Jeremy Cherfas

I suppose I’m just not enough of a herd-dweller to understand either why some people insist that RSS is dead or are surprised that it remains alive and well. Colin Walker, in one of his characteristically thoughtful pieces, has this to say:When Google Reader closed people had to actively seek an alternative in order to continue consuming their RSS feeds. This pushed many towards simply using their social streams - they couldn’t be bothered to find an equivalent service and re-add all their feeds.No such need would exist with something like webmentions. People may not be able to immediately interact with as many properties but things wouldn’t stop working for those not hosted on the major player’s platform.Well, OK. But that’s not how it went for me. I found Newsblur pretty quickly and have stuck with it, although I hear good things about lots of other readers. I never really took to the idea of any of the social silos being a substitute for a reader, and as they become more algorithmic they became less and less interesting on that score.I do wish Newsblur would do more on the sharing front. For a while it allowed cross-posting to ADN and I can’t imagine it would be that hard to allow more generalised cross-posting, but the developer just doesn’t seem that interested.The huge draw of RSS for me is that it costs nothing if a site lays dormant for months or even years. Just last week, a site I subscribe to sprang back into life after more than three years. I can’t believe that would ever have made it into my timeline at a silo.

Maybe this will go through.

As suggestedby @mrhenko, a test post containing a photo but no title.

Just an old snap.

Narrowing things down. I can post a photo to Known from my desktop with OS X.

I don’t expect it to show up on micro.blog because that gets a feed of selected categories only, and Photos isn’t one of them.

How about an image in a post?

Classy

Amazing work from @chrisaldrich explaining how and why he’s gone about bringing his blogroll into the 21st century. I’m honoured to be on the list, with just one comment: the Vaviblog site, while still live, will not be updated, until it reverts to its original purpose. I have not yet found a way to import all the data from that instance of Known to my current instance, as I would like, so for now that site is a relic of my first steps onto the IndieWeb.

Blast. I can’t seem to upload images to micro.blog or to WithKnown. I’ll have to work on that tomorrow.

That’s a real pity. And these things are so hard to troubleshoot. I can’t help with that, but I can send replies.

This is just so astonishingly cool and Jetson-like.

So, double the characters for all on Twitter. Does this mean twice the outrage and hate, or will there be an outbreak of finely expressed, carefully nuanced peace, love and understanding?

Sunk costs rears its ugly head again:Little Boy cost, well, a bomb. It seemed a shame after all that effort not to drop on somebody.

iTunes 12.7.0 or maybe OS X 10.13 has stolen my song artwork. That is, it no longer appears in preview, although it is still visible in iTunes. I need this for podcast cover art. So here’s hoping that it is there and will show in podcast players.

It is odd how John’prizewinning post gives too many redirects when I first go there, and is fine if I reload. @c

As proven by his stunts, Richard Branson knew how to drive a tank. Unfortunately for Virgin Cola, Coke knew how to control an army.