๐ Owning my reading log | macwright.org
Read Owning my reading log (macwright.org) another sliver of digital independence
View ArticleThoughts on linkblogs, bookmarks, reads, likes, favorites, follows, and...
Within the social media space thereโs a huge number of services that provide a variety of what I would call bookmark-type functionality of one sort or another. They go under a variety of monikers...
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In addition to being dead simple to use to track my reading, I love that Reading.am is able to add things Iโm currently listening to and watching. Even better, some sites like Huffduffer.com dovetail...
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Reads, Listens, Watches, and Editable Webmention Types and Avatars in the...
Iโve been meaning to write regular updates to highlight some of the useful changes in the functionality of the IndieWeb suite of WordPress plugins, but never gotten around to it. Thereโs been a few...
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Manually adding a new post kind to the Post Kinds Plugin for WordPress
The Post Kinds plugin, essentially an extended version of WordPressโs core Post Formats functionality, allows one to make a variety of types of posts on oneโs website that mirrors the functionality...
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Testing out a new (secret) micropub client for read posts. Itโs got way more functionality than I though it would have to start and has a stunning and clean UI. There are some smart choices all around...
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๐ Announcing indiebookclub | gRegorLove.com
Read Announcing indiebookclub by gRegor Morrill (gregorlove.com) Iโm pleased to announce a new project I have been working on. indiebookclub is an app for keeping track of the books you are reading or...
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๐โDid you even READ the piece?โ This startup wants to make that question...
Replied to โDid you even READ the piece?โ This startup wants to make that question obsolete for commenters by Christine Schmidt (Nieman Lab) The battle against the uncivil comments section is also a...
View Article๐ Instapaper buys itself back from Pinterest | Engadget
Read Instapaper buys itself back from Pinterest (Engadget) Instapaper will now belong to the same people who've been working on it the past five years.
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Read Instapaper is going independent (blog.instapaper.com) Today, weโre announcing that Pinterest has entered into an agreement to transfer ownership of Instapaper to Instant Paper, Inc., a new...
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Extending a User Interface Idea for Social Reading Online
This morning I was reading an article online and I bookmarked it as โreadโ using the Reading.am browser extension which I use as part of my workflow of capturing all the things Iโve been reading on...
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Reply to Dries Buytaert on follow and subscriptions to blogs
Replied to a tweet by Dries Buytaert (Twitter) โIt touches me that some people have been reading my blog for over a decade.โ https://dri.es/forty I've been thinking about that since. It would be nice...
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๐ Chris Aldrichโs Year In Pocket
Read My Year in Pocket (Pocket App) See how much I read in Pocket this year! According to Pocketโs account I read 766,000 words or the equivalent of about 10 books. My most saved topics were current...
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Some thoughts about Media Diets prompted by Paul Jacobson
Replied to Keeping track of my media diet by Paul Jacobson (Paul Jacobson) This ideaย of tracking my media diet really appeals to me: Just like last year, I kept track of almost everything I read,...
View ArticleIโll agree: Passive Tracking > Active Tracking
Itโs always nice if you can provide real-time active tracking and posting on your own website, but is it really necessary? Is it always worthwhile? What value does it provide to you? to others? The...
View Article๐ An error unexplained | Jeremy Cherfas
Read An error unexplained by Jeremy Cherfas (jeremycherfas.net) Well, that was weird. Something had gone wrong with my little PHP script for adding items from my list at reading.am to my...
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Brief thoughts on receiving read posts
Iโve been posting โreadโ posts/notes/linksโreads, for simplicityโ to my own website for a while to indicate articles and material which Iโve spent the time to read online (and oftentimes even...
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Lurking, Twitter, The Commons, and Private Posts
Lurking Yesterday I was catching up on chat logs and ran across a stub for lurking on the IndieWeb wiki. I cleaned up the formatting a bit and added some additional material. Later Ton Zฤณlstra dropped...
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Hypothes.is doesnโt have a social media-like follow functionality baked into the system, but there are a few methods to follow interesting people. My favorite, and possibly the simplest, is to add as a...
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I slept my way through most of IndieWebCamp Berlin2 this weekend (mostly due to the time zone differential), but in the spirit of the event, I did want to work on a few small hack projects. I started...
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Read Weekly Web Harvest for 2019-12-08 by Tom Woodward (bionicteaching.com) โLink In Bioโ is a slow knife For a closed system, those kinds of open connections are deeply dangerous. If anyone on...
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Read Imagining the #IndieWeb Version of WikiTribune by Greg McVerry (quickthoughts.jgregorymcverry.com) Like many I joined WikiTribune, the new social network for news. The service quickly overtook...
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Iโve just noticed that in addition to my relatively obvious user RSS feed on Goodreads, thereโs a separate hidden feed of just my reading status updates. Itโs of the form...
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Replied to Introducing Indigenous for Android by swentel (realize.be) You can now download the app from Google Play. If you want to install it manually, you can also go over to the release section on...
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Replied to Feature request: reading progress ยท Issue #14 ยท gRegorLove/indiebookclub by gRegorLove (GitHub) Similar toย Goodreads, allow entering a percentage or page number to track your progress. I...
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Bookmarked FediReads (GitHub) Social reading and reviewing, decentralized with ActivityPub - mouse-reeve/fedireads I love seeing more activity in the reading space for IndieWeb!
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Replied to a post by Brett Kosinski (The โBโ Ark) Taking back control of my content, Iโm pulling my (modest) book reviews from Goodreads back to my blog. An underrated favourite of mine is Last Chance...
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NINE Example assignment: Notice the replies underneath which came from other sites including my response which is mirrored on my site at Example podcast post for a class: Notice the listen webmention...
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Read Library JSON - A Proposal for a Decentralized Goodreads by Tom Critchlow (tomcritchlow.com) V0.1 for an experimental open bookshelf spec
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Read Read feeder by Neil Mather (doubleloop) Ton made a post recently about federated bookshelves, sparked by a post from Tom. Itโs an idea that Gregor has done a good bit of thinking about from an...
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Replied to a tweet by Katherine Moss (Twitter) I would love to get away from Amazon if I could and keep to the more IndieWeb methods of documenting reading, for instance, but it doesn't seem possible....
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Bookmarked Readup: Social Reading (readup.com) Readup tracks your reading progress. In our community, you canโt comment on articles you havenโt really read. An interesting little tool for comment...
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Read Pirate Book Chest by Michael Beckwith (apiratelifefor.me) If youโve ever talked to me about books and reading, then thereโs chance that Iโve brought up GoodReads and how Iโm pretty active there....
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Replied to u-read-of/read-status proposed draft ยท Issue #10 ยท microformats/h-entry (GitHub) https://indieweb.org/read Indiebookclub.biz is a micropub client that publishes this. The Post Kinds plugin...
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Updated my IFTTT/webhook to Micropub workflow so that itโs easier to include progress graphs and data for my book reading updates on my website. #IndieWeb
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Replied to Social Interactions on the Web by James Gallagher (jamesg.blog) When I think about it, likes and bookmarks are somewhat difficult to distinguish for my purpose. A bookmark inherently...
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Replied to a tweet (Twitter) I wonder about this too! I mean, webmentions tell me who wants to really engage with my posts or whatnot, but not who dropped by to read. And yet I don't really want to...
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Bookmarked Italic Type (italictype.com) Italic Type is the simplest way to track your books, get trusted recommendations, and share the joy of reading with friends. An interesting new competitor to...
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Replied to a post by Patrick Rhone (patrickrhone.net) I created a shop on Bookshop.org for all the books I read this year for easier browsing and, if interested, purchase. I like this idea Patrick....
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SEO Traffic Increases for IndieWeb Reads, Watches, Listens, and other...
I usually think not a wit about SEO and web stats/traffic with respect to my personal website, but a recent WordPress notification about an unusual spike in traffic got me thinking. In the past, Iโve...
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