Jeremy Cherfas

I do hope the indieweb dinner includes some spam for the bots.

I’m still a little hazy on the plumbing details of all the bits and pieces of IndieWeb but I would have thought that if withKnown has a micropub endpoint and micro.blog can send to the WordPress endpoint, it ought to be able to send to WithKnown. But I’m probably exposing my ignorance. And maybe it is on the roadmap.

Wouldn’t it be nice if micro.blog could talk to WithKnown as well as listening to it.

Right. I had seen @jeffperry’s profile elsewhere, and typed it by hand, making it easier for others to find it. If I hadn’t found it elsewhere, I would not have been able to do that. At least, until @cn reminded me of Search in Discover

Following people from inside the micro.blog iOS app currently seems impossible. There’s no search that I can see. If I get to their mb page and click follow I am supposed to log in again. I just want to help @jeffperry if I can.

Just set a reminder for three months time so that I can continue to enjoy a chronological, ad-free, unmessedaboutwith stream of photos from Instagram, thanks to instagram-atom.appspot.com

Just by accident found this piece on transcribing podcasts with IBM’s Watson. I wonder how it compares with SwiftScribe? Need to give it a try, because as I attempt more complex stories it certainly helps to have a bit of text in addition to notes and markers on the audio.

“botcotting” is the possibly accidental neologism of the day. As my POSSEs to that particular silo are manual, I cannot use it. But I admire the heck out of it.

Terrific video of a talk on #indieweb by Keith J. Grant, who kept remarkably cool during his live demos.

Ok. I will boycott twitter today. As I post less than once a day on average, I’m not sure anyone will notice.

“Love” is not a common or usual name of an ingredient” I just love how the #FDA took Nashoba Brook Bakery to task. Because, truly, it is important to make sure that labels always tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth, right? www.foodpolitics.com/2017/10/f…

One of these geniuses fell down on the job: Parts 1 and 2 link to the same post. source.opennews.org/articles/…

13 October; now fixed.

One could, for example, imagine an honest business model – in which people paid an annual subscription for a service that did not rely on targeting people on the basis of the 98 data-points that the company holds on every user. All it would need is for Facebook users to fork out $20 a year for the pleasure of sharing LOLcats with one another.What’s the likelihood of that happening? You know the answer. Which is why Zuck will continue to keep mum about the sordid reality underpinning his money machine.#indieweb

Interesting piece on “owning” your distribution channels. #indieweb.Now, here’s the thing I’ll tell you—if I was running this site on, say, Medium or Tumblr, it would not have buckled. But to me, I think that independence from platforms is a hugely important thing to have in 2017. If you can spin up the server yourself and figure out a way to cobble together funding, you may miss out on some of the perks of larger sites, but you call the shots. 

As Rosalia Vittorini, the head of Italy’s chapter of the preservationist organization docomomo, once said when asked how Italians feel about living among relics of dictatorship: “Why do you think they think anything at all about it?”

Interesting piece on, among other things, Jacob Rees-Mogg [H]e’s authentic all right, but that will never make him a populist hero — because he’s not faking it.I suppose things really have come to this.

By what insane twisted logic of airport security theatre is it OK to have soft cheese in the hold but not in the cabin? Bereft

It may well be a known bug, but as it isn’t my site that is affected, I cannot investigate in any detail. I feel odd about reporting “issues” that don’t affect me directly and that I have only witnessed and wondered about. So I just draw attention to them. I haven’t seen similar behaviour on my child of Independent Publisher, I don’t think.

If anyone is going to report it, I would think it would be you or James

A #followfriday for micro.blogs is certainly a good idea, but there’s something odd about the way Jimmy Baum’s site renders webmentions. I’m seeing Chris Aldrich’s comment – which brought me there in the first place – as “Chris Aldrich mentioned this Article on amongthestones.com”.

Shouldn’t it be “Chris Aldrich mentioned this Article on boffosocko.com”?