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"html": "<p>If all the people out there who complain about how \u201cblogging/\nRSS/websites/whatever\u201d is dead and we\u2019re all stuck with \u201cTwitter/Facebook/whatever\u201d \u2014 quit those services and used blogs, Mastodon, and other open web services, we\u2019d be back to where we were before: a vibrant online content ecosystem free of aggressive corporate dominance and a data-sucking ad-tracking hellscape.</p>\n\n<p>It all starts with us: we the people. Join the revolution!<br /><a href=\"https://jaredwhite.com/tag/openweb\">#openweb</a></p>",
"text": "If all the people out there who complain about how \u201cblogging/\nRSS/websites/whatever\u201d is dead and we\u2019re all stuck with \u201cTwitter/Facebook/whatever\u201d \u2014 quit those services and used blogs, Mastodon, and other open web services, we\u2019d be back to where we were before: a vibrant online content ecosystem free of aggressive corporate dominance and a data-sucking ad-tracking hellscape.\n\nIt all starts with us: we the people. Join the revolution!\n#openweb"
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"html": "<p>I just finished reading <a href=\"https://twitter.com/mulegirl\">Erika Hall</a>\u2018s excellent book <em><a href=\"https://abookapart.com/products/conversational-design\">Conversational Design</a></em>. Hall is a technologist who is interested in making digital systems more human-centered. The idea of conversational design is to use human to human conversations as a model for designing human to computer interactions. The issue of communication using digital systems has been a huge topic of discussion on my campus lately and so I found Hall\u2019s insights useful. Because I\u2019m not really interested at this moment in human-computer interactions, I\u2019ll focus on what Hall says about human to human interactions. Her comments apply whether humans are interacting face to face or using some sort of mediation (the written word, video, recorded audio, etc.) for the communication.</p>\n<p>In particular, Hall summarizes the work of language philosopher <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Grice\">Paul Grice</a>, who posited four maxims of conversation (that he called \u201c<a href=\"https://www.thoughtco.com/conversational-implicature-speech-acts-1689922\">conversational implicature</a>\u201c). These four maxims may seem like common sense but I think we don\u2019t always think of them explicitly when we are in conversation with others so they bear repeating.</p>\n<ol><li><strong>Quantity</strong>: Make your contribution as informative as is required. Do not make your contribution more informative than is required. In other words, give people just enough information.</li>\n<li><strong>Quality</strong>: Do not say what you believed to be false. Do not say that for which you lack adequate evidence. In other words, be truthful. But, Hall says, this is about more than just not lying. \u201cIt\u2019s about being authentic and transparent about one\u2019s agenda.\u201d</li>\n<li><strong>Relation</strong>: Contribute to the conversation in a way that is relevant to the purpose of the conversation.</li>\n<li><strong>Manner</strong>: Be brief, orderly, and unambiguous. In other words, get to the point, be logical, and be clear.</li>\n</ol><p>Hall adds a fifth maxim taken from the work of professor of linguistics <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Lakoff\">Robin Lakoff</a>, who studies the relationships between gender and language: Be polite. Lakoff proposed three parts to the <strong>politeness</strong> principle: Don\u2019t impose. Give options. Make the listener feel good.</p>\n<p>It is astonishing how many communications I engage with every day that do not follow these maxims. I think there are a number of reasons for this. Take the maxim of quantity, for example. In order to give just the right amount of information, you need to understand what your listener (or reader or viewer) is interested in. This requires careful consideration of various audiences and their needs rather than simply doing an information dump. But I think we often don\u2019t even think about what we\u2019re communicating, why we\u2019re including the things we are and not including the things we aren\u2019t, and what the recipient of our communication might want to know about the topic at hand.</p>\n<p>I\u2019m currently working on the open educational resource to be used in our new \u201c<a href=\"https://cathieleblanc.com/2019/04/14/progress-report-cluster-initiative/\">Tackling a Wicked Problem</a>\u201d course that will be required of all incoming first year students at PSU. It\u2019s nice to have the maxims stated so succinctly so that I can keep them in mind as I write.</p>\n<p>Hall\u2019s book goes on to explore how these maxims can be applied to the design of interactions between humans and digital systems. It\u2019s a short, informative read that follows its own suggestions.</p>",
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"text": "I'm going!Time for another HWC NYC! Come work on your personal website and keep on wigglin\u2019 free from the grasp of the big social media sites.\n\nBy popular demand, we\u2019re starting the meetup a bit later. (Optional) quiet writing hour starts at 6:30pm. Actual meetup at 7:30pm!",
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I ended up leaving a bunch of my meetup groups and networking events and their respective Discords, and also decided to take down my studio streaming setup, because they were all wearing on my mental health. I want to get back to working on stuff because I want to, not because I feel obligated to “grow my audience” or whatever. My fun activities were starting to be less about fun and more about my failure to get any sort of cachet, and something had to give. And I didn’t want that “something” to be the things I enjoy doing.
It’s totally fine to want to do things, but it’s important to realize why you’re doing things, and be willing to course-correct when you realize that those things are getting in the way of the intended purpose.
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"url": "https://beesbuzz.biz/blog/5487-Leaving-the-mess-behind",
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Reblob!:
It’s been a while since I’ve worked on IndieWeb stuff, but I finally got around to releasing an extremely preliminary version of reblob, a little commandline thingus to make this stuff easier. Eventually I’ll also have a server-based version here, at least as an example.
Of course this is the first entry I’ve written actually using it. Lots of rough edges but whatever!
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"text": "About to see Avengers! If this gets resolved by Cap and Thanos realizing their moms are both named Martha, so help me...",
"html": "<p>About to see Avengers! If this gets resolved by Cap and Thanos realizing their moms are both named Martha, so help me...</p>"
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Chris Aldrich mentioned it was his #indieweb anniversary today, which made me wonder when I first encountered indieweb. Turns out it was six years ago! I remember being excited about the idea of federated comments. I had no idea I would be getting involved with the community for years to come, though. In that time, I've organized some meetups, traveled to several IndieWebCamps, and even co-organized an IndieWebCamp. I've met a lot of great people through it all and have had a lot of fun. I've made some good improvements to my site and learned things that have helped my professional web work, too.
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"text": "Chris Aldrich mentioned it was his #indieweb anniversary today, which made me wonder when I first encountered indieweb. Turns out it was six years ago! I remember being excited about the idea of federated comments. I had no idea I would be getting involved with the community for years to come, though. In that time, I've organized some meetups, traveled to several IndieWebCamps, and even co-organized an IndieWebCamp. I've met a lot of great people through it all and have had a lot of fun. I've made some good improvements to my site and learned things that have helped my professional web work, too.\n\nYou should join us! Check out indieweb.org, say hello in the chat, and join us at the IndieWeb Summit this June in Portland.",
"html": "<p><span class=\"p-summary\"><a class=\"h-card\" href=\"https://boffosocko.com/\">Chris Aldrich</a> mentioned it was his #indieweb anniversary today, which made me wonder when I first encountered indieweb. Turns out it was <a href=\"https://gregorlove.com/2013/04/federated-comment-thread/\">six years ago</a>!</span> I remember being excited about the idea of federated comments. I had no idea I would be getting involved with the community for years to come, though. In that time, I've organized some meetups, traveled to several IndieWebCamps, and even co-organized an IndieWebCamp. I've met a lot of great people through it all and have had a lot of fun. I've made some good improvements to my site and learned things that have helped my professional web work, too.</p>\n\n<p>You should join us! Check out <a href=\"https://indieweb.org\">indieweb.org</a>, <a href=\"https://chat.indieweb.org\">say hello in the chat</a>, and join us at the <a href=\"https://2019.indieweb.org/summit\">IndieWeb Summit</a> this June in Portland.</p>"
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From Namecheap’s blog:
Imagine if next year you had to pay 10 times as much to renew your domain name as you paid this year. Based on an action proposed by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), price caps could be removed on several top level domains, which could significantly increase the price of domains.
[…]
ICANN’s current contract with Public Interest Registry (PIR), the group that runs the .org domain name, lets PIR increase the wholesale price of .org domains by 10% a year.
That’s a lot, but at least it’s capped.
Now ICANN is proposing extending the contract to operate .org but letting PIR set whatever prices it wants. Rather than a 10% increase to renew your domain next year, it could suddenly start charging registrars like Namecheap 100 times as much. Registrars would have no choice but to pass these charges on to customers.
This actually affects .biz and .info as well as .org; you might notice that this website is on a .biz domain, so it affects me. I also have an .org site that would also be impacted. And there are so many other .org sites out there which are run by non-profits or individuals who do things for reasons other than pure profit.
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"url": "https://beesbuzz.biz/blog/4534-ICANN-seeking-comments-regarding-gTLD-pricing-deregulation",
"name": "ICANN seeking comments regarding gTLD pricing deregulation",
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