Replied to Is Sharing Caring? – A Reflection on Comments and Social Media by Aaron (Read Write Respond)
What does it mean to be caring in online spaces and how is this related to sharing? I recently came across a message on a blog that stated ‘sharing is caring’. This was placed next to buttons for the various social media silos. This had me stop and think. Is this this in fact a lie we have been ...

@mrkrndvs I just changed the mention I got from this to a comment.

I find this sort of mention really valuable. I made a fairly off the cuff like and comment. Then I get a webmention from your post which is both interesting and leads to other places and ideas online and in my head.

This can certainly give comments & mentions can be more valuable than a tweet.

Getting the mention and pulling your post in as a comment just pulls everything together nicely.

Liked Why We Need the #IndieWeb: A Short History (Desert of My Real Life)
Back in 1993, as a young computer science graduate student, I created my first web page. To do so, I had to learn a new language, HyperText Markup Language (html), which was pretty easy for me as someone who had been programming in Cobol, PL/I, C, Basic, and so on, since high school. My web pages co...

★ like “Why We Need the #IndieWeb: A Short History”, More indieweb grist.

Liked Reads, Listens, Watches, and Editable Webmention Types and Avatars in the IndieWeb WordPress Suite by Chris AldrichChris Aldrich (Chris Aldrich | BoffoSocko)
One can now go to the admin interface for their comments and webmentions (found at the path /wp-admin/edit-comments.php), click on edit for the particular comment they’re changing and then scroll down to reveal a droplist interface to be able to manually change the webmention type.

This is a nice idea, I sometimes get webmentions that have interesting contents I see in the email notification but here on the blog it just shows as an avatar with not text. Now I can fix that, example.

Replied to How to Own & Display Your Twitter Archive on Your Website in Under 10 Minutes by Chris AldrichChris Aldrich (Chris Aldrich | BoffoSocko)
As part of my evolving IndieWeb experience of owning all of my own internet-based social data, last year I wanted a “quick and dirty” method for owning and displaying all of my Twitter activity before embarking on a more comprehensive method of owning all of my past tweets in a much more compreh...

Chris,rather a late reply but it might be of interest,  I’ve been using Martin Hawksey‘s twitter archiver for a while now. This archived my tweets to Google Drive and made them available online:  Keeping your Twitter Archive fresh and freely hosted on Github Pages – MASHe

i take it a step further by pulling to my local drive and ‘ftp pushing’ to my site:

Pushing and Pulling the Twitter Archive

This keeps my archive up to date on a daily basis withou any work on my part here:  Your Twitter archive