Biomedical and Electrical Engineer with interests in information theory, evolution, genetics, abstract mathematics, microbiology, big history, IndieWeb, mnemonics, and the entertainment industry including: finance, distribution, representation
@natecull@mastodon.social I think you're correct in your optimism. The hiding issue is the massive acceleration of the dividing effect of algorithmic feeds that tend to radicalize people in the middle to the extremes. This is primarily courtesy of #SurveillanceCapitalism and not necessarily human nature. Prior generations' media tended toward the center, now it pushes us to the extremes.
@elipariser @WoodardColin's book American Nations (2011) does an excellent job of providing a much more nuanced look into how culture has affected the American flavor of democracy. It might also be a model for how to look at fragmented publics within a social media framing.
Delving into an early version of chapter 1, I have to reiterate how much I can't wait to get all of @bookscribbler's Media and the Mind: Art, Science and Notebooks as Paper Machines, 1700-1830 (@UChicagoPress, Dec 2022) #ToolsForThought #NoteTaking
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@Cambridgeport90 I've been doing some more experimenting lately. Usually I use Known for quicker replies to specific social media. Otherwise I primarily use my WordPress site for almost everything else.
@vlucas Here's an article I wrote a year ago that outlines a version of a reader that's somewhat similar to @aaronpk's and discusses a tiny bit of what commercial ones have that approach the functionality. We have a long way to go still.
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@mattmaldre I do remember playing around just for fun, but ultimately it was #JAWPIDN (Just Another Web Presence I Don't Need)
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@jonudell @aaronpk @schmarty and other media fragments people may appreciate this a tad. https:/
@paxtonjohn I hope you didn't think I was still using Digg Reader. ;) I think @feedly is excellent and @inoreader is awesome too, particularly with OPML subscription functionality. But I'm looking for even more: http:/
@feedly @edwk Probably better that I help you all out with some needed functionality first. Try this out: http:/
You should keep your eyes glued to the evolving #Micropub spec as well. #ReadOn!
@Dries How awesome would it be if I could use @buffer not only to post to social media, but to post to my own website using the Micropub spec? https:/
@JonahRemnant @JonahNRO FYI, your main podcast page http:/
Have your web admin throw the following line into the header of your podcast's page so it's actually discoverable by feed readers:
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg" href="http://www.nationalreview.com/taxonomy/term/7126/feed">
You should also have them include a "Subscribe Free" or "Subscribe via RSS" with that link in the main part of the page along with all the other options that appear like iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and TuneIn.
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@MorrisPelzel What happens when you take that "just another account" philosophy to it's logical conclusion?
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@cleverdevil This is almost exactly what I was hoping for (and more) when I wrote "Feed reader revolution" over the summer
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Just a week or so ago, there was some excellent discussion on the IW chat that related to your idea that I thought was so interesting that I bookmarked it. You can read the conversation here, https:/
In particular Barnaby's quote and Tantek's extension may be the germ of the idea for what you replace social media with in your analogy: https:/
For me there are various post types that essentially all boil down to being bookmarks, but the sub-category adds a slightly different shade of intent to it. As an example I've got a "read" post type on my primary site. It takes the bookmark concept ("I want to read this") and adds the additional piece of semantic information that I physically spent some time to actually read it. To an audience, this gives that read-post some additional value over a simple bookmark. Even further, did I bother to make a comment or highlight a piece of material from it? Did I go another step and write a reply to it? Each of these things indicates a higher level of engagement on my part which signals to an audience reading my site, what value I may have placed on a thing.
When it comes to a reader, it would be awesome to have the ability to filter through some of these increasing types within a value chain. People are sharing or bookmarking lots of crap, but what are they spending the time to actually read rather than sharing after only reading a headline? What did they bother to really react to? What motivated them to not only read a piece, but write a 10 paragraph response to? When it comes to finding things in my feeds that are really valuable from friends, family, and colleagues, it's these articles that are usually the most valuable.
You're definitely right that readers are the next big piece. I can't wait for some more competition in the space: http:/