#meta 2021-02-14
2021-02-14 UTC
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@jmeowmeow ↩️ The IndieWeb folks have been trying, but it's "some assembly required" and has been for a while. Metcalfe's Law (value ~ square of number of users) favors big centralized social media sites.
We have URLs, email, feedreaders, XMPP and cheap storage -- pieces. As a whole, dunno. (twitter.com/_/status/1360839753176768512)
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petermolnar.net edited /discuss (+1027) "added joining via XMPP as experimental option" (view diff)
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@vladpotter Grow the IndieWeb with Webmentions by @ambrwlsn90 https://buff.ly/3tCpsyE (twitter.com/_/status/1360950171211808775)
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boffosocko.com edited /commonplace_book (+883) "/* Articles */ Steven Johnson article equating the use of commonplace books and early web logs" (view diff)
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[KevinMarks] that page makes me think about how I should change my writing practice from tweeting back to posting again
# [KevinMarks] commonplace book << “For example, I've been blogging for four years, which means I've poured out about a million words' worth of my thoughts online. This regularly produces the surreal and delightful experience of Googling a topic only to unearth an old post that I don't even remember writing.” https://www.wired.com/2007/09/st-thompson-3/
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Loqi ok, I added "“For example, I've been blogging for four years, which means I've poured out about a million words' worth of my thoughts online. This regularly produces the surreal and delightful experience of Googling a topic only to unearth an old post that I don't even remember writing.” https://www.wired.com/2007/09/st-thompson-3/" to the "See Also" section of /commonplace_book https://indieweb.org/wiki/index.php?diff=74597&oldid=74596
# [KevinMarks] commonplace book << “Writing a blog entry about a useful and/or interesting subject forces me to extract the salient features of the link into a two- or three-sentence elevator pitch to my readers, whose decision to follow a link is predicated on my ability to convey its interestingness to them. This exercise fixes the subjects in my head the same way that taking notes at a lecture does, putting them in reliable and easily-accessible
# Loqi ok, I added "“Writing a blog entry about a useful and/or interesting subject forces me to extract the salient features of the link into a two- or three-sentence elevator pitch to my readers, whose decision to follow a link is predicated on my ability to convey its interestingness to them. This exercise fixes the subjects in my head the same way that taking notes at a lecture does, putting them in reliable and easily-accessible" to the "See Also" section of /commonplace_book https://indieweb.org/wiki/index.php?diff=74598&oldid=74597
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[chrisaldrich] [KevinMarks]++ for those; Reminds me that I've always meant to ask if you practiced any mnemonic techniques (memory palaces, major system, etc), have an above average memory, are really good at basic memory+search, or all of the above.
# [KevinMarks] I pipe my tweets into pinboard, and will search that and my blog for related things
# [KevinMarks] but I feel the thinness of tweets