Helensburgh Sunset 15:55
Bare branches in Victoria Park Glasgow. Parakeets feeding on Beechmast!
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.
Branching Silhouette
@manton on the tags debate, tags, or something like them, would make things like the photo challenge a lot simpler to organise and play with. Perhaps the tags as taxonomy as opposed to inline tag would avoid more tags than text pollution?
First Test of Happy Scribe @_getscribe
Happy Scribe @_getscribe
We provide you with an user friendly interface to transcribe your interviews from speech to text. Proudly made in Ireland by two students.
The prices are very reasonable, £0.09 per minute. 50p minimum charge. So I though it was worth a punt, I uploaded my most recent microcast:
And in a couple of minutes I got this back:
The zone of proximal depravity
what the algorithmic feed does is effectively collapse this protective layer
We are closer to ugly though thanks to algorithms.
👍 reading “Robots Are Coming For Your Children”, There is so much of interest in this post I don’t know where to start quoting.
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.