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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

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Anyone who didn't get enough of Open Domains Lab this afternoon is more than welcome to join in on the chat to continue conversing and building their website.
https://twitter.com/TaylorJadin/status/979489643925295104
https://indieweb.org/discuss

 

A great interactive CMS/platform for building your : https://withknown.com @withknown

 

The minute I finish building a @WordPress site for a friend, the first thing I hear is a SquareSpace ad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sP4k2nPu7w

 

Working on building your own personal website? Join us tonight at Homebrew Website Club Los Angeles http://stream.boffosocko.com/2016/homebrew-website-club-la-2016-08-24

 

"Building a Better Web" IndieWeb Ad - SquareSpace Parody https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sP4k2nPu7w

 

Some of this sounds familiar from the recent NY Times Magazine article "Why do American's Stink at Math" [http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/27/magazine/why-do-americans-stink-at-math.html]. It's an excerpt from Elizabeth Green's new book Building a Better Teacher.

 

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.