Looking for more excellent WordLand bug report writers. 😄
People and blogs involved with and about the IndieWeb community, the fediverse, and/or the open web in general.
How Undersea Cables Connect the Global Internet
As if in response to Dom's idea, overnight, via email Leslie Joyce sends a link to a feed containing first episodes of new fiction podcasts. First comment, how useful! I love this idea as a user. And second, how innovative! I love this idea as a media hacker, what a clever use of RSS. I've added it to my blogroll and to my shared list of podcast feeds.
Dom Christie has an interesting idea related to listening lists. Aggregate all the shows from all the feeds in a list into a single feed. This seems brilliant because it reduces the implementation in the client to almost nothing, just rebuild a feed periodically, it could be done entirely in the client app. But it also could be something users could share with other users, sort of a meta-channel. I think it's brilliant with the caveat that sometimes when you implement it you find something that makes it more complex than it seems at first. This is the second idea I've heard that the initial listening lists idea spawned. I think there's a lot of unexplored possibilities here.
Ben Werdmuller
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Australia's ban on social media for teens is a mistake
[Mathew Ingram]
As Mathew Ingram points out, Australia's new social media law is a well-intentioned error.
He quotes an Australian human rights commission dissent which points out that:
"For children in marginalised, remote, or vulnerable situations, social ...
Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
The War on Poverty Is Over. Rich People Won.
[Annie Lowrey at The Atlantic]
This older interview with Matthew Desmond is doing the rounds again, and I discovered it for the first time. If you haven't read his books Evicted, and Poverty, by America, you owe it to yourself to do that. They're revealing, ...
Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
Threads takes an important baby step toward true fediverse integration
[Wes Davis at The Verge]
Threads added a little more fediverse support:
"While fediverse posts won’t show in feeds, Instagram head Adam Mosseri says their profile and posts do appear on Threads, and you have the option to get notifications when they publish....
Wednesday session
Wednesday session
IndieWeb Meetup tonight! Reminder that we switched up the venue: it’s at Radio Coffee & Beer, 7pm.
Little known fact: Micro.blog has the best photo search of any blogging platform. Great to find one of your old photos to reference, or to remember if you blogged about something. If there’s anything even close to this good, let me know.
From a few days ago, this little “eggplant” sign makes me smile whenever I see it.
Deployed a flurry of server fixes this morning. Espresso machine power is out at the coffee shop, so enjoying a cold brew instead. ☕️
Great new preview videos of the upcoming Micro.blog app Mikro. Looking really nice!
I am definitely the last person to hear about ListenNotes search engine for podcasts. It's incredible. Just starting to explore its capabilities.
JSX.lol - Does anybody actually like React?
I’m suscribing to this RSS feed.
I filled out the Podcast Ideas page I started as a placeholder on Nov 30. If you have a friend who works on a podcast client, please send them a pointer to this piece, or link to it from your social web accounts on Mastodon, Bluesky, Threads or via your blog. Let's nurture and feed new features to the open podcast world, ones that helps creators and influencers build new networks that can only work outside of the silos. It's time to start moving the market again, it's been stagnant for far too long.
I’m quitting while I’m ahead: https://adactio.com/journal/21585
I’m quitting while I’m ahead: https://adactio.com/journal/21585
Cocolingo
This year I decided I wanted to get better at speaking Irish.
Like everyone brought up in Ireland, I sort of learned the Irish language in school. It was a compulsory subject, along with English and maths.
But Irish wasn’t really taught like a living conversational languag...
Woke up to a whole bunch of good (though not positive) feedback. Going to be a busy day!
Tabloid: the clickbait headline programming language
Tabloid is a turing-complete programming language for writing programs in the style of clickbait news headlines.