The team at Betamagic (those behind News Explorer) have replied saying they’ll look at properly supporting title-less posts so I’ve given them mine and Dave Winer’s as examples.
Now that’s service. Thanks guys!
One thing I’ve noticed about News Explorer is that it doesn’t completely support title-less items.
If the item title tag is present but blank it’s handled fine but if the item title tag doesn’t exist – which is perfectly legitimate – it says “No title.”
Liked: Relentlessly Turning Input Knobs To 0 – Feld Thoughts…
“Basically, I’ve turned down the input knobs on almost all real-time social media inputs to 0.”
Having deleted my accounts (with the exception of micro.blog and even that is hardly registering) I appreciate the difference this makes.
I found the issue. Line 80 of \includes\class-linkbacks-notifications.php in the Semantic Linkbacks plugin should be:
if( ! Linkbacks_Handler::get_type)( $comment ) ) {
The :: is missing.
It looks like the Semantic Linkbacks plugin might be at fault. Issues raised.
Over the past couple of days I’ve noticed a problem when posting a comment on the blog.
The comment is submitted but you are not directed back to the post. No follow-up actions occur either such as sending a webmention where appropriate or mailing me to advise that a comment has been submitted.
Obsessions and change
It’s been hot, at least it’s been hot for us in the UK. An uncomfortable, muggy heat that really drains you.
I want to blame this for not writing much lately but I know it’s only one factor. There has been an apathy stemming from other matters (read work) and a change in focus.
I decided to make the switch from Feedbin to News Explorer – thanks to Jon for piquing my curiosity. It’s an initial investment to buy the app for both Mac and iOS but it uses ICloud to sync so doesn’t need you to pay for a third party service.
📚 I finished Before the Storm by Christie Golden on the way to work this morning. It took just over three days worth of commuting to finish.
As with Durotan and the Warcraft movie novelisation, the previous Warcraft books by her I devoured, she writes wonderfully empathetic characters from both sides of the WoW divide – both Alliance and Horde.
Vouch
David Shanske wrote about a brainstorming session held at Indieweb Summit 2018 about implementing “Vouch” – a trust/anti-spam extension for webmention.
The idea of Vouch is that people create a list of webmention senders they trust and make this available to others. If a domain is in a published trusted list then it has been “vouched for” meaning it’s safe to accept and approve webmentions from that domain.
It’s been so easy to fall back into the “gamer” mindset, getting absorbed in a virtual world (just one more quest) and it’s suddenly 2am and you should be going to bed.
Maybe I’m being unfair, maybe things can’t be fixed. Human beings have such capacity for creativity but have also always had an equal capacity for cruelty. We might like to think we have evolved beyond this but perhaps it is our baser instincts in control – survival of the fittest, by any means necessary.
“On this day” reminded me that it was 10 years ago that I wrote about “the 5 C’s of social media” – arguably my most successful post in the history of the blog.
Liked: Beacons of virtual proximity…
“In an era where our closest friends don’t live on our street, much less our city or country, these little, oft-overlooked and sometimes-subtle markers of proximity are small lifesavers. They tell us that though we may be far away in distance, we are close in spirit and in fondness. They tell us that we are part of a community that will be there for us in our times of need. They tell us that people love us, they notice us, and that by noticing them, we send them our love, too.”
Spent the day so far neck deep in Excel VBA while listening to Brian Eno’s “Music for Installations” – I only realised last night that it had been released in May. Perfect background sounds for what I’m doing.
Fresh from going “back to the blog” Dan Cohen wrote an interesting piece about why he wanted to also take more control of his social presence.
His solution? Use a hosted micro.blog account and link it to a subdomain on his own site. A common setup.
I couldn’t resist and installed the MacOS Mojave public beta on the MacBook Air (not on my main Pro.)
Dark mode looks nice but will take a little getting used to. The only problem, however, is that a full dark mode removes the option to “Use dark menu bar and dock” which I would still prefer to do in light mode.
Liked: Scripting News: What became of the blogosphere?…
“I doubt if the blogosphere of 2018 is smaller in absolute terms than the blogosphere of the early 2000s. In fact I’m pretty sure it’s orders of magnitude larger…
What changed is we lost the center.”
Liked: Amit Gawande…
“Fascinating how we can share the experiences, but not the elements behind them.”
Amit’s reaction to my musings on clouds.
This is why we must remove any and all stigmas associated with mental health.
Things are getting better and more people are speaking out but it’s still hard, too hard.
You may have only “met” someone on the web and “known” them (or at least an aspect of them) for less than a year but it still hurts to see someone suffer, to see them have to cut themselves off from human interaction in order to survive.