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        "text": "Neighborhood meetin (@ 503 Distilling Cocktail Lounge in Portland, OR) swarmapp.com/c/3b0gy8V9B56",
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IndieWeb Readlists: Tools and Brainstorming

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        "text": "Readlists revived\nApparently early last year Jim Nielsen (Twitter) cleverly rebuilt an IndieWeb friendly version of readlist functionality! He describes his motivation and provides some examples in his post (Re)Introducing Readlists. You can try it out at https://readlists.jim-nielsen.com/.\nMissing ReadLists.com\nI fondly remember the original ReadLists site, and I too have desperately missed my account and the ability to more easily create and share \u201cmixtapes, but for reading\u201d from my own site or in formats like .epub, .mobi, and .pdf. I still remember the now missing textbook I made with ReadLists because I foolishly relied on an embeddable widget to display content on my website.\nJust a month ago I wanted to pull out all the archived articles of Manfred Keuhn\u2019s excellent and now memory-holed blog Taking Notes and turn them into an e-book. The process was just too painful and tedious, in part because some of the individual articles weren\u2019t individually archived though they were archived on monthly archive pages.\nWith Jim\u2019s tool the process has now gotten a bit easier.\nBrainstorming improvements and other options\nIt does make me wonder how we might make the the process of doing this sort of thing easier. What sorts of formats and building blocks could mitigate some of the work? Are there an potential standards that could be leveraged? How could one take linkblogs and convert them into a book for reading offline? Could one take an h-feed and pipe it into such a tool? Or RSS/Atom to e-book tools? Could I take collections from tools like Zotero and pipe them into such a service to bundle up journal articles? Could the idea be expanded into something along the lines of Huffduffer and provide similar sorts of native APIs? How could it be made more IndieWeb friendly? Micropub support, perhaps? Could Microsub readers take inputs and provide e-book outputs?\nI know that there are a handful of browser extensions that will help one convert URLs into e-books. Some even take lists of open browser tabs and automatically convert them into an e-book, but these don\u2019t allow one to easily share the lists so that users can pick and choose what to omit, or add other content to them.\nHow might we encourage community curated readlists?\nHow might this all tie into the rise of the prominence of the newsletter over the past several years? How could I more easily pipe subscriptions into such a tool to give me daily/weekly/monthly e-books of content?\nWhat else are we missing?",
        "html": "<h2>Readlists revived</h2>\n<p>Apparently early last year <a class=\"h-card u-category\" href=\"https://www.jim-nielsen.com/\">Jim Nielsen</a> (<a href=\"https://twitter.com/jimniels\">Twitter</a>) cleverly rebuilt an <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/friendly\">IndieWeb friendly</a> version of <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/reading_list\">readlist</a> functionality! He describes his motivation and provides some examples in his post <a href=\"https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2021/reintroducing-readlists/\"><em>(Re)Introducing Readlists</em></a>. You can try it out at <a href=\"https://readlists.jim-nielsen.com/\">https://readlists.jim-nielsen.com/</a>.</p>\n<h2>Missing ReadLists.com</h2>\n<p>I fondly remember the original ReadLists site, and I too have desperately missed <a href=\"https://boffosocko.com/about/social-media-accounts-and-links/#Readlist\">my account</a> and the ability to more easily create and share \u201cmixtapes, but for reading\u201d from my own site or in formats like .epub, .mobi, and .pdf. I still remember the now missing <a href=\"https://boffosocko.com/2015/04/03/machiavelli-in-hollywood-gavin-polones-textbook-on-the-entertainment-industry/\">textbook I made with ReadLists</a> because I foolishly relied on an embeddable widget to display content on my website.</p>\n<p>Just a month ago I wanted to pull out all the archived articles of Manfred Keuhn\u2019s excellent and now memory-holed blog <a href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20190909003347/http://takingnotenow.blogspot.com/\">Taking Notes</a> and turn them into an e-book. The process was just too painful and tedious, in part because some of the individual articles weren\u2019t individually archived though they were archived on monthly archive pages.</p>\n<p>With Jim\u2019s tool the process has now gotten a bit easier.</p>\n<h2>Brainstorming improvements and other options</h2>\n<p>It does make me wonder how we might make the the process of doing this sort of thing easier. What sorts of formats and building blocks could mitigate some of the work? Are there an potential standards that could be leveraged? How could one take linkblogs and convert them into a book for reading offline? Could one take an <code><a href=\"http://microformats.org/wiki/h-feed\">h-feed</a></code> and pipe it into such a tool? Or RSS/Atom to e-book tools? Could I take collections from tools like Zotero and pipe them into such a service to bundle up journal articles? Could the idea be expanded into something along the lines of <a href=\"https://huffduffer.com/api\">Huffduffer and provide similar sorts of native APIs</a>? How could it be made more IndieWeb friendly? Micropub support, perhaps? Could Microsub readers take inputs and provide e-book outputs?</p>\n<p>I know that there are a handful of <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/reading_list#Tools\">browser extensions that will help one convert URLs into e-books</a>. Some even take lists of open browser tabs and automatically convert them into an e-book, but these don\u2019t allow one to easily share the lists so that users can pick and choose what to omit, or add other content to them.</p>\n<p>How might we encourage community curated readlists?</p>\n<p>How might this all tie into the rise of the prominence of the newsletter over the past several years? How could I more easily pipe subscriptions into such a tool to give me daily/weekly/monthly e-books of content?</p>\n<p>What else are we missing?</p>"
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        "text": "Apparently early last year @JimNiels cleverly rebuilt an #IndieWeb friendly version of readlist functionality! He describes his motivation and provides some examples in his post (Re)Introducing Readlists. You can try it out at readlists.jim-nielsen.com.\nboffosocko.com/2022/03/26/ind\u2026",
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    "quotation-of": "https://twitter.com/awgaffney/status/1507723065916067842",
    "content": {
        "text": "The Kid Rock propaganda was very careful to exclude the poor and the elderly as victims of covid"
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                "text": "We found that nationwide, uninsured people were more likely to get Covid-19 in 2020 (probably still true). \n\nAnd yet, as of last Tuesday, federal coverage for Covid-19 testing and treatment for the uninsured is no more. An utter travesty. link.springer.com/article/10.100\u2026",
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    "url": "https://twitter.com/karabaic/status/1507776026868211718",
    "content": {
        "text": "Croword 2022-03-26\nScore: 8\n\ud83d\udfe2\ud83d\udfe1\u26ab\u26ab\u26ab\n\ud83d\udfe1\ud83d\udfe1\u26ab\u26ab\u26ab\n\ud83d\udfe1\u26ab\u26ab\u26ab\u26ab\n\u26ab\u26ab\u26ab\u26ab\u26ab\n\ud83d\udfe2\ud83d\udfe1\ud83d\udfe1\u26ab\u26ab*\n\ud83d\udfe1\u26ab\u26ab\u26ab\u26ab*\n\ud83d\udfe2\ud83d\udfe2\ud83d\udfe1\u26ab\u26ab*\n\ud83d\udfe2\ud83d\udfe2\ud83d\udfe2\ud83d\udfe2\ud83d\udfe2\n\ncrowmagnumb.github.io/croword",
        "html": "Croword 2022-03-26\nScore: 8\n\ud83d\udfe2\ud83d\udfe1\u26ab\u26ab\u26ab\n\ud83d\udfe1\ud83d\udfe1\u26ab\u26ab\u26ab\n\ud83d\udfe1\u26ab\u26ab\u26ab\u26ab\n\u26ab\u26ab\u26ab\u26ab\u26ab\n\ud83d\udfe2\ud83d\udfe1\ud83d\udfe1\u26ab\u26ab*\n\ud83d\udfe1\u26ab\u26ab\u26ab\u26ab*\n\ud83d\udfe2\ud83d\udfe2\ud83d\udfe1\u26ab\u26ab*\n\ud83d\udfe2\ud83d\udfe2\ud83d\udfe2\ud83d\udfe2\ud83d\udfe2\n\n<a href=\"https://crowmagnumb.github.io/croword\">crowmagnumb.github.io/croword</a>"
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        "name": "jack the nonabrasive",
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    "published": "2022-03-26T17:11:02+00:00",
    "url": "https://twitter.com/jgmac1106/status/1507767091662934021",
    "content": {
        "text": "Trying to draw up plans to carve the Knights next.\n\nMeasurement matters so much more in asymmetrical carving.\n\nTill it doesn't and I go where the knife takes me, which in turn dulls the blade.\n\nBut the mind?\n\n#makeartworkstinks\n#clmooc lnkd.in/eTrUdqk8",
        "html": "Trying to draw up plans to carve the Knights next.\n\nMeasurement matters so much more in asymmetrical carving.\n\nTill it doesn't and I go where the knife takes me, which in turn dulls the blade.\n\nBut the mind?\n\n<a href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23makeartworkstinks\">#makeartworkstinks</a>\n<a href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23clmooc\">#clmooc</a> <a href=\"https://lnkd.in/eTrUdqk8\">lnkd.in/eTrUdqk8</a>"
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    "url": "https://twitter.com/anomalily/status/1507751551107952644",
    "content": {
        "text": "My big accomplishment of the week is testing negative for Covid (twice) and staying awake for 24.5 hours while traveling so I slept on local time. Now I\u2019m back home and jetlag free the next morning!"
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        "type": "card",
        "name": "Lillian Karabaic",
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    "url": "https://twitter.com/jgmac1106/status/1507742130198003712",
    "content": {
        "text": "Teaching with #TextStructure works from Kindergarten to College\n#k12 #teachereducation #education lnkd.in/eJWytE54",
        "html": "Teaching with <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23TextStructure\">#TextStructure</a> works from Kindergarten to College\n<a href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23k12\">#k12</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23teachereducation\">#teachereducation</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23education\">#education</a> <a href=\"https://lnkd.in/eJWytE54\">lnkd.in/eJWytE54</a>"
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        "type": "card",
        "name": "https://jgregorymcverry.com",
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    "url": "https://martymcgui.re/2022/03/26/102410/",
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    "content": {
        "text": "Is it bed and pajamas time during eternal Caturday?",
        "html": "<p>Is it bed and pajamas time during eternal Caturday?</p>"
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        "type": "card",
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    "url": "https://twitter.com/karabaic/status/1507726433933701123",
    "content": {
        "text": "Wordle 280 4/6*\n\n\u2b1b\u2b1b\u2b1b\u2b1b\ud83d\udfe8\n\u2b1b\ud83d\udfe8\u2b1b\ud83d\udfe8\u2b1b\n\u2b1b\ud83d\udfe8\u2b1b\ud83d\udfe8\u2b1b\n\ud83d\udfe9\ud83d\udfe9\ud83d\udfe9\ud83d\udfe9\ud83d\udfe9"
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        "type": "card",
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    "published": "2022-03-26T13:03:33+00:00",
    "url": "https://twitter.com/aaronpk/status/1507704812179116037",
    "content": {
        "text": "Not being able to taste anything sure puts a damper on my interest in eating. I'm sure that avocado toast was delicious though."
    },
    "author": {
        "type": "card",
        "name": "Aaron Parecki",
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        "text": "Not being able to taste anything sure puts a damper on my interest in eating. I'm sure that avocado toast was delicious though."
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    "url": "https://twitter.com/jgmac1106/status/1507681900638449664",
    "content": {
        "text": "Amazing job for those into #sports #marketing and #socialmedia\n\n#GoYankees\n#GoPatriots lnkd.in/eChY2KET",
        "html": "Amazing job for those into <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23sports\">#sports</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23marketing\">#marketing</a> and <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23socialmedia\">#socialmedia</a>\n\n<a href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23GoYankees\">#GoYankees</a>\n<a href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23GoPatriots\">#GoPatriots</a> <a href=\"https://lnkd.in/eChY2KET\">lnkd.in/eChY2KET</a>"
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    "url": "https://twitter.com/aaronpk/status/1507676503697342467",
    "content": {
        "text": "on second thought, uploading this 20gb video to youtube on hotel wifi may not be the best plan"
    },
    "author": {
        "type": "card",
        "name": "Aaron Parecki",
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    "content": {
        "text": "on second thought, uploading this 20gb video to youtube on hotel wifi may not be the best plan"
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        "type": "card",
        "name": "Aaron Parecki",
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Lost Touch

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        "text": "An article from The Guardian that\u2019s been sitting in my backlog for a while (it was published back in January, 2021), Eleanor Morgan discusses \u201cLost touch: how a year without hugs affects our mental health\u201c. It\u2019s not a particularly long read, but does have some good links to research and other information about the impact not having enough human contact in your life can have.\n\n\n\nAs adults, we may not comprehend the importance of touch even when it disappears. \u201cWe might begin to realise that something is missing, but we won\u2019t always know that it\u2019s touch,\u201d says Prof Francis McGlone, a neuroscientist based at Liverpool John Moores University and a leader in the field of affective touch. \u201cBut when we talk about the problem of loneliness, we often ignore the obvious: what lonely people aren\u2019t getting is touch.\u201d\n\n\n\nCertainly strikes true to me.\n\n\n\n\u201cTouch is a modulator that can temper the effects of stress and pain, physical and emotional. We have seen in our research that a lack of touch is associated with greater anxiety,\u201d says [Dr. Katerina] Fotopoulou. \u201cIn times of high stress \u2013 the loss of a job, or a bereavement, for example \u2013 having more touch from others helps us cope better, particularly in calming\u00a0the effects of [the stress hormone] cortisol.\u201d Even if we\u2019re used to not being touched a lot, after a while the need can feel very physical \u2013 sometimes described as \u201cskin hunger\u201d or \u201ctouch hunger\u201d.\n\n\n\nI also thought it was interesting to hear about CTs \u2013 nerves we have that are keyed for gentle contact:\n\n\n\nThe\u00a0two square metres of skin that contain us are teeming with nerve fibres that recognise temperature, texture and itch, etc. One set of fibres exists purely to register gentle, stroking touch: the\u00a0C tactile afferents (CTs). [Professor Francis] McGlone has been studying this since 1995, when it was discovered in humans. \u201cThese neurons, in the skin of all social mammals, transmit slow electrical signals to the emotional processing parts of the brain. They play a critical role in developing the social brain and our ability to withstand stress.\u201d\n\n\n\nI\u2019ve discussed loneliness and depression on here before, it\u2019s a bit of a recurring topic. I\u2019ve seen and read other articles discussing the topic of the need for physical contact (and could have sworn I\u2019d linked to some on here, though they seem to be escaping my search at the moment), and it\u2019s something I\u2019ve definitely given a lot of thought to \u2013 I\u2019ve gone through various periods in my life where I had very little physical contact, and know from experience what a difference it can make on my general health, happiness, and wellbeing.",
        "html": "<p>An article from The Guardian that\u2019s been sitting in my backlog for a while (it was published back in January, 2021), Eleanor Morgan discusses \u201c<a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/jan/24/lost-touch-how-a-year-without-hugs-affects-our-mental-health?utm_source=dlvr.it&amp;utm_medium=facebook&amp;fbclid=IwAR26HsTWoqIEh45ChLv0JeHX0LFstB4UHmt3u5z08-8Hhxis5GltnJQZKeQ\">Lost touch: how a year without hugs affects our mental health</a>\u201c. It\u2019s not a particularly long read, but does have some good links to research and other information about the impact not having enough human contact in your life can have.</p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote><p>As adults, we may not comprehend the importance of touch even when it disappears. \u201cWe might begin to realise that something is missing, but we won\u2019t always know that it\u2019s touch,\u201d says Prof Francis McGlone, a neuroscientist based at Liverpool John Moores University and a leader in the field of affective touch. \u201cBut when we talk about the problem of loneliness, we often ignore the obvious: what lonely people aren\u2019t getting is touch.\u201d</p></blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Certainly strikes true to me.</p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote><p>\u201cTouch is a modulator that can temper the effects of stress and pain, physical and emotional. We have seen in our research that a lack of touch is associated with greater anxiety,\u201d says [Dr. Katerina] Fotopoulou. \u201cIn times of high stress \u2013 the loss of a job, or a bereavement, for example \u2013 having more touch from others helps us cope better, particularly in calming<a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/feb/04/stress-anxiety-knees-weak-palms-sweaty\">\u00a0the effects of [the stress hormone] cortisol</a>.\u201d Even if we\u2019re used to not being touched a lot, after a while the need can feel very physical \u2013 sometimes described as \u201cskin hunger\u201d or \u201ctouch hunger\u201d.</p></blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>I also thought it was interesting to hear about CTs \u2013 nerves we have that are keyed for gentle contact:</p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote><p>The<a href=\"https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/health-and-human-body/human-body/skin/#:~:text=Skin%20is%20our%20largest%20organ,than%20make%20us%20look%20presentable.\">\u00a0two square metres of skin</a> that contain us are teeming with nerve fibres that recognise temperature, texture and itch, etc. One set of fibres exists purely to register gentle, stroking touch: the<a href=\"https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0173457\">\u00a0C tactile afferents (CTs)</a>. [Professor Francis] McGlone has been studying this since 1995, when it was discovered in humans. \u201cThese neurons, in the skin of all social mammals, transmit slow electrical signals to the emotional processing parts of the brain. They play a critical role in developing the social brain and our ability to withstand stress.\u201d</p></blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ve discussed <a href=\"https://nadreck.me/tag/loneliness/\">loneliness</a> and <a href=\"https://nadreck.me/tag/depression/\">depression</a> on here before, it\u2019s a bit of a recurring topic. I\u2019ve seen and read other articles discussing the topic of the need for physical contact (and could have sworn I\u2019d linked to some on here, though they seem to be escaping my search at the moment), and it\u2019s something I\u2019ve definitely given a lot of thought to \u2013 I\u2019ve gone through various periods in my life where I had very little physical contact, and know from experience what a difference it can make on my general health, happiness, and wellbeing.</p>"
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        "text": "I'm sitting in my hotel room eating this m\u00fcsli with yogurt and strawberries thinking \"wow these strawberries sure don't have much flavor\" ...and then it hit me... \n\nI opened up Thursday's leftovers of extremely pungent lentil salad with blue cheese and it doesn't smell like anything either. \n\nThe only thing I can smell is the hand sanitizer which frankly was way too smelly before, that and a hint of coffee.",
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        "text": "\u624b\u6253\u8089\u6392\u86cb\u8d77\u53f8 \ud83d\udc95"
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                "text": "The last thing you ate is his name"
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    "published": "2022-03-26T05:07:24+00:00",
    "url": "https://twitter.com/matthewmcvickar/status/1507584982994153474",
    "content": {
        "text": "Idler Wheel > Extraordinary Machine > When the Pawn > Tidal > Fetch the Bolt Cutters",
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        "name": "Matthew McVickar",
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        "text": "This Fiona Apple song from the \u2018This Is 40\u2019 soundtrack back in 2012 is really, really good. youtube.com/watch?v=Z7nekC\u2026",
        "html": "This Fiona Apple song from the \u2018This Is 40\u2019 soundtrack back in 2012 is really, really good. <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7nekCeeRyg\">youtube.com/watch?v=Z7nekC\u2026</a>"
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        "name": "Matthew McVickar",
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