Brad Enslen

May 2018

The thing is there are two ways to look at Micro.blog: 1. as a blog, 2. as a social network. It’s really a fusion of the two. In my mind, I still seperate the two because it makes it easie to wrap my mind around it.

May 2018

Who is Footing the Bill for Parkland Students Travels?

This question has been on my mind for a long time since students from the Parkland school shooting started traveling all...
May 2018

Having the date in the URL (Permalink) of a blog post is becoming more important as the Web ages and fills up with ever greater amounts of content. There are many old articles out there and anarticle from 10 years ago might not be accurate today. I have started appending “2018” on many searches in Duckduckgo (ie: “best podcast software for linux 2018”) so I get more recent articles. But it also helps when you can see the date in the URL.

May 2018

Having the date in the URL (Permalink) of a blog post is becoming more important as the Web ages and fills up with ever greater amounts of content. There are many old articles out there and anarticle from 10 years ago might not be accurate today. I have started appending “2018” on many searches in Duckduckgo (ie: “best podcast software for linux 2018”) so I get more recent articles. But it also helps when you can see the date in the URL.

May 2018

Bathroom Use and Gender Identity

I know I’m in deep do-do with this post right from the start, because I don’t even know the right terminolog...
May 2018

I loved the original Rocky and Bullwinkle. Amazon’s Rocky and Bullwinkle remake revives an old favorite… but why? - The Verge www.theverge.com/2018/5/11…

May 2018

I loved the original Rocky and Bullwinkle. Amazon’s Rocky and Bullwinkle remake revives an old favorite… but why? - The Verge www.theverge.com/2018/5/11…

May 2018

Dave Winer is so right on this: Scripting News: The Internet is going the wrong way scripting.com/2018/05/1…

May 2018

Dave Winer is so right on this: Scripting News: The Internet is going the wrong way scripting.com/2018/05/1…

May 2018

Well, it highlights the danger of being stupid. Family Chased by Cheetahs Highlights Dangers of Wildlife Parks www.msn.com/en-us/new…

May 2018

Well, it highlights the danger of being stupid. Family Chased by Cheetahs Highlights Dangers of Wildlife Parks www.msn.com/en-us/new…

May 2018

It ain’t #Eurovision unless there are flames shooting out of the stage. It’s a Rule.

May 2018

It ain’t #Eurovision unless there are flames shooting out of the stage. It’s a Rule.

May 2018

New term “pancake perk” this is the rate pancakes absorb syrup. #science #foodjargon #pancakes #breakfast

May 2018

New term “pancake perk” this is the rate pancakes absorb syrup. #science #foodjargon #pancakes #breakfast

May 2018

Complain as we might about the corporate silos of Facebook and Twitter, they have helped break the monopoly of Google search. Before, if you didn’t rank well, for whatever reason, in Google your site, blog, whatever was pretty well dead.

May 2018

Complain as we might about the corporate silos of Facebook and Twitter, they have helped break the monopoly of Google search. Before, if you didn’t rank well, for whatever reason, in Google your site, blog, whatever was pretty well dead.

May 2018

Blogger @iamjeffperry suggested a community of indie bloggers. twitter.com/iamjeffpe… That sounds like a good idea. Cc. @c @manton

I’m trying to think about this from an #Indieweb perspective:

  1. Said community should be Web based: not Slack, not chat, because we’re trying to build a better Web. On the Web others can lurk, read think about what is being discussed even if they don’t want to join in.

  2. Sharing wants, needs of bloggers and micro bloggers not so much about code but things we’d like to see, problems, how to make it more simple to implement, etc.

  3. How to actually set up said communtiy. What script would one use? I’m old school so I immediately think of forums like Simple Machines, but I can see where forums are not mobile friendly and harder to use. Maybe there are better CMS based systems?

  4. Is the idea of an Indieweb (m)blogging community useful?

May 2018

Okay @Jeep I leased a #Jeep in 2013. About 2 years into the lease I started getting phone calls selling extended warranty. I’m still getting them and I turned the Jeep in 2 years ago. Only 3 companies knew I had a Jeep 1. Jeep/Chrysler, 2. Chrysler Credit Corp., 3. Your dealer. Which one of you sold my name address and phone number to shill extended warranties to me? It’s one of you three. Let me make this clear: I didn’t buy the Jeep at the end of the lease because of those phone calls and I’ll never buy a Chrysler product again. You pooped in your own sandbox.

May 2018

Okay @Jeep I leased a #Jeep in 2013. About 2 years into the lease I started getting phone calls selling extended warranty. I’m still getting them and I turned the Jeep in 2 years ago. Only 3 companies knew I had a Jeep 1. Jeep/Chrysler, 2. Chrysler Credit Corp., 3. Your dealer. Which one of you sold my name address and phone number to shill extended warranties to me? It’s one of you three. Let me make this clear: I didn’t buy the Jeep at the end of the lease because of those phone calls and I’ll never buy a Chrysler product again. You pooped in your own sandbox.

May 2018

The more I think about it the more I think I should keep my pull-no-punches political posts on a Wordpress blog. That way I can better control when, where and how posts get syndicated out. Plus comments are conventional, righton the posting page.

May 2018

The more I think about it the more I think I should keep my pull-no-punches political posts on a Wordpress blog. That way I can better control when, where and how posts get syndicated out. Plus comments are conventional, righton the posting page.

May 2018

I think my Bridgy brid.gy experiment is failing. Oh well, I’m not out anything. I’m guessing my MB theme does not support webmentions or I’ve done something wrong in connecting. Probably the later.

May 2018

I think my Bridgy brid.gy experiment is failing. Oh well, I’m not out anything. I’m guessing my MB theme does not support webmentions or I’ve done something wrong in connecting. Probably the later.

May 2018

Self Musings on Consolidating My Old Blogs

I’m slowly plotting my migration and consolidation of old blogs. I plan to move my old posts off my old main blo...