In a word, yes. Or no, if you think that maybe the userbase is not the people who supply the content, but the people who supply the advertisements.

Liquid | Author looks like an interesting wordification program, but those line lengths look way too long for my taste.

Maybe you'll soon be able to tackle the lack of displayed avatars in the Likes and Reposts. Good luck. I'll be following along.

Kudos to @rosenblawg and Bryce Stucki for prompting the first ever retraction and correction by CDC http://retractionwatch.com/2018/11/15/in-a-first-u-s-cdc-retracts-replaces-study-about-suicide-risk-...

I always enjoy a touch of schadenfreude -- who doesn't -- and this story makes me feel for the 37 Signals crew. My normal suspicion would be that the big publisher made all their advance back on the first printing, after which they don't actually have much further interest. 10,000 copies of a $27 book and a mid six-figure advance? Yes, that could be it.

I really like @sebsel's idea of push without notifications, as described by @adactio, but I think I would like it even more if there were some way I could _ask_ if there was anything new rather than have to visit the site. Notify myself, if you like.

Once again, thanks to @cn for alerting me to a bug that hits every time I upgrade Grav. I applied the same fix again, so with luck all will be well again.

#photo

Not very detailed is exactly what we need.

##indieweb

Terrific 99pi on the role of art and illustration in the dinosaur revolution https://overcast.fm/+DC83Lgo

Trying to remember that weird illustrated book about future evolution.

Quick thank-you to @fiona for posting the link to Mike Hapgood’s The Garden and the Stream: A Technopastoral

So much to read and think about. And to compare with the Zettelkasten approach to tending one's garden.

Tried to Like this post, but neither Quill nor Omnibear seem able to do so. I wonder whether that is because there is a hashtag in the title? This post may help me find out.

Leaving Trieste on a glorious day; blue skies and clear. Pity it wasn’t like this the past couple of days, but all in all it was better than expected and the city is beautiful. People said Why are you going? Because it is there. And I’m glad we did.

I'd be up for an IWC in Italy.

Successfully updated WithKnown to latest master with no (apparent) ill effects. Now to see whether it permits things that it previously did not.

Managed to get my demo for IWC done with about 10 minutes to spare. Not unhappy. More quantified nonsense.

Great session on Indie Strategy has come to a close. Much to digest.

Getting ready for two days of IndieWeb in beautiful Nürnberg.

Well, this is exciting, and a little bit scary. Proposal for the book of Our Daily Bread is on its way to publisher. Now to wait. Fortunately, baking with natural leavens teaches patience.

I wish I agreed that a code of conduct shouldn't be necessary, that the law and common sense should be enough to ensure good behaviour. Alas, I think the very point that common sense is uncommon, and that there's no argument against "I thought I was behaving decently" make some kind of fallback necessary. A code of conduct is not, of course, a legal agreement or contract, but the same reasoning applies: Hope for the best, but plan for the worst.

I'll be sorry not to see Christian at Nürnberg.

@cn @lioncourt @vasta Should be fixed now, although the update and the fix exposed a couple of other “issues”.

The release of gitsync 2.0 for Grav can't come soon enough for me.

Nice post, but alas, when I liked it on my stream all it picked up was your author name as Title and the automated summary. I know it is all about the plumbing, but this is one of my chief niggles about automated syndication (by me) -- that there is so much variability in what is sent and received that it kind of makes a mockery of the process.

So I'm doing the manual thing now, to make sure this finds its way back to you, in case the other one doesn't.

#IndieWeb

Gérard Rubaud has died. A great pioneer baker. Sad news.

http://www.farine-mc.com/2018/10/r-i-p-gerard-rubaud-1941-2018.html

The value of charts -- podcast or otherwise -- as a measure of worth, as opposed to merely popularity, is deeply suspect. In all kinds of rankings, people like what other people like, so popular stuff becomes more popular. Which is why I am highly ambivalent any time I so much as glance at podcast charts. Either people like what I'm doing, or they don't, but asking whether they like my output more or less than someone else's is pointless. Mostly.

An unrelated mystery: why would someone who has their own domain in their own name not want that domain to be more popular by, you know, publishing on it?

Thanks for the link; I would not have seen it otherwise. I hope you saw David Runciman's review of *Fear* in the LRB.

So hard to decide on someone for micro.monday -- so with no further justification, I suggest @grayareas

Anyone using micro.blog through Launch Center Pro? I can generate a post. Wondering how to just open the app, if possible.

I really need to automate my little script that fetches things I've saved to reading.am, because when I do it by hand it just shoves a giant indigestible bolus into the timeline. That might mean automating MAMP too.

Thanks Aaron for your mention of my wheat and bread podcasts. You raise an interesting question about aboriginal bread in Australia. I've listened to a podcast with Bruce Pascoe and read a general piece that was awfully muddled, but I have not read his book. I have no reason not to take his claims at face value, although I also think that the freight he is adding to those claims owes as much to the general status and recent past history of aboriginal people in Australia as it does to archaeology. I will certainly be including something in the book I am working on.

Chris Aldrich's discussion of the rewarding discovery that a friend has read something that you are reading, before you see it in their feed, is spot on. It is fun. And it reminds me of two things. The most important is that I really need to get to grips with my tags, both in Zettelkasten and, perhaps even more importantly, in Pinboard.

The whole business of bookmarking, storing copies, highlighting and annotating remains a source of confusion for me. There are just too many moving parts. I quite like Chris' suggestion of making it a topic at a future IndieWeb Camp. I've got two projects on the go, either of which could be my thing in Nürnberg in a couple of weeks.

I've been a fan of Phil Gyford's since he made his own redesign of the Guardian's site. The Directory would probably be a good starting point for a good estimation of linkrot over a decade or more.

I could extract quote after quote from Colin Tudge's latest essay on agriculture, at http://www.campaignforrealfarming.org/2018/10/why-wont-the-powers-that-be-take-agriculture-seriously... but it would undermine the whole, just as a steak undermines a whole cow or an organic loaf of bread undermines the fertility-building beans needed to produce it. Just go read.

It's a great story. He told me how the UK started a trade war with France, which promptly shipped the good wines through Ireland. The Irish helped create the great wines of France. https://www.eatthispodcast.com/how-the-irish-created-the-great-wines-of-bordeaux-and-elsewhere/

Have you taken a look at indieweb.org? There are people doing lots more than hinting.

Define "significant". Many, many people are very happily using microformats to interact with one another. Micro.blog is built on microformats. Not enough for you?

While he was worrying like a terrier at the word "content" I believe John Philpin wasn't giving "own" quite the same third-degree. If, as some say, possession is nine-tenths of the law, then all those various places where he stores his stuff, even temporarily, could be said in some sense to own it. I quite like that thing you see inside books, that "The Author asserts their moral rights ..." There's nothing to stop you stealing it (well, aside from the law, in some cases, for people with deep pockets) but at least you know it would be immoral to do so.

Tomorrow is apparently International Podcast Day. Naturally, I am spending today editing a podcast that will go out on Monday.

I see that there is a service that offers to back up a journalist's pieces "independent from any publisher and ready to stay with you for your entire career" https://www.absw.org.uk/member-offers-services-and-opportunities/authory-build-your-article-archive-... Would people really rather pay for that than a site of their own?

Another reason to love RSS (or feeds in general). Actually, the same reason. After about four years of inactivity, a site I like springs back to life and I don't need to do anything to find out. http://www.wildyeastblog.com/

Didn’t Jesus say “no guacamole for immigrant haters”? I don't think he did, but maybe he should have.

http://gastropoda.com/2018/09/jam-and-bagels/

Sounds nothing like **My** bubba. https://open.spotify.com/track/4t2efW7DxJCeSDfW8ah2xY?si=GAPclbvoS_6bblmoCcEsTg

Can I blame flying on Sunday morning for the raging sore throat I developed yesterday evening?

So Flattr is now offering a way to reward podcasters. I dunno; seems to me like too little too late. I used to be a huge fan of Flattr, but its pivot put me off in a big way.

Going back to Firefox to see whether the new Omnibear works as well as I hope (and because Chrome really no longer suits my paranoia.

The one thing worse than no hotel WiFi is flaky hotel WiFi. Just as you think you might be able to get something useful done, BAM!, it pulls the rug out from under you.

Had an amazing nine-course tasting menu last night at The Edinburgh Food Studio. Photos would have ruined the experience. From the single radish to begin to the dram of Old Perth 1996 to finish it was a delight for eyes, nose and mouth. Superb all round.