Jeremy Cherfas

@_MatthewDillon And, of course, you won’t be surprised to learn that we got a lot of utterly misdirected flak for that.

Of course, and I wasn’t suggesting for a minute that not being able to grok something is any reason to give up on it.

It was more my way of excusing myself from having so much difficulty understanding what was happening in the black box without opening it up to investigate fully.

In the meantime, my Mom uses FB (but not Twitter) and doesn’t see much from me there because I don’t cross-post much. And we’re both OK with that.

Struggling to understand how different bits of the #IndieWeb work in WordPress, I received some very sound advice from lots of people, including this little exhortation from @chrisaldrich:I’ll admit I had to read it about 3 times before I grokked it myself, but it also was a great general and practical intro to the inherent value of microformats.If that were what it took to grok Facebook or Twitter, would anyone beyond a small, self-selecting cadre of geeks be using them?I thought not.

Not sure whether you mean incoming webmentions or outgoing webmentions that aren’t working, but for outgoing, there’s no class=“u-in-reply-to” on your post about Colin Walker’s post.

Well, yes. And increasingly, as I read pieces like this one, I find myself thinking that although it isn’t hard to take the necessary steps to reclaim the social interactions we want, it needs to be done. That makes it a positive step, which gives it extra weight. I’ve already set up Instagram so I see what I want as I want it. And some of Twitter. FB I really don’t care about that much.

On what planet does Techcrunch live? Their report on Anchor’s bid to lure podcasters from SoundCloud says n0thing about whether audio hosted there will be sharable via, say, Huffduffer, which to me was the biggest single problem with SoundCloud as a podcast host.I would also argue that a promise by Anchor “to cut podcasters in when it starts to earn money” isn’t much to go on.But what do I know?

Listening to www.cookerybythebook.com/home/2016… for #earbudsfood and IHAQ: any recipes for purple cookies? @iamsuzychase

@TamarHaspel True; just as bread, beer and wine aren’t biotechnology.

Anyone at #graingathering2017 using composite crosses like Italian farmers? www.eatthispodcast.com/back-to-t…

@EarbudsPodCol Hey, thanks. Anything I can do to help?

@pazzobooks Thanks Tom. Not all history. Today, the future of wheat @meanlouise @/besslovejoy

@SnackBattlesPod Thanks for the mention; hope you’re enjoying it.

Terrific pieces in the shortlist for #hearsay2017 prizes. www.hearsayfestival.ie/new-2017-… Can’t wait to listen.

Blast. Just when I was reaching around to pat myself on the back for making webmentions work on the Mothership, I notice some big problems.First, the home page is all messed up with duplicates of many things. Doesn’t seem to happen on the local version, which means it is going to be tricky as all get out to solve.Secondly, the markup on the Mothership leaves a lot to be desired. That one will be a lot easier.There are probably others too.#IndieWeb

This is all a bit tense, but with any luck there’s a chance that this reply will soon show up, suitably styled, on the Mothership. When (if?) it does, there will be dancing in the streets.

[T]he invisible hand is usually just giving you the finger if you care about what you makeThis downbeat summary does seem to be on the mark, at least for good software. I didn’t upgrade to Day One Premium, because Classic does all I need. Does that make me part of the problem? I don’t believe it does, any more than darning my socks (which I don’t do) or patching my trousers (which I do) makes me a bad consumer. Definitely, the people who make beautiful software need a better way to sell their creations, and no, I don’t know what that might be.

No idea what happened to the million. But the page is an interesting artefact that, in its current state is, I venture, a more accurate keep[sake of the internet than it would be had it all stayed up and running.The article suggests that:Given the existence of powerful and widely accessible tools such as the Wayback machine, this kind of restorative curation may well be within reach.To which I would be fairly vehemently opposed

I donated to ‘Help save Snopes.com!’ - gf.me/u/biicca via @gofundme

We watched Lobster with Colin Farrell and other luminaries last night, and all I can say is, er …