Check out these videos of the theme songs for “The Jeffersons” and “All In The Family”!
Love this song as well!
I love this song!
Read: On blogging and intentional sharing
From Smokey:
The key, in all cases, is to be thoughtful, to first consider whether something (from your blog, from a service you use, or even straight from your fingertips to its eventual destination) is appropriate for where you want to post it. Be intentional in how and where you share things, and you will make the world a better place.
Amen! Let’s think a little bit before posting…
Read: Curation as an educational challenge
Excellent article, full of actionable curation tasks and links to other resources!
I am calling YOU to action! Are you up for it? How will you introduce, raise awareness, take on the challenge of CURATION as an educational urgency? Don’t see it as “yet another thing to add to your plate”, but be creative in connecting the skills and content you “need to teach anyway” to curation skills and amplify teaching and learning.
Read: This domain joined the IndieWeb!
I joined the IndieWeb!
What does that mean? For the long version, I recommend reading An Introduction to the IndieWeb. Here is a super short version:
1) This web domain now is my main online identity, and I can use my domain as a way of authentication with a) “rel=me” links b) and my domain name…
A stream-of-consciousness story of getting started on the IndieWeb
Read: On Reading Feeds #Indieweb Style
This is a quick exploration of my current and preferred feed reading patterns. As part of my activities, for Day 2, the hack day, of IndieWebCamp Utrecht.
I currently use a stand alone RSS reader, which only consumes RSS feeds. I also experiment with TinyTinyRSS which is a self-hosted feed-grabber a…
Ton Zylstra talks about his feed reading habits as part of IndieWebCamp Utrecht.
In Cal Newport’s article on indie social media, he talks about the community-oriented feel of the IndieWeb. I also cover this subject in my new book: Microblogging: History, Practices and Tools. Check it out!
As you may know I deactivated my half-million follower/bot twitter account last August. I don’t miss it at all except as a newsfeed.
Twitter practically killed RSS readers by providing a firehose of instantaneously “curated” news. With all its flaws, that firehose is useful for a variety of re…
via Chris Aldrich, a neat description of how Leo Laporte uses Twitter to collect links for his shows, some good workflow concepts that could be made part of other tools.
Read: Can Indie Social Media Save Us?
Artisanal versions of Twitter and Facebook hope to keep the good while jettisoning the bad.
Cal Newport talks up Micro.blog and Mastodon as alternatives to Facebook.