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@khurtwilliams I'm not sure where @NextScripts would keep it, but I'll be you could roll back to the prior v3.9 code which did work for that to have something that works until it's fixed.
I have a personal copy if you can't find one in an online repo.

 

@khurtwilliams It might be worth syndicating your photos to Instagram if that's where most of your friends and family tend to consume them. It's really the only reason I use it any more as I doubt many of my family/friends subscribe to my photos or site directly.

 

@mrkrndvs on your Social links page, it looks like you've listed your mastodon account twice and your Huffduffer account has a wonky URL.

 
 

@benwerd I love the sound of this! It would be even cooler if it were baked into the version of Microsub that I hear is brewing: https://indieweb.org/Microsub

 

@kingkool68 That might buy you some street cred, but it's a much higher bar than the "traditional" definition(s). ;)

Of course, if you want to go all-in, then you'll want audio too:
http://boffosocko.com/2016/10/13/notes-from-day-1-of-dodging-the-memory-hole-saving-online-news-thursday-october-13-2016/

 

@amyhurst Since you can log into the wiki, you're welcome to add yourself as an example to the https://indieweb.org/Indieweb_for_Education page which may also have some resources you'll appreciate. Good to "see" you at camp this weekend!

 

@mrkrndvs Ultimately you could have more text than the original, so there's really no limit to the text beyond what your system will allow. I've not tried annotating .pdfs, but I suspect you could do it similarly to how I've done books via Kindle which let's me export/import data (example: http://boffosocko.com/2012/06/17/big-history/#Highlights,+Quotes). Having all the data on my own site (even if it's private) allows me much easier search via categories, tags, etc. as well. Typically for books I'm using fair use guidelines, though I'm often respectful and keep lots of my data viewable only to me, so copyright isn't a huge concern generally. For book length pieces, the Amazon Kindle will typically limit you to a percentage of the book to prevent copyright issues from the start. I don't think I've ever run up against their limit. Part of the process is to get enough to excerpt the thought to be able to find it later via search and reference it. I can always refer back to the original if necessary.

For more substantive annotations I try to add them slightly off to the side in a different font/size, but you'll also notice that some of the blue highlights also have "hidden" annotations if you hover over them with your mouse. Things can be a bit crowded with the additional highlights added by Hypothesis (and other people), though I can choose to disable them if I want for my personal work. Hopefully it's relatively obvious based on what's on the page which parts are the original text and which are my additions. When excerpting articles like Watters', the canonical URL on the page points to the original, so all the SEO and links ultimately redound to the original.

 

@mrkrndvs I found a solid example of highlighting and annotation using my own website in conjunction with @pressfwd and @hypothes_is on a great @audreywatters piece. It's closer to some of the UI I'd like to have, though the CSS still needs work.
http://boffosocko.com/2017/05/10/un-annotated-by-audrey-watters/

 

@mrkrndvs This link may also be somewhat relevant to some of your recent questions if you haven't come across it: http://boffosocko.com/2016/11/20/owning-my-online-reading-status-updates/
Read posts are somewhat like bookmarks, just for things that I've read. I suspect you could use this for Radio3/Diigo as well.

 

For those interested in more and who know a bit of code, David's also got a "master class" on adding microformats to modern themes in his commit trail for updating/upgrading the TwentySixteen theme to be more IndieWeb friendly: https://github.com/dshanske/twentysixteen-indieweb/commits/master

While it isn't comprehensive and may not cover every eventuality for every theme, following along with his commits here will get you a long way towards better understanding microformats v2 use with WordPress. I think I've learned more about WordPress themes and microformats by following his changes here than anything else I've tried.

 

@mrkrndvs Incidentally I notice you've got some kind of CSS display problem just above your author block. Perhaps an errant grammar plugin causing problems? Sylewriting check, overused words check, etc...

 

@mrkrndvs I like emoji particularly for posting to micro sites like Twitter and micro.blog where one is more constrained. I don't like it as much for some of the gymnastics I need to pull off, and most of which you mention. Not all sites seem to be able to handle them properly, and I often wonder at my decision to have used them in the first place. I've also noticed some issues with emojis in permalinks causing Brid.gy not to be able to send backfeed webmentions.

One thing that may make it easier to deploy them across your site is to bake them into the templates for your site (either into the post templates or into the post kind templates directly). This will allow you to use them quickly and easily and deploy them to thousands of posts at once with the ability to remove them later if you like. It'll also save you a huge amount of time hard coding them into your posts.

 

sessions now happening on
* Identity and the IndieWeb : https://hangouts.google.com/hangouts/_/shanske.com/indiewebcampbwi2018
* Building Blocks (draw it/diagram it) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5_lRiQZZsY