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To recognize that what has been lost is a part of what remains, however, still leaves questions of scale and character. How large an absence are we talking about? Where do we see it's effects? What is the complete inventory of the missing? The answers to these questions not only shape the way we measure the world around us, but also help reveal the character of nature itself--including human nature.
manifesto:
walk
take the stairs
turn of the air conditioning
Light a fire in the fireplace
That which is old and useful has proven itself (like cast iron)
That which is very old may contain wisdom.
That which is very old may be utter bollocks.
everything you know is wrong. including this.
You are responsible for what you put into the world.
"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, and die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."
Note: I have never designed a building, butchered a hog, comforted the dying or died gallantly
I recently made some changes to the metadata markup on this site. Previously I was using schema.org-based microdata to markup articles. I'm still doing that, but I've added support for Microformats as well.
The reason I added support for Microformats is that people are actually using them to do interesting things, whereas Schema.org data pretty much helps Google and Bing generate so-called rich snippets in search results[^1]. I suspect Schema.org data will likely remain a way to tell search engines what your content is (until the search engines decide to depricate it and do something else) and not something that gets much traction elsewhere.
On the other hand people are actually building interesting stuff around Microformats -- whole distributed conversation tools in fact, which is what orginally peaked my interest. I would like to create a way for conversations to happen here, there and everywhere, as Dr Suess would say.
To that end I've also pushed out a self-hosted commenting system. At the moment there's nothing particularly special about it, but when I get some free time I plan to add support for webmentions which will allow me to, in IndieWeb parlance, "backfeed"[^2] comments posted elsewhere, like Twitter or Facebook, so that they
're also displayed here as well.
That's nice. Or it will be if/when I get it working. It will also be nice to eliminate the potential for third-parties like Disqus to track my readers (I don't know for sure that they were, but it seems likely). I'm also planning to move from Google Analytics to self hosted analytics via Piwik and AWStats. That way there will be nothing external to this site tracking your visits.
I can't change the web and all the siloed data, tracking beacons, privacy invasion and so on, but I can change my little corner of the web so that's the ultimate goal.
send posts from here to Twitter and then pull back any comments or replies on Twitter and display them here, hopefully making for a more centralized conversation rather than a rambling, difficult to track conversation spread out across several silos and websites.
[^1]: If you know if any sites doing anything interesting with Schema.org data, let me know.
[^2]: Yes, that's a terrible name. No, I don't have a better one. Same can be said for another IndieWeb term, "selfdogfooding", which totally makes sense to developers, but to anyone else does not at all sound like something you'd want to do.
references:
http://mattgemmell.com/permanence/
http://tantek.com/2013/073/b1/silos-vs-open-social-web
http://tantek.com/presentations/2014/05/indieweb/
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