New post: Plaidophile: Keeping it personal beesbuzz.biz/blog/5709-Keep…
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It's always design week for me. It's design year. Design life.
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I just read this great essay by Matthias Ott. It does a great job of summarizing the state of affairs of blogging and social media, and how we can try to escape the current orbit to get back to where the web was meant to be.
I especially like the bit about “Don’t do it like me. Do it like you.” Because that is exactly why I’ve been building Publ the way I have; I have specific goals in mind for how I manage, maintain, and organize my site, and these goals are very different than what other existing blogging and site-management software has in mind. The fact that I post so many different kinds of content and that they need different organizational structures to make sense makes this a somewhat unique problem. I’d like to think that Publ is a very general piece of web-publishing software, but it’s probably so general because I have such specific needs. Which makes for an interesting paradox, I suppose.
I guess what I’m saying is that I want to see more types of web-based publishing where the schema and layout fit the content, not the other way around. But it also needs to be able to interoperate with other stuff, while still making sense from a producer-consumer UX perspective.
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Lol, being in Portland, I’ve had more beers than I had all spring in Oakland. Things are a WEE bit closer together here than from where I stay in Oakland so it might be encouraging that. (v2.jacky.wtf/post/646f9bcf-…)
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Yay. I'm flying out to Portland on Friday for the @IndieWebSummit. I booked my flight, hotel, and really looking forward to catching up with my Indie Web friends. Long live semantic code and owning your own data.
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It's design week and I'm home planning my design week at the end of July. :P
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What would happen if every Apple product today was returned to Apple and people STOP purchasing from that company?
Yes, they got partnerships (let’s say those remain intact)?
Not picking on Apple - they have a more ‘direct to consumer’ approach than… v2.jacky.wtf/post/6cfe8bd4-…
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#DonutJS! — with microformats, Tantek
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Lol, being in Portland, I’ve had more beers than I had all spring in Oakland. Things are a WEE bit closer together here than from where I stay in Oakland so it might be encouraging that.
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What would happen if every Apple product today was returned to Apple and people STOP purchasing from that company?
Yes, they got partnerships (let’s say those remain intact)?
Not picking on Apple - they have a more ‘direct to consumer’ approach than Microsoft or Google.
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Things to celebrate tonight:
Queens got a genuinely progressive DA
NRA TV is off the air
San Francisco banned e-cigarettes
The Embarcadero Navigation Center was unanimously approved
All this AND I got to read an adorable little girl a bedtime story tonight. 👍
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Apple is killing it with CoreML, Metal Performance Shaders, and the Vision framework. Don't believe me? Introducing VNAnimalDetectorCat.
There is a fracking cat detector...
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If you’re not paying attention to the DA election in Queens, you should be. It’s tight but no matter what happens, it’s seismic. Crossing my fingers that progressive values will win here too. 🤞
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I created a new Twitter account @PoliticalAndi to talk about politics. Let's see if I can get myself into the habit of switching accounts.
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The obvious conclusion to all of these individual subscription streaming services is a bundle where you can pay for all of them at a comparatively lower price, which ultimately will make it impossible to buy them a la carte as providers compete.
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"text": "The obvious conclusion to all of these individual subscription streaming services is a bundle where you can pay for all of them at a comparatively lower price, which ultimately will make it impossible to buy them a la carte as providers compete."
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NYC: where can I watch the debate tomorrow? Other than alone in my AirBnb, obvs.
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"text": "Watched Against Blogging by Zach Whalen from Domains 2019 | YouTube\n\nFor the past 15 years, I\u2019ve included blog assignments in my classes as a default, routine, and generally low-stakes assignment. It began with a simple journal where students kept track of their progress through a video game, and through the years, the assignment has ranged from similarly simple logs or progress reports to the more ornate and decorous \u201cfeatures articles\u201d where students seek to emulate magazine writing and engage with a public audience. At times, like when having a platform online was still a novelty and the adrenaline rush of Web 2.0-fueled activism took flight in the optimism of Barack Obama\u2019s first presidential campaign, blogging totally made sense. As a classroom experience, a blog assignment helped students find their digital identity through written expression. By finding their voice digitally, students found themselves.\nBut while this will still happen, and while I still see brilliant writing from my students, the era when the exigency of a blog assignment can be reliably vindicated by an authentic external audience has ended. It\u2019s time for something else, which means it\u2019s time to re-evaluate what blogs have been and what we have needed them for in order to find the best ways to meet those goals through other means. In this short presentation, I will offer several suggestions.\nThis is, however, an aspirational proposal. I\u2019m writing this between semesters as I reflect on the Fall \u2014 where blog assignments didn\u2019t always meet my goals or in some cases arguably undermined other goals for my class \u2014 and thinking ahead to the Spring \u2014 when I hope to implement some new assignments based on this recent conviction about the ineffectuality of blog assignments. Therefore, by June, my expectation is that I will have something new to report: either finding success with an entirely new set of assignments and corresponding tools, or returning to the familiar embrace of blog assignments with a renewed sense of their value.\nMost likely, I\u2019ll be somewhere in between, but my hunch is that different forms of discursive content creation will help students take control of their learning and find direction for their digital identities. Whatever I find in the coming semester, I\u2019m confident that I\u2019ll be ready to share some insight into the intents, purposes, and outcomes of inviting students to do intellectual work on the internet of 2019.\nNotes as they occur to me while I\u2019m watching this video:\nTo me blogging is a means of thinking out loud.\nOf course having a site doesn\u2019t mean one is blogging. In fact, in my case, I\u2019m collecting bits and pieces on my site like a digital commonplace book, and out of those collections come some quick basic thoughts, and often some longer pieces, which could be called blog posts, but really are essays that help to shape my thinking. I really wish more people would eschew social media and use their own websites this way.\nWe need to remember that a website or domain is FAR, FAR more than just a simple blog.\u00a0\nIt kills me how many in the edtech/Domains space seem to love memes. It\u2019s always cute and fun, but they feel so vapid and ineffectual. It\u2019s like copying someone else\u2019s work and trying to pass it off as our own. English teachers used to say, \u201cDon\u2019t be clich\u00e9,\u201d but now through the use of digital memes they\u2019re almost encouraging it. Why not find interesting images and create something new and dramatically different.\u00a0 (I can\u2019t help but think of the incredibly unique Terry Gilliam \u201ccartoons\u201d in Monty Python\u2019s Flying Circus and the phrase \u201cand now for something completely different\u2026\u201d.\nZach uses the phrase \u201cpersonal learning journal\u201d but doesn\u2019t quite get to the idea of using domains as digital commonplace books.\u00a0 He also looks at other social sites like Tik-Tok, Instagram stories, YouTube channels, and Twitter hashtags, but doesn\u2019t consider that what those things are could easily be contained within one\u2019s own personal site/domain. The IndieWeb has been hacking away at just this for several years now. What he\u2019s getting at here, but isn\u2019t quite saying is \u201cWhy can\u2019t we expand the Domain beyond the restrained idea of \u201cjust a blog.\u201d And isn\u2019t that just the whole point of the IndieWeb movement? Your website can literally be anything you want it to be! Just go do it. Invent. Iterate. Have fun!\nZack should definitely take a look at what one can do with Webmention. See: Webmentions: Enabling Better Communication on the Internet. I suppose some of the restraint is that most people don\u2019t know that it\u2019s relatively easy now to get one domain to be able to talk to another domain the way social sites like Facebook and Twitter do @mentions. And once you\u2019ve got that, there\u2019s a whole lot more you can do!\nPerhaps what we should do is go back to the early web and the idea of \u201csmall pieces, loosely joined\u201c. What can we do with all the smaller, atomized pieces of the web? How can we use these building blocks in new and unexpected ways? To build new and exciting things? What happens when you combine Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, Blogger, Soundcloud, Foursquare, Flickr, Goodreads, Periscope, Lobsters, TikTok, Quora, Zotero, Flipboard, GitHub, Medium, Huffduffer, Plurk, etc., etc. altogether and mix them up in infinite ways? You get Domains! You may get something as cutting edge\u2013but still relatively straight-laced\u2013as Aaron Parecki\u2019s website, which you might have to dig into to realize just how much he\u2019s got going on there, or you might end up with something as quirky and cool as Kicks Condor\u2019s site or his discovery/syndication channel Indieweb.xyz.\nWant to be able to use your website to highlight and mark up what you read? Go ahead and do that! I have. You could keep a record of everything you watch or listen to. Make a food diary. Track where you\u2019ve been. Want to keep collections of chicken related things so your site can have a chicken feed? Go crazy!!\u00a0\n\u00a0\n\nSyndicated copies to: Twitter icon",
"html": "<span>Watched</span> <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojDBIrykiNc\" class=\"p-name u-url\">Against Blogging</a> by <a href=\"http://www.zachwhalen.net/\" class=\"h-card p-author\"><img class=\"u-photo\" src=\"https://i1.wp.com/s3.amazonaws.com/zotero.org/images/settings/profile/134_200px.png?w=840&ssl=1\" alt=\"Zach Whalen\" width=\"32\" height=\"32\" /><img class=\"u-photo\" src=\"https://i1.wp.com/s3.amazonaws.com/zotero.org/images/settings/profile/134_200px.png?w=840&ssl=1\" alt=\"Zach Whalen\" width=\"32\" height=\"32\" />Zach Whalen</a> from <em><span class=\"p-publication\">Domains 2019 | YouTube</span></em><blockquote class=\"e-summary\">\n\n<p>For the past 15 years, I\u2019ve included blog assignments in my classes as a default, routine, and generally low-stakes assignment. It began with a simple journal where students kept track of their progress through a video game, and through the years, the assignment has ranged from similarly simple logs or progress reports to the more ornate and decorous \u201cfeatures articles\u201d where students seek to emulate magazine writing and engage with a public audience. At times, like when having a platform online was still a novelty and the adrenaline rush of Web 2.0-fueled activism took flight in the optimism of Barack Obama\u2019s first presidential campaign, blogging totally made sense. As a classroom experience, a blog assignment helped students find their digital identity through written expression. By finding their voice digitally, students found themselves.</p>\n<p>But while this will still happen, and while I still see brilliant writing from my students, the era when the exigency of a blog assignment can be reliably vindicated by an authentic external audience has ended. It\u2019s time for something else, which means it\u2019s time to re-evaluate what blogs have been and what we have needed them for in order to find the best ways to meet those goals through other means. In this short presentation, I will offer several suggestions.</p>\n<p>This is, however, an aspirational proposal. I\u2019m writing this between semesters as I reflect on the Fall \u2014 where blog assignments didn\u2019t always meet my goals or in some cases arguably undermined other goals for my class \u2014 and thinking ahead to the Spring \u2014 when I hope to implement some new assignments based on this recent conviction about the ineffectuality of blog assignments. Therefore, by June, my expectation is that I will have something new to report: either finding success with an entirely new set of assignments and corresponding tools, or returning to the familiar embrace of blog assignments with a renewed sense of their value.</p>\n<p>Most likely, I\u2019ll be somewhere in between, but my hunch is that different forms of discursive content creation will help students take control of their learning and find direction for their digital identities. Whatever I find in the coming semester, I\u2019m confident that I\u2019ll be ready to share some insight into the intents, purposes, and outcomes of inviting students to do intellectual work on the internet of 2019.</p>\n</blockquote><p>Notes as they occur to me while I\u2019m watching this video:</p>\n<p>To me blogging is a means of thinking out loud.</p>\n<p>Of course having a site doesn\u2019t mean one is blogging. In fact, in my case, I\u2019m collecting bits and pieces on my site like a digital commonplace book, and out of those collections come some quick basic thoughts, and often some longer pieces, which could be called blog posts, but really are essays that help to shape my thinking. I really wish more people would eschew social media and use their own websites this way.</p>\n<p>We need to remember that a website or domain is FAR, FAR more than just a simple blog.\u00a0</p>\n<p>It kills me how many in the edtech/Domains space seem to love memes. It\u2019s always cute and fun, but they feel so vapid and ineffectual. It\u2019s like copying someone else\u2019s work and trying to pass it off as our own. English teachers used to say, \u201cDon\u2019t be clich\u00e9,\u201d but now through the use of digital memes they\u2019re almost encouraging it. Why not find interesting images and create something new and dramatically different.\u00a0 (I can\u2019t help but think of the incredibly unique Terry Gilliam \u201ccartoons\u201d in Monty Python\u2019s Flying Circus and the phrase \u201cand now for something completely different\u2026\u201d.</p>\n<p>Zach uses the phrase \u201cpersonal learning journal\u201d but doesn\u2019t quite get to the idea of using domains as <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/commonplace_book\">digital commonplace books</a>.\u00a0 He also looks at other social sites like Tik-Tok, Instagram stories, YouTube channels, and Twitter hashtags, but doesn\u2019t consider that what those things are could easily be contained within one\u2019s own personal site/domain. The IndieWeb has been hacking away at just this for several years now. What he\u2019s getting at here, but isn\u2019t quite saying is \u201cWhy can\u2019t we expand the Domain beyond the restrained idea of \u201cjust a blog.\u201d And isn\u2019t that just the whole point of the <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/\">IndieWeb movement</a>? Your website can literally be anything you want it to be! Just go do it. Invent. Iterate. Have fun!</p>\n<p>Zack should definitely take a look at what one can do with <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/Webmention\">Webmention</a>. See: <a href=\"https://boffosocko.com/2018/07/19/webmentions-enabling-better-communication-on-the-internet-2/\">Webmentions: Enabling Better Communication on the Internet</a>. I suppose some of the restraint is that most people don\u2019t know that it\u2019s relatively easy now to get one domain to be able to talk to another domain the way social sites like Facebook and Twitter do @mentions. And once you\u2019ve got that, there\u2019s a whole lot more you can do!</p>\n<p>Perhaps what we should do is go back to the early web and the idea of \u201c<a href=\"http://www.smallpieces.com/\">small pieces, loosely joined</a>\u201c. What can we do with all the smaller, atomized pieces of the web? How can we use these <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/Category:building-blocks\">building blocks</a> in new and unexpected ways? To build new and exciting things? What happens when you combine Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, Blogger, Soundcloud, Foursquare, Flickr, Goodreads, Periscope, Lobsters, TikTok, Quora, Zotero, Flipboard, GitHub, Medium, Huffduffer, Plurk, etc., etc. altogether and mix them up in infinite ways? <em>You get Domains!</em> You may get something as cutting edge\u2013but still relatively straight-laced\u2013as <a href=\"https://aaronparecki.com/\">Aaron Parecki\u2019s</a> website, which you might have to dig into to realize just how much he\u2019s got going on there, or you might end up with something as quirky and cool as <a href=\"https://www.kickscondor.com/\">Kicks Condor\u2019s</a> site or his discovery/syndication channel <a href=\"https://indieweb.xyz/en\">Indieweb.xyz</a>.</p>\n<p>Want to be able to use your website to highlight and mark up what you read? Go ahead and do that! <a href=\"https://boffosocko.com/kind/highlight/\">I have</a>. You could keep a record of everything you <a href=\"https://boffosocko.com/kind/watch/\">watch</a> or <a href=\"https://boffosocko.com/kind/listen/\">listen</a> to. Make a <a href=\"https://boffosocko.com/kind/eat,drink/\">food diary</a>. Track <a href=\"https://boffosocko.com/category/checkin/\">where you\u2019ve been</a>. Want to keep <a href=\"https://boffosocko.com/kind/chicken/\">collections of chicken related things</a> so your site can have a <a href=\"https://boffosocko.com/kind/chicken/feed/\">chicken feed</a>? Go crazy!!\u00a0</p>\n<p>\u00a0</p>\n\n<span>Syndicated copies to:</span><ul><li><a class=\"u-syndication\" href=\"https://twitter.com/ChrisAldrich/status/1141581053590511616\"> <span style=\"max-width:1rem;margin:2px;\" title=\"twitter\">Twitter icon</span></a></li></ul>"
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Its not like Blu-Ray and DVD are completely dead yet. Buy the entire series for cheap! Rip it! Store it on your laptop, phone, or tablet! You could also just buy the entire thing on iTunes, though that’ll cost you a lot more, and is closer to renting than you think...
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