The single greatest thing about the social web is how it has forced people to overcome their technophobias in order to connect with other humans.
/by Chris Messina (source)
The single greatest thing about the social web is how it has forced people to overcome their technophobias in order to connect with other humans.
/by Chris Messina (source)
If content is important to you, keep it close. If your content is important to others, keep it close and well backed up.
by Drew McLellan (source) #indieweb
Empower yourself. Your friends. Your community. But push yourself to go further, because you can.
– Tantek Çelik (source)
pcntl_wait($status); //Protect against Zombie children
Every now and again the otherwise banal PHP docs make me laugh.
“I am not a number, I am my domain name”
— Tantek Çelik eloquently summarises #indieweb thinking in On Silos vs an Open Social Web #bookmark
Here's some "proactive" "predictive policing" for you:
Cops will kill people. Might as well imprison all if them now.
/cc Jovian Salak by Shane Becker #policestate #politics
AOL converted him into an AOL-BOT to be used in chat-rooms. [citation needed]
Sounds ominous…
I’m trying to grow up but it’s hard past a certain age
Ha, love it Aral Balkan :)
The jwentomologist reaction to a programme about bionics:
“They could use that to build a pantomime horse”
“We have to start the cow paths for the world. The paved paths are for the privileged.” (source) by inkpixelspaper
“The spirit of the law, not the letter of the law, should be your guide” About Face 2.0
School grades are a measure of how socially acceptable your level of remembering–ability was when you did the exams, relative to everyone else.
Therefore, their meaning and value deteriorate over time. The value and meaning of things you create and add to the world generally increase with time (become more well-known, better used, refined, etc.)
Just pushed a load of #taproot changes to auto-tagging which should make structured, tag–based querying of notes way easier.
This note should be tagged with mention
, reply
, quote
and location
as it contains all of that data.
Some Test Quote with a mention in
“Stop spending our money showing us the illusion of #democracy!” Me on politics in general and election campaigns in particular as quoted by joviansalak
If minifigs had their own country it would have the largest population today
“As a musician, everyone can hear all your sketches” Robin Andrews
“Sometimes we are lucky enough to know that our lives have been changed, to discard the old, embrace the new and run headlong down an immutable course” Jacques Cousteau
From Steve Jobs, The man who thought different:
The result, the World Wide Web, what we know today as the Internet
AAAAARRRRRRGGGGHHHHH
Just because the book is not intended for a technical audience does not excuse blatant mistakes. If anything, it makes accuracy more important.
Earlier, aral wittily quipped:
The CMS I use for my personal sites is called a file system. You might have heard of it. #indieweb
I disagree with this premise. Useful and easy as filesystems are, without a wrapper like Jekyll they don’t manage content (resources), they manage representations (typically HTML).