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Today's afternoon sessions for IndieWebCamp Baltimore are posted! Links for video feeds coming
Sessions include
https://indieweb.org/2018/Baltimore/Sessions

 
 

Am I mistaken in thinking that my bookmarks on @diigo don't have any permalinks?! This makes referencing them on the service for colleagues a bit sad... The one link I've found auto-forwards to the original site, but nothing to diigo directly.

 

@Weegee They literally announced the heavily considered results in the last week! It was a pretty big kerfuffle at the time.
https://hub.jhu.edu/2017/01/13/humanities-center-report-recommendations/
Perhaps that donation helped? (They'd probably have known about it for a bit...)

 

@Weegee And to think that just a year or two back they were considering shuttering Dick Macksey's Center.

 

@mrwiblog Meant to note that you're missing a closing " on your first anchor tag which makes some of your text disappear on the first line. :)

 

Since it's not covered in the primary group of Pocket Casts, Castro, or Overcast which are the defacto kings for the past year or so, I'll mention that I've been using AntennaPod for a while now and enjoying it quite a bit. (Also, if you're not using huffduffer.com, you're just missing out on life.)

 

You know you might be onto something extremely cool for the internet when you've got @kevinmarks, @csarven, and @dustyweb showing up on your repo to make friendly suggestions.
@BeakerBrowser @dat_project
https://github.com/beakerbrowser/beaker/issues/820

 

@mrkrndvs I'm curious if you manually cut & paste your replies for others' sites (who may not support webmention or even pingback/trackback) into their old-school comments sections?

I often worry that without that, or without replying to versions on Twitter if they syndicated, they won't see my response via pingback/trackback or other means. Instead my reply sits all alone on my site and they don't have the benefit of seeing it at all unless they come across it organically otherwise.

Generally when I manually cut and paste replies, I'll often use the comment's "website" field to include the permalink for my comment and then I'll take the permalink for my comment and add it to my syndication links since I've manually syndicated it.

Sometimes I notice that including multiple links in a reply can also run afoul of spam filters.

One of my favorite set of machinations occurred recently when I wrote this reply to Jon Udell: http://boffosocko.com/2018/01/07/reply-to-annotating-web-audio-by-jon-udell/

Jon came back to his original post and appended his own comment to document my comment in the most circuitous of manners which included using his annotation tool Hypothes.is: https://blog.jonudell.net/2018/01/06/annotating-web-audio/#comment-474656

Interestingly we both used WordPress, Hypothes.is, and Twitter to carry on the conversation. I was quite impressed that he took the time to circle back around and document my end of the conversation since he must have missed my pingback (he doesn't have webmentions) and my manual cut & paste, but did manage to see the notification on Twitter.

It all just goes to show that you've got to keep your eye on the tech that you and everyone else is using until it's broadly and evenly distributed. One day perhaps...

 

Welcome to the party!

 

Replied to a post on github.com :

Might also add another display option in addition to "Hide", "Show desc & map", and "Desc. only":

The ability to display the description of the location but without outputting the GPS coordinates into the page source (even if it doesn't display). This way people could store their GPS data in their back end and indicate they're somewhere (like Home) without giving away the specific location of their home (or other) address.

 

@aaronpk @melchoyce @jeremyfelt A similar discussion came up the other day among @brentsimmons @bitworking and @louisgray
https://bitworking.org/news/2018/01/mentions

 

I suspect that next, with a tad bit of parsing using microformats, you can add some display elements to your webmentions to indicate the author, their url, date/time, and actually include the reply text to have a better UI for them. Then they'll look a bit more like the traditional comments you may have envisioned. (Something along the lines seen in my comments at http://stream.boffosocko.com/2018/if-youve-got-incoming-webmentions-working-let-me-have-the). There's help to be had in the chat as surely someone has documented this somewhere before and you probably won't have to build from scratch unless you really want to.

 

Jack, I think that some of the effect is in fact that the network is so small, but the pieces you mentioned will certainly help it to still feel that way even when it scales up.

 

If you've got incoming webmentions working, let me have the old school pleasure of saying:
"First!"