@Mentions from Twitter to My Website
An outline of how I used Indieweb technology to let Twitter users send @mentions to me on my own website.
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🔖 Closing Communities: FFFFOUND! vs MLKSHK | Waxy.org
Next month, two seminal image-sharing communities, FFFFOUND! and MLKSHK, will close their doors within a week of each other. There's a profound difference in how they're doing it as noted by someone who's previously sold off a community.
🎧 This Week in Google #400: Toot, Not Tweet
Burger King's new ad sets off Google Home on purpose. Mastodon is great, but it's not a Twitter killer. Facebook's $14 million investment in reputable news. How to keep from being dragged off a plane. Whatever happened to Google Books' plan to digitize all books?
My First Internet Meme! 🍍
A short story about how I was involved in the birth of the Mastodon 🍍 meme
A New Way to “Know and Master Your Social Media Flow”
On the anniversary of the death of FriendFeed, I update Louis Gray's flawed social media diagram.
Mastodon.Social isn’t as Federated or as Decentralized as the Indie Web
Mastodon may be the hot thing in social media right now, but you could be living closer to the bleeding edge of true openness and freedom
🎧 This Week in Google #398: None More Black
Leo is out - Jason Howell dives into the Android O Developer Preview. Samsung announced the bezel-free Galaxy S8 today, along with a new Gear 360, Connect Home router, and virtual assistant Bixby. Google continues to confuse everyone with its messages strategy. More advertisers are boycotting YouTube. Congress kills FCC ISP privacy rules. Android's daddy has a secret new phone. And the blackest paint ever comes in spray form.
Favorite Things
Some might consider this a "/uses" page, a "Using" page, a "Recommendations page" or something equivalent. Simply put, it's a list of the tools and things I find incredibly useful and intriguing. Most of them are things I either use on a daily basis or couldn't get along without. They're things I love and have…
To AMP, or Not To AMP, That is the Question: Whether ’tis Nobler in the Mind to Bookmarklet
"Hi. My name is Chris and I'm a web browser bookmarklet junkie." Accelerated Mobile Pages I've been following most of the (Google) Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) discussion (most would say debate) through episodes of This Week in Google where Leo Laporte plays an interesting foil to Jeff Jarvis over the issue. The other day I…
App.net archive
Linkrot and the lack of permanence on the web is a recurring theme for this blog. In the final days as App.net was winding down, I wanted to put my money where my mouth was. I spun up a couple new servers and wrote a set of scripts to essentially download every post on App.net. It feels like a fragile archive, put together hastily, but I believe it’s mostly complete. I’ve also downloaded thumbnail versions of some of the public photos hosted on App.net.
A reply to Kimberly Hirsch: Doing my part to fix the internet
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.
A brief analogy of food culture and the internet
food:McDonalds:obesity :: internet:Facebook:intellectual laziness
Checkin Starbucks on York for Homebrew Website Club
Homebrew Website Club It was great to see Michael Kirk and his friend who joined in the festivities. Though Michael forgot his laptop, we talked about how his site was doing post IndieWebCamp and I demo'd some of the recent reading workflow I've worked through in the past several months. Sadly I forgot the official photo…
Reply to Web Annotations are Now a W3C Standard, Paving the Way for Decentralized Annotation Infrastructure
Web annotations became a W3C standard last week but the world hardly noticed. For years, most conversations on the web have happened in the form of comments. Annotations are different in that they usually reference specific parts of a document and add context. They are often critical or explanatory in nature.
Setting my marginalia free | Jeremy Cherfas
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