This is sad news. I always managed to stop in and say hello to Montoya every time I was on campus.

The question is which one to choose?

I've always hoped that some of the Mastodon instances would build outside of the status update sort of content.

Some interesting discussion of UI and functionality in the reading app/site space.

https://research.google/pubs/pub36356/

I like the idea of where Downes is going here in taking a book and turning it into a feed for a course.

Could professors create a syllabus at the start of the semester and then add things to a main class feed slowly over time in combination with feeds from various students to unroll the course over time?

It's just not what it was without Dick or his books.

Whether or not digital gardens should follow any standards is an interesting question.

What features/functionality should a digital garden have? Is there a canonical list yet?

I wish more supported Webmention to enable the Memex dream...

Ru does a retrospective about how much work and energy a static site can be to maintain a personal website.

Interesting book of Carmen Siriani about the factory soviets.

Must be interesting study to read about soviet Russia.

Downloading a copy of the paper to read.

I think this may be the best review of salvinorin A that I have ever looked at. I definitely need to sit down and read the full article at some point.

Doc Searls blames the cookie for poisoning the web.

It's important to know when gamification will work and be beneficial and to know when it may be harmful.

Lynne Kelly describes her experiences with some elementary school students using her rapscallions, songlines, and a woodhenge to memorize their math and social studies classwork and present it to their peers.

An overview of Milman Parry's life, work, and some of his impact on Homeric studies and orality as media.

He's at least trying to send the right signals...

Hooray!

Keep in mind that this may not be the actual email as received. It likely is, but since it's posted by a third party in a contentious situation, chances are that it may not be.

I'm wondering if it'll support OPML to mass import sites I'm already following elsewhere?

This appears to be an interesting change in Chrome.

This looks somewhat intriguing:

Krathwohl DR. A Revision of Bloom’s Taxonomy: An Overview. Theory Into Practice. 2002;41(4):212–8. _2. https://doi.org/10.1207/s15430421tip4104 | Google Scholar

I totally want to read this book now.

This looks cool! I can think of some interesting applications, but the example here is pretty slick.

<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>Kevin Marks</span> in "@alexstamos You gave a pithy quote about 'strangers' which downplayed the sustained attempts by the social silos to gather and document our lives in their dossiers and cash in on it. @matlock explains more here https://t.co/lo4dG4CuqV" / Twitter (<time class='dt-published'>05/18/2021 19:32:39</time>)</cite></small>

These sound like some interesting structures around which a community could easily and interestingly create content.

Worth delving into seeing how they work.

go-jamming is a cool looking Webmention sender and receiver, particularly for SSGs. It can be used to service multiple websites as well.

Requires a bit of configuration and build into one's templates, but it looks pretty well documented.

<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>KevinMarks</span> in #indieweb 2021-05-12 (<time class='dt-published'>05/18/2021 19:50:04</time>)</cite></small>

This is rather slick. It would be interesting to parse the root URL and show more context of the original author's name, avatar, etc. as well.

I am now definitely Team Maria!

A quiet nod here in it's own right. Now I want to dig into Elinor Ostrom's research and work.

Autocracy-as-a-Service---it's so sad that this apt phrase exists and worse that it has such a benign feeling to it.

https://onezero.medium.com/now-any-government-can-buy-chinas-tools-for-censoring-the-internet-18ed862b9138

This is a rather cool find and I can think of a few ways of using it.

Being able to add widgets easily to the dashboard can be a highly useful thing!

Also having the ability to easily add an admin page in the menu could be incredibly helpful in this setting.

These all look interesting, but my primary worry is the ability to do cross-platform note taking with them. Perhaps worth delving into some more custom reviews, but the price points of these compared to my laptop versus the functionality and flexibility needs to improve greatly.

One of the toughest parts of note taking systems can be moving from one to another, particularly digital ones, as the technical overhead is almost never easy and typically requires a huge amount of work. Wouter's description here may seem facile, but I'm sure it wasn't simple, not to mention the fact that he's got more facility with coding than the average person ever will.

I do like the idea of basic text or markdown files that can be used in a variety of settings with relatively easy wiki mark up.

Of the systems I've seen, this seems to be the most portable format, but it also requires software that supports it at the base level, but which still provides search and other useful functionalities.

<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>Wouter Groeneveld</span> in Digitizing journals using DEVONthink | Brain Baking (<time class='dt-published'>05/17/2021 08:00:06</time>)</cite></small>

A relatively comprehensive view of Wouter Groeneveld's commonplacing workflow. There are a few bits missing here and there, but he's got most of the bigger basics down that a majority of people seem to have found and discovered.

He's got a strong concept of indexing, search, and even some review, which many miss. There's some organic work toward combinatorial thought, but only via the search piece.

I should make a list of the important pieces for more advanced versions to have. I've yet to see any articles or work on this.

This hasn't happened yet, and is unlikely to happen anytime soon. We seem to be moving away from a read/write web, with authors only being able to edit content they've created on domains that they control. The closest I've seen to this is the Beaker Browser.

Definition of lexia (or French lexie).

The seminal 1890 Harvard Law Review article The Right to Privacy—which every essay about data privacy is contractually obligated to cite—argued that the right of an individual to object to the publication of photographs ought to be considered part of a general ‘right to be let alone’.

<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>Jenny</span> in left alone, together | The Roof is on Phire (<time class='dt-published'>05/08/2021 18:32:41</time>)</cite></small>

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Right_to_Privacy_(article)

San Franciscans are mask shaming others for not wearing them outside despite recent changes in guidance by the CDC.

The problem here is the "if" you're fully vaccinated part, which 50% or more likely still haven't done, but are going maskless anyway.

An interesting take from a significant modern researcher/writer about commonplaces in the digital era. He's particularly enamoured of the fact that Evernote dovetails with Google searches to show details from his own notebooks which he's saved in the past.

Search in commonplace books is definitely a must have feature.

Some revisionist history here glorifying Bush and the Memex without any mention of the long historical precedent of the commonplace book.

Article about the renaming of Welsh place names into English which erases culture and history.

a very facile, introductory article. nothing new here for me.

This is a solidly comprehensive overview of much of what I'd want in my own personal reader. I'll have to revisit it as I'm reading and using other readers to see if there are any other pieces missing.

Being able to sort by social distance, by community/tags, and by posting frequency and/or post type (ie separating articles from notes from bookmarks, etc) would be some of the bigger must haves.

This doesn't look good at all... Freenode is apparently being taken over with some corporate chicanery?

<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>JHI Blog </span> in Collective Memory - JHI Blog (<time class='dt-published'>05/12/2021 21:55:54</time>)</cite></small>

Markus Krajewski reminds us that Luhmann’s choice of interlocutor has a precedent in an 1805 piece by the novelist Heinrich von Kleist (see the chapter “Paper as Passion” in this collection).

<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>Daniela K. Helbig </span> in  Ruminant machines: a twentieth-century episode in the material history of ideas - JHI Blog (<time class='dt-published'>05/12/2021 21:27:02</time>)</cite></small>