TODAY: Donate, and renew arts & science memberships:
@ACLU 2x
@PPact 3x
@InternetArchive 2x
@Wikipedia
@Mozilla**
@EFF
@CalAcademy
@deYoungMuseum
@Exploratorium
@SFMOMA
Donate/renew NOW for 2018+2019 for 2-3x match and keep funding science ! Why:
Why you must act TODAY (everyone)
Several of the above charitable organizations have matching donations that will increase your donation 2-3x IF you donate by end of day TODAY 2018-12-31 US Timezones.
See the 2x/3x next to the @-names for which organizations and how much.
Why you must act TODAY (US friends)
It’s the last day of 2018. By donating today, you may be able to itemize your donations and deduct them from your 2018 Federal taxes (IANAA, talk to your accountant regarding itemizing vs using the standard deduction).
You can donate to all of these organizations online and get an email receipt in minutes (I confirmed this by donating/renewing all the above personally).
See each Twitter profile above for their site/donation URLs.
**Disclosure: I work for @Mozilla, on & with open web standards & communities @indiewebcamp @microformats @W3C @WHATWG supported by @Firefox to provide a more human-centric, private, and secure web for all users. #fightfortheuser
Previously: tantek.com/2017/365/t1/today-donate-renew-arts-science
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Created #indieweb wiki page: https://indieweb.org/monthly_recap
Noticed @SwarmApp’s monthly recap today. It looked like a nice feature we could have on our own websites, documented it, and @cleverdevil quickly prototyped it on his own site!
Seen monthly recaps on any other sites? Please contribute!
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"text": "It\u2019s that time of year again! No, not awards season\u2026Bridgy stats time!\nLooking at the graphs, the elephant in the room is clearly the Facebook shutdown. It was Bridgy\u2019s second largest silo, numbering 1477 users when we were forced to disable it on August 1. Bittersweet.\nOn the plus side, I rearchitected in March and moved polling to a separate background service, which helped App Engine\u2019s scheduler handle our workload much better. We now consistently run on one backend instance and one frontend instance, which brings costs down from $70-100/month to a very predictable $35-40. Winning!\nLet\u2019s go to the numbers. Since launch in December 2013: 3793 users, 1.22M webmentions sent successfully to almost 2000 unique domains, 12.8M responses handled (likes, comments etc), 42K POSSEs published, total cost back down to ~$.01/user/month (from ~$.02 a year ago).\nData,\nmethodology,\npreviously,\npreviously,\npreviously,\npreviously.",
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@abritinthebay there are a couple of open source Javascript #microformats2 parsers:
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17:30: Optional writing hour and quiet socializing
18:30: IndieWeb demos and hack night!
Homebrew Website Club retro 1980s-style logo
Topics for this week: Year-end hack projects 2018 IndieWeb Challenge is almost done! IndieWebCamp Austin 2019 — make plans! Demos of personal website breakthroughs Create or update your personal web site!
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Last year I completed 100 Days of Positive Posts #100DoPP.^1
This year I started 100 Days of Positive Doing Posting Days #100PDPD and stopped after 8 days.^2
Missing from both of those was why. Why post positive things?
Why may be insufficient to motivate, which implies a drive to action.
More motivating: why post positive things promptly?
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I’ve posted a lot less, recently, and this past year.
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From a broader #indieweb community, technology, and social perspective, I think we must ask what incentives are we creating, amplifying, and propagating by everything we invent and promote? What incentives should / can we design for?
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Done for the day. Time to sit on the couch and watch YouTube videos with @indiewebcat
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"name": "My crypto and indie web goals for 2019",
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"html": "<p>Steven Johnson, in <a href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/16/magazine/beyond-the-bitcoin-bubble.html\">Beyond the Bitcoin Bubble</a>:</p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote><p>The true believers behind blockchain platforms like Ethereum argue that a network of distributed trust is one of those advances in software architecture that will prove, in the long run, to have historic significance. </p></blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m very late to the game in reading Johnson\u2019s piece in the NYT. I\u2019ve had it stored in Pocket for far too long. I\u2019m glad I took the time this morning while drinking my coffee to read it. It is very good. It includes many things I think about most; the open web, how tech giants are so important in what the future will look like, and what we can do to mitigate the downsides of them owning the future.</p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http://cdevroe.com/2011/05/17/bitcoin/\">Since 2011</a>, I\u2019ve been asked about Bitcoin and blockchain from time-to-time. <a href=\"http://cdevroe.com/2017/12/13/please-bitcoin-party-no/\">My advice to people</a> (including myself) is to recommend people do their own research.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ve been buying BTC lately. Partly because the price is rather low at the moment but also partly because I have a completely different goal in 2019. I\u2019m not prospecting. If my wallet\u2019s value appreciates, excellent. If it doesn\u2019t, I don\u2019t care. My goal in 2019 is to use crypto currency (likely Bitcoin or Ether?) to pay for some every day mundane things. My goal is to transact the equivalent of around $10,000 USD in some form of crypto during the course of the year. That could be accepting crypto or spending crypto. It is my hope that by not being a <a href=\"https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hodl\">hodlr</a>, and also not trying to get rich, that I will help the crypto financial ecosystem in some small way.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Going back to Johnson\u2019s piece. He writes a lot about the open web and the open protocols that are in place and how on top of those certain companies own things like our identity. He doesn\u2019t quite go so far as to mention <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/Category:building-blocks\">the Building Blocks of the indie web</a> but I wish he had. But I think we\u2019re starting to see decentralization on many fronts happen. I think 2018 was a big year for this and I think the shift is only going go accelerate.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m not going to make any predictions specifically for 2019 since I believe it will take longer than that. However, with blogging being easier than ever, with Mastodon and indie web protocols, and <a href=\"https://solid.mit.edu/\">Solid</a> and many other projects happening \u2013 I think we\u2019ll start to see the power of Facebook and Google splinter. Even if it only splinters a little it will be a good thing for the open web.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>My indie web goal is to bring my personal site a little more inline with indie web principles. As you long time readers will know, supporting the indie web exhausted me. <a href=\"http://cdevroe.com/2017/05/08/my-old-blog-is-back/\">I gave up</a>. It was too hard. But, the beginning of such things is hard and I should buck up and figure it out. If I do and somehow help make it easier for the next person the web will be a better place.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>I recommend reading Johnson\u2019s entire piece.</p>",
"text": "Steven Johnson, in Beyond the Bitcoin Bubble:\n\n\n\nThe true believers behind blockchain platforms like Ethereum argue that a network of distributed trust is one of those advances in software architecture that will prove, in the long run, to have historic significance. \n\n\n\nI’m very late to the game in reading Johnson’s piece in the NYT. I’ve had it stored in Pocket for far too long. I’m glad I took the time this morning while drinking my coffee to read it. It is very good. It includes many things I think about most; the open web, how tech giants are so important in what the future will look like, and what we can do to mitigate the downsides of them owning the future.\n\n\n\nSince 2011, I’ve been asked about Bitcoin and blockchain from time-to-time. My advice to people (including myself) is to recommend people do their own research.\n\n\n\nI’ve been buying BTC lately. Partly because the price is rather low at the moment but also partly because I have a completely different goal in 2019. I’m not prospecting. If my wallet’s value appreciates, excellent. If it doesn’t, I don’t care. My goal in 2019 is to use crypto currency (likely Bitcoin or Ether?) to pay for some every day mundane things. My goal is to transact the equivalent of around $10,000 USD in some form of crypto during the course of the year. That could be accepting crypto or spending crypto. It is my hope that by not being a hodlr, and also not trying to get rich, that I will help the crypto financial ecosystem in some small way.\n\n\n\nGoing back to Johnson’s piece. He writes a lot about the open web and the open protocols that are in place and how on top of those certain companies own things like our identity. He doesn’t quite go so far as to mention the Building Blocks of the indie web but I wish he had. But I think we’re starting to see decentralization on many fronts happen. I think 2018 was a big year for this and I think the shift is only going go accelerate.\n\n\n\nI’m not going to make any predictions specifically for 2019 since I believe it will take longer than that. However, with blogging being easier than ever, with Mastodon and indie web protocols, and Solid and many other projects happening – I think we’ll start to see the power of Facebook and Google splinter. Even if it only splinters a little it will be a good thing for the open web.\n\n\n\nMy indie web goal is to bring my personal site a little more inline with indie web principles. As you long time readers will know, supporting the indie web exhausted me. I gave up. It was too hard. But, the beginning of such things is hard and I should buck up and figure it out. If I do and somehow help make it easier for the next person the web will be a better place.\n\n\n\nI recommend reading Johnson’s entire piece."
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"published": "2018-12-21T13:29:29-05:00",
"updated": "2018-12-21T13:29:30-05:00",
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"bitcoin",
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"cryptocurrency",
"indieweb",
"open web",
"solid",
"steven johnson",
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