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👓 Send me a webmention with Drupal! | Swentel

Read Send me a webmention with Drupal! by Kristof De JaegerKristof De Jaeger (realize.be)

After months of reading, experimenting and a lot of coding, I'm happy that the first release candidate of the Drupal IndieWeb module is out. I guess this makes the perfect time to try it out for yourself, no? There are a lot of concepts within the IndieWeb universe, and many are supported by the module. In fact, there are 8 submodules, so it might be daunting to start figuring out which ones to enable and what they exactly allow you to do. To kick start anyone interested, I'll publish a couple of articles detailing how to set up several concepts using the Drupal module. The first one will explain in a few steps how you can send a webmention to this page. Can you mention me?

A red letter day in that there’s another open source Webmention set up for a huge CMS!

👓 The Fans Are All Right | Pinboard Blog

Read The Fans Are All Right (Pinboard Blog)

I've had a couple of emails and tweets asking somewhat cautiously why the popular page has filled with slash fiction. That's because the fans are coming!

I learned a lot about fandom couple of years ago in conversations with my friend Britta, who was working at the time as community manager for Delicious. She taught me that fans were among the heaviest users of the bookmarking site, and had constructed an edifice of incredibly elaborate tagging conventions, plugins, and scripts to organize their output along a bewildering number of dimensions. If you wanted to read a 3000 word fic where Picard forces Gandalf into sexual bondage, and it seems unconsensual but secretly both want it, and it's R-explicit but not NC-17 explicit, all you had to do was search along the appropriate combination of tags (and if you couldn't find it, someone would probably write it for you). By 2008 a whole suite of theoretical ideas about folksonomy, crowdsourcing, faceted infomation retrieval, collaborative editing and emergent ontology had been implemented by a bunch of friendly people so that they could read about Kirk drilling Spock.

👓 I’m slow | snarfed.org

Read I’m slow by Ryan BarrettRyan Barrett (snarfed.org)
Speed is all the rage these days. Move fast and break things, iterate fast, fail fast and learn from your mistakes fast and pivot fast so you can do it all over again. We scorn bloated governments and dinosaur bureacracies and praise lean...

👓 Parkeology Challenge November 2018 | David Shanske

Read Parkeology Challenge November 2018 by David ShanskeDavid Shanske (david.shanske.com)
On Wednesday, November 28th, I participated in the Parkeology Challenge. It is a marathon of sorts where you try to ride every ride at Walt Disney World in a single day. That is 4 different parks, and 49 rides…although only 46 were in the challenge this week due long-term closures. You can only us...
Now I want to do this…

👓 I have a new website | Justin Jackson

Read I have a new website by Justin Jackson (Justin Jackson)
After 10 years on WordPress, I'm making a big change.
I do love the look and feel of this website. Great Xeroxed feel of an 80’s zine.

hat tip: Kevin Marks comment “If you want a samizdata feel, there is this layout to emulate https://justinjackson.ca/new-website”

Kevin also mentions a great photo filter for something like this at https://codepen.io/kevinmarks/pen/PyLjRv

👓 Majority of mathematicians hail from just 24 scientific ‘families’ | Nature

Read Majority of mathematicians hail from just 24 scientific ‘families’ by Davide Castelvecch (Nature)

Evolution of mathematics traced using unusually comprehensive genealogy database.

Most of the world’s mathematicians fall into just 24 scientific 'families', one of which dates back to the fifteenth century. The insight comes from an analysis of the Mathematics Genealogy Project (MGP), which aims to connect all mathematicians, living and dead, into family trees on the basis of teacher–pupil lineages, in particular who an individual's doctoral adviser was.

An interesting look back at history.

👓 Andrew C. McCarthy: Why Trump is likely to be indicted by Manhattan US Attorney | Fox News

Read Andrew C. McCarthy: Why Trump is likely to be indicted by Manhattan US Attorney (Fox News)
The major takeaway from the 40-page sentencing memorandum filed by federal prosecutors Friday for Michael Cohen, President Trump’s former personal attorney, is this: The president is very likely to be indicted on a charge of violating federal campaign finance laws.

👓 Welcome to Dreamwidth, Tumblr folks! | DreamWidth

Read Welcome to Dreamwidth, Tumblr folks! (dw-news.dreamwidth.org)

With the new update to Tumblr's community guidelines announcing that they will no longer permit adult content on their site, we'd like to take a moment to reassure all y'all that we have your backs. With a very few exceptions (such as spam and the like), if it's legal under US law, it's okay to post here. We're 100% user-supported, with no advertisers and no venture capitalists to please, and that means we're here for you, not for shady conglomerates that buy up your data and use it in nefarious ways. 

👓 Meet the Tumblr refugees trying to save its NSFW content | FastCompany

Read Meet the Tumblr castaways trying to save its adult content from oblivion (Fast Company)
Tumblr posters of porn and kink fear a ban on naughty content will eviscerate not only their blogs, but the communities they’ve built on the networks.

👓 Best Answer to “Sell Me This Pen” I Have Ever Seen | LinkedIn

Read Best Answer to “Sell Me This Pen” I Have Ever Seen by Girish AmanapuGirish Amanapu (LinkedIn Pulse)

I personally never thought anyone would actually say, “sell me this pen” in a sales interview. I was wrong. It will happen to you too. And to avoid panic, you should know exactly what to say back.

I am going to give you the right sales framework to respond perfectly every time.

📑 Best Answer to “Sell Me This Pen” I Have Ever Seen | LinkedIn

Annotated Best Answer to “Sell Me This Pen” I Have Ever Seen by Girish AmanapuGirish Amanapu (LinkedIn Pulse)

Here’s the simple sales framework I used to answer “sell me this pen”. Memorize it for yourself.

  1. Find out how they last used a pen (gather info)
  2. Emphasize the importance of the activity they last used a pen (respond to info)
  3. Sell something bigger than a pen, like a state of mind (deliver info)
  4. Ask for the buy (closing)
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👓 Viewing and exporting Hypothesis annotations | Jon Udell | Hypothesis

Read Viewing and exporting Hypothesis annotations by Jon Udell (Hypothes.is Blog)

We’re delighted to see Roderic Page and Kris Shaffer putting the Hypothesis API to work. For us, the API isn’t just a great way to integrate Hypothesis with other systems. It’s also a way to try out ideas that inform the development of Hypothesis.

Today I’ll share two of those ideas. One is a faceted viewer that displays sets of annotations by user, group, and tag. The other exports annotations to several formats. If you’re a Hypothesis user, you may find these helpful until proper implementations are built into the product (faceted viewer: soon, export: later). And your feedback will help us design and build those features. If you’re a developer, you can use these as examples to learn to form API queries, authenticate for access to private and group annotations, parse JSON responses, and navigate threaded conversations.

👓 Doomed to fight the Civil War again | LA Times

Read Doomed to fight the Civil War again (LA Times)
White House Chief of Staff John Kelly is wrong about what caused the Civil War, and wrong to give the benefit of the doubt to the slavers over the slaves.