Jeremy Cherfas

Oh bother. Newsblur.com is down. Now I’ll have to think of something else to do while I procrastinate.

I’ve set out in as much detail as I can understand what is happening when I try to POST a Bookmark with a Description to WithKnown.And to add insult to injury, I’m adding this Description by hand, so I can include a blockquote: [I]f you try to POST anything other than the URL of the bookmark, it simply never appears. With the help of good IndieWeb people, especially zegnat and cweiske, we worked out what was happening. #indieweb #withknown

#testtagAnd a bit of description

Chris reminds me, I ought to get something lined up for a global celebration.

I tried posting from micro.blog (on ios) to my site, and all I got was an error message. Not easy to debug. So now I’m trying from the OSX app. Sorry if I disturbed anyone.

I see @cygnoir has just asked Samuel Clay to add sharing to micro.blog to Newsblur. It would be even better to support any site with Micropub. That would be so worthwhile an addition to a great feed reader.

#sourdough

I don’t know about you, @mdesoucey , but I’m missing out on it being on Facebook.

Great headlines of our time. “A study by the Public University of Navarre wins an award at an international conference”

Prepping for an imminent interview by reading newfoodeconomy.org/npis-bird… from @newfoodeconomy.

When I teach writing (which I do), I always say to people, “This is ambiguous. Sure, I can ask you here in class. But most people who read this aren’t going to be able to ask you to clarify. They’re either going to be confused, or jump to the meaning you don’t want them to.”

The silly thing is, Dave is there to clarify, and he chooses not to.

I have only seen one side of Nick Snelgar’s dispute with his local planning authority but I have no reason to doubt what I’ve seen there. To me it seems indisputable that, no matter what politicians like Michael Gove may say, there is no real desire to allow small farmers to reform the farming and food landscape in England.

Over at Scripting News, Dave Winer says: Every blog should have a Subscribe button. In an open ecosystem this is a problem, a problem that silos don’t have. Which is the advantage Twitter (a silo) has over the open web. I guess I’m not smart enough to see what that problem might be.