#indexers — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #indexers, aggregated by home.social.
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@ivacheung.com, your wonderful cartoon applies to #translators #researchers #writers #ghostwriters #editors #proofreaders #designers #formatters #indexers #DesktopPublishers #fiction #nonfiction #academia #STEM
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https://index.readingfaithfully.org
Are there any Buddhist #indexers out there? The Comprehensive Index of Pali Suttas has officially completed its first draft. If there is anyone out there who would like to offer specific feedback to improve it as the editing phase begins, that would be most welcome.
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@pc_bain @indexodon
#Indexers rock! I would be so confused reading a long #nonfiction #book if I didn't have an #index to remind me who and what I'm reading about. -
Alright, updated the block script to a more ruthless version. If your user-agent contains a bad word, you will be yeeted to an off-site server and that should be that.
https://3xn.nl/projects/2023/10/10/update-in-the-script-to-block-bots-spiders-and-indexers/
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Hello, book indexers (and index fans) of Mastodon and the fediverse. I’ve set up a group at @indexodon so if you tag that account, it’ll share posts with the group’s followers. Please keep using #indexodon and other relevant hashtags too for search-and-find-ability, because we should be good at that.
Indexodon, welcome to the.
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Would really like to make this a good place for #indexers #indexodons or whatever we want to call ourselves when we make the indexes for non-fiction books. And for people who need to know more about us and what we do, for example how to find a good indexer for their projects, how we work, what we need from clients etc. Anyway, must get on, two things on the go, an illustrated book of war art and an annual journal. Variety is the spice and all that.
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Booked my place for the Society of #Indexers day conference in September, the first UK in-person one since 2019. I’m leading a session comparing cryptic crossword setting and book index writing. Looking forward to it all. Who else plans to be at #SIConf23? 🤓
#crosswords #CrypticCrosswords #cryptics #indexing #indexodon
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#SmallWeb and #SmallInternet are experiencing a renaissance. Making #SelfHosted, small and blindingly fast #web pages instead of platform-based lazy loading #JavaScript #CSS transition hellscapes has more benefits than just speed, #accessibility and search engine ranking.
There is a new kid on the block; #LLM #chatbots. They read the web much like #SearchEngines, #crawlers, #scrapers and #indexers do, and are easily foiled by programmatic web pages, interlaced #ads, interstitials, overlays and #paywalls.
The chatbots read the web like blind people do, through plain text. Make your site and your information accessible, and you will do great! Make the information of whatever you want to publish available in easy, clear tables instead of whatever that is that is in vogue now.
If you stop defaulting to hostile design, and consider accessibility, the information you want to publish will be available to chatbots when they advice their users.
Do you think chatbots will know about recent history and current events by reading the #news sites? Think again! If they even get through the paywalls, they are foiled by interlaced ads and other hostile design. Whatever we consider current events won't be read or learned by chatbots because we have made the information super highway into a huge pile of toxic waste where information goes to die in the complex tangle of copyrights, licenses and DRM.
The chatbots will not trawl social media either, although that would likely be a good source for data. Companies doing this sort of training won't want to take chances of personal data of non-celebrities ending up in the models.
I asked #LLaMA model for a text completion of a random thing. You know how the completion ended? "Download EBOOK ... Online free".
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There are currently two types of #search #indexers on the fediverse.
Those using the #ActivityPub protocol as designed. Adhering to privacy/noindex settings, implementing deletes, blocklists etc.
And those that simply crawl all public data (and RSS feeds) like ordinary crawlers.
The first are easily detected, because they don't operate in secrecy. They get hate from a few bullies. Their authors often cave under that bullying.
The second are left alone and continue indexing.
This is dumb.
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Dear #indexers of #indexodon - since we don't have private DMs on Mastodon (or Post!) yet, or private groups -
I just tested out the idea of the Twitter Circle on Twitter - just a very small place for specifically Canadian indexers. Let me know if you saw the tweet. I've only put a few in because I only know a few of you on Twitter (it's for me having Canadian questions about the business, etc.)
Twitter Circles are private to those the owner put in the circle, no one else sees the replies.
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Another good place to find #editorial pros to hire or #contract with is the Book Publishing Freelancers from Diverse Communities Database: https://publishers.ca/diverse-freelancers-database/ . #Bookstodon #books #publishing #editing #editors #proofreaders #translators #indexers #freelancers #employees
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Are you looking to hire #editorial pros or #contract with them? Check out the Editors of Color Database: https://editorsofcolor.com/database/ . #Bookstodon #editing #editors #proofreaders #translators #indexers #freelancers #employees
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It’s that #INDEX book again. (This is getting silly now.)
After being in TIME magazine’s and the Washington Post’s top books of the year lists, Dennis Duncan’s ‘INDEX, A History of the’ (for which I did the, er, index) is also one of the ‘100 Notable Books of 2022’ in the New York Times. Go Dennis, go #indexes, go #indexers. 🥳
#indexodon
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A new #introduction.
I’m a UK freelance book #indexer and editor – Society of #Indexers Fellow, #CIEP Advanced Professional Member, and Society of Authors Associate.
I work on arts/humanities books for authors and publishers – #biography #FilmStudies #history #LitStudies #music etc.
Beyond work, I like #comedy #CrypticCrosswords #dance #ducks #horror #pubs #Wales and learning #Welsh #DysguCymraeg.
See me also at #AmEditing #edibuddies #indexing #indexodon and https://baindex.org
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Please forgive me the praise sharing but I am chuffed with this. Dennis Duncan’s ‘INDEX, A History of the’ is in the Washington Post’s ‘50 Notable Works of Nonfiction’ of 2022. I did its human #index. (There is also a computer effort.)
– ‘Don’t skip this book’s own index, which is, of course, a work of art.’
Here’s hoping it’s an ongoing boost for all of us oft-invisible #indexers. Cheers Dennis.
#indexing #indexodon
https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2022/11/17/best-nonfiction/ -
It's the last day of #UniversityPressWeek. Many thanks to the #UP #editors, #cover designers, #indexers, and #litstudies people who read #manuscripts and make the work better. @litstudies
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Would you like to know more about book #indexing and what it is that professional #indexers like me do? Yes?
Here’s ‘An A to Z of Indexing’, which I wrote for National Indexing Day #IndexDay in 2021. There’s a little Welsh/Cymraeg in it too.
See also #indexodon.
https://baindex.org/2021/03/30/a-to-z-of-indexing-national-indexing-day-2021/
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Great to see a rising number of fellow book #indexers on here. Say hello to a first ten:
@criticalinsert @daphlawless @erinkmaher @gardenpeach @IvaCheung @lisafedorak @pilarw2000 @Rudydoesbooks @samu @shawrd773
(and me @pc_bain)If you’re an #indexer, or know of one, please reply so we can be located. We’re all about helping people to find what they seek. 🔎
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I’m looking for my compatriot #editors here! I’m guessing they aren’t on this instance? If #universitypress #copyeditors #indexers #amediting #scholcomm folks see this, please say hi.
