#@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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#[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/
#[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
#Loqiok, 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_bookhttps://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.
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#[KevinMarks]I pipe my tweets into pinboard, and will search that and my blog for related things