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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.

More on linkblogging

Frank McPherson wrote this week on the subject of linkblogging, looking at how RSS can be used to share. I liked his perspective on how linkblogs can be useful in a web browser, while just having a RSS-feed linkblog requires a feed reader. Both of these types of sharing are supported on the Web – diversity in action!

Some thoughts on linkblogging

As I have written in the past week, I have a number of linkblogs and linkblog sites:

I have used different tools for these sites, but I consider all of them to be linkblogs of one kind or another. Many people have linkblogs. However, this week, Dave Winer says that he “had to do a definitive linkblog“. Really? Like there is such a thing. Is there a “definitive blog”? Dave has commented on how people should not start a group “whose name says you own the future of something that is open” (podcasting), or what constitutes the open social web. Please – let’s have a little humility here. Linkblogs are everywhere and have lots of variety, just like regular blogs. No need to add the adjective “definitive” here…

My thoughts on the Los Angeles protests

As I posted earlier today, the Monday protest were handled by local law enforcement. The National Guard and Marines were not needed. Trump should back off on this, but he will not. Sounds like there is a hearing scheduled for Thursday on California’s suit against Trump.

I am against violence and property damage. I am also against unrestricted actions to sweep up people off the streets and deporting them to foreign countries without due process. In my opinion, this is what the protests are about. The actions of ICE in Los Angeles were the ignition point.

I live in the Portland, Oregon area, and I covered the 2020 protests on Portland Protest News. To me, the reason why protests continued for so long is that there has been a demonstrated evidence of racist behavior by the Portland Police Bureau, and people had had enough. Were there bad actors? Sure. Were there people inciting violence? Yes. But there was also the Wall of Moms, there were other protesters of the racist behavior who were peaceful. Was there attempts to defuse the situation? Not really.

Protests are spreading across the nation. No Kings protests are being planned across the nation. There is a growing number of people who are protesting the actions of the Trump adminstration.

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