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IndieWeb and Android Mobile
@dshanske I remember you mentioning it briefly the other day and then saw something more specific this morning: http:/
Have you hacked around with either Bookmarklet Free or URL Forwarder apps from the Google Play store? They’re mentioned in the following two places:
https:/
http:/
I’d gotten URL Forwarder set up and configured to make mobile sharing for my WithKnown install to make bookmarking, sharing, reposting, and a few other functionalities work incredibly quickly and well. I’ve put off doing so on WP since I have some other back-end dependencies that need tweaking so that I don’t create redundant loops with some of my other configuration. With any luck one or the other will get you pretty far without having a full micropub application.
With these you can use Android’s ubiquitous sharing icon and share to one or the other of the apps which will do the URL scraping to be able to do some of the posting types you want. Depending on the output, you may need one or two additional tweaks, but it’ll give you a reasonable template for a workflow. I’m sure some further url parameters and integration could be put in to auto checking the correct post kind and thereby making your posts fully indieweb compatible on WP. Adding Indieweb Press This https:/
Then, I’m sure there’s the additional functionality of API calls to Twitter/Facebook/etc. to implement the actual retweet/like on the native platform, but that could be handled later/separately (though Bridgy Publish might be able to handle this? I seem to remember a mention of it in the bookmarklet set up.)
Finally, if “Post Properties” could import the same URL and scrape the metadata, the entire process would be almost too simple and not need a “traditional” mobile app at all.
For URL Forwarder the base settings should be:
Reply: http:/
Like: http:/
Repost: http:/
Hopefully this gets you a few steps further on android mobile without a huge amount of work…
It looks like no one is maintaining this actively and the last patch was in 2014. Just keeping up with Twitter and Facebook API changes can be painful.
You might find similar functionality using a group of IndieWeb related plugins https:/
Some of the rest of the autoposting portions can be had through JetPack's Sharing functionality or alternately through NextScript's SNAP plugin: https:/
#video: Why you need your own website in advance of Homebrew Website Club on 5/4/16 http:/
Checked into Pivotal
#indieweb: Heading over to Homebrew Web Site Club in Los Angeles https:/
<blockquote>"35 million academics, independent scholars and graduate students as users, who collectively have uploaded some eight million texts"</blockquote>
35 million users is a lovey number, but their engagement must be spectacularly bad if only 8 million texts are available.
<blockquote>"the platform essentially bans access for academics who, for whatever reason, don’t have an Academia.edu account. It also shuts out non-academics."</blockquote>
They must have changed this, as pretty much anyone with an email address (including non-academics) can create a free account and use the system.
<blockquote>“I don’t trust academia.edu,”</blockquote>
Given his following discussion, I can only imagine what he thinks of big publishers in academia and *that* debate.
<blockquote>"McGill’s Dr. Sterne calls it “the gamification of research,”</blockquote>
Most research is too expensive to really gamify in such a simple manner. Many researchers are publishing to either get or keep their jobs. And if anything, the institutionalization of "publish or perish" has already accomplished the "gamification", Academia.edu is just helping to increase the reach of the publication. Given that research shows that most published research isn't even read, much less cited, how bad can Academia.edu really be?
The article rails against not knowing what the business model is or what's happening with the data, I suspect that the platform itself doesn't have a very solid business plan and they don't know what to do with the data themselves except tout the numbers. I'd suspect they're trying to build critical mass so that they can cash out by selling to one of the big publishers like Elsevier, who might actually be able to use such data. And on that subject, where's the comparison to the rest of the competition including ResearchGate.net or Mendeley.com, which in fact was purchased by Elsevier?
In sum, it sounds to me like a bunch of luddites running around yelling "fire", particularly when I'd imagine that most feed into the more corporate side of publishing in major journals rather than publishing it themselves on their own websites. I'd further suspect they're probably not even practicing samizdat.
For academics who really want to spend some time and thought on a potential solution to all of this, I'll suggest that they start out by owning their own domain and own their own data and work. The #IndieWeb movement certainly has an interesting philosophy that's a great start in fixing the problem; it can be found at http:/
Upcoming Homebrew Website Club event in Los Angeles on 4/27! Will you join us? #IndieWeb http:/
I'll note that Kevin Marks and some others in the indieweb have created and listed some work-arounds for helping those interested in blocking News Genius on their sites: https:/
An Annotated Domain of One’s Own
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Jeremy, Congratulations on having your own domain! I was poking around Hypothes.is today and was excited to see that you'd moved over from Genius.
I'm impressed that you specifically mention the IndieWebCamp philosophy, which I've also been using for the past couple of years myself. If you need some help in IndieWeb-ifying your WordPress install, I'd be happy to help, though it's now much, much easier to do than it was even a year ago. Shortly, I'm hoping to finish up a post about the IndieWeb and academia/educational related sites, which might also be helpful, though I'm not sure when that's actually going to be finished.
I'd love nothing more than to have Hypothesis be able to have webmention support so that when people annotate my own pages or reference them across the web, the system would automatically send me a notification of that fact. Are there any coders at Hypothes.is who are also part of the IndieWeb movement who might consider doing this? Is there a way to help suggest this into Hypothes.is's roadmap?
Finally, as a side-note, to help beautify your web presence a bit, you might notice that your photo doesn't show up in the author position in your 2016 theme on single posts. To fix this, you can (create and) use your WordPress.com username/password to create an account on their sister site Gravatar.com. Uploading your preferred photo on Gravatar and linking it to an email will help to automatically populate your photo in both your site and other wordpress sites across the web. To make it work on your site, just go to your user profile in your wordpress install and use the same email address in your user profile as your gravatar account and the system will port your picture across automatically. If necessary, you can use multiple photos and multiple linked email addresses in your gravatar account to vary your photos.
Congratulations again!
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