I recently went on a trip where I was going to fly over the body of water south of Texas. The pilot correctly identified the body of water as “the Gulf of Mexico”. Nice!

Shouldn’t RSS feeds have link URLs?

An interesting note – I wanted to link to the entry at links.daveverse.org for a particular link. I went to the site, did not see an easy way, so I went to the RSS feed linked at the bottom of the site. To my surprise, the feed listed items pointing to the links.daveverse.org item, but that item did not have the URL related to that item. I finally found them at https://dave.linkblog.org/. However, this seems to be at odds with Dave Winer’s own description of what a linkblog feed should be – what’s up with that?

Quanta Magazine: When ChatGPT Broke an Entire Field: An Oral History – a fascinating article of interviews with over 20 people in the field of NLP

Quanta Magazine: At 17, Hannah Cairo Solved a Major Math Mystery (via links.daveverse.org)

Coyote: You Can Make A Website – one page guide – cool! (via Joe Jennett)

HTML for People: Site that takes you through how to create a web site and more (via Indieseek.xyz)

Use case: linkblogging as curation

I have experimented with several methods of curating links:

Zettlekasten/directory of links organized by categories (used Drummer, created a OPML file, rendered by the “this.how” feature within Drummer)
Website using categories (used Hugo, with Fluency theme, each link had a page, used tags for classification)
WordPress (used Links category to collect just links)

My struggle is – am I just collecting stuff? This article talks about how to break that cycle, I should read it again….

Bluehost: How to upgrade your PHP version – should do this for my WordPress sites

Interesting presentation by Boris Mann at FediCon on apps supporting ATProto – cool! (via Manton Reece)

Use case: linkblogging from your phone

I use my RSS reading app to graze stories from the feeds I am following. After scrolling through the list, I have a set of browser tabs open to read. After reading, usually I have several tabs (or perhaps a lot of tabs) for which I would like to save the links. Many times in the past, I have copied them to a “link dump” file. However, another approach is to use a linkblogging tool to capture the links.

My tool of choice in this situation is MyStatusTool (my live version is here). Here is a screenshot from my phone browser:

The area above the “post your update” button is the text area to enter a post. MyStatusTool uses the medium-editor toolbar to make it easy to add a link. The most difficult thing is to select the link text and get the medium-editor toolbar to appear (usually I double-tap the text). It is also best to only link to a single word (again, selecting several words as the link text can be difficult). The tool also creates a view of user posts, so you can review just your posts and not all of the content from subscribed feeds.

If anyone is interested in installing MyStatusTool, let me know! More information is available at The Feed Network.