Aaron Davis (collect.readwriterespond.com)provides another data point to mine
I wonder how this will affect folk like myself who have used the Giffy API to do daft things, like Gif the Dub, for fun and certainly no profit.
https://johnjohnston.neocities.org/
Some IndieWeb pennies dropped when I poked around the source of this post, No Deep Work in Shared Spaces . My learning style (;-)) is not read and understand the manual I am afraid.
Aaron Davis (collect.readwriterespond.com)I have learnt that it is very difficult to do ‘deep work’ without a wife, especially when you are trying to work in a shared space.
I am not doing deep work, just trying to teach online. Despite the fact I am fairly tech literate with a good connection and no children at home I am finding things really time and head space consuming. I’d be in an even worse place if I didn’t get amazing support from my wife.
Aaron Davis (collect.readwriterespond.com)What is sad and confusing are the people who publish great threads while leaving their WP.com site lying dormant. At the very least, users could copy the unrolled thread and past the content in a space they somewhat manage and have the ability to update?
I was joshing about that last night:
There are a ton of great resources and ideas for teaching zooming past on twitter at the moment. It would be great for some to go to a slower stream or garden.
This week’s microcast answers a question from John Johnston about federation and the IndieWeb.
This is a really interesting listen, Doug takes a philosophical view of the IndieWeb and compares it to federation. I’m going to listen through again before I posts some thoughts.
It was of note I discovered the podcast via a webmention on the post where I asked the question.
Greg McVerry responded in kind Politics of Plumbing: IndieWeb and Federation and Arron’s response to that make interesting listening and reading too.
Doug’s time in answering my question is very much appreciated.
Aaron Davis (collect.readwriterespond.com)Alexander Samuel reflects on tagging and its origins as a backbone to the social web. Along with RSS, tags allowed users to connect and collate content using such tools as feed readers. This all changed with the advent of social media and the algorithmically curated news feed. Samuel wonders if we h...
Hi Arron, thanks for this link (and many others). I remember when I first got involved in educational blogging it was fairly simple to pull together tags from any blog (via technorati ), twitter and flickr and display them on one page. I made a few for different educational events in Scotland. A marvellous opportunity now lost, hopefully to return.
Aaron Davis (collect.readwriterespond.com)document.designMode is another useful tool when teaching the web and manipulation of content.
Hi Aaron,
Thanks for this, a useful replacement for Mozzila’s x-ray for learning, teaching and playing with the web.
I wondered about using this on iOS and found I could make the simplest of shortcuts.
document.designMode='on';
completion();
I’ve not used a shortcut for running JavaScript in mobile Safari before so useful to learn about completion()
Aaron Davis (collect.readwriterespond.com)In this extract from McMindfulness, Ronald Purser argues that paying closer attention on the present is not revolutionary, but rather magical thinking on steroids. Stripped of spirituality and ethics, mindfulness is nothing more than concentration training. Sadly, it becomes something another commod...
Thanks for this Aaron, a great read, with many great quotes, my fave:
Perhaps the most straightforward definition of neoliberalism comes from the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, who calls it “a programme for destroying collective structures that may impede the pure market logic”.
The whole thing might be harsh to mindfulness practitioners who are very socially engaged, but the parallels with environmental problems and solutions is powerful.
NB: Engaged Buddhism
Aaron Davis (collect.readwriterespond.com)I wonder what the outcome would be if the design process started with sustainability and developed from there?
Aaron, That would be wonderful, but I’d guess not good for Apple, or many other tech companies in the short term.
I knee-jerking a response here, I’ve used macs since my first computer in 1995.
Macs have been more sustainable for me than PCs for most folk I know. I don’t get a new one often and they have lasted me a long time.
I dislike the barriers to geekiness that are developing everywhere, both in hardware and, of more import to me, software. It seems harder to play around in an amateur way. Security stops scripts from less professional folk from working. Web APIs move out of reach or are shut down. (I exempt Flickrand OpenSteetMaps). I’d like to see more sustainability there too. Probably not going to.
Aaron Davis (Read Write Collect)Dominique Schwartz reports on the water currently filling Lake Eyre. What is unique about this is that it is all just nature. Although locals fought an attempt in 1995 to introduce large-scale irrigated cotton farming on the Cooper, there has not been any other attempts. It makes me wonder about rew...
Great story Aaron, the linked webpage is beautiful too.