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Greg McVerry

I Can No Longer Recommend WordPress.Com For the Beautiful People of Tumblr

Tumblr's that special place on the web. The refuge, the gallery, the club, the home of people you probably do not understand, and that's okay, Folks who discuss the story of Tumblr and what's happening through a lens of porn miss the point. Tumblr's that part of the web for those who seek a beauty in a new world due to the ugliness of the old. It's not onlin

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Agency and the Act of Blogging #mb

@Tonz and @kevinmarks have been my connections on earlier blogging research. One thing that struck me was the demise of research at BlogCon. While the file formats stink I can find much of the conference research up to 2004...Then when the conference remerged in 2006 it was about SEO and building reach. What happened? We went from building networks to trying

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Some quick quotes on #edu106 and the power of #IndieWeb #creativity #edtechchat #mb

I am most proud of my website because I have never created a website by myself before and it was fun to figure everything out everything I wanted to do with my website. I could have done better at posting every week to be consistent and written longer posts that had more detail. Blogging helped me understand what we were doing in this course and what it was

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Following People or Feeds in the #IndieWeb #mb #DoOO #edtechchat #literacies

I am scrolling through history (h/t to Kevin Marks for reminding of the c curated posts by danah boyd ) as we discuss how best to follow people in social readers on the IndieWeb. Tantek Çelik has suggested nobody ever on the history of the web wants to follow feeds. danah seemed to agree in 2004 . Tantek suggested a one button push follow that people have co

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An Important Reminder from @zephoria Blogs Aren’t Safe

As us in the #IndieWeb community, many who sought refuge online as a safe space from the horrors we faced offline 20-30 years ago, advocate for Tumblr Diapspora to the IndieWeb we must remember the spaces we created weren’t safe then, on the blogosphere in early years, or now: http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2004/01/19/why_blogs_arent_a_safe_space.

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Community is the Curriculum: Aligning Praxis, Pedagogy and Product on the IndieWeb

Join us on a story of a Commons of Knowledge unfolding, reinforcing and growing as we describe how the goals, practices, and tools used by the IndieWeb community interact as symbiotic building blocks. Join us on a story of a Commons of Knowledge unfolding, reinforcing and growing as we describe how the goals, practices, and tools used by the IndieWeb communi…

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Gonna take a communbity to hold that back scratcher: @Tumblr to the #IndieWeb

Import–needs rock solid LiveJournal-clone and Tumblr support if your site is to serve as an archive. I don’t know if there even is a working Wordpress plugin to import from LJ or Dreamwidth. The best-supported Tumblr->Wordpress importer is actually better than most standalone Tumblr backup tools, but it still mangles video posts/embeds. It’d also be cool to

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Update on the Technlogy Fluency Group @scsu

The Southern Connecticut State University Tecnology Fluency Affinity Group met today. We are a 100% volunteer ad-hoc group of faculty who care about the direction of how technology education on the state. The technology fluency classes are in our general ed program, the Liberal Education Program. Tier one classes are competency based classes. So in technolog

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