Neil Mather: Alternative social media. Perhaps, rather than producing entirely new alternative platforms, the task for radical developers is to identify suites of existing platforms that are most useful to self-organisation and to then find ways of integrating these in ways that allow for coordination. (API)

Chris Dixon on web3. (more)

Neil Mather: on Personal Wikis. To me, a personal wiki is (currently) a kind of digital form of a commonplace book - that is, an electronic scrapbook to record my thoughts along with snippets of things I see or hear elsewhere. (more)

Neil Mather: A web of wikis. Stian Haklev posted an interesting question on the Digital Gardeners telegram group: I’m curious how people feel about comments and interaction? And also interactivity between digital gardens in general (like paths connecting the parks of a city? :)) (more)

Bitcoin (₿) is a decentralized digital currency, without a central bank or single administrator, that can be sent from user to user on the peer-to-peer bitcoin network without the need for intermediaries.[7] Transactions are verified by network nodes through cryptography and recorded in a public distributed ledger called a blockchain. The cryptocurrency was invented in 2008 by an unknown person or group of people using the name Satoshi Nakamoto.[8] The currency began use in 2009[9] when its implementation was released as open-source software. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin (more)

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idea of taking control of your own reputation/Branding as a Free Agent. (more)

Ross Mayfield's model for considering networks of different scales - the (more)

Toxoplasmosis is a parasitic disease caused by Toxoplasma gondii, an apicomplexan.[3] Infections with toxoplasmosis usually cause no obvious symptoms in adults.[2] Occasionally, people may have a few weeks or months of mild, flu-like illness such as muscle aches and tender lymph nodes.[1] In a small number of people, eye problems may develop.[1]... Toxoplasmosis is usually spread by eating poorly cooked food that contains cysts, exposure to infected cat feces... Up to half of the world's population is infected by toxoplasmosis, but have no symptoms.[7] In the United States, approximately 11% of people are infected, while in some areas of the world this is more than 60%. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxoplasmosis (more)

Kartik Prabhu on Marginalia (side-note). I write margin notes while reading books. They help me keep my thoughts on record and within context. But how do I do that on a website or an ebook? (more)

Cory Doctorow: The Memex Method. When your commonplace book is a public database. (more)

Mike Caulfield wrote: If I had more programming talent to invest developing a fed wiki clone (or if I had money to buy programming talent), the direction I'd want to pursue is a sort of Hyper Card-like journal that benefits from federation, networking, and a wiki approach to life. I am not saying this is where the core product should go. This would be a more narrowly defined fork. The reductionist pitch would be "It's like Evernote + Hyper Card + wiki. You capture your experience, but you also connect it and share it. You move from capture, to connection, to community." cf memex (more)

Another IndieWebCamp initiated by Chris Aldrich (more)

keyword tag for things I need to flesh out (more)

Some Python IRC bot bits: (more)

IndieWeb guru http://known.kevinmarks.com/ (more)

Center of my online reading Highlighting And Annotating process. I wrote scripts to pull down my highlights to auto-post to the WikiLog... ReadItLater app/service to scrape (typically longer-form) web articles and save clean-text format for reading later, typically with Data Synch to a Mobile device for Off-Line reading. (more)

Tim O'Reilly: The Oracle of Silicon Valley. ...he is both -- at once Silicon Valley's leading intellectual and the founder of a growing and profitable publishing company, O'Reilly Media. (more)

book by Viktor Frankl, chronicling his experiences as a prisoner in Nazi concentration camps during World War II, and describing his psychotherapeutic method, which involved identifying a purpose in life to feel positive about, and then immersively imagining that outcome. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man%27s_Search_for_Meaning ISBN:080701429X (more)

Can you lessen anxiety by playing a game on your phone? When Jane McGonigal started feeling anxious as hell 10 years ago, she unwittingly joined a club with 40 million members (more)