In reply to: The Awesome Directories by Kicks Condor
In reply to: The Awesome Directories. Kicks, I think I have an answer to your linkrot concern. Not for Awesome but a hyp...I think all my web work yesterday and today was housekeeping stuff mostly on Wordpress. Oh I did manage to get outside and spread organic crystalized fox urine (ick) to keep the rabbits away. Thanks, @smokey.
My experimenting with webrings continues. I’m not sure they are still viable in 2018. But I see them as an asymmetric web navigation and discovery tool.
The thing I hate about rechargable drills is I use them so rarely that when I finally need it the battery packs have gone bad.
Like: The web’s transition from nomadism to feudalism
This comparison by designer Alexander Singh of the development of the web from home pages to massive content farms like ...3 Traffic stat providers for your Micro.blog hosted blog
I’m going to focus on Micro.blog hosted blogs, but these three providers will work for Wordpress too. Recently, Mi...Interesting. Looking at my stats from Statcounter.com on Wordpress, something from M.I.T., Cambridge, Mass. is checking out each Tag link, over the last few days. Just a handful per day. I’m thinking it’s a ‘bot.
“Because Twitter is no longer about us — it’s about them talking at us.” Twitter’s “them and us” problem by @adders Source: @smokey This article puts what Twitter has become so well.
Bookmark: List of uses for Micro.blog | Chris Aldrich
Bookmarked: For the list of uses for Micro.blog. Chris Aldrich wrote the list as part of a reply/response to a link he was saving.Bookmarked: Top 6 Free Online RSS Readers
Need to keep up with the most recent posts from your favorite sites and blogs? Try one of these top online RSS readers! ...Updated my post: Micro.blog and WordPress blogs living in harmony to add links to the WP plugin I used for redirects and @manton post with instructions on how to put page redirects on an MB hosted blog. That makes the post more helpful to others. Sorry for the omission.
Joined Indiewebring on my micro.blog hosted blog. Without a hitch. :-)
Bookmark: Microcast.club a directory for short form podcasts
Niche directories are not dead! Bookmarked: Microcast.club. Microcast.club is a directory of microcasts, or short-form p...Micro.blog and Wordpress blogs living in harmony
I’ve got these two domains: ramblinggit.com (here) and rantinggit.com (now a Micro.blog (MB) hosted blog). Both re...Like: Suck it up! Can pasta straws really replace plastic ones? | Life and style | The Guardian
Straws made from sugar, wheat, bamboo and pasta are vying to replace the now-reviled plastic ones. But are any up to the...Test.
Bookmarked: Google’s iron grip on Android: Controlling open source by any means necessary | Ars Technica
From the archives: Android is open—except for all the good parts. Source: Google’s iron grip on Android: Controlling ope...I’m starting to think the EU’s nasty attitude towards UK leaving is mostly fear combined with a bit of miff. The EU is afraid. Britain was the stabilizer for the EU, the big nation-state with massive democratic political legitimacy and insulated from continental tribal history.