My Discovery Strategy, v0.2

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        "name": "Neil Mather",
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    "url": "https://doubleloop.net/2019/10/05/discovery-strategy/",
    "published": "2019-10-05T13:20:11+00:00",
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        "html": "I\u2019m reflecting on my <a href=\"https://www.zylstra.org/blog/information-strategies-overview/\">information strategy</a> and how to improve it at the moment. Here\u2019s <a href=\"https://doubleloop.net/2019/10/04/working-on-an-indie-information-strategy/\">the intro post to that</a>, giving a bit of context.\n<p>In this particular post I\u2019m going to chat specifically about discovery, AKA using the Intertubes to find out about interesting things. I can\u2019t help but call my strategy for this my <strong>discostrat</strong>, apologies for that. I\u2019ll talk a bit about how I\u2019ve had it set up for a while, and some recent tweaks I\u2019ve made to it, and maybe some ways I want to improve it more.</p>\n<a href=\"https://doubleloop.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/discoball-ideas.jpg\"><img src=\"https://doubleloop.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/discoball-ideas-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" /></a>Photo by <a href=\"https://unsplash.com/@vale_zmeykov?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\">Vale Zmeykov</a> on Unsplash<h2>What\u2019s in a discovery strategy?</h2>\n<p>I\u2019m no expert, just brainstorming really, but I guess it breaks down into: the <em>content</em> of the information that I\u2019m pulling in, the <em>sources</em> I get it from, and how I <em>organise</em> those sources logically (like how do I group it together somewhere I can read it).  Additionally, there are the more mechanical and physical concerns, so to speak \u2013 basically what <em>tools</em> do I use to do the pulling and the grouping of the info.</p>\n<h2>The content</h2>\n<p>So for discovery sources I\u2019ve been using a mish-mash of Fediverse and IndieWeb for a while. I\u2019ve definitely been finding out about plenty of interesting things from them both, but I think it\u2019s fair to say it\u2019s on a fairly niche set of topics.</p>\n<h3>Niche topics</h3>\n<p>Via the Fediverse I get a good dose of info and thoughts on free software, free culture, lefty political theorising, amongst other things. IndieWeb still feels fairly \u2018inside baseball\u2019, so to speak, in that the early adopters are predominantly web developers, so there\u2019s lots of webdev and adjacent stuff. Which I like, but I do want more than that. It\u2019s breaking out of that though for sure, and I probably also just need to widen the circle of people that I follow a bit.</p>\n<h3>General topics</h3>\n<p>One example of something I\u2019ve been missing a little from both is insights into general current affairs. General as in, the kind of stuff that makes it onto the 6 o\u2019clock news. I like to try and keep up on my local and global political happenings, but quite a lot of people <em>don\u2019t</em> want that on the Fediverse (I think because it can become toxic quite quickly), so it\u2019s usually content-warning\u2019ed, and just seems less prevalent in general. From the IndieWeb, it might just be my follow list, but I also see very little politics on there. I find this is one spot where institutional feeds come in handy \u2013 usually medium-to-longform articles with a bit of editorial overview can be less despair-inducing than a barrage of microblogged hot takes thrown over a parapet. I do also occassionally pop over to the Guardian and the BBC to scan the headlines and see what the world is in a fuss about today.</p>\n<h3>Human stuff</h3>\n<p>This is purely anecdotal, but I feel that from people\u2019s personal blogs I see a bit more posting about hobbies and individual passions. People on blogs feel slightly less performative than people on big social networks. That\u2019s just a hunch though \u2013 maybe there\u2019s a rich seam of that stuff elsewhere too and I just don\u2019t tap into it. But anyway, I love people\u2019s hobbies and the human stuff, so that\u2019s really important. I don\u2019t want a pallid world of professional thoughts and LinkedIn profiles.</p>\n<p>For individual people\u2019s thoughts on the less esoteric topics, or for more geographically local stuff, I seem more likely to find people who talk about that on Twitter. I guess just because it has got more critical mass right now. Like I\u2019m more likely to find out about something cool happening in the local town at the weekend from someone on Twitter than elsewhere, right now.</p>\n<p>So yeah, I guess the type of info I want is a combo of niche topics, non-mainstream and mainstream views on general current affairs, local happenings, and the minutiae of people\u2019s lives. And that comes from a variety of sources.</p>\n<h2>Getting it and organising it</h2>\n<p>As <a href=\"https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2018/07/my-ideal-rss-reader/\">Ton says</a>:</p>\n<blockquote><p>I think of feed subscriptions as subscribing to people. I don\u2019t follow your blog, but I follow and interact with you</p></blockquote>\n<p>I like this. And something I like about the IndieWeb reader approach is that its fairly platform-agnostic \u2013 I can pull in feeds (and therefore people) from all over the place, as long as the medium in question provides one or can be shoehorned into one by a bridge such as <a href=\"https://brid.gy/\">brid.gy</a>. That said, not everything I subscribe to is the output of a single person.</p>\n<p>Tool-wise, for Fediverse I\u2019ve been tending to use the default Mastodon interface (i.e. multiple timelines, pings!, scrolly scrolly, infinite), and for IndieWeb and standard site feeds I\u2019m using an <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/reader\">indie reader</a> setup (like an old school RSS reader; but more social and yet less haranguing than other social readers).</p>\n<p>Sad to say that with Mastodon out-of-the-box, I found myself often ending up on the scroll treadmill. As a technology Mastodon has no vested interest in unstoppably grabbing your attention (noone\u2019s profiting from it, at least), so I think it\u2019s partly just a problem with the medium. A constant stream of short nuggets of info, some of which contain gold\u2026 it\u2019s easy to spend too much time scrolling through. Partly too it\u2019s a <a href=\"https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/PEBCAK\">PEBKAC</a> issue \u2013 I think I just get a bit compulsive about it sometimes.</p>\n<p>Either way, I want an alternative to that.</p>\n<p>In general, I find the indie reader style works better for my brain. Couple that with the fact that I can pull in feeds from various places and it\u2019s a double win. Anywhere where a person posts their stuff is a valid home on the web if it works for them.</p>\n<p>So I\u2019m trying to transition to just using the indie reader. (Aaron\u2019s post <a href=\"https://aaronparecki.com/2018/04/20/46/indieweb-reader-my-new-home-on-the-internet\">An IndieWeb reader: My new home on the internet</a> is a good intro to indie readers.)</p>\n<p>If you\u2019re a Fediphile then there\u2019s undoubtedly a Fediverse solution to these challenges too. I just happen to be a bit more indieweb oriented at the moment I think. I used <a href=\"https://brutaldon.online/about\">Brutaldon</a> for a while (\u2018a brutalist interface for Mastodon\u2019) and it\u2019s really good, worth giving it a go if you\u2019re perusing the Fediverse via a browser. There\u2019s no infinite scroll, no bleeps and bloops letting you know something has just happened that you really should look at, etc.</p>\n<p>Worth noting too that if you just wanted to be discovering posts, you could achieve most of this in a normal RSS feed reader I\u2019m sure. I\u2019m using the social reader style of things so that I can interact with posts in the reader too, like you would do in Twitter or Mastodon for example. (Hmm, I <em>think</em> I want interaction within the reader to be part of my information strategy, though I\u2019ll admit I haven\u2019t given that that much thought, I just kind of accepted it as a net positive\u2026 to be revisited.)</p>\n<h2>Tweaking my discovery tools</h2>\n<p>I\u2019ve done a few things to make my reader get me a bit more into the zone of \u2018time well spent\u2019.</p>\n<h3>The structure</h3>\n<p>First up is using a simple version of <a href=\"https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2018/07/my-ideal-rss-reader/\">Ton\u2019s way of organising feeds</a>. (Please do read Ton\u2019s posts on this, as he\u2019s been thinking about his infostrat and refining it for a long time \u2013 I\u2019m an infostrat toddler right now!)</p>\n<p>Prior to doing so, I had my channels set up as \u2018topics\u2019 \u2013 for example an IndieWeb channel, a Tech channel, Environment, Politics, Fixing, etc. In those I would put all feeds related to the given topic \u2013 these could be feeds from people\u2019s (indie)web sites, Mastodon profiles, RSS feeds of articles from big organisations, or Twitter feeds. Doing things this way I usually ended up with just a big load of unread counts, and the stuff from the people I care about just lost in the flood somewhere. Personally right now I want to get deeper knowledge about less things, rather than shallower knowledge about more things, and the firehose approach definitely pushes you towards the latter.</p>\n<p>So I\u2019ve changed it now to be more <em>priority-based</em> (Ton uses the term <a href=\"https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2018/10/feed-reading-strategies-and-tools/\">social distance</a>), rather than topic-based. Certain people (or orgs) that I read or interact with a lot and don\u2019t want to miss their postings, I put in a place where I will look first and most frequently.</p>\n<p>I made two new channels. For reasons not yet entirely clear, even to myself, I\u2019ve currently called them DiscoBall A and DiscoBall B. But naming things is hard, and disco balls are fun, so there we go. The channel known as DiscoBall A, is to hold a small number of people I know well (either from in person or online, for some loosely defined definition of \u2018know\u2019). The other channel, DiscoBall B, is people I know a bit more loosely but find what they post interesting and like to keep abreast of. For these two new A and B channels, I moved the relevant feeds out of my existing general \u2018topic\u2019 channels and into these new ones.</p>\n<p>Everything else I\u2019ve just left as it was for now. So the \u2018topic\u2019 channels still exist as they were before, I just don\u2019t intend to feel compelled to check inside of them so frequently.  Aperture has a nice feature where you can, per channel, turn off \u2018unread\u2019 notifications, so I\u2019ve turned them off for these extra channels. I\u2019ll have a peep into them from time to time, but generally the idea is to just read the A and B channels and dip into the rest if time permits or I\u2019m feeling lucky. In principle though I think I prefer to use that \u2018extra time\u2019 to read through one of the articles I\u2019ve <em>already</em> discovered previously and saved somewhere for later, e.g. with <a href=\"https://wallabag.org/\">Wallabag</a>. I have a huge backlogs of those.</p>\n<h3>The mechanics</h3>\n<p>So as I said the feeds come from websites, Mastodon, and Twitter. I\u2019m using <a href=\"https://aperture.p3k.io/\">Aperture</a> as my Microsub server, combined with <a href=\"https://alltogethernow.io/\">Together</a> as a web client to read the feeds and <a href=\"https://indigenous.realize.be/\">Indigenous</a> as a mobile client. These are \u2018social readers\u2019, in that I can also interact with the posts (like, reply, repost, etc) directly in my reader. Aperture does the heavy lifting of pulling in content, and leaves the display and interaction to the clients. (If you just wanted to view posts, you could achieve most of this in a normal RSS feed reader).</p>\n<p>To subscribe to an IndieWeb feed is simple \u2013 just point Aperture to the person\u2019s homepage and pick out their feed (whether its microformats or RSS or Atom). To get a Mastodon feed, you can either grab it as Microformats by plugging in the person\u2019s URL from their home instance, e.g.</p>\n<pre>https://social.coop/@neil/</pre>\n<p>or using that same URL with <code>.rss</code> or <code>.atom</code> appended to the URL, e.g.</p>\n<pre>https://social.coop/@neil.atom</pre>\n<p>I\u2019m using the Atom feeds at the moment, something seemed a bit funky about the Microformats feed, but I haven\u2019t tested it thoroughly yet.</p>\n<p>To get a Twitter feed is a bit more work, as they don\u2019t provide feeds anymore like they used to. I use <a href=\"https://granary.io/\">granary.io</a> to get Twitter feeds (more info on that <a href=\"https://doubleloop.net/2019/03/12/following-twitter-peeps-in-an-indiereader-with-granary-io-and-microsub/\">in a previous post</a>). It would be possible to subscribe to each person individually and put them into the A and B channels that way \u2013 but that\u2019s more taxing on granary and Aperture (both awesome and freely provided hosted services). So for my A and B lists I\u2019ve created Twitter lists and put people into those lists there, then just add those two feeds to the channels via granary.</p>\n<p>(As a side note, even though you don\u2019t need to technically speaking, I think it\u2019s probably good etiquette to \u2018follow\u2019 the person in the Fediverse or Twitter if you\u2019re adding their feed to your reader. How people post might be affected by who is following them, so probably good to make it explicit.)</p>\n<h3>The cons</h3>\n<p>So \u2013 one downside so far with this set up, is I feel like I\u2019m probably reenforcing my filter bubble somewhat, if I\u2019m reading a smaller group of people that I know I already like the cut of their gibs. Dipping into the wider group from time might ameliorate that, or maybe I should throw in a couple of wildcards into each channel that challenge my views regularly? Not sure about that yet.</p>\n<h2>Summary</h2>\n<p>Using social readers organised by priority / social distance, I\u2019m still discovering plenty of interesting things, but I\u2019m not getting caught in infinite scrolling and doing less zombie mode. It\u2019s helped with information overload. Still some ways to go but I\u2019m feelin\u2019 good discostrat vibes so far.</p>\n<a href=\"https://doubleloop.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/discoball-scaled.jpg\"><img src=\"https://doubleloop.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/discoball-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" /></a>Photo by <a href=\"https://unsplash.com/@rogierschutte?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\">Rogier Schutte</a> on Unsplash<p>The next thing to talk about is the <strong>reflection</strong> part of my infostrat. What do I do with this information once I\u2019ve discovered it?</p>",
        "text": "I\u2019m reflecting on my information strategy and how to improve it at the moment. Here\u2019s the intro post to that, giving a bit of context.\nIn this particular post I\u2019m going to chat specifically about discovery, AKA using the Intertubes to find out about interesting things. I can\u2019t help but call my strategy for this my discostrat, apologies for that. I\u2019ll talk a bit about how I\u2019ve had it set up for a while, and some recent tweaks I\u2019ve made to it, and maybe some ways I want to improve it more.\nPhoto by Vale Zmeykov on UnsplashWhat\u2019s in a discovery strategy?\nI\u2019m no expert, just brainstorming really, but I guess it breaks down into: the content of the information that I\u2019m pulling in, the sources I get it from, and how I organise those sources logically (like how do I group it together somewhere I can read it).  Additionally, there are the more mechanical and physical concerns, so to speak \u2013 basically what tools do I use to do the pulling and the grouping of the info.\nThe content\nSo for discovery sources I\u2019ve been using a mish-mash of Fediverse and IndieWeb for a while. I\u2019ve definitely been finding out about plenty of interesting things from them both, but I think it\u2019s fair to say it\u2019s on a fairly niche set of topics.\nNiche topics\nVia the Fediverse I get a good dose of info and thoughts on free software, free culture, lefty political theorising, amongst other things. IndieWeb still feels fairly \u2018inside baseball\u2019, so to speak, in that the early adopters are predominantly web developers, so there\u2019s lots of webdev and adjacent stuff. Which I like, but I do want more than that. It\u2019s breaking out of that though for sure, and I probably also just need to widen the circle of people that I follow a bit.\nGeneral topics\nOne example of something I\u2019ve been missing a little from both is insights into general current affairs. General as in, the kind of stuff that makes it onto the 6 o\u2019clock news. I like to try and keep up on my local and global political happenings, but quite a lot of people don\u2019t want that on the Fediverse (I think because it can become toxic quite quickly), so it\u2019s usually content-warning\u2019ed, and just seems less prevalent in general. From the IndieWeb, it might just be my follow list, but I also see very little politics on there. I find this is one spot where institutional feeds come in handy \u2013 usually medium-to-longform articles with a bit of editorial overview can be less despair-inducing than a barrage of microblogged hot takes thrown over a parapet. I do also occassionally pop over to the Guardian and the BBC to scan the headlines and see what the world is in a fuss about today.\nHuman stuff\nThis is purely anecdotal, but I feel that from people\u2019s personal blogs I see a bit more posting about hobbies and individual passions. People on blogs feel slightly less performative than people on big social networks. That\u2019s just a hunch though \u2013 maybe there\u2019s a rich seam of that stuff elsewhere too and I just don\u2019t tap into it. But anyway, I love people\u2019s hobbies and the human stuff, so that\u2019s really important. I don\u2019t want a pallid world of professional thoughts and LinkedIn profiles.\nFor individual people\u2019s thoughts on the less esoteric topics, or for more geographically local stuff, I seem more likely to find people who talk about that on Twitter. I guess just because it has got more critical mass right now. Like I\u2019m more likely to find out about something cool happening in the local town at the weekend from someone on Twitter than elsewhere, right now.\nSo yeah, I guess the type of info I want is a combo of niche topics, non-mainstream and mainstream views on general current affairs, local happenings, and the minutiae of people\u2019s lives. And that comes from a variety of sources.\nGetting it and organising it\nAs Ton says:\nI think of feed subscriptions as subscribing to people. I don\u2019t follow your blog, but I follow and interact with you\nI like this. And something I like about the IndieWeb reader approach is that its fairly platform-agnostic \u2013 I can pull in feeds (and therefore people) from all over the place, as long as the medium in question provides one or can be shoehorned into one by a bridge such as brid.gy. That said, not everything I subscribe to is the output of a single person.\nTool-wise, for Fediverse I\u2019ve been tending to use the default Mastodon interface (i.e. multiple timelines, pings!, scrolly scrolly, infinite), and for IndieWeb and standard site feeds I\u2019m using an indie reader setup (like an old school RSS reader; but more social and yet less haranguing than other social readers).\nSad to say that with Mastodon out-of-the-box, I found myself often ending up on the scroll treadmill. As a technology Mastodon has no vested interest in unstoppably grabbing your attention (noone\u2019s profiting from it, at least), so I think it\u2019s partly just a problem with the medium. A constant stream of short nuggets of info, some of which contain gold\u2026 it\u2019s easy to spend too much time scrolling through. Partly too it\u2019s a PEBKAC issue \u2013 I think I just get a bit compulsive about it sometimes.\nEither way, I want an alternative to that.\nIn general, I find the indie reader style works better for my brain. Couple that with the fact that I can pull in feeds from various places and it\u2019s a double win. Anywhere where a person posts their stuff is a valid home on the web if it works for them.\nSo I\u2019m trying to transition to just using the indie reader. (Aaron\u2019s post An IndieWeb reader: My new home on the internet is a good intro to indie readers.)\nIf you\u2019re a Fediphile then there\u2019s undoubtedly a Fediverse solution to these challenges too. I just happen to be a bit more indieweb oriented at the moment I think. I used Brutaldon for a while (\u2018a brutalist interface for Mastodon\u2019) and it\u2019s really good, worth giving it a go if you\u2019re perusing the Fediverse via a browser. There\u2019s no infinite scroll, no bleeps and bloops letting you know something has just happened that you really should look at, etc.\nWorth noting too that if you just wanted to be discovering posts, you could achieve most of this in a normal RSS feed reader I\u2019m sure. I\u2019m using the social reader style of things so that I can interact with posts in the reader too, like you would do in Twitter or Mastodon for example. (Hmm, I think I want interaction within the reader to be part of my information strategy, though I\u2019ll admit I haven\u2019t given that that much thought, I just kind of accepted it as a net positive\u2026 to be revisited.)\nTweaking my discovery tools\nI\u2019ve done a few things to make my reader get me a bit more into the zone of \u2018time well spent\u2019.\nThe structure\nFirst up is using a simple version of Ton\u2019s way of organising feeds. (Please do read Ton\u2019s posts on this, as he\u2019s been thinking about his infostrat and refining it for a long time \u2013 I\u2019m an infostrat toddler right now!)\nPrior to doing so, I had my channels set up as \u2018topics\u2019 \u2013 for example an IndieWeb channel, a Tech channel, Environment, Politics, Fixing, etc. In those I would put all feeds related to the given topic \u2013 these could be feeds from people\u2019s (indie)web sites, Mastodon profiles, RSS feeds of articles from big organisations, or Twitter feeds. Doing things this way I usually ended up with just a big load of unread counts, and the stuff from the people I care about just lost in the flood somewhere. Personally right now I want to get deeper knowledge about less things, rather than shallower knowledge about more things, and the firehose approach definitely pushes you towards the latter.\nSo I\u2019ve changed it now to be more priority-based (Ton uses the term social distance), rather than topic-based. Certain people (or orgs) that I read or interact with a lot and don\u2019t want to miss their postings, I put in a place where I will look first and most frequently.\nI made two new channels. For reasons not yet entirely clear, even to myself, I\u2019ve currently called them DiscoBall A and DiscoBall B. But naming things is hard, and disco balls are fun, so there we go. The channel known as DiscoBall A, is to hold a small number of people I know well (either from in person or online, for some loosely defined definition of \u2018know\u2019). The other channel, DiscoBall B, is people I know a bit more loosely but find what they post interesting and like to keep abreast of. For these two new A and B channels, I moved the relevant feeds out of my existing general \u2018topic\u2019 channels and into these new ones.\nEverything else I\u2019ve just left as it was for now. So the \u2018topic\u2019 channels still exist as they were before, I just don\u2019t intend to feel compelled to check inside of them so frequently.  Aperture has a nice feature where you can, per channel, turn off \u2018unread\u2019 notifications, so I\u2019ve turned them off for these extra channels. I\u2019ll have a peep into them from time to time, but generally the idea is to just read the A and B channels and dip into the rest if time permits or I\u2019m feeling lucky. In principle though I think I prefer to use that \u2018extra time\u2019 to read through one of the articles I\u2019ve already discovered previously and saved somewhere for later, e.g. with Wallabag. I have a huge backlogs of those.\nThe mechanics\nSo as I said the feeds come from websites, Mastodon, and Twitter. I\u2019m using Aperture as my Microsub server, combined with Together as a web client to read the feeds and Indigenous as a mobile client. These are \u2018social readers\u2019, in that I can also interact with the posts (like, reply, repost, etc) directly in my reader. Aperture does the heavy lifting of pulling in content, and leaves the display and interaction to the clients. (If you just wanted to view posts, you could achieve most of this in a normal RSS feed reader).\nTo subscribe to an IndieWeb feed is simple \u2013 just point Aperture to the person\u2019s homepage and pick out their feed (whether its microformats or RSS or Atom). To get a Mastodon feed, you can either grab it as Microformats by plugging in the person\u2019s URL from their home instance, e.g.\nhttps://social.coop/@neil/\nor using that same URL with .rss or .atom appended to the URL, e.g.\nhttps://social.coop/@neil.atom\nI\u2019m using the Atom feeds at the moment, something seemed a bit funky about the Microformats feed, but I haven\u2019t tested it thoroughly yet.\nTo get a Twitter feed is a bit more work, as they don\u2019t provide feeds anymore like they used to. I use granary.io to get Twitter feeds (more info on that in a previous post). It would be possible to subscribe to each person individually and put them into the A and B channels that way \u2013 but that\u2019s more taxing on granary and Aperture (both awesome and freely provided hosted services). So for my A and B lists I\u2019ve created Twitter lists and put people into those lists there, then just add those two feeds to the channels via granary.\n(As a side note, even though you don\u2019t need to technically speaking, I think it\u2019s probably good etiquette to \u2018follow\u2019 the person in the Fediverse or Twitter if you\u2019re adding their feed to your reader. How people post might be affected by who is following them, so probably good to make it explicit.)\nThe cons\nSo \u2013 one downside so far with this set up, is I feel like I\u2019m probably reenforcing my filter bubble somewhat, if I\u2019m reading a smaller group of people that I know I already like the cut of their gibs. Dipping into the wider group from time might ameliorate that, or maybe I should throw in a couple of wildcards into each channel that challenge my views regularly? Not sure about that yet.\nSummary\nUsing social readers organised by priority / social distance, I\u2019m still discovering plenty of interesting things, but I\u2019m not getting caught in infinite scrolling and doing less zombie mode. It\u2019s helped with information overload. Still some ways to go but I\u2019m feelin\u2019 good discostrat vibes so far.\nPhoto by Rogier Schutte on UnsplashThe next thing to talk about is the reflection part of my infostrat. What do I do with this information once I\u2019ve discovered it?"
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I’ve always loved the Genesis framework, and I still use it on client sites. While reading this post by Carrie, I began to think that those of us in the Indieweb community may quickly need to embrace blocks. Yes, I know, that’s basically heresy, but I’m thinking this may need to happen sooner ...

The challenge as I see it, and the reason I don’t use them, is that retail themes do not support microformat 2. Without microformat 2 support and semantic markup, the IndieWeb tools and technologies such as Webmention are pointless. Until the microformat 2 issue is resolved, I don’t see any point in doing the work to support blocks.

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        "html": "<a href=\"https://www.customerservant.com/read-a-new-era-for-the-genesis-framework-recapping-the-biggest-changes-and-how-to-work-with-them-by-cdils-and-added-some-indieweb-thoughts-approaching-heresy-spoiler-alert-were-gonna-have/\">a post</a> by <a href=\"https://www.customerservant.com/author/amanda/\"><img src=\"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/94ae98c7302aa5b10f1d9a4255cf83ba?s=100&amp;d=https://www.customerservant.com/wp-content/plugins/semantic-linkbacks/img/mm.jpg&amp;r=g\" alt=\"Amanda Rush\" />Amanda Rush</a>\n<blockquote>I\u2019ve always loved the Genesis framework, and I still use it on client sites. While reading this post by Carrie, I began to think that those of us in the Indieweb community may quickly need to embrace blocks.\nYes, I know, that\u2019s basically heresy, but I\u2019m thinking this may need to happen sooner ...</blockquote>\n\n<p>The challenge as I see it, and the reason I don\u2019t use them, is that retail themes do not support microformat 2. Without microformat 2 support and semantic markup, the IndieWeb tools and technologies such as Webmention are pointless. Until the microformat 2 issue is resolved, I don\u2019t see any point in doing the work to support blocks.</p>",
        "text": "a post by Amanda Rush\nI\u2019ve always loved the Genesis framework, and I still use it on client sites. While reading this post by Carrie, I began to think that those of us in the Indieweb community may quickly need to embrace blocks.\nYes, I know, that\u2019s basically heresy, but I\u2019m thinking this may need to happen sooner ...\n\nThe challenge as I see it, and the reason I don\u2019t use them, is that retail themes do not support microformat 2. Without microformat 2 support and semantic markup, the IndieWeb tools and technologies such as Webmention are pointless. Until the microformat 2 issue is resolved, I don\u2019t see any point in doing the work to support blocks."
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Vika fireburn.ru

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Tantek Çelik tantek.com

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    "url": "http://tantek.com/2019/277/t3/newyorkcity-nyc-indiewebcamp-meetup-social",
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        "text": "#NewYorkCity friends! Going to the @IndieWebCamp #NYC pre-meetup/social at Stone Street Tavern @stonesttavern http://stonestreettavernnyc.com/ \nCome have eats & drinks with us! (@schmarty et al!) #indieweb #openweb\n\n(Be there in ~15 minutes!)",
        "html": "#<span class=\"p-category\">NewYorkCity</span> friends! Going to the <a class=\"h-cassis-username\" href=\"https://twitter.com/IndieWebCamp\">@IndieWebCamp</a> #<span class=\"p-category\">NYC</span> pre-meetup/social at Stone Street Tavern <a class=\"h-cassis-username\" href=\"https://twitter.com/stonesttavern\">@stonesttavern</a> <a href=\"http://stonestreettavernnyc.com/\">http://stonestreettavernnyc.com/</a> <br />Come have eats &amp; drinks with us! (<a class=\"h-cassis-username\" href=\"https://twitter.com/schmarty\">@schmarty</a> et al!) #<span class=\"p-category\">indieweb</span> #<span class=\"p-category\">openweb</span><br /><br />(Be there in ~15 minutes!)"
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Tantek Çelik tantek.com

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    "url": "http://tantek.com/2019/277/t2/",
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        "text": "@jkphl no worries. Looks like most recent HWC N\u00fcrnberg was https://indieweb.org/events/2019-08-07-homebrew-website-club from the photo?\nWill move N\u00fcrnberg from \"Fortnightly\" to \"Pop up\" so it is not copy/pasted by default.\nLet me know if there is a known frequency! Thanks!",
        "html": "<a class=\"h-cassis-username\" href=\"https://twitter.com/jkphl\">@jkphl</a> no worries. Looks like most recent HWC N\u00fcrnberg was <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/events/2019-08-07-homebrew-website-club\">https://indieweb.org/events/2019-08-07-homebrew-website-club</a> from the photo?<br />Will move N\u00fcrnberg from \"Fortnightly\" to \"Pop up\" so it is not copy/pasted by default.<br />Let me know if there is a known frequency! Thanks!"
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Tantek Çelik tantek.com

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    "type": "entry",
    "published": "2019-10-04 14:06-0700",
    "url": "http://tantek.com/2019/277/t1/",
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        "https://twitter.com/mantonsblog/status/1179435558973644800"
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        "text": "@jkphl any photos from this week\u2019s HWC N\u00fcrnberg?\n@mrgnrdrck any HWC Berlin photos?\n@grantcodes HWC Madrid photo?\n@jamietanna Nottingham photo?\n@mantonsblog @tomwiththeweath Austin photo?\n@dougbeal @rrrrrrrix Seattle photo?\nPlease add ASAP to https://indieweb.org/events/2019-10-02-homebrew-website-club#Photos or reply with link! Thanks!",
        "html": "<a class=\"h-cassis-username\" href=\"https://twitter.com/jkphl\">@jkphl</a> any photos from this week\u2019s HWC N\u00fcrnberg?<br /><a class=\"h-cassis-username\" href=\"https://twitter.com/mrgnrdrck\">@mrgnrdrck</a> any HWC Berlin photos?<br /><a class=\"h-cassis-username\" href=\"https://twitter.com/grantcodes\">@grantcodes</a> HWC Madrid photo?<br /><a class=\"h-cassis-username\" href=\"https://twitter.com/jamietanna\">@jamietanna</a> Nottingham photo?<br /><a class=\"h-cassis-username\" href=\"https://twitter.com/mantonsblog\">@mantonsblog</a> <a class=\"h-cassis-username\" href=\"https://twitter.com/tomwiththeweath\">@tomwiththeweath</a> Austin photo?<br /><a class=\"h-cassis-username\" href=\"https://twitter.com/dougbeal\">@dougbeal</a> <a class=\"h-cassis-username\" href=\"https://twitter.com/rrrrrrrix\">@rrrrrrrix</a> Seattle photo?<br />Please add ASAP to <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/events/2019-10-02-homebrew-website-club#Photos\">https://indieweb.org/events/2019-10-02-homebrew-website-club#Photos</a> or reply with link! Thanks!"
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Working on an indie information strategy

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        "name": "Neil Mather",
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    "url": "https://doubleloop.net/2019/10/04/working-on-an-indie-information-strategy/",
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        "html": "<p>I\u2019ve gradually shifted away from Twitter and Facebook over the past few years, migrating to the open alternatives of the <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/\">IndieWeb</a> and the <a href=\"https://fediverse.party/\">Fediverse</a> as replacements. I really like them both, both going some way towards providing the things that I want from social media (and being online in general), while removing some of things that I don\u2019t want.</p>\n<p>It\u2019s far from perfect yet though. In this post (and more to come probably) I\u2019m reflecting a little bit about my \u2018information strategy\u2019 \u2013 how to get the stuff I want from the big ol\u2019 world wide web. I am mostly inspired to start on this by reading <a href=\"https://www.zylstra.org/blog/information-strategies-overview/\">Ton\u2019s thoughts on information strategies</a>, as well as a vague feeling I have that while I get a lot out of the web, it comes with plenty of pitfalls and its usage can in fact to be to my detriment if unchecked and unmanaged. </p>\n<p>As I\u2019m more into the IndieWeb, I guess I\u2019m kind of looking at all this through an IndieWeb lens, but the Fediverse is a bit part of it too for me. Sometimes you hear it referred to as \u2018the open web\u2019 as a catch-all.</p>\n<h2>What I want from the web</h2>\n<p>I\u2019m totally guilty of being technology-focused (including in this post already\u2026), but I think for reviewing my information strategy it\u2019s better to try to start from a question of \u2018where do you get your info from and what do you do with it\u2019 rather than \u2018what technology do you use\u2019. So in a really high-level sense, what I want to get from spending time online is:</p>\n<ul><li>discovery (finding out about interesting things)</li>\n<li>writing &amp; reflection (producing not just consuming, posting publicly about things I\u2019ve read or seen, and having to think about it before I do)</li>\n<li>discourse &amp; learning (getting others\u2019 perspective on things, having my horizons expanded and my views challenged)</li>\n<li>relationships: I think the \u2018social\u2019 part of social media should mean forming long-lasting bonds with people, not just being ephemeral blips on each others\u2019 radars</li>\n</ul><p>I also want to give back and contribute to a healthy ecosystem \u2013 so I want to share helpful information with others, and contribute to others\u2019 discussion and reflection. Good info is good praxis.</p>\n<h2>What I don\u2019t want</h2>\n<p>I want to spend my time well, basically. With intention.</p>\n<p>So that means avoiding:</p>\n<ul><li>staring at a screen excessively, doing the zombie scroll of doom trying to get the next hit of information or interaction</li>\n<li>FOMO</li>\n<li>information overload</li>\n<li>filter bubbles</li>\n<li>feeding of corporate beasts</li>\n</ul><h2>Discostrat</h2>\n<p>This post originally also included me delving into my discovery strategy, but with the preceding waffle it started to become a huge post, so I\u2019ve farmed off the discovery bit into a separate post \u2013 coming soon.</p>\n<p>I also hope in upcoming posts to think out loud about the other pieces \u2013 of \u2018reflection\u2019, \u2018discourse\u2019 and \u2018relationships\u2019. I\u2019m assuming this will all evolve over time, too, so they might actually be different topics by then. Which is where personal knowledge management and a wiki comes in, but that\u2019s also for another day\u2026</p>",
        "text": "I\u2019ve gradually shifted away from Twitter and Facebook over the past few years, migrating to the open alternatives of the IndieWeb and the Fediverse as replacements. I really like them both, both going some way towards providing the things that I want from social media (and being online in general), while removing some of things that I don\u2019t want.\nIt\u2019s far from perfect yet though. In this post (and more to come probably) I\u2019m reflecting a little bit about my \u2018information strategy\u2019 \u2013 how to get the stuff I want from the big ol\u2019 world wide web. I am mostly inspired to start on this by reading Ton\u2019s thoughts on information strategies, as well as a vague feeling I have that while I get a lot out of the web, it comes with plenty of pitfalls and its usage can in fact to be to my detriment if unchecked and unmanaged. \nAs I\u2019m more into the IndieWeb, I guess I\u2019m kind of looking at all this through an IndieWeb lens, but the Fediverse is a bit part of it too for me. Sometimes you hear it referred to as \u2018the open web\u2019 as a catch-all.\nWhat I want from the web\nI\u2019m totally guilty of being technology-focused (including in this post already\u2026), but I think for reviewing my information strategy it\u2019s better to try to start from a question of \u2018where do you get your info from and what do you do with it\u2019 rather than \u2018what technology do you use\u2019. So in a really high-level sense, what I want to get from spending time online is:\ndiscovery (finding out about interesting things)\nwriting & reflection (producing not just consuming, posting publicly about things I\u2019ve read or seen, and having to think about it before I do)\ndiscourse & learning (getting others\u2019 perspective on things, having my horizons expanded and my views challenged)\nrelationships: I think the \u2018social\u2019 part of social media should mean forming long-lasting bonds with people, not just being ephemeral blips on each others\u2019 radars\nI also want to give back and contribute to a healthy ecosystem \u2013 so I want to share helpful information with others, and contribute to others\u2019 discussion and reflection. Good info is good praxis.\nWhat I don\u2019t want\nI want to spend my time well, basically. With intention.\nSo that means avoiding:\nstaring at a screen excessively, doing the zombie scroll of doom trying to get the next hit of information or interaction\nFOMO\ninformation overload\nfilter bubbles\nfeeding of corporate beasts\nDiscostrat\nThis post originally also included me delving into my discovery strategy, but with the preceding waffle it started to become a huge post, so I\u2019ve farmed off the discovery bit into a separate post \u2013 coming soon.\nI also hope in upcoming posts to think out loud about the other pieces \u2013 of \u2018reflection\u2019, \u2018discourse\u2019 and \u2018relationships\u2019. I\u2019m assuming this will all evolve over time, too, so they might actually be different topics by then. Which is where personal knowledge management and a wiki comes in, but that\u2019s also for another day\u2026"
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Webmentions up and running

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        "html": "<p>Finally sorted out how comments and <a href=\"http://webmention.org/\">webmentions</a> are displayed on <a href=\"https://piperhaywood.com/tag/this-site/\">this site</a>. It was kind of a hefty task since it involved sorting out WordPress comments as well. If everything works as intended (big if), webmentions should be displayed in a discussion thread below the post contents on permalink pages regardless of whether or not WordPress comments are enabled on that post. We\u2019ll see how that goes!</p>\n<p>As an experiment, I\u2019ve turned on comments <a href=\"https://piperhaywood.com/command-line-notes/\">here</a>, <a href=\"https://piperhaywood.com/configuring-and-troubleshooting-netlify-large-media/\">here</a>, and on this note. Overall though, I\u2019ll probably leave them disabled for the majority of my notes. <a href=\"https://kartikprabhu.com/articles/no-comment\">This 2013 article by Kartik Prabhu</a> sums up my feelings on the subject pretty well.</p>\n<p>This note, <a href=\"https://piperhaywood.com/webmentions-up-and-running/\">Webmentions up and running</a>, is from <a href=\"https://piperhaywood.com/\">piperhaywood.com</a>.</p>",
        "text": "Finally sorted out how comments and webmentions are displayed on this site. It was kind of a hefty task since it involved sorting out WordPress comments as well. If everything works as intended (big if), webmentions should be displayed in a discussion thread below the post contents on permalink pages regardless of whether or not WordPress comments are enabled on that post. We\u2019ll see how that goes!\nAs an experiment, I\u2019ve turned on comments here, here, and on this note. Overall though, I\u2019ll probably leave them disabled for the majority of my notes. This 2013 article by Kartik Prabhu sums up my feelings on the subject pretty well.\nThis note, Webmentions up and running, is from piperhaywood.com."
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Jamie Tanna www.jvt.me

Reply to https://cambridgeport90.net/661-2/

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        "text": "I look forward to it!\n\nThere's https://indieweb.org/2019/NYC this weekend if you've not seen",
        "html": "<p>I look forward to it!\n\nThere's <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/2019/NYC\">https://indieweb.org/2019/NYC</a> this weekend if you've not seen</p>"
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Liked IndieWebCamp Amsterdam 2019 by Jamie Tanna

Recapping my time at IndieWebCamp Amsterdam, my first 'official' IndieWeb event, and meeting some of the big names in the community.

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Jeremy Keith adactio.com

Travel talk

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        "text": "It\u2019s been a busy two weeks of travelling and speaking. Last week I spoke at Finch Conf in Edinburgh, Code Motion in Madrid, and Generate CSS in London. This week I was at Indie Web Camp, View Source, and Fronteers, all in Amsterdam.\n\nThe Edinburgh-Madrid-London whirlwind wasn\u2019t ideal. I gave the opening talk at Finch Conf, then immediately jumped in a taxi to get to the airport to fly to Madrid, so I missed all the excellent talks. I had FOMO for a conference I actually spoke at.\n\nI did get to spend some time at Code Motion in Madrid, but that was a waste of time. It was one of those multi-track events where the trade show floor is prioritised over the talks (and the speakers don\u2019t get paid). I gave my talk to a mostly empty room\u2014the classic multi-track experience. On the plus side, I had a wonderful time with Jessica exploring Madrid\u2019s many tapas delights. The food and drink made up for the sub-par conference.\n\nI flew back from Madrid to the UK, and immediately went straight to London to deliver the closing talk of Generate CSS. So once again, I didn\u2019t get to see any of the other talks. That\u2019s a real shame\u2014it sounds like they were all excellent.\n\nThe day after Generate though, I took the Eurostar to Amsterdam. That\u2019s where I\u2019ve been ever since. There were just as many events as in the previous week, but because they were all in Amsterdam, I could savour them properly, instead of spending half my time travelling.\n\nIndie Web Camp Amsterdam was excellent, although I missed out on the afternoon discussions on the first day because I popped over to the Mozilla Tech Speakers event happening at the same time. I was there to offer feedback on lightning talks. I really, really enjoyed it.\n\nI\u2019d really like to do more of this kind of thing. There aren\u2019t many activities I feel qualified to give advice on, but public speaking is an exception. I\u2019ve got plenty of experience that I\u2019m eager to share with up-and-coming speakers. Also, I got to see some really great lightning talks!\n\nThen it was time for View Source. There was a mix of talks, panels, and breakout conversation corners. I saw some fantastic talks by people I hadn\u2019t seen speak before: Melanie Richards, Ali Spittal, Sharell Bryant, and Tejas Kumar. I gave the closing keynote, which was warmly received\u2014that\u2019s always very gratifying.\n\nAfter one day of rest, it was time for Fronteers. This was where myself and Remy gave the joint talk we\u2019ve been working on:\n\n\n  Neither of us is under any illusions about the nature of a joint talk. It\u2019s not half as much work; it\u2019s more like twice the work. We\u2019ve both seen enough uneven joint presentations to know what we want to avoid.\n\n\nI\u2019m happy to say that it went off without a hitch. Remy definitely had the tougher task\u2014he did a live demo. Needless to say, he did it flawlessly. It\u2019s been a real treat working with Remy on this. Don\u2019t tell him I said this, but he\u2019s kind of a web hero of mine, so this was a real honour and a privilege for me.\n\nI\u2019ve got some more speaking engagements ahead of me. Most of them are in Europe so I\u2019m going to do my utmost to travel to them by train. Flying is usually more convenient but it\u2019s terrible for my carbon footprint. I\u2019m feeling pretty guilty about that Madrid trip; I need to make ammends.\n\nI\u2019ll be travelling to France next week for Paris Web. Taking the Eurostar is a no-brainer for that one. Straight after that Jessica and I will be going to Frankfurt for the book fair. Taking the train from Paris to Frankfurt will be nice and straightforward.\n\nI\u2019ll be back in Brighton for Indie Web Camp on the weekend of October 19th and 20th\u2014you should come!\u2014and then I\u2019ll be heading off to Antwerp for Full Stack Fest. Anywhere in Belgium is easily reachable by train so that\u2019ll be another Eurostar journey.\n\nAfter that, it gets a little trickier. I\u2019ll be going to Berlin for Beyond Tellerrand but I\u2019m not sure I can make it work by train. Same goes for Web Clerks in Vienna. Cities that far east are tough to get to by train in a reasonable amount of time (although I realise that, compared to many others, I have the luxury of spending time travelling by train).\n\nThen there are the places that I can only get to by plane. There\u2019s the United States. I\u2019ll be speaking at An Event Apart in San Francisco in December. A flight is unavoidable. Last time we went to the States, Jessica and I travelled by ocean liner. But that isn\u2019t any better for the environment, given the low-grade fuel burned by ships.\n\nAnd then there\u2019s Ireland. I make trips back there to see my mother, but there\u2019s no alternative to flying or taking a ferry\u2014neither are ideal for the environment. At least I can offset the carbon from my flights; the travel equivalent to putting coins in the swear jar.\n\nDon\u2019t get me wrong\u2014I\u2019m not moaning about the amount of travel involved in going to conferences and workshops. It\u2019s fantastic that I get to go to new and interesting places. That\u2019s something I hope I never take for granted. But I can\u2019t ignore the environmental damage I\u2019m doing. I\u2019ll be making more of an effort to travel by train to Europe\u2019s many excellent web events. While I\u2019m at it, I can ask Paul for his trainspotter expertise.",
        "html": "<p>It\u2019s been a busy two weeks of travelling and speaking. Last week I spoke at <a href=\"https://finchconf.uk/\">Finch Conf</a> in Edinburgh, <a href=\"https://events.codemotion.com/conferences/madrid/2019/\">Code Motion</a> in Madrid, and <a href=\"https://www.generateconf.com/\">Generate CSS</a> in London. This week I was at <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/2019/Amsterdam\">Indie Web Camp</a>, <a href=\"https://2019.viewsourceconf.org/\">View Source</a>, and <a href=\"https://fronteers.nl/congres/2019\">Fronteers</a>, all in Amsterdam.</p>\n\n<p>The Edinburgh-Madrid-London whirlwind wasn\u2019t ideal. I gave the opening talk at <a href=\"https://finchconf.uk/\">Finch Conf</a>, then immediately jumped in a taxi to get to the airport to fly to Madrid, so I missed all the excellent talks. 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That\u2019s a real shame\u2014it sounds like they were all excellent.</p>\n\n<p>The day after Generate though, I took the Eurostar to Amsterdam. That\u2019s where I\u2019ve been ever since. There were just as many events as in the previous week, but because they were all in Amsterdam, I could savour them properly, instead of spending half my time travelling.</p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https://indieweb.org/2019/Amsterdam\">Indie Web Camp Amsterdam</a> was excellent, although I missed out on the afternoon discussions on the first day because I popped over to the <a href=\"https://wiki.mozilla.org/TechSpeakers\">Mozilla Tech Speakers</a> event happening at the same time. I was there to offer feedback on lightning talks. I really, <em>really</em> enjoyed it.</p>\n\n<p>I\u2019d really like to do more of this kind of thing. There aren\u2019t many activities I feel qualified to give advice on, but public speaking is an exception. 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This was where myself and <a href=\"https://remysharp.com/\">Remy</a> gave <a href=\"https://adactio.com/journal/15822\">the joint talk we\u2019ve been working on</a>:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n  <p>Neither of us is under any illusions about the nature of a joint talk. It\u2019s not half as much work; it\u2019s more like twice the work. We\u2019ve both seen enough uneven joint presentations to know what we want to avoid.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>I\u2019m happy to say that it went off without a hitch. Remy definitely had the tougher task\u2014he did a live demo. Needless to say, he did it flawlessly. It\u2019s been a real treat working with Remy on this. Don\u2019t tell him I said this, but he\u2019s kind of a web hero of mine, so this was a real honour and a privilege for me.</p>\n\n<p>I\u2019ve got some more speaking engagements ahead of me. Most of them are in Europe so I\u2019m going to do my utmost to travel to them by train. Flying is usually more convenient but it\u2019s terrible for my carbon footprint. I\u2019m feeling pretty guilty about that Madrid trip; I need to make ammends.</p>\n\n<p>I\u2019ll be travelling to France next week for <a href=\"https://www.paris-web.fr/\">Paris Web</a>. Taking the Eurostar is a no-brainer for that one. Straight after that <a href=\"https://wordridden.com/\">Jessica</a> and I will be going to Frankfurt for the book fair. Taking the train from Paris to Frankfurt will be nice and straightforward.</p>\n\n<p>I\u2019ll be back in Brighton for <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/2019/Brighton\">Indie Web Camp</a> on the weekend of October 19th and 20th\u2014you should come!\u2014and then I\u2019ll be heading off to Antwerp for <a href=\"https://fullstackeurope.com/\">Full Stack Fest</a>. Anywhere in Belgium is easily reachable by train so that\u2019ll be another Eurostar journey.</p>\n\n<p>After that, it gets a little trickier. I\u2019ll be going to Berlin for <a href=\"https://beyondtellerrand.com/events/berlin-2019/\">Beyond Tellerrand</a> but I\u2019m not sure I can make it work by train. Same goes for <a href=\"https://webclerks.at/\">Web Clerks</a> in Vienna. Cities that far east are tough to get to by train in a reasonable amount of time (although I realise that, compared to many others, I have the luxury of spending time travelling by train).</p>\n\n<p>Then there are the places that I can <em>only</em> get to by plane. There\u2019s the United States. I\u2019ll be speaking at <a href=\"https://aneventapart.com/event/san-francisco-2019\">An Event Apart in San Francisco</a> in December. A flight is unavoidable. Last time we went to the States, <a href=\"https://adactio.com/journal/15650\">Jessica and I travelled by ocean liner</a>. But that <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2006/dec/20/cruises.green\">isn\u2019t any better for the environment</a>, given the low-grade fuel burned by ships.</p>\n\n<p>And then there\u2019s Ireland. I make trips back there to see my mother, but there\u2019s no alternative to flying or taking a ferry\u2014neither are ideal for the environment. At least I can offset the carbon from my flights; the travel equivalent to putting coins in the swear jar.</p>\n\n<p>Don\u2019t get me wrong\u2014I\u2019m not moaning about the amount of travel involved in going to conferences and workshops. It\u2019s fantastic that I get to go to new and interesting places. That\u2019s something I hope I never take for granted. But I can\u2019t ignore the environmental damage I\u2019m doing. I\u2019ll be making more of an effort to travel by train to Europe\u2019s many excellent web events. While I\u2019m at it, I can ask <a href=\"https://paulrobertlloyd.com/\">Paul</a> for his trainspotter expertise.</p>"
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Jamie Tanna www.jvt.me

IndieWebCamp Amsterdam 2019

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Homebrew Website Club SF!

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        "text": "When: 2019-10-1617:30\u202618:30\n\nWhere: Mozilla San Francisco\n\nHost: Tantek \u00c7elik\n\n\n\nThe Homebrew Website Club is a growing world-wide network of meetups for everyone who wants to take back their web experience from social media silos, and own their online identities, content, and interactions.\n\nTopics for this week:\nIndieWebCamps Amsterdam, Oxford, and New York City notes, demos, etc.!\nSign-up for Upcoming IndieWebCamps!\n\ud83c\udfaa IndieWebCamp Brighton\n\nDemos of personal website breakthroughs\nCreate or update your personal web site!\n\nJoin a community with like-minded interests. Bring friends that want a personal site, or are interested in a healthy, independent web!\n\n\nAny questions? Ask in \n#indieweb Slack or IRC\n\n\nMore information: \nIndieWeb Wiki Event Page\n\n\nOptional RSVP: post an indie RSVP on your own site, or just show up!",
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Tantek Çelik tantek.com

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Vika fireburn.ru

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        "text": "Right now I don't have reliable syndication (I like that word more than cryptic POSSE), so I can't post Tweets from my own site. This is bad! But it means I have room for improvement.\n\nThis makes my #itches list look like this:\nPost processing: Markdown support when sending plain text (like from @swentel's Indigenous\n    Automatic insertion of nicknames from h-card database (that one was manual \ud83d\ude1d #manualtilithurts)\n    Automatic p-category from #hashtags\n  \n  Syndication: Twitter\n    IndieNews and indieweb.xyz\n    GitHub (for issues)\n  \n  Own IndieAuth\n  Own Microsub (To lessen the impact of #SPOA phenomenon)\n  Own Webmentions: Notifications for them\n    Rendering replies\n  \nProbably I forgot something. But it's OK!",
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Manton Reece www.manton.org

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        "html": "<p>Clicking through <a href=\"https://indiewebcamp.nl/participants-amsterdam-2019/\">the attendee list from IndieWebCamp Amsterdam</a>, there\u2019s so much variety in people\u2019s web sites. We are so used to the same old mainstream sites that it\u2019s almost a surprise to discover a blog that looks completely different.</p>",
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Aaron Parecki aaronparecki.com

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        "text": "I replaced Monocle's Font Awesome SVG+JS icons with their SVG sprite icons and it loads soooo much faster now! There was always a visible delay while the JS loaded in the SVG icons. Now it's just handled by the browser with no JS.  \n\nI always assumed that it was a slow network causing the issues, but I opened up the browser tools to check and it turns out the slowdown was happening while rendering the page, not when fetching external data. Goes to show it's a good idea to open up the browser tools once in a while to check out what's happening under the hood!",
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Manton Reece www.manton.org

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        "html": "<p>Reminder that there\u2019s an IndieWeb Meetup tonight. Mozart\u2019s Coffee at 6:30pm. Hope to see you there! \u2615</p>",
        "text": "Reminder that there\u2019s an IndieWeb Meetup tonight. Mozart\u2019s Coffee at 6:30pm. Hope to see you there! \u2615"
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Jeremy Keith adactio.com

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    "url": "https://adactio.com/links/15898",
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        "text": "Brighton Bloggers 2019 meet-up \u2013 orbific.com\n\n\n\nSome reminiscing at a recent Homebrew Website Club prompted James to organise a Brighton bloggers meetup \u2026ten years on from the last one!\n\nMark your calendar: October 21st.\n\nWhile you\u2019re making your calendar, be sure to put in the dates for Indie Web Camp Brighton: October 19th and 20th. It would be lovely see some Brighton bloggers there!",
        "html": "<h3>\n<a class=\"p-name u-bookmark-of\" href=\"http://orbific.com/brighton/brighton-bloggers-2019-meet-up/\">\nBrighton Bloggers 2019 meet-up \u2013 orbific.com\n</a>\n</h3>\n\n<p>Some reminiscing at a recent <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/Homebrew_Website_Club#Brighton\">Homebrew Website Club</a> prompted James to organise <a href=\"https://brightondigitalfestival.co.uk/events/brighton-bloggers-meetup\">a Brighton bloggers meetup</a> \u2026ten years on from the last one!</p>\n\n<p>Mark your calendar: October 21st.</p>\n\n<p>While you\u2019re making your calendar, be sure to put in the dates for <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/2019/Brighton\">Indie Web Camp Brighton</a>: October 19th and 20th. It would be lovely see some Brighton bloggers there!</p>"
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