@alexishope @joegoldbeck You should be using what other journalists use including @medium, @wordpress, @withknown to compete/improve :)
@readFOLD I'd recommend featuring your most active power users for growing your brand... Consider how WP does this https:/
Typesetting Mathematics According to the ISO Standard https:/
I'm still mostly relying on native WordPress Post Formats, though I'm leaning toward switching completely to post kinds (or figuring out how to straddle the two.) Though for the IndieWeb noobs, I'll mention what appears to be an odd conflict(?) between the two worlds.
Since the last one or two updates of Post-Kinds, there's a snippet of code somewhere that's adding an additional grey bar between the title and the content on them, specifically in WordPress "Pages", which probably shouldn't be happening as the native theme is more likely than not handling that output. See picture below:
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Deactivating Post-Kinds removes the additional bar ( an hr tag?), so it's definitely coming from code within the plugin. It appears to me to be hiding within:
div class="e-content"
div class="h-cite response "
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div class="entry-meta"
The line doesn't appear to show up on blog posts marked as "article", "notes" or "photos", but does show up (with the appropriate icon) for posts marked as bookmark, favorite, like, listen, play, read, etc. (which is what I and others would presumably expect) Ex: http:/
As most wouldn't expect it to show up on Pages, you might consider removing it from them in the next iteration.
In case it's necessary for troubleshooting purposes, I'm using Version 2.3.1 and in the settings I've not checked "Disable Post Formats".
@kevinmarks @scottros: All in One SEO plugin for WordPress in combo w/ Jetpack kind of does this for WP https:/
.@christi3k Throw in some #indieweb goodness and you also get notifications/pings that @Medium doesn't have either http:/
.@christi3k There's already a Medium-like theme with great typography via @raamdev https:/
If it helps the WP Twenty Fifteen theme (https:/
#phdchat #digitalhumanities #highered Helping physicist John Baez transition: G+ -> #indieweb @WordPress; see notes https:/
Happy New Year to you!
RE: Your blog vs. G+, what if I told you that you might have your cake and eat it too? I too have a WordPress blog, but I've tacked a few bits on to the back end and this allows me to use my blog as the primary hub for my work as you're suggesting you plan on doing. I then use platforms (walled silos) like Google+, Twitter, and Facebook to syndicate my material out to allow for a broader reach by leveraging social networks effects to my benefit. Even better, I've got things set up so that comments on platforms like Google+ feed back to my blog, which allows me to not only live on my own site, but it also allows me to "own" all of the content and commentary that's generated from it. (This way if Google+ is shut down next month, I'd still have all of the generated commentary, which could live indefinitely on my own site.) Thus your followers who prefer to read your material on other platforms (G+, in your case) aren't left without the content you're generating, but their commentary also appears back on the blog to add to the larger conversation.
First, consider using the "Jetpack" module (free software built by the same company that makes WordPress) and its publicize functionality to connect your G+ account and auto-post (syndicate) your Azimuth content automatically to G+. (This also frees up a good bit of time to not have to do it manually.) If nothing else, this will help to keep some of your audience engaged.
Second, to port the comments from the syndicated G+ post back to your original post on Azimuth (comments from G+ will show up as comments in WordPress that you can approve/delete just like other WP comments; this also prevents you from spending so much time in G+ after you turn off comment notifications) you can follow the details at the IndieWebCamp site (http:/
If you need help/assistance to make the technical hurdles a bit lower, I'm happy to help walk you through the details or even do it for you (gratis) if you'd like. All of the modules I've mentioned are free and open source and under very active development.
For a simple example see the comments on this post http:/
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For a brief overview, you might appreciate the opening few paragraphs of http:/
Relative Entropy in Biological Systems by John Baez and Blake Pollard https:/
WordPress › Support » Some excellent changes this week
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It's some of the recent changes that are starting to make me use it more, almost to the point that I'm ready to throw WP's built-in post-formats out and rely solely on Indieweb Post Kinds.
Watching your evolving work and some of the others within the Indieweb/WP group makes me want to go back and brush up on my terribly old/rusty programming skills -- it's just taking me longer than I'd like with my current work schedule -- particularly as this seems to me to be the right way to run the web.
Keep up the great work!!
A general foothold into the overlap of maximum entropy methods and biology:
John Harte's work on applying the mathematical theory of maximum entropy to ecology is certainly one of the better known examples of the application of this area of mathematics to science, in part because he literally wrote the textbook: [Maximum Entropy and Ecology: A Theory of Abundance, Distribution, and Energetics (Oxford Series in Ecology and Evolution)][1]
To be clear, maximum entropy (also known as MaxEnt in some of the literature, though most/all researchers use the longer form in publications) is a mathematical tool stemming from the fields of probability theory, statistics, and information theory. It's use is classically most often seen in thermodynamics, statistical thermodynamics, physics, and information theory, primarily because these were the areas in which E.T. Jaynes was working when he posited the idea. [Wikipedia has links to his two seminal papers.][2]But because of it's mathematical form, it can be applied in a multitude of areas, typically where one can utilize probabilistic methods.
If you're looking for additional areas of application, simply google the phrase "applied maximum entropy" and you'll find a [wealth of areas][3] including: econometrics, natural language processing, nuclear medicine, queuing systems, mass spectrometry, image processing, machine learning, and many others.
For ecology related work, a cross search on maximum entropy and "genetics", "evolution", "species", and similar words will provide a wealth of papers like ["A maximum entropy approach to species distribution modeling"][4].
Given the generic nature of your question, I might suggest that you'll find E.T. Jaynes' paper ["On the Rationale of Maximum-Entropy Methods" (IEEE, 1982)][5] useful.
Those generally interested in the broader applications of information theoretic methods to biology will likely appreciate some of the work that came out of last year's [NIMBioS Workshop on Information and Entropy in Biological Systems][6] (which Harte both attended and presented at), the [BIRS Workshop Biological and Bio-Inspired Information Theory][7], and the 2014 [CECAM Entropy in Biomolecular Systems][8]. The NIMBios Workshop was organized by John Baez, a physicist, who has worked with MaxEnt methods and explored them on his blog "[Azimuth][9]".
Those with a more sophisticated mathematical background (including measure theory, functional analysis, etc.) may appreciate Henryk Gzyl's text [The Method of Maximum Entropy (World Scientific: Series on Advances in Mathematics for Applied Sciences, Vol 29, 1995)][10].
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@jgmac1106 You can + #indieweb to jgregorymcverry.com with plugin/instructions from http:/
Sorry for the delay, but my work schedule and travel have been awfully heavy lately. It does sound like the issue I'm having is somewhat related to the discussion on https:/
I've got two separate installs with the same IndieWeb plugins installed. One uses Independent Publisher and the other is a slightly older version of the Academica Theme (v1.2.3 downloadable from https:/
For some reason Independent Publisher isn't outputting Brid.gy likes, favorites, or resahares from Twitter and Facebook out of the box the way that Academica (or even WP common themes like Twenty Fourteen or Twenty Fifteen) does. They're not showing up at all. On the site with Academica Theme, I've tried doing a "Live Preview" of the Independent Publisher theme and there, it also seems to be "eating" (not showing) these additional comments from Brid.gy while all the other traditional comments do show up.
However, while you're tracking down the issue(s), you might also consider tweaking one additional output issue with respect to these types of comments. From a UI standpoint for themes using IndieWeb, I would recommend that the comment section sort out the comments and display them somewhat differently. For simple Facebook likes and Twitter favorites, it might be best to aggregate all of them into a facepile [http:/
This post has an example of a combination of likes/favorites/reposts and actual comments that would be better sorted into a facepile section followed by a more "traditional" comments section. http:/
I'm supposing that it's how Independent Publisher is rendering the output of wp_commentmeta into its comment section that causes some of these brid.gy-fed likes/favorites/reposts to disappear.
If it helps, I'll also point out a previous and possibly related issue I'd run across vis-a-vis IndieWeb and output of comments: https:/