Time to busk! Heading out to Austurvöllur with the #gurdy and some new tunes.
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Ben Werdmüller:
In my hometown on May Day people traditionally gather by the river to hear a choir sing. My plan tomorrow: a donut.
@benwerd enjoy the donut :) Here in Iceland it’s a holiday set aside for marching in protest. I’m looking forward to it!
“@finkd: from now on when you log into an app with facebook you can change line by line what you share with this app“
— @kevinmarks
Finally, a mainstream silo pushing forward the UX of OAuth sign-in permissions.
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Anna Debenham:
People with beards: could you write me a tweet reviewing your favourite beard product? It's for a silly thing. It can be made up. :)
Anna Debenham:
People with beards: could you write me a tweet reviewing your favourite beard product? It's for a silly thing. It can be made up. :)
@anna_debenham I like this Beard Taxonomy, essential for field beard identification: topatoco.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=TO&Product_Code=WON-BEARDS&Category_Code=WON (ew yuk yuk yuk nasty URL)
Shipped this weekend during #indiewebcamp NYC: github.com/taproot/subscriptions, the beginnings of a toolkit which makes subscribing to web content as easy as it should be.
Had a great time remote-participating, thanks to the organisers for setting it up and everyone who came!
If you want (relatively) fast, go small: Mite sets new fastest land animal record sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/04/140427191124.htm — questioning the upper limit of relative speed/stride frequency:
"When the values for mites are compared with data from other animals, they indicate that, if there is an upper limit, we haven't found it yet."
Ben Werdmüller@benwerd also worth remembering hugely popular video responses on youtube — I think they got canned as part of the “upgrade” to G+ comments though :(
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I think I have webmentions working. Could someone test?:
I think I have webmentions working. Could someone test?
@jonnybarnes sure! Hope it shows up successfully! btw you should add an authorship h-card so we can see your face in feedreaders/reply contexts, e.g.
<div class="h-entry">
<a class="p-author h-card" href="http://jonnybarnes.net">
<img src="https://jonnybarnes.net/assets/img/jmb-bw.png" alt="" />
Jonny Barnes
</a>
Aaron Parecki@aaronpk nice colour!
Tiredly remote-participating #indiewebcampnyc after 4.5hr bike ride — join in! talky.io/indiewebcampnyc (any browser supporting webRTC should work)
@benwerd now I think of it, there is actually a Clangers episode questioning the value of multimedia. You know, this one:
I have been waiting to use that gif for so long
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Ben Werdmüller:
At this point in my career I'm prepared to recommend that we all standardize on ASCII art and forget about "videos" and "multimedia".
Ben Werdmüller:
At this point in my career I'm prepared to recommend that we all standardize on ASCII art and forget about "videos" and "multimedia".
@benwerd videos are such noisy things, whilst ASCII art has a certain serenity about it. But lack of video does mean no more Clangers :'(
…unless…
VCR TIME!
Identified next personal #indieweb block after some false starts: toolkit which makes not only subscribing to content but maintaining subscriptions+crawling historical content extremely easy.
Basic requirement for compelling services:
- feed reader
- spam prevention
- search engine
all of which I’ve started building separately before realising that it makes much more sense for them to all be the same thing.
Made a lot of progress on foundations this afternoon, code still in domain-specific anti-spam tool repo github.com/barnabywalters/shrewdness but nearly ready to be packaged up and put to use!
Okay, whoever’s doing guerilla marketing by putting random leaflets about India in my pockets OWN UP NOW please
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Chloe Weil:
http://lastnightspizza.com : half Olympic Provisons chorizo with honey, half margherita with truffle oil. http://instagram.com/p/nJwOUgzh1i/
Chloe Weil:
http://lastnightspizza.com : half Olympic Provisons chorizo with honey, half margherita with truffle oil. http://instagram.com/p/nJwOUgzh1i/
@chloeweil looks delicious — amazing colours and very balanced!
Thoughts about #microformats whilst reading Lakoff’s Women, Fire and Dangerous Things — mf vocabularies e.g. h-card, h-entry, h-event are basic-level categories, the level at which:
- it is easiest for humans to learn and reason about,
- we have the shortest, most common names for them,
- defined by how we interact with them
E.g. h-entry ≈ “post”
- short name
- extremely common on the web
- well-defined interaction patterns e.g. writing, posting, replying, reading, browsing through a feed, searching for/within, liking, reposting, quoting etc.
Rather than RDF or schema.org which seek to create pure, objectivist, hierarchies of categories — our brains simply don’t work like that.
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Dan Gillmor:
Strongly recommend this smart take on hashtags, and who owns them, by @tressiemcphd and @PhuzzieSlippers: http://tressiemc.com/2014/04/23/another-post-about-hashtags-no-seriously/ …
Dan Gillmor:
Strongly recommend this smart take on hashtags, and who owns them, by @tressiemcphd and @PhuzzieSlippers: http://tressiemc.com/2014/04/23/another-post-about-hashtags-no-seriously/ …
@dangillmor @tressiemcphd @PhuzzieSlippers great read! I wrote something much dumber a little while ago which touches on some of the same issues: waterpigs.co.uk/articles/who-owns-hashtags/
Observed problems:
- assumption
- obsession with figureheads; metonymic tendencies
- lack of empathy
- adversarialism
- casting as good/bad
&combinations of the above. Unsure how to fix them as of yet.
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Andy Robinson:
@BarnabyWalters Yeah, there is that. But really, I think it should just cut me some slack :-)
Andy Robinson:
@BarnabyWalters Yeah, there is that. But really, I think it should just cut me some slack :-)
.@andycayenne oh I agree — but whenever I think about how stupid computers are, only doing exactly what we tell them, I think about how much worse it would be if they tried to guess what we really meant ;)