so please continue to write us at: podcast@aldacommunication.com or get social with us on Twitter @alda, or on Facebook and Instagram at "ClearandVivid." Thanks for listening and enjoy the show -- dedicated to all of you!

I appreciate the fact that they did this episode to have some more two way conversation between those on the show and their audience. Makes me think they would appreciate and benefit from taking a more IndieWeb approach to their web presence.

👓 Pl@ntNet is the world’s best social network | Quartz

Read Pl@ntNet is the world’s best social network by Michael J. Coren (Quartz)
The only that will make you feel better every time you use it.
I was looking for an app or tool just like this!! Nice tangential mention of IndieWeb hiding in here too.

👓 Open Invitation for Domain Camp 2019 | Domains of Our Own

Read Open Invitation for Domain Camp 2019 (Domains of Our Own)

It takes a bit more work to learn all of the tools and what is available when you can install many kinds of web sites and web-based apps and manage access to them. But as owner of your own domain, you get to fully control your footprint on the web.

If this has a ring of interest to you, this summer we revive last year’s summer Domain Camp, a set of activities and support areas to help you learn what you can do inside the big cpanel of possibilities (that’s your domain dashboard).

Each week we will include an intro video, a set of activities to do inside your domain, open office hours, and community spaces to ask and answer questions.

We are setting up camp again to start the week of June 11, 2019. Are you interested? If so, please sign up and let us know (or see form at bottom).

Sick and tired of corporate social media silos owning your online identity and content? Domain Camp is back again this year to help people learn in small, easy chunks how to take back their online lives. There's lots of online help and interaction to get you on your way. If participants would like to use…

👓 Create your own WordPress.com! | WP Ultimo

Read Create your own WordPress.com! – WP Ultimo (WP Ultimo)
With WP Ultimo you will be able to setup a Website as a Service platform, like WordPress.com or Wix.com, in a matter of minutes, not months!
This is just the sort of thing one could leverage to build a gen2+ IndieWeb platform... 

👓 This Is Gonna Be Emotional, We’re Setting over 90% of Our Premium Plugins Free! | WPMU DEV

Read This Is Gonna Be Emotional, We’re Setting over 90% of Our Premium Plugins Free! (WPMU DEV Blog)
WordPress is evolving, and so are we, even though it’s hard to see the kids leave home. It’s almost 12 years since Andrew and I launched WPMU DEV Premium as ‘a subscription-based service that offers advanced plugins for WordPress Multi-User’ and I reckon it’s fair to say that, well, it’s been quite the ride. And as of today, we’re taking another corner, guided by you, our members, and bringing all of our focus and efforts to the core services and functionality you care most about when it comes to running a great WordPress site, or two, or a few thousand.
This is awesome and sad at the same time. They've got an interesting reader hiding in here as well as the backbone of the edublogs platform. This latter could be used to create a platform for a WordPress-based IndieWeb platform.

📺 Stephen Downes: Conversation with Ben Werdmuller | YouTube

Watched Conversation with Ben Werdmüller by Stephen DownesStephen Downes from YouTube

E-Learning 3.0 week 3 event with Ben Werdmuller. founder of Elgg, founder of Known, currently with Matter, on linked data, Indieweb, and related topics.

A great little overview of IndieWeb for the education crowd.