Jeremy Cherfas

Chris Aldrich’s discussion of the rewarding discovery that a friend has read something that you are reading, before you see it in their feed, is spot on. It is fun. And it reminds me of two things. The most important is that I really need to get to grips with my tags, both in Zettelkasten and, perhaps even more importantly, in Pinboard.

The whole business of bookmarking, storing copies, highlighting and annotating remains a source of confusion for me. There are just too many moving parts. I quite like Chris’ suggestion of making it a topic at a future IndieWeb Camp. I’ve got two projects on the go, either of which could be my thing in Nürnberg in a couple of weeks.

I’ve been a fan of Phil Gyford’s since he made his own redesign of the Guardian’s site. The Directory would probably be a good starting point for a good estimation of linkrot over a decade or more.

I could extract quote after quote from Colin Tudge’s latest essay on agriculture, at www.campaignforrealfarming.org/2018/10/w… but it would undermine the whole, just as a steak undermines a whole cow or an organic loaf of bread undermines the fertility-building beans needed to produce it. Just go read.

PESOS from Reading.am.

It’s a great story. He told me how the UK started a trade war with France, which promptly shipped the good wines through Ireland. The Irish helped create the great wines of France. www.eatthispodcast.com/how-the-i…

Have you taken a look at indieweb.org? There are people doing lots more than hinting.

Define “significant”. Many, many people are very happily using microformats to interact with one another. Micro.blog is built on microformats. Not enough for you?

While he was worrying like a terrier at the word “content” I believe John Philpin wasn’t giving “own” quite the same third-degree. If, as some say, possession is nine-tenths of the law, then all those various places where he stores his stuff, even temporarily, could be said in some sense to own it. I quite like that thing you see inside books, that “The Author asserts their moral rights …” There’s nothing to stop you stealing it (well, aside from the law, in some cases, for people with deep pockets) but at least you know it would be immoral to do so.