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@withknown has a great bookmarklet for web, but what's best similar method to share on mobile? Is there an Android share app?

 

Finally upgraded to @WithKnown 0.9.1 "Derbyshire" release https://withknown.com/opensource/

 

I use and love @withknown every day; Have you seen it/used it yet @geofdotedu?
Why we built Known http://werd.io/2015/why-is-known-the-best-way-to-solve-your-community

 

I'm curious if anyone from is using any tools or perhaps @WithKnown?http://indiewebcamp.com/ https://withknown.com/

 
 

Finally got around to fixing LinkedIn integration on my @WithKnown site: http://stream.boffosocko.com

 

One of my tweets (and posts) was used to illustrate some functionality in @withknown http://petersell.com/2015/retweeten-mit-known-withknowncom

 

I like what you've done with the final product and have always thought about doing something similar myself, particularly after I saw what Martin Fenner (https://plus.google.com/106537123721037364937/posts) did with his site at http://blog.martinfenner.org/ which actually allows others to make changes to it via github. Naturally, I'm also highly interested in his take on scholarly communication too, which makes me want to delve in there even more.

Another thing I've been playing around with lately has been some tools/toys at http://indiewebcamp.com primarily within WordPress (I noticed you had one at http://teaching.proftalbert.com/, so you're at least somewhat familiar) though also a bit with http://withknown.com which is a platform built specifically with education in mind (https://withknown.com/education/).

A large part of their philosophy is to own one's own data and then syndicate it out to other social media/external site, but some of their infrastructure allows one to easily make posts on one's own page which then act as replies on another's site. This is particularly interesting from the viewpoint of teaching wherein students and professors can interact with each other, but still have/own all of their individual work. (Incidentally, it also makes for using one's own site as a commonplace book of sorts, which I often find valuable.)

As an exmple, you'll notice on the post on my blog http://boffosocko.com/2015/05/21/category-theory-anyone/ got automatically syndicated to Google+ the other day. Then you replied to it within Google+ but my site sucked your comment back into the comments section on my original blog post, thereby keeping the conversation on my site and not only just on Google's.

 

I've been doing something similar myself, particularly given the number of social media outlets to which one can publish. To solve part of the problem, I've been attempting to utilize the tenets of the Indie Web (http://indiewebcamp.com/) as well as several of their projects including WordPress and WithKnown. Perhaps some of the material you'll find there will help you to hone what you're trying to accomplish in your "project." One of my favorite portions is being able to publish everything in one place and then syndicate it everywhere else that makes sense as well as to give it the broadest reach. Having a handful of sources like Twitter and Facebook feed back into the comments is pretty nice as well. I've written a tad about it at http://www.boffosocko.com as well. Perhaps you might keep your WordPress blog as a primary hub and then cross-post the appropriate material here to take advantage of your audience?

 
 

Some brief thoughts for a scientific link blog for @wbialek
If you're going to invest the time to collect interesting papers for yourself, a group, or even for the broader public, take a few minutes to think about how to not only most easily collect, but to curate them, make them searchable, and thus make them useful in a longer and broader context.

Depending on your needs and interests, I'd recommend building a link blog on a free broad platform like Wordpress that will let you save the title of the article, the URL, a short synopsis, and then tag it with metadata (categories like physics, chemistry, biology, math, etc. or sub-specific tags like information theory, statistical thermodynamics, etc.), and then broadcast it to various social media sites like Twitter, Google+, and others.

Other options with similar functionality to consider are:
WithKnown https://withknown.com/
example: http://stream.boffosocko.com/
Radio3: http://radio3.io/
example:http://radio3.io/users/ChrisAldrich/
Mendeley: https://www.mendeley.com/groups/2545131/itbio-information-theory-microbiology-evolution-and-complexity/

Given the value I think I'd personally get out of you doing something like this, I'm happy to volunteer some time to build, set up, and simplify the process for you. I'm pretty sure that with a minimum of work, you could have a simple bookmarklet on your webbrowser that would easily allow you to "clip" the article you want, add any quick bits of metadata or tags, and then automatically publish it to one or more of your social media sites automatically, keeping the work to doing it well under a minute while allowing you to easily come back and search, sort, and filter later if you choose.

 

Updating @WithKnown Past 0.7.7 and Keeping Social Media Integration http://stream.boffosocko.com/2015/updating-withknown-past-077-and-keeping-social-media-integration

 

@withknown @benborges_ Nice to see there's a few additional goodies hiding in there to try out as well!

 

Dan, since you're primarily on WordPress, if you weren't already, you might like to be aware that most of the principles behind WithKnown stem from the indieweb movement. You can find some information specific to WordPress at https://indiewebcamp.com/Getting_Started_on_WordPress.

Most of the field of plugins specific to WordPress can be found by installing the base plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/indieweb/installation/ which will give you a simple interface for installing the others you'll need to plug in to get functionality similar to WithKnown. Perhaps this might give you the best of both worlds?

 

Though I like the concept of Convoy, I'm a bit taken aback that I'd spent a significant amount of time configuring all the API's for posting to half a dozen social networks and upon upgrading from Withknown 0.7.5 to 0.7.7.1 all of my previous configuration work has completely disappeared as have all the settings for allowing me to do so.

Where did all the other configuration settings go?! Having them all disappear to be replaced by a paid service would seem to run counter to open source...

Am I missing something here?