@andrea It looks like you're missing the Semantic Linkbacks plugin for WordPress. That should make your facepiles have actual faces and display much better. https:/
How are you posting to Known? Using Quill or another micropub application? Do you have the WithKnown Twitter plugin installed? https:/
I'm sure many in the IndieWeb chat (Slack, IRC, Web, etc.) can give you help if you need it. There's a main room, and #WordPress and #Known specific channels. https:/
I'm out at the moment but am happy to help more later if you need it.
It's exactly the ease and simplicity of WithKnown that keeps me coming back to it too.
Some of the smartest (and kindest) people I know will be meeting in #Austin on Dec 9&10 to help make the internet a better place one website at a time.
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#IndieWebCamp #BuildTheWebYouWant
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:/
Aaron, I finally just made the jump into microcasting myself over the holidays in as low-tech a manner as possible.
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I'll have to write up the details, but they're so scant as to make doing so more like a status update than an article. My advice, think of an idea, pull out your phone and set a 10 minute timer, hit record on the simplest recorder app you've got, and go. Post to your site and you're done. It's very liberating in comparison to all the grander plans I'd had to do something larger. And even better when you know you've only got an audience of one or two, you don't feel like you've spent thousands of hours for such a meager launch!
I do like John's idea about a slow-podcast, though I worry that the effort and time may be both painful and take some of the spontaneity and flow out of a conversation. Perhaps stringing together pieces of various microcasts using webmentions into a longer "playlist" of sorts to create a longer podcast could be an interesting idea?
@PlanetDr And I had been using the ancient #AcMoWriMo hashtag. It's apparently morphed into #acadowrimo and I've been missing out.
At least I'm nearing the 60,000 mark! Not bad for a last minute #pantser.
Between @BeakerBrowser and @IndieWebCamp, it looks like Austin is the place to be in December:
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@dcastelvecchi @scienmag It's heartening that the number of likes/RT's they get is painfully low. There are some painful signals that they aren't legitimate. The /?p=### URL for one, the ham-handed ads, and the odd author gravatar they're using on every press release.
@dcastelvecchi @scienmag 110 people I follow are following it, but are they really paying attention at all?
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