#heypresstoconf20 — Public Fediverse posts

Soon after I finally took the leap and signed up for a mico.blog to explore that platform. ❧

Be sure to check out how you can post your content to your own website and syndicate your material into micro.blog (maybe via RSS or using plugins). If your site uses the Webmention and Semantic Linkbacks plugins, then any replies to your posts will be automagically ported directly back to the comment section of your post.

In addition to some of the others in education who you’ve mentioned, I’ve got a list with some others (be sure to check the comments too–both for the others you’ll find, but also for the example Webmentions I’ve received from Micro.blog.) Annotated on September 26, 2020 at 01:57PM

I am going to start getting serious about headless WordPress development for my new website at jimgroom.net, inspired by Tom Woodward’s talk for #HeyPresstoConf20 ❧

A lot of the posts I make to my WordPress site are done in a headless manner using the Micropub spec and the Micropub plugin with a huge wealth of Micropub clients.

I did a presentation on this at a WordCamp a while back: https://wordpress.tv/2019/06/26/chris-aldrich-micropub-and-wordpress-custom-posting-applications/ Annotated on September 26, 2020 at 01:59PM

Chris Aldrich ❧

By linking my site here, Jim has sent a Webmention notification, so I know he posted about my site: https://telegraph.p3k.io/webmention/14qD8olgI7lyGjRy0q/details Annotated on September 26, 2020 at 02:27PM

https://boffosocko.com/2020/09/26/indiewebcamp-domain-of-ones-own-meetup-bavatuesdays/

https://boffosocko.com/2020/09/25/55777622/

Start your own digital commonplace today! There are some platforms mentioned above, but none of them have the flexibility and adaptability that WordPress provides. I’d love to see how others are doing this and what it allows them to create.

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Thanks for coming to my presentation!

Feel free to ask questions about any of the notes here on my website or from any of the Tweets. Comments on the Tweets will ping my site (using Brid.gy as mentioned), and I’ll be able to reply directly from my commonplace book. You can also use Webmentions from your website and then our sites/commonplace books can carry on a conversation of ideas.

If you’d like, feel free to explore my commonplace book (or at least the public portions—I post a lot of work privately). You can find today’s presentation and all the other things I collect under the label for the conference at #HeyPresstoConf20.

Did you present today and want to own a copy of your presentation on your own website? Take a look at some notes I made about using ThreadReaderApp to roll up all your tweets and publish them to your site using Micropub, which I mentioned earlier in this presentation.

https://boffosocko.com/2020/09/24/55777560/

No longer does a thinker have to collect and curate their own material, they can allow others to help them grow and curate it too!

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https://boffosocko.com/2020/09/24/55777559/

Let’s say I syndicate a thought to Twitter. I can use Bri.gy to backfeed ideas and interactions with my Tweet back to my original in my digital notebook (where it’s most useful).  This helps outside ideas filter into and interact with my own ideas.

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You knew ideas can have sex, right?!!

https://boffosocko.com/2020/09/24/55777555/

For my backlinks I’m relying on the W3C recommendation Webmention spec which I’m implementing with the WordPress Webmention plugin. This allows me to cross link my own posts to look like “comments” or “replies”, but it allows others to ping me and interact with my public posts and their syndicated copies.

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Need a primer on what webmentions are and what they can be used for? I’ve got you covered:

Webmentions: Enabling Better Communication on the Internet

Link: Meta:

https://boffosocko.com/2020/09/24/55777557/

The internet allows multi-directional linking of thoughts and ideas.

Backlinks are the new cause célèbre in the broader learning space that uses the names wiki (a communal shared commonplace), digital gardens (personal wikis), and online notebooks & productivity tools like Zettelkasten and products like Notion, Roam Research, Obsidian, Evernote. These are all just variations of the commonplace in digital settings.

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https://boffosocko.com/2020/09/24/55777554/

I use all the data I capture online using Hypothes.is to port my annotations, highlights, and notes I make online into my commonplace book.

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More details and a video example:

Hypothes.is annotations to WordPress via RSS 

https://boffosocko.com/2020/09/24/55777553/

The Micropub plugin helps me by creating an endpoint on my site for quickly and easily capturing lots of data. IFTTT, Zapier, Integromat, n8n can all help to aggregate this data too.

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Here are some more in-depth details about how I use some of these tools and recipes/walk-throughs so you can too: Using IFTTT to syndicate (PESOS) content from social services to WordPress using Micropub.

https://boffosocko.com/2020/09/24/55777556/

There’s lots of data I want in my commonplace: likes, bookmarks, things I read, annotations, notes, quotes, watches, listens, etc. 

I implement them with Post Kinds Plugin to provide both structure, presentation, and context to most of my notes.

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Each post can have its own category and tags for a variety of taxonomic and (most importantly) search purposes.

https://boffosocko.com/2020/09/24/55777552/

Why not aggregate all of the data to one central location on a website? This is what I’m doing with my own personal website using WordPress to make my digital commonplace book.

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https://boffosocko.com/2020/09/24/55777550/

Social media provides a bit of a simulacrum of the sort of networked thinking we might like to have, but you need to have dozens of accounts for different pieces of knowledge and collection and have followerships in all for interaction. Here we’re missing the idea of centralization.

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It’s also painfully difficult to search for your data across the multiple information silos which often block search engines.

https://boffosocko.com/2020/09/24/55777558/

This is just what Vannevar Bush suggests in his famous article As We May Think in the July 1945 issue of The Atlantic. Here he posits the Memex, and opens up the idea of networked information.

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The internet itself could be though of as a massive living and ever-growing commonplace book which can be digitally queried to provide the answers to nearly every conceivable question.

(Some may forget that Bush was the thesis advisor of Claude Shannon, the father of the modern digital age.)

https://boffosocko.com/2020/09/24/55777551/

Commonplace books (or commonplaces) are a way to compile knowledge, usually by writing information into books. They have been kept from antiquity, and were kept particularly during the Renaissance and in the nineteenth century.

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The following all had/kept commonplaces:

• Charles Darwin
• Francis Bacon
• Ben Jonson
• John Milton
• Mrs Anna Anderson
• E.M. Forster
• John Locke
• W.H. Auden
• H.P. Lovecraft
• Virginia Woolf
• Joseph Conrad
• Washington Irving
• Victor Hugo
• Isaac Newton

Isaac Newton, a mathematician and physicist, used a “Waste Book” to write his initial conceptualization of the calculus. A digitized copy of this commonplace is held at the University of Cambridge and is freely available to view online.

https://boffosocko.com/2020/09/24/55777548/

Good morning #HeyPresstoConf20! 

I’ll briefly show how I use my WordPress website as an evolution of the Renaissance era commonplace book. This now often goes by the other names wiki, digital garden, second brain, or zettelkasten.

A personal website is more than a “blog.” Rather than spread my digital identity & data across social media, I keep it in one spot for (re)search & re-use.

If you have questions, feel free to ask via Twitter or the comments section of my website. You can also explore my website which has lots of examples–big and small.

All of my presentation today is on my own website with additional tidbits and context. The highlight portions are being syndicated to Twtitter.

For those who need the additional context, this post is one of fifteen which will appear in succession as a Twitter “presentation” for the Hey Pressto! Conference 2020: A WordPress and ClassicPress conference which happens only on Twitter (and my personal website/commonplace book).

https://boffosocko.com/2020/09/24/55777546/

1 Dear #Grassroots peeps, this is my presentation for the WordPress Twitter (Pardon le mot.) Conference #HeyPresstoConf20.

Just in case you are also there, the Twitter thread is here:
https://twitter.com/Grassr_Journals/status/1309066293140533248

Dear #WordPress peeps, this presentation is about an open post-publication #PeerReview system for scientific articles based on WordPress Multisite.

Hope to see everyone on Thursday, September the 24th from 10AM (GMT+1) to 10PM (GMT+1).

https://boffosocko.com/2020/09/08/55776452/

https://boffosocko.com/2020/08/19/rsvp-to-hey-pressto-conference-2020/

A personal website is more than a blog. Rather than spread my digital identity & data across social media, I keep it in one spot for (re)search & re-use. I’ll show how my site is an evolution of the Renaissance era commonplace book, digital garden, second brain, or zettelkasten.

https://boffosocko.com/2020/08/19/55775334/

So what is Hey Pressto! (https://t.co/9K6RpijDOy) #HeyPresstoConf20 ?

Well here’s some information! pic.twitter.com/2Imelsk0pB

— Hey Pressto! Conference (@HeyPresstoConf) July 27, 2020

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