Brad Enslen is doing some great work over at Micro.blog, spreading the word about this innovative service. He published a post titled “The Case for Moving Your Social Network to Micro.blog…
Paul Jacobson (Paul Jacobson)This idea of tracking my media diet really appeals to me:
Just like last year, I kept track of almost everything I read, watched, listened to, and experienced in my media diet posts.
Jason KottkeI follow a few people who do this too, sometimes pretty publicly. I’m not sure that I’d want to share everything I consume, but I do like the thought of capturing, and aggregating everything.
I’m just not too sure how to pull it all together, if I were to do this.
Mark A. Matienzo (Mark A. Matienzo)This year was largely complicated and often felt like a massive garbage fire to myself and my crew. I didn’t accomplish a number of my goals and was inconsistent about others, so recapping awesome things I did doesn’t feel appropriate and also happens to be a soft reminder of either failure or things not going as planned. I also tend to hate “best of the year” lists but I find them helpful to remember about where I found joy or the ability to connect to something outside of myself. I suppose this is an attempt to reconcile those things, or perhaps more in line with the end of year spirit, a way to articulate gratitude to the people and things around me that impacted me.
Jonathan Gill (Nieman Lab)One way to meet the many needs that most if not all publishers share would be to collaboratively develop their digital products. Specifically, they should build for interoperability. One publisher’s CMS, another’s content APIs, a third company’s data offering — they might one day all work together to allow all ships to rise and to reclaim advertising and subscription revenue from the platforms. This might allow publishers to refocus on differentiating where it truly matters for the user: in the quality of their content. ❧
Ben Werdmüller (Nieman Lab)“Instead of becoming more like technology companies or remaining beholden to platforms, publishers could help to build the internet they need.”
Ernie Smith (Tedium)The independent blog has been in decline for years. It doesn’t have to be that way. Here’s why you should start a blog in 2019—and host it yourself.
Ernie Smith (Nieman Lab)"Let's replace the shadows that Twitter and Facebook and Google have been on the media with some business-model fundamentals. As 2018 has shown, they've offered us a lot more heartache than it feels like they're actually worth."
For creators & fans of independent digital media
Welcome to my annual publishing predictions. I’ll start by sharing some thoughts on the state of the indie nation and then I’ll jump int...
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Congrats! Fantastic stats. How’d you do those cool little graphs?
James King (Twitter)Started tinkering with building a feed reader again.
— Les Orchard (@lmorchard) December 28, 2018
Baffled to find that some of the feeds I subscribe to have 300-500 items in them for no good reason.
(e.g. a web comic or a news site with like the last 2-4 years worth of items listed)Have you ever considered just using Newsboat and then building a web interface on top of it for mobile reading? I have been thinking about doing that myself recently.
— James King (@elroyjetson) December 28, 2018Huh, I'd never actually heard of Newsboat until now. For a bunch of years, building a feed reader was my go-to learning project for new web dev frameworks
— Les Orchard (@lmorchard) December 28, 2018It is mostly a terminal based app, but it handles the crapy stuff like RSS and Atom parsing. Stores everything in an SQLite3 DB. You can still use it as a learning project, but not have to deal with the yuck part.
— James King (@elroyjetson) December 28, 2018
I tried very hard in that book, when it came to social media, to be platform agnostic, to emphasize that social media sites come and go, and to always invest first and foremost in your own media. (Website, blog, mailing list, etc.) ❧
Uonai (Twitter)It is. One of my side projects at the moment is building an RSS feed reader that has social capabilities. So you can add friends, curate feed lists, and see what other people in your network are reading and recommending.
— Uonai (@uonaiii) December 28, 2018
