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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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I'm worried that John just set the creative bar too high with this bit of genius...
John, you've won the IndieWeb for the day.

 
 

Review: Leonhard Euler: Mathematical Genius in the Enlightenment | The Economist http://www.economist.com/news/books-and-arts/21685435-impressive-life-impressive-man-master-them-all

 

As someone who uses <a href="http://www.boffosocko.com">my own WordPress site</a> as a research notebook/tool and commonplace book (as well as for owning all of my own data and social posts), I'm <a href="http://boffosocko.com/2016/06/17/hypothes-is-and-the-indieweb/">already loving</a> this plugin and can see some tremendous potential for improvements on both it and on the hypothes.is platform in the future.

While I've played around with other platforms like Genius.com as well, Hypothes.is seems to have a more focused approach to how I prefer to use annotations, highlights, and marginalia on the web. It also has a growing API and related suite of tools which portend more flexibility and growth for the future.

Still, one must be cognizant for how these sometimes "hidden" tools can be used for abuse and bullying on the web: <a href="http://boffosocko.com/2016/04/07/webmentions-for-improving-annotation-and-preventing-bullying-on-the-web/">Webmentions for improving annotation and preventing bullying on the web</a>[http://boffosocko.com/2016/04/07/webmentions-for-improving-annotation-and-preventing-bullying-on-the-web/]

 

@kevinmarks @dwhly I mentioned webmention to them a few months back during the @genius "scandal" in hopes of implementation

 

.@Scrible https://www.scrible.com joins the crowd with edu services like @Mendeley, @zotero, @Genius, @hypothes_is et al.

 

@fermatslibrary It seems easier for me to annotate @preskill's paper on Hypothes.is and Genius.com than it does on your platform. The load times for the left side bar seem atrocious. Potentially a fantastic product. Love the particular subject matter you're highlighting.

 

Replied to a post on hyp.is :

On the topic of extrapolating where some of this is going, there's also a pending UI issue amongst competing annotation platforms. They're going to need to watch where they put their overlays for annotating/highlighting or they aren't going to work together well. Not to mention other social media plugins that have similar popups for highlighting and sharing.
http://boffosocko.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/NewsGenius-vs-Hypothesis.png

 

I'll note that Kevin Marks and some others in the indieweb have created and listed some work-arounds for helping those interested in blocking News Genius on their sites: https://indiewebcamp.com/News_Genius

 

An Annotated Domain of One’s Own

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Jeremy, Congratulations on having your own domain! I was poking around Hypothes.is today and was excited to see that you'd moved over from Genius.

I'm impressed that you specifically mention the IndieWebCamp philosophy, which I've also been using for the past couple of years myself.  If you need some help in IndieWeb-ifying your WordPress install, I'd be happy to help, though it's now much, much easier to do than it was even a year ago. Shortly, I'm hoping to finish up a post about the IndieWeb and academia/educational related sites, which might also be helpful, though I'm not sure when that's actually going to be finished.

I'd love nothing more than to have Hypothesis be able to have webmention support so that when people annotate my own pages or reference them across the web, the system would automatically send me a notification of that fact. Are there any coders at Hypothes.is who are also part of the IndieWeb movement who might consider doing this? Is there a way to help suggest this into Hypothes.is's roadmap?

Finally, as a side-note, to help beautify your web presence a bit, you might notice that your photo doesn't show up in the author position in your 2016 theme on single posts.  To fix this, you can (create and) use your WordPress.com username/password to create an account on their sister site Gravatar.com. Uploading your preferred photo on Gravatar and linking it to an email will help to automatically populate your photo in both your site and other wordpress sites across the web. To make it work on your site, just go to your user profile in your wordpress install and use the same email address in your user profile as your gravatar account and the system will port your picture across automatically. If necessary, you can use multiple photos and multiple linked email addresses in your gravatar account to vary your photos.

Congratulations again!

 

@zoonini Is there a canonical location where WordPress/Auttomatic keeps such child themes as the one you created for Pique? I've run into some sporadically on Github, but wondered if side work (with bonuses) like https://wordpress.org/support/topic/woocommerce-support-for-pique-theme?replies=26#post-8196671 lives somewhere besides a forum where it's possibly not as discoverable? Maybe it's just that I've never thought to actively look for them before, but it seems like they could have some greater long term value if the code isn't all rolled up into the primary theme.

I actually think, just for ease of use and simplicity that all themes should really come pre-packaged with child themes, but until then...

Thanks again for sharing your talents and genius!

 

I haven't seen anything about "mobile being dead" as most are still saying it's the next big thing (see Mary Meeker's annual 'deck' for the past 8 years.) On the other hand, many are still shouting that RSS is dead... meanwhile, I thought your solution for a shared feedly collection for following a whole classes' worth of blogs was fantastic, and that was only available courtesy of RSS!

On the topic of your annotated bibliography, you might consider looking at the www.genius.com platform. Formerly more music focused and named RapGenius, A while back I wrote about some of their functionality here http://boffosocko.com/2014/04/08/rap-genius/

As an aside, on general technology related issues, if you're not already following them, some of my favorite sources for ed tech include:
ProfHacker Blog via The Chronicle of Higher Education http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/
This Week in Google (TWiG) Podcast via Leo Laporte and Jeff Jarvis https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google
Gillmor Gang (Podcast) http://techcrunch.com/video/gillmor-gang/

 

I recall a few other resources in the same category as this. Here are a few links for meta-coverage on them, which may provide more beneficial than spending hours trying to delve into how to use them:
VidBolt: http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/annotate-video-on-the-fly-a-review-of-vidbolt/56787
Socialbook: http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/using-video-annotation-tools-to-teach-film-analysis/57171

Other tools of interest, which you'll see notes on in the comments to the two above articles:
VideoAnt: http://ant.umn.edu
ULBPodcast: https://github.com/ulbpodcast and http://ezcast.ulb.ac.be (open source code available)
Genius.com: http://boffosocko.com/2014/04/08/rap-genius/ Particularly take a look at http://lit.genius.com/ which is a great tool for classrooms to do small scale shared annotations and close reading with the benefit of full texts (in particular, try looking up the various creation stories, eg: Gilgamesh [http://genius.com/Epic-of-gilgamesh-tablet-1-the-coming-of-enkidu-annotated; Letters of Paul [http://genius.com/Laura-nasrallah-the-pauline-epistles-contents-annotated], which was part of HarvardX religious studies course and is an excellent example of using the platform for education]). There's also http://genius.com/history-genius.