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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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RSVP invited · Issue #156 · pfefferle/wordpress-semantic-linkbacks https://github.com/pfefferle/wordpress-semantic-linkbacks/issues/156

When Brid.gy sends webmentions for people invited via a Facebook POSSE copy, the webmentions for these people don't show up properly in comments because `semantic_linkbacks_type` is set to "invite" instead of "rsvp:invited".

Manually effecting the change in the database provides the expected display. See: http://boffosocko.com/2018/02/14/homebrew-website-club-meetup-on-february-21-2018/#Invited

 
 

UX/UI Suggestion: Meta box in the admin UI with PressForward metadata and comments · Issue #902 · PressForward/pressforward https://github.com/PressForward/pressforward/issues/902

I'd suggest that it would be worthwhile and convenient to have a meta box in the admin UI for editing the final draft that contained all of the pre-existing PressForward metadata.

Bits and pieces of it appear in other portions of the PressForward UI throughout the vetting (reading, nominating) process (typically hidden under the "info" button which pops up the details), but having portions of it while actually editing the draft of the post would be very handy/useful. In particular, it would be nice to have access to the comments which are added to the particular piece in the earlier parts of the process.

![meta box information](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/5882943/23576560/ac78ea2c-005d-11e7-86f0-5ff5fe8a3252.PNG)

Comments in particular, would presumably have ideas, thoughts, and editorial leanings that could help the writer/editors shape the final piece or notes on/around it, but as it stands, one needs to dig back into the PressForward interface, typically with search, to re-uncover the particular data and notes relevant to the original piece.

Ideally making it relatively small so that it could fit into the sidebar may be the most beneficial. If you want to go all-in on such a feature, I've seen a fantastic meta box in the [Academic Blogger's Toolkit plugin](https://github.com/dsifford/academic-bloggers-toolkit) labeled "Reference List" which is pinnable and maintains its position at the top of the UI while the rest of the page scrolls.

 

Google image searches of my friend's names result in a lot of photos from me/my personal site run by @withknown.

 

Congrats @raamdev for supporting microformats2 & better comments in @WordPress Independent Publisher theme https://github.com/raamdev/independent-publisher

 

I'm now trying out https://ownyourgram.com/ on WithKnown and it seems to work fairly well so far: http://stream.boffosocko.com/2016/ceiling-with-great-lighting-hardware

We'll see if we can't get the comments from Instagram to flow back as well.

 

Watched: IndieWeb comments, likes and events - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgvQq8o8RxU

 

For , as an example of , take a look at the comments automatically coming back on this post: http://boffosocko.com/2015/07/27/algebraic-number-theory-ucla-extension/

 

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?