I find wearables fundamentally uninteresting right now. The last thing I need is to be locked into my clothes.
Great suggestion by @lucas_gonze to use @twilio to power a mobile audio plugin on @withknown. Hmm .....
Geeking out over @aaronpk's amazing websockets-based web IRC client for #indiewebcamp. Join the chat! http://indiewebcamp.com/irc/2014-08-27?beta
@audreywatters I don't do Nestlé, so I got some organic hipster ice cream and it had candied bacon hidden inside it D:
Massively craving a Cornetto. What's the closest US equivalent?
I can understand the motivation for calling your sailboat the "Disconnected".
@shanley But she has whiskers and cat ears :( I'm so confused right now.
@AyathUllah Thank you! I'd love to invite you into our private beta if you're interested?
Help students develop an electronic portfolio, a digital presence, and career-focused technology skills: http://withknown.com/education/
Sorry to have missed @amcollier on #edutalk. I started out building #edtech at Edinburgh. Now working on Known: http://withknown.com/education/
Privacy is coming very soon (you can get a preview by adding "experimental = true" to your config.ini).
I'm not sold on our current wysiwyg editor at all, and will certainly add a setting to allow you to remove it - I much prefer just typing into a box.
There's an install script coming very soon, which will take you through all of this. But this is a great reference for us. Thank you!
@Weegee Also my favorite park in the whole US. I make a pilgrimage to the duckings whenever I'm nearby.
Fred Wilson is seeing a swing back towards personal blogging:
There is something about the personal blog, yourname.com, where you control everything and get to do whatever the hell pleases you. There is something about linking to one of those blogs and then saying something. It’s like having a conversation in public with each other. This is how blogging was in the early days. And this is how blogging is today, if you want it to be.
Which is exactly what I'm doing now, from my Known site.
What's different today is that you have access to networks like Twitter and Facebook, which allow you to more easily spread your message to your network of contacts (and to their networks of contacts). Social media has also given us new forms of content to play with, like the check-in. Known, of course, allows you to post to your own domain using a variety of media and reach audiences all over the web.
Meanwhile, Harold Jarche, a learning consultant who helps create workplace change for large corporations like Domino's, notes that workplaces are missing time for reflection. The same is true of schools, conferences, and other spaces where learning happens.
There's a lot of value in having a place to publish and share extended reflections, which we miss in shorter-form, rapid-fire platforms like Twitter (as much as I love them), and which also aren't served by mass publishing platforms like Medium. A personal space is just that: personal.
As Fred noted, Elizabeth Spiers, the founding editor at Gawker, just relaunched her own personal blog:
But now I’m at the opposite end of the continuum; I’m usually working
on one or two long-form writing projects, but not very much writing
gets done in public otherwise. And there are things about blogging that I
miss. I like consistently writing for an audience and getting feedback.
It helps me work out my arguments and thoughts about various issues and
clarifies muddy thinking.
These are some of the reasons why education is interested in personal publishing at the moment (here are some notes from our pilot at the University of Mary Washington). But it goes much wider. The web is the most effective way there has ever been to connect people with different contexts and skills. Right now, a very small number of platforms control the form (and therefore, at least to an extent, the content) of those conversations. I think the web is richer if we all own our own sites - and Known is a simple, flexible platform to let people do that.
To learn more, click here to add yourself to the beta list, or get in touch.
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As much of the world has cellphone coverage as has access to clean water. http://ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2014/8/26/connecting-the-world
Seeing some ice bucket challenge backlash. People are enthusiastically, sometimes hilariously, raising millions for research and care relating to an underfunded, fatal condition. I think it's wonderful.
It's hard to ignore the fact that many of the people who work the hardest to make tech more equal are vilified for it.
Critiques like @femfreq are deeply important. Threats of violence for calling out inequities shouldn't be something any of us tolerate.
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