Today, 17-May-2021, Barbara Hannigan is giving a masterclass in Copenhagen. Luckily for us, it’s being streamed live. The class itself is in the department “special interest” – but the initial conversation is strongly recommended for the open minded readers of this blog. /via mprove insights#hannigan
I am a huge supporter of Medium, because I am a huge supporter of the idea of Medium.
Founded by a founder of Twitter to be a place where long-form thinking was possible, Medium has become a critical platform for spreading understanding in depth. I like it much more than an op-ed page in a major newspaper (since there’s no 800 word limit and it is more timely). I want to do everything I can to help it succeed.
Medium has now established a paid content section to its publication. That content is content recommended to its paid subscribers. I want my content to be easily available to both those paid supporters of Medium and anyone else. That want has led to this resolve:
I will publish my essays presumptively on Medium (sometimes elsewhere but I am exhausted by the submission process), thereby supporting the subscriber part of the platform (while earning the small bit that publishing earns me). But any article published in Medium will also be available here with a “friends link” — meaning a link that allows you to read the article whether or not you’re a paid subscriber to Medium.
And all of my articles are CC-BY, meaning you’re free to take them and commercialize them however you want, so long as you credit me.
"In an ever-changing, incomprehensible world the masses had reached the point where they would, at..."
“In an ever-changing, incomprehensible world the masses had reached the point where they would, at the same time, believe everything and nothing, think that everything was possible and nothing was true… The totalitarian mass leaders based their propaganda on the correct psychological assumption that, under such conditions, one could make people believe the most fantastic statements one day, and trust that if the next day they were given irrefutable proof of their falsehood, they would take refuge in cynicism; instead of deserting the leaders who had lied to them, they would protest that they had known all along that the statement was a lie and would admire the leaders for their superior tactical cleverness.”
Only by living, sharing, working with other humans, does a human become really human. There is no…
Only by living, sharing, working with other humans, does a human become really human. There is no independent individual. Sorry. /Frieder Nake via CarlCanary 2.0
Before (a)social media, the web used to be social. Each and every Web 2.0 site used to offer its info pebbles also as an RSS feed. RSS (really simple syndication) is a standardized XML format (extensible markup language) that an RSS reader app can import and display. Some of this information infrastructure has survived and can be revived by the web app RSS Enterprise on this page.
The primary use case is Mastodon. But as it turns out, RSS feeds provided by at least BlueSky, tumblr, WordPress, SpeakerDeck, Pinterest, and Wordpress can also be displayed here.
For Mastodon in specific, there are a few special features:
You can click a Mastodon user to display her feed. Try @mprove or @chronohh
You can drag any RSS feed URL from any web page to the cover above and drop it into the river. This does also work for Mastodon users and hash tags, as well as for blogspot, pinterest, substack, and tumblr. The menu command Edit > Paste of an RSS address is also possible, but less exciting.
Of course, you can always fiddle around with the parameters in the browser’s address bar:
RSS Enterprise parameter info
rss=
The feed url or a dropable blog URL Support for multiple Mastodon hash tags; e.g. get the combined tags #ComputerHistory #HistoryOfComputers #HistoryOfComputing #chm with this RSS Enterprise link
rss2=
A second feed to be displayed; but no support for multiple tags
roundrobin
Optional parameter to flip-flop between two feeds instead of sorting them chronologically
stay curious – share the links – have fun! Matthias
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