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I use OPML subscription to do this with Inoreader, but this could be useful in the future with other platforms.
Gobo: Your social media. Your rules. Contribute to mitmedialab/gobo development by creating an account on GitHub.
This is a fun little reader project with filtering capability.
An IndieWeb capable feed reader and read-it-later service.
Hearkening back to the internet’s good ole days with decentralized networks
Bookmarked on 2020-11-04 at 00:29.
You are impatient to discover this new world? Click on 'Work online' and meet new people or share this adventure with your colleagues and friends by clicking on 'Work in private'
Frank Meeuwsen (GitHub)This child theme accompanies the Indieweb Publisher theme. The child theme is in formatting and order influenced by the work of StudioPress and Genesis. - frankmeeuwsen/digging-the-digital
What happened to the material you posted on Google+ or Yahoo Groups? Sure, there usually is a way to export your stuff before such services shut down but data migration is always painful. I’ve always preferred to post things on my blog and share links to Twitter ad other sites for a wider dissemin...
A nice little overview. Prompted me to make some updates to the IndieWeb wiki to help keep making things easier/better for going through this process.
Congratulations Stefano!
English speakers disagree – sometimes vehemently – about how to use “historic” and “historical” with the indefinite articles a/an.
Went down the rabbit hole a bit on this topic this afternoon. Also spent several minutes reading the couple of pages that Fowler’s has on the topic.
Mostly looking at the idea of whether it should be a Hispanic or an Hispanic.
A variable font showing multiple effects of Covid-19 lockdown on a bearded face.
This dissertation studies a community of web developers building the IndieWeb, a modular and decentralized social web infrastructure through which people can produce and share content and participate in online communities without being dependent on corporate platforms. The purpose of this dissertation is to investigate how developers’ values shape and are shaped by this infrastructure, including how concentrations of power and influence affect individuals’ capacity to participate in design-decisions related to values. Individuals’ design activities are situated in a sociotechnical system to address influence among individual software artifacts, peers in the community, mechanisms for interoperability, and broader internet infrastructures.
Multiple methods are combined to address design activities across individual, community, and infrastructural scales. I observed discussions and development activities in IndieWeb’s online chat and at in-person events, studied source-code and developer decision-making on GitHub, and conducted 15 in-depth interviews with IndieWeb contributors between April 2018 and June 2019. I engaged in critical making to reflect on and document the process of building software for this infrastructure. And I employed computational analyses including social network analysis and topic modelling to study the structure of developers’ online activities.
This dissertation identifies how values of import to IndieWeb’s community are employed in designing its material architectures as well as community policies. This includes an ongoing balance between supporting individuals’ agency over personal design decisions and a need to maintain commensurability for the sake of interoperability. In many cases, early decisions about this balance have contributed to barriers for certain types of participants. Yet, those who can cross those barriers experience a lack of stabilization in IndieWeb’s infrastructure as a means of achieving richer engagements with technology. By studying design activities as longitudinal and situated within broader infrastructures, this dissertation describes how changing situations and a variety of influences affect possibilities for articulating values through material engagement, offering insights about how to support positive and healthy relationships with technology.
Ryan Barrett (snarfed.org)One could write an entire book on what this chart shows us. – Max Roser
Holy crap! This graph indicates something is dramatically broken in America. And we wonder why healthcare is such a hot button issue. Obviously someone (or many someones) is making a lot of money keeping the American portion so horribly out of whack.
For the last four years, the Times reporter has been the human incarnation of a nation riveted, like it or not, by Donald Trump.
Bookmarked on 2020-11-09 at 22:31.