In the discussions during Smart Stuff That Matters last Friday, I mentioned a longtime demand I have of social media. The ability to on my blog have different levels of access, of presenting content. But not in the shape of having accounts on my site and corresponding overhead, but more fluid like layers of an onion, corresponding to the social distance between me and a specific reader. Where I write an article, that looks different to a random reader, compared to what e.g. Peter or Frank sees. Maybe even mark-up the content in a way that controls how specific parts of a posting are visible or not. We mused if IndieAuth might be useful here as a first step, as it at least spares me from the maintenance of accounts.
Yeah, I’ve thought about doing similar thing, although not as granularly as you (interesting thinking about actual sections being based on identity rather than just the post itself.
In just over a week I will be joining the Nuremberg IndieWebCamp, together with Frank Meeuwsen. As I said earlier, like Frank, I’m wondering what I could be working on, talking about, or sharing at the event. Especially as the event is set up to not just talk but also build things.
So I went through my blogpostings of the past months that concerned the indie web, and made a list of potential things. They are of varying feasibility and scope, so I can probably strike off quite a few, and should likely go for the most simple one, which could also be re-used as building block for some of the less easy options. The list contains 13 things (
does that have a name, a collection of 13 things, like ‘odd dozen’ or something?Yes it does: a baker’s dozen, see comment by Ric below.). They fall into a few categories: webmention related, rss reader related, more conceptual issues, and hardware/software combinations.Getting WebMention to display the way I want, within the Sempress theme I’m using here. The creator of the theme, Matthias Pfefferle, may be present at the event. Specifically I want to get some proper quotes displayed underneath my postings, and also understand much better what webmention data is stored and where, and how to manipulate it.
Building a growing list of IndieWeb sites by harvesting successful webmentions from my server logs, and publish that in a re-usable (micro-)format (so that you could slowly map the Indieweb over time)
Make it much easier for myself to blog from mobile, or mail to my blog, using the MicroPub protocol, e.g. using the micropublish client.
Dive into the TinyTinyRSS datastructure to better understand. First to be able to add tags to feeds (not articles), as per my wishlist for RSS reader functionality.
Make basic visualisation possible on top of TinyTinyRSS database, as a step to a reading mode based on pattern detection
Allow better search across TinyTinyRSS, full text, to support the reading mode of searching material around specific questions I hold
Adding machine translation to TinyTinyRSS, so I can diversify my reading, and compare original to its translation on a post by post basis
Visualising conversations across blogs, both for understanding the network dynamics involved and for discovery
Digging up my old postings 2003-2005 about my information strategies and re-formulate them for networked agency and 2018
Find a way of displaying content (not just postings, but parts of postings) limited to a specific audience, using IndieAuth.
Formulate my Networked Agency principles, along the lines of the IndieWeb principles, for ‘indietech’ and ‘indiemethods’
Attempt to run FreedomBone on a Raspberry Pi, as it contains a range of tools, including GnuSocial for social networking. (Don’t forget to bring a R Pi for it)
Automatically harvest my Kindle highlights and notes and store them locally in a way I can re-use.
These are the options. Now I need to pick something that is actually doable with my limited coding skills, yet also challenges me to learn/do something new.
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