👍 enjoyed Philip K. Dick and the Fake Humans | Boston Review especially in ‘reader view’.
Category Archives: enviable stuff
Bookmarked Quill.
Testing quill for posting via micropub.
🔗 Great gif, amusing article, ‘LinkedIn is a death cult’ HT @livedtime #tds934
Maybe there were some things that I would have changed, however considering the current state of things, I was again pretty lucky this year. Personally, our children have continued to grow up. The youngest has progressed from learning how to climb the ladder to get on the trampoline to now utilisin...
A great read and review of Aaron’s year. Just following the links from his newspaper will take some time, but it will be well spent. Aaron’s take and his pull quotes make fascinating reading.
I linked to a great post by Martin Weller (@mweller) that had this video embeded yesterday. I got round to watching the video by Mike Caulfield (@holden) today. It is well worth just short of 3 minutes of everyone’s time.
A reflection on developing a site building upon the ideas of the #IndieWeb to bring together all my disparate pieces around the web in one place. Just when I thought I had enough sites, I decided to create another one. A feed that could be used in a platform like Micro.blog. My intent this time wa...
Aaron’s post give a lovely overview of how he is tackling the #indieweb in a thoughtful manner. I’ve been playing with some of the same ideas here in a less disciplined way. Like Aaron I hope this is the future.
Reading and loving: Micro.blog and Micro-Communities
But there is something about an informal collection of independent blogs by people with a shared passion that makes for a much better micro-community experience than social networks or other online group platforms. I’ve experienced this first-hand with a couple of blogging communities I’ve participated in: an informal network of blogs by adoptive parents and the pen and paper enthusiast blog community.
Micro.blog and Micro-Communities
I’ve had a huge amount of learning and pleasure out of both tightly bound and loose knit online communities. Doug’s post shows how of a network of Blogs owned by individuals can be better than a silo and points out the need for hashtags or other connective tissue.
Micro blogs with webmentions one part of improving the online conversation. A method or methods for discovery and group participation would be another.
I can’t recommend micro.blog enough. It has really helped me think about my online activity in many new ways. You can get involved for free and lose nothing by joining and playing.
We pledge to fight ‘blue-sky thinking’ wherever we find it. Life would be dull if we had to look up at cloudless monotony day after day.
Today’s lovely thing, thanks to @livedtime
Messenger Kids exudes wholesomeness and good intentions, just as Google did at the beginning, and as Mark Zuckerberg still does in his pious epistles to his disciples.
👍 More grist.
I think Manton is right – blogging should be easy, but should still require more thought that reading a headline, clicking like or share and moving on.
I think Des is right. I’ve noticed a bit of a difference in writing short, tweet length posts on my own blog. It is a wee bit harder, which gives a bit of thinking time.