@mathewi Despite her tweet about family obligations, I would more strongly suspect that Conway didn't want to be front and center as a target for having promoted Ivanka Trump's company earlier in the week after the Nordstrom story.
Either unnoticed or unreported by others, it appeared to me that Stephen Miller's appearance on Stephanopolous was primarily him reading all of his statement (fka responses) to George on a teleprompter in front of the camera. If you watch his eyes, they focus just below the camera and they're obviously making seccadic movements as he reads. His response also seems unnatural when Stephanopolous tries to break into his pre-written speech. At one point in the exchange Miller says, "I'm not going to make a comment on that." which I take for him to mean "I don't have anything written on my prompter that covers this."
One of the other journalistic issues that is often missed is that staff appearances in interviews should occur live and in-person rather than remotely via camera. This would greatly improve journalists' ability to break into the long fluff statements the administration tries to slide through as it's harder to interrupt over a multi-second delay. It's also more difficult for them to read canned statements like Miller apparently did.
@realkimhansen I'm in for beer... http:/
"I'm not going to make a comment on that." -Stephen Miller. Translation of "I don't have anything written on my prompter that covers this?"
I also wrote some thoughts and had at least one interesting comment with some ideas/code here: http:/
Checking again it appears that they're all still there, so it's not the case that even if they were set to flush via a later chron job that that event got triggered (or certainly not within the last two weeks).
I'm tempted to cut the storage time for feeds back to one month which will put them well within the time frame to try to get rid of them that way instead.
Out of curiosity as I don't see it documented, when the system flushes items longer than the "Months to retrieve and retain feed items", does it delete everything that hasn't been drafted, or does it keep items on which actions (star, comment, nominated/drafted) have been initiated upon? I ask this because for those using PressForward as a self-hosted version of webapps like Pocket/InstaPaper (which both you and @mAAdhaTTah appear to), this would be a very useful feature without needing to take the additional steps of nominating/drafting the particular post. Further, does marking as "read" save the date/time as it may be useful to have this data? (I looked around and didn't see any fields which would have indicated this as a potential feature.)
@tkadlec @rachelandrew I've been using webmentions for a while and I really love it. It's transformed how I use the web. It also induces people to take greater ownership of the content they're posting to the web. (Tumblr did this in a sense as their form of reply caused one to post it to the top of their stream rather than hiding it in a separate tab like Twitter does). I find that with a higher level of ownership (actual) people are less likely to spam others.
If you want an example, I'm using Brid.gy to "force" Twitter to support webmentions, so you can like this post or reply to it on Twitter, and your comment (moderate-able) will show up below and my own site will send me a notification of your response.
Though there is a potential question of webmention "spam" (less likely than other prior methods due to the specification), some services like Automattic's Akismet are already supporting filtering for it.
@aaronpk @indiescripter Another option to encourage others to post their replies on their own sites rather than directly on yours, you could provide a URL box and details for people to webmention you indirectly (especially if they don't support Webmention yet). See the comment section at the bottom of http:/
For additional ideas, see: http:/
@indiescripter I think you've probably got a pretty good start on the IndieWeb philosophy. And an even better start in that you're writing your thoughts on your own website first and then syndicating them to silos like Twitter.
I think that part of what you're missing about being able to reply to Aaron's original post is that his site both sends and accepts a new web protocol known as Webmention (http:/
I know Aaron also often syndicates copies of his posts to Twitter. There's another IndieWeb related service known as Brid.gy which bootstraps webmentions onto Twitter (in addition to other social silos) so that replies or comments to the copy that got syndicated to Twitter also send copies to the original post. In this case, he only syndicated it to news.indieweb.org, so it was less simple for you to have interacted with his post because there wasn't a Twitter version for you to interact with.
You'll find that within the broader community that different members will support varying levels of functionality (based mostly on what they're interested in), so someone like Tantek (tantek.com) will post on his own site and syndicate to Twitter, but he doesn't yet display webmentions. You can, however, post your replies to him on your own site and syndicate them to Twitter (perhaps using Brid.gy publish?) to reply to his syndicated copy on Twitter where he'll see the notification of your reply. You yourself serve as another example as you don't (yet?) offer a comment field on your own post. Perhaps you may never, but that's your choice. (I'll mention incidentally that many static website owners are using Aaron's Webmention.io for sending/receiving webmentions, see also: https:/
I think that a lot of the goal is to not only have fun with what you're doing on your own website, but do things which you find interesting/useful for yourself. Are you interested in locations/check-ins [http:/
Just be careful, because lurking in IRC or browsing the IndieWeb wiki for a while and seeing what others are working on or doing can make you very "itchy". Though the reverse is true that seeing what others have done (even how silos have done things in the past) can make it easier for you to build it not only better, but perhaps more quickly. Perhaps the CMS or language you're using is being used by others in the community [http:/
Keep up the search, and let us know if we can be of further help/assistance.
@Chronotope Okay, so I've spent the majority of my time since your tweet playing with (read: drooling over) @pressfwd.
It is awesome and almost exactly what I've been looking for for ages without knowing it. I think that I'm not only an immediate convert, but an evangelist.
In fact, not just hours earlier in the day, I'd made this comment on the WordPress Reader Refresh (at https:/
"Some nice visual changes in this iteration. Makes it one of the most visually pretty feed readers out there now while still maintaining a relatively light weight.
I still wish there were more functionality pieces built into it like the indie-reader Woodwind.xyz or even Feedly. While WordPress in some sense is more creator oriented than consumption oriented, I still think that not having a more closely integrated reader built into it is still a drawback to the overall WordPress platform."
From the sound of your tweets and how I see it laid out, in some sense I suspect you're personally almost also using it as a built in bookmark or to-read app like Pocket or InstaPaper? This is almost exactly the type of "off label" use case I'd like to bend it to--though it doesn't really require that much bending given its current architecture. Are you displaying all the items you've read/commented on publicly (and where is it?) or are you just using the comment functionality and the nominated portions as a private "I've read this list" on your back end?
I've been thinking about the topic for a while since just before InstaPaper's acquisition by Pinterest and recently written a few things including about Owning My Online Reading Status Updates: http:/
I've even thought about using the Wallabag self-hosted version of something similar to this, but I'd prefer something more closely integrated with WordPress and PressForward has almost everything one could dream for.
If you have a few minutes next week to chat via phone about some of these uses, I have a feeling you could expand your user base a bit as a result. I also know of a few folks working on similar WP-based readers who might be encouraged to merge their work into your much more polished project.
My thanks to the whole team for not only a beautiful plugin, but for some well written and spectacularly documented code on Github!
@zack06007 It looks to me like this plugin isn't being actively maintained and I don't even see it in the main WordPress.org repository anymore. It's also possible that with the recent WP 4.7 update some of the functionalities have broken further. The last commit to the code was almost a year and a half ago with the bulk of the code being even older.
If you'd like to maintain a lot of this functionality in a better way with some smaller discrete plugins I would recommend the following:
- [**JetPack** ](https:/
- [**IndiwWeb Plugin for WordPress**](https:/
- [**Brid.gy**](http:/
If you need more help in setting these up or using them, feel free to visit http:/
I just noticed this subtle comment hiding in the source of my @WithKnown powered site: "To silo is human, to syndicate divine." #IndieWeb
@Chronotope I knew when I saw your name earlier this week that I'd seen it before: http:/
@evrenk WordPress.org is DEFINITELY #IndieWeb compatible!! If you want to get started take a look at https:/
While the siren song of Medium seems strong, you don't necessarily own it all and can't control it to the extent you can on your own site. I'd recommend checking out IndieWeb-ifying your WordPress install and leverage the value of your existing social networks like Medium, Twitter, Facebook, et al by syndicating your content from WordPress to those other sites. Medium has a good WordPress plugin [https:/
I've supercharged my WordPress install with IndieWeb tools and now use it as my primary hub on the internet for writing and responding. I don't spend as much time on Facebook and Twitter as all the comments I want to see on my own material come back directly to me.
If it helps, follow the advice of Dave Winer: Anywhere but Medium [http:/
If you need help, don't hesitate to find any of the helpful folks at IndieWeb: https:/
@RikMende Hope it helps. Did webmentions on your site break? I'm surprised my reply didn't show up as a comment there? I also tried putting it into the comment field directly and it didn't show up that way either... Unless maybe you're moderating comments/webmentions (and I didn't think that was currently possible, unless you've got some magic I'm unaware of).
I keep coming back to this post and thinking, “Why doesn’t Medium support mentions internet-wide instead of just within their own ecosystem?” Medium could support the W3C’s Webmention spec and essentially support @mentions not only here but even to other sites — including Twitter perhaps? How cool would it be to post a short reply (or like/favorite) on Twitter and have it show up on the related Medium post as a comment/like?!
The concept is essentially a more modern/secure version of trackback/pingback, but with more flexibility.