https://hessen.social/@groepl/109456367157130265

https://snarfed.org/2022-12-03_bridgy-fed-updates

https://webfinger.net/

https://kinlane.com/2022/11/26/posting-a-message-nobody-reads/

People talk about their huge follower counts on Twitter, but seem to discount the number of bots, inactive accounts, and other cruft that make up that number.

Most people moving to Mastodon are reporting much more honest, human, and warm engagement on the platform over their experiences on Twitter.

https://catgirlin.space/posts/moving-to-the-fediverse-and-indieweb/

http://www.shakesville.com/2010/01/commenting-policy.html

https://micro.blog/posts/search?q=indieweb

an alternate form for micro.blog search functionality

https://micro.blog/discover/search?q=indieweb

Micro.blog search functionality uses a url query (example https://micro.blog/discover/search?q=indieweb), but it only includes posts which have been added to the "discovery" section and isn't a site wide search

https://oulipo.social/about

Social media without the letter "e".

https://dolphin.town/about/more

A social media service for dolphins where you can only send messages with the letter "e".

compare with https://oulipo.social/about which elides the letter e

http://beesbuzz.biz/blog/10755-Warning-signs-with-social-media-platforms

A pretty solid definition of IndieWeb here.

https://gregorlove.com/2022/12/near-term-plans-for-my-twitter/

https://vivaldi.com/blog/blue-beanie-day/

This generally fits my criteria for submission as an example to https://boffosocko.com/2022/07/12/call-for-model-examples-of-zettelkasten-output-processes/

https://edward-slingerland.medium.com/there-is-only-one-way-to-write-a-book-637535ef5bde

Example of someone's research, note taking, and writing process using index cards.

Broadly, this is very similar to the process used by Ryan Holiday, Robert Green, and Victor Margolin.

While he can't recall the name of the teacher, he credits his 7th grade English teacher (1980-1981) for teaching him the method.

Edward Slingerland is represented by Brockman Inc.

Anecdotal evidence that the final "writing" portion of a card index process is "relatively easy" as the majority of the work has already been done.

Anecdotal evidence that categorizing and arranging index cards/ideas for a writing project for subsequent writing is one of the most difficult portions of the process.

Niklas Luhmann subverted portions of this by pre-linking his ideas together either in threads or an outline form as he went.

a nod to having "cards of equal size", but that precision isn't necessarily as crucial as we might suppose.

At what point in the process does one have a conceptualization for the overall outline of what they're writing?

In cases where it's earlier than others, then heavy linking and organization may not be as necessary.

Example of someone who felt that speeding up their note taking by using digital tools rather than analog ones.

Example of someone who learned an index card based commonplace book method for note taking and writing.

https://tracydurnell.com/2022/11/27/making-the-indieweb-more-approachable/

https://literati.com/book-clubs/atlas-obscura/

https://kimberlyhirsh.com/2022/12/02/my-reading-year.html

http://scripting.com/2022/12/03.html#a152558

Anecdotal evidence for the slow death of Twitter and higher engagement on Mastodon.

I'm enamored of this idea as well and this is a fascinating example.

It seems similar to the related (and also difficult-to-name) concept which I've called combinatorial creativity. One of the earliest versions I've seen is that of Raymond Llullus' work with respect to combinatorial mnemonics described in Frances Yates' The Art of Memory (1966). Farnam Street's post is a good start https://fs.blog/networked-knowledge-and-combinatorial-creativity/, but I've been collecting other examples: https://hypothes.is/users/chrisaldrich?q=tag%3A%22combinatorial+creativity%22 and other names for it over time.

I can't help but wonder what Ericsson's role of deliberate practice would look like with arts as the subject? What motivates long term deliberate practice?

Yates, Frances A. The Art of Memory. 1966. Reprint, Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2001. https://www.amazon.com/Art-Memory-Frances-Yates/dp/0226950018.

Ericsson, K. Anders, Ralf Th. Krampe, and Clemens Tesch-Romer. The Role of Deliberate Practice in the Acquisition of Expert Performance. Psychological Review, 1993.

https://www.dalekeiger.net/untitled/

Dale Keiger is tap dancing his way into a definition for the underlying traits for encouraging and expanding on creativity. There's definitely something here worth pursuing further and giving a specific name to.

Some it is very akin to the ideas behind combinatorial creativity of working (dancing in Kelly's case) on the mundane with precision and drive and perhaps at least a soupçon of obsessiveness, but openness to the new.

How can we sharpen this set of ideas to settle on the right list of "ingredients"? Is there a way to hone in on this sort of creation of flow within a certain creative area while simultaneously not getting bored? Is it the small string of creative breakthroughs in the process of practice which open up new avenues and help create the flow to prevent boredom?

How might relate to Anders Ericsson's work on on deliberate practice or plateau principle coming into play, particularly to prevent boredom to encourage one to continue on with their practice?

I haven't put my finger on it but there were hints in it from a Yo-Yo Ma ad for Masterclass I saw the other day (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbjgHkj-syM)..

This same sort of repetition is seen in the success of salespeople. Can they repetitively make the same (or slowly improving) pitches day after day without getting tired of hearing "no" to eventually the appropriate number of yeses they need to make a living.

https://www.modernlibrary.com/top-100/100-best-nonfiction/

What a solid looking list of non-fiction books.

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2022/12/the-ethics-of-syndicating-comments-using-webmentions/

Not an answer to the dilemma, though I generally take the position of keeping everything unless someone asks me to take it down or that I might know that it's been otherwise deleted. Often I choose not to delete my copy, but simply make it private and only viewable to me.

On the deadnaming and related issues, it would be interesting to create a webmention mechanism for the h-card portions so that users might update these across networks. To some extent Automattic's Gravatar system does this in a centralized manner, but it would be interesting to see it separately. Certainly not as big an issue as deadnaming, but there's a similar problem on some platforms like Twitter where people will change their display name regularly for either holidays, or lately because they're indicating they'd rather be found on Mastodon or other websites.

The webmention spec does contain details for both editing/deleting content and resending webmentions to edit and/or remove the original. Ideally this would be more broadly adopted and used in the future to eliminate the need for making these choices by leaving the choice up to the original publisher.

Beyond this, often on platforms that don't have character limits (Reddit for example), I'll post at the bottom of my syndicated copy of content that it was originally published on my site (along with the permalink) and explicitly state that I aggregate the replies from various locations which also helps to let people know that they might find addition context or conversation at the original post should they be interested. Doing this on Twitter, Mastodon, et al is much harder due to space requirements obviously.

While most responses I send would fall under fair use for copying, I also have a Creative Commons license on my text in an effort to help others feel more comfortable with having copies of my content on their sites.

Another ethical layer to this is interactions between sites which both have webmentions enabled. To some extent this creates an implicit bi-directional relationship which says, I'm aware that this sort of communication exists and approve of your parsing and displaying my responses.

The public norms and ethics in this area will undoubtedly evolve over time, so it's also worth revisiting and re-evaluating the issue over time.

https://werd.io/2022/the-fediverse-and-the-indieweb

The idea behind this is great, but the hurdles for supporting dozens of publishing specifications can be awfully daunting. Where do we draw the line?

The easiest publishing (syndication) workflow of all.

https://blog.erinshepherd.net/2022/11/a-better-moderation-system-is-possible-for-the-social-web/

This lack of spam is very likely indicative of the difficulty of implementing an AP-based platform.

<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>Erin Alexis Owen Shepherd</span> in A better moderation system is possible for the social web (<time class='dt-published'>12/03/2022 11:10:32</time>)</cite></small>

https://johnjohnston.info/blog/feedreaderfriday-3/

https://dahlstrand.net/1670017739/

This is the first #FeedReaderFriday post I've seen in the wild from someone I don't know. :)

https://www.manton.org/2022/12/02/moving-from-mastodon.html

Details for moving from one instance to another.

https://tldr.nettime.org/about/more

https://monocle.p3k.io/preview

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/nov/30/herschel-walker-texas-home-georgia-senate-runoffr

https://www.downes.ca/post/74564

Stephen Downes is doing a great job of regular recaps on the shifts in Twitter/Mastodon/Fediverse lately. I either read or saw all these in the last couple of days myself.

https://btrem.com/2021/04-svg-microformats

https://www.royal.uk/crown-dependencies

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/24/world/europe/isle-of-man-manx-language.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/01/us/politics/trump-special-master.html

https://zirk.us/@shengokai/109440759945863989

If the individuals in an environment don't understand or perceive the affordances available to them, can the interactions between them and the environment make it seem as if the environment possesses agency?

cross reference: James J. Gibson book The Senses Considered as Perceptual Systems (1966)

People often indicate that social media "causes" outcomes among groups of people who use it. Eg: Social media (via algorithmic suggestions of fringe content) causes people to become radicalized.

https://www.wood-finishes-direct.com/blog/what-is-pva-glue/

Pretty thorough article on PVA glues

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-Wp0sLpnMY

PVA Glue used in bookbinding, but isn't inexpensive.

• Tacky glue - okay
• rubber cement - not great
• elmer's glue - not great, tears esp. for 2 layers
• Mod podge - pulls nicely and strong
• mod podge hard shell - cracks, not great
• PVA Glue - the best of the group

Recommendations in order: PVA, Tacky Glue, Mod Podge (regular)

Brush on top edge and do two coats. Don't get it down between sheets.

https://researchbuzz.me/2022/11/05/a-big-list-of-mastodon-resources/

https://github.com/vertis/obsidian-image-layouts

61 Mortimer Jerome Adler and Charles Van Doren, How to Read a Book, Rev. and updated ed (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1972), 45.

I see some of the sense of this footnote, which helps to establish some ethos by calling to mind Adler/Van Doren's classic, but this particular page in their text is really about paying enough attention not to fall asleep and thus doesn't underline Scheper's point as well as references to other portions of their book about goals and active reading.

source:

60 Hans-Georg Moeller, The Radical Luhmann (New York: Columbia University Press, 2011), 11.

I rather like the phrase "note cabinet" which isn't used often enough in the zettelkasten space. Something more interesting than filing cabinet which feels like where things are stored to never be seen again versus a note cabinet which is temporary and directed location storage specifically meant for things to actively be reused.

Yet another new name for a sub-type of notes, here he uses reformulation notes as a shorthand for the old advice to rewrite ideas you find in your own words. This advice is often suggested to accomplish two things: - avoid plagiarism - restatement of ideas in your own words is related to the Feynman Technique and assists one in learning and ensuring they understand the concepts

This could be clearer and "growth state" and "contribution state" feel like jargon which muddles:

two of the broad benefits/affordances of having a zettelkasten: - learning and scaffolding knowledge (writing for understanding) - collecting and arranging material for general output

see also: https://boffosocko.com/2022/04/01/the-zettelkasten-method-of-note-taking-mirrors-most-of-the-levels-of-blooms-taxonomy/

note the pathos along with a bit of religious zeal here about the "true way".

from Niklas Luhmann, Niklas Luhmann Short Cuts (English Translation), 2002, 22.

He highlights this here because it seems convenient to his thesis about a "true way", but Scheper has also mentioned in other venues that it was Luhmann's tenacity of working at his project that was largely responsible for his output.

I believe he made that statement in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgMh6iuFbT4

temporary bookmark,

He'd warned about it in the introduction, but here it is, finally on page 341, how to build the thing we've come for. That was apparently a lot of motivation.

https://www.dalekeiger.net/tironean-shorthand/

Potential links between Tironian shorthand and mnemonics of the 1800s?

😇

Thomas Becket brought back Tironian shorthand after monasteries had stopped using it.

https://mxb.dev/blog/the-indieweb-for-everyone/

I've previously framed this as a greater range of choices (towards independence) requires more work--both work to narrow down one's choices as well as potentially work to build and maintain..

https://www.eyemagazine.com/blog/post/house-of-the-risograph

https://github.com/aaronpk/Nautilus

reply to u/deafpolygon at https://www.reddit.com/r/Zettelkasten/comments/z5haa9/comment/iy6yowi/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

It's been reported by his son that Luhmann did learn about a method (which either he heavily modified or someone else showed him their modification thereof) from Johannes Erich Heyde. There's sure to be more details on this in Scott Scheper's upcoming book Antinet Zettelkasten.

see: Heyde, Johannes Erich. Technik des wissenschaftlichen Arbeitens: zeitgemässe Mittel und Verfahrungsweisen. Junker und Dünnhaupt, 1931.

See: https://hyp.is/4wxHdDqeEe2OKGMHXDKezA/www.reddit.com/r/antinet/comments/wryt4t/the_secret_book_luhmann_read_that_taught_him/

Post at https://www.reddit.com/r/Zettelkasten/comments/z5haa9/victor_margolins_zettelkasten_process_for_writing/

It's not as refined or as compartmentalized as Luhmann's process, but art Historian Victor Margolin broadly outlines his note taking and writing process in reasonable detail in this excellent three minute video. (This may be one of the shortest and best produced encapsulations of these reading/note taking/writing methods I've ever seen.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kxyy0THLfuI

Though he indicates it was a "process [he] developed", it is broadly similar to that of the influential "historical method" laid out by Ernst Bernheim and later Seignobos/Langlois in the late 1800s.

https://g13g.blog/2021/03/16/get-your-blog-posts-on-mastodon/

I should write some documentation up for this.

http://stoney.sb.org/eno/oblique.html

Digital version similar to WTFEngine.

https://www.oblique-strategies.com/

A web-based version similar to WTFEngine.

https://andy-bell.co.uk/im-genuinely-enjoying-social-media-again/

https://hcommons.org/members/chrisaldrich/

https://www.methexis.ai/join-the-collaboration

https://www.dalekeiger.net/on-being-a-gentleman-well-unread/

Both your 積ん読 game and master level antilibrary skills are on wonderful display here.

Your observations here ring true to me. They're also supported by similar observations by Malcolm Gladwell in chapters 8 and 9 (I believe) of Miracle and Wonder. There he's got stories of Wilt Chamberlain and Paul Simon which provide additional examples though he's also attributing some of the success to memory and the idea of situational awareness. He quotes his own researcher there who makes some comments on short versus long artistic careers and how they relate to creativity and longevity. See also this "zettel": https://hypothes.is/a/Kd7X4lvPEe250Gvn57Pbdg

Gladwell, Malcolm, Bruce Hedlam, and Paul Simon. Miracle and Wonder: Conversations with Paul Simon. Audiobook. Pushkin Industries, 2021. https://amzn.to/3ENU32D

This seems to fit in with Malcolm Gladwell's observation about Paul Simon see: https://hypothes.is/a/Kd7X4lvPEe250Gvn57Pbdg

https://github.com/mwt/apfollow/

Code and buttons for creating ActivityPub Follow me interface

https://odd.blog/2022/11/06/how-to-add-your-blog-to-mastodon/

This looks cool.

https://tomfinley.co/wordpress-fediverse/

https://tomfinley.co/friends/

https://medium.com/age-of-awareness/writing-tools-i-use-all-the-time-7d8e661f6317

generally meh...

https://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2022/11/09/insights-gained-forcing-students-cheat-class-opinion

https://wordpress.org/plugins/shortnotes/

https://www.gentlemanstationer.com/blog/2021/9/18/spotlight-on-the-nib-tailor

https://capenshow.com/

http://www.lainternationalpenshow.com/

https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEXF3JgdHVY

Fountain pen network

ink journals for keeping track of pens, ink, and samples

ink review formats

swab books

q-tip swabs

ink sample vials and tray holders

a bulb syringe for flushing water through to clean pens is a good idea when doing many at a time

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1egupogzhZgPgcM1NcIxBC4iW2xgvs1qJPAG568YaCuY/edit#gid=1071805829

A list of congress members on Mastodon.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/11/27/musk-followers-bernie-cruz/

https://projects.propublica.org/represent/

https://zirk.us/explore

HA!

https://hcommons.social/@natalie/109415180134582494

https://hekate2.github.io/buttonmaker/ http://webbuttonmaker.great-site.net/?i=1

https://neonaut.neocities.org/cyber/88x31.html

Reply to Andy https://forum.zettelkasten.de/discussion/comment/16865#Comment_16865

Andy, I'll take you at your word. You're right that none of it requires extraordinary genius--though many who seem to exhibit extraordinary genius do have variations of these practices in their lives, and the largest proportion of them either read about them or were explicitly taught them.

With these patterns and practices being so deeply rooted in our educational systems for so long (not to mention the heavy influences of our orality and evolved thinking apparatus even prior to literacy), it's a bit difficult for many to truly guarantee that they've done these things independently without heavy cultural and societal influence. As a result, it's not a far stretch for people to evolve their own practices to what works for them and then think that they've invented something new. The common person may not be aware of the old ideas of scala naturae or scholasticism, but they certainly feel them in their daily lives. Commonplacing is not much different.

By analogy, Elon Musk might say he created the Tesla, but it's a far bigger stretch for him to say that he invented a new means of transportation, or a car, or the wheel when we know he's swimming in a culture rife with these items. Humans are historically far better at imitation than innovation. If people truly independently developed systems like these so many times, then in the evolutionary record of these practices we should expect to see more diversity than we do in practice. We might expect to see more innovation than just the plain vanilla adjacent possible. Given Margolin's age, time period, educational background, and areas of expertise, there is statistically very little chance that he hadn't seen or talked about versions of this practice with several dozens of his peers through his lifetime after which he took that tacit knowledge and created his own explicit version which worked for him.

Historian Keith Thomas talks about some of these traditions which he absorbed himself without having read some of the common advice (see London Review of Books https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v32/n11/keith-thomas/diary). He also indicates that he slowly evolved to some of the often advised practices like writing only on one side of a slip, though, like many, he completely omits to state the reason why this is good advice. We can all ignore these rich histories, but we'll probably do so at our own peril and at the expense of wasting some of our time to re-evolve the benefits.

Why are so many here (and in other fora on these topics) showing up regularly to read and talk about their experiences? They're trying to glean some wisdom from the crowds of experimenters to make improvements. In addition to the slow wait for realtime results, I've "cheated" a lot and looked at a much richer historical record of wins and losses to gain more context of our shared intellectual history. I'm reminded of one of Goethe's aphorisms from Maxims and Reflections "Inexperienced people raise questions which were answered by the wise thousands of years ago."

https://www.enderverse.org/notes/indiexanadu.html

https://web.getmicropad.com/#

http://www.rtqe.net/ObliqueStrategies/Acquire.html

http://www.rtqe.net/ObliqueStrategies/Acute.html

Acute Strategies are a crowdsourced deck of advice and aphorisms collected by Gregory Taylor as an homage to the original deck of Oblique Strategies.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/163G79vq-mFWjIqMb9AzYGbr5Y8YMGcpbSzJRutO8tpw/edit

Howard Rheingold, et al. A Guide to Crap Detection Resources

https://hcommons.social/about

The humanities commons has their own mastodon instance now!

Perhaps EIP could partner with On the Media to produce a trope consumer handbook for elections, vaccines, and various conspiracy theory areas?

Cross reference: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/projects/breaking-news-consumers-handbook

Storytelling tropes play into our system one heuristics and cognitive biases by riding on the tailcoats of familiar story plotlines we've come to know and trust.

What are the ways out of this trap? Creating lists of tropes which should trigger our system one reactions to switch into system two thinking patterns? Can we train ourselves away from these types of misinformation?

Tropes are shorthand storytelling methods that rely on a common storytelling grammar or pattern language to quickly relay information to the viewer or listener.

Something similar! Here it is: https://t.co/x1DPx9dm0P

— Renee DiResta (@noUpside) November 26, 2022

https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2022/09/10-thoughts-after-100-annotations-in-hypothes-is/

I love that you've got a comments heading for Hypothes.is annotations on your post @tonz! This is awesome.

https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2022/08/added-hypothes-is-annotations-link-to-posts/

Also... just to show the functionality. (aka: First!)

https://www.zylstra.org/blog/hypothes-is-roll/

A blogroll for Hypothes.is!

https://brainsteam.co.uk/annotations/

Example of someone owning their Hypothes.is annotations and publishing them on their own website.