This is why I still think journalists should be posting on their own sites and only syndicating to Facebook. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/19/facebook-blocks-malta-journalist-joseph-muscat-panama-papers?CMP=twt_gu
Kind: Likes
a way to pay compliments to the original post/poster of external content
In my exhuberance to post an image along with articles syndicaed from my site to Twitter, I hastily started adding the microformats2 class u-photo. I didn’t know better. It was brought to my attention that u-photo is meant for actual photo posts, where the image is the primary content. An experime...
Hopefully adding the u-featured class to my featured images, using code from Microformats2, WordPress and Featured Images Classes – Miklb’s Mindless Ramblings.
The first pass at improving discovery using a directory pulled from webmentions is live. It is using a custom WP page template which needs a bit of "prettying up" but it works.
This, from Colin Walker is a great idea, produce a list of blogs from webmentions on your site. Directory | Social Thoughts
Inception
liked: snarfed.org
Imagine a social network where everyone’s profile is their own website but they can share & discuss seamlessly & privately with each other.
Never aggregate ephemeral sheep
It is National Poetry Day. When I was in class I always wanted to do something for this, but only occasionally remembered. Although I don’t have a way with words I like working with poetry in the class. I also occasionally like twitter haiku and the like.
I read Tom Woodward’s blog regularly and yesterday I noticed Fridge Poetry – Google Sheets as Database in my RSS reader. Given that I’ve messed about with fridges before 1, I took a look: Google Sheets – Fridge Poetry.
The really interesting thing 2 about this is that Tom has set it up so that it is easy to make another fridge with different sets of words. He even has a link on his post to create a copy of the google spreadsheet to make your own copy (you need a google account, a low entry bar). The sheet itself has the instructions.
Here is one with a selection of words from Scotland small? by Hugh MacDiarmid.
How do you save something like this? Take a screenshot.
What I really love about this idea, besides the sharing of how to do it, it the easy way it can be extended and used with a different set of words.