Tag: IndieWeb

Sunday Paper - Cancel Culture, Fujifilm X-Pro 3, Blogroll

Interesting stuff I found on the web this week.

I dislike the holier-than-thou attitude of Cancel Culture.

"This idea of purity and you're never compromised and you're always politically 'woke' and all that stuff. You should get over that quickly. The world is messy, there are ambiguities. People who do really good stuff have flaws. People who you are fighting may love their kids. And share certain things with you."Barack Obama

Thom Hogan, true to his nature, gives us his unfiltered opinion of the Fujifilm X-Pro 3. I think it's spot on. Emphasis mine.

It appears that Fujifilm has a clear design bias in the X-Pro series toward folk who used old rangefinder cameras and don't want to spend time in the menus or even reviewing images on the camera. That audience is, at this point, getting old. Fujifilm also seems to be saying that this same audience isn't all that interested in one of the primary advantages that kicked the digital camera adoption into high gear, that big rear LCD.

Each big "breakthrough" in camera tech that generated a growth spurt in ILC solved a clear user problem. Automatic metering solved the user problem of setting the right exposure. Autofocus solved the user problem of putting focus in the right spot. DSLRs solved the problem of not seeing your results instantly so that you could understand what you might still need to change.

The hypothesis behind the X-Pro design is that there is a group of photographers who know exactly what they're doing and don't need or want to see results most of the time. Call them the Totally Secure-in-What-I'm-Doing Shooters. Okay, maybe, but how many of those folk are there actually? And are they really that secure? Are they not chimping at all? To me, the change in rear display adds another clumsiness to an already somewhat awkward camera.Thom Hogan

On his Following page, Chris Aldrich mau have created the longest blogroll in history.

Welcome to the IndieWeb John.

I’m 32 years old today. Born in 1987, I’m right in the middle of of the Millennial generation. I came of age at the same time as the Internet. When I was a kid, my Dad was part of the computer science faculty at the technical school in my small hometown. This meant we had a computer in my house before most families did. My Dad would bring those off white color desktops computers home when he had extra work to do, and he’d let me play games on it when he wasn’t using it.John H. Sheridan

Blocks and IndieWeb

https://www.customerservant.com/read-a-new-era-for-the-genesis-framework-recapping-the-biggest-changes-and-how-to-work-with-them-by-cdils-and-added-some-indieweb-thoughts-approaching-heresy-spoiler-alert-were-gonna-have/ by Amanda RushAmanda Rush (customerservant.com)

While reading this post by Carrie, I began to think that those of us in the Indieweb community may quickly need to embrace blocks.

The challenge as I see it, and the reason I don't use them, is that retail themes do not support microformat 2. Without microformat 2 support and semantic markup, the IndieWeb tools and technologies such as Webmention are pointless. Until the microformat 2 issue is resolved, I don't see any point in doing the work to support blocks.

Automattic to acquire Tumblr

Verizon Media announces sale of Tumblr to Automattic

“Tumblr is one of the Web’s most iconic brands,” said Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg. “It is an essential venue to share new ideas, cultures and experiences, helping millions create and build communities around their shared interests. We are excited to add it to our lineup, which already includes WordPress.com, WooCommerce, Jetpack, Simplenote, Longreads, and more.”

Automattic to acquire Tumblr

Verizon Media announces sale of Tumblr to Automattic

“Tumblr is one of the Web’s most iconic brands,” said Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg. “It is an essential venue to share new ideas, cultures and experiences, helping millions create and build communities around their shared interests. We are excited to add it to our lineup, which already includes WordPress.com, WooCommerce, Jetpack, Simplenote, Longreads, and more.”

This was a surprise for me. I'm not sure what any of this means for Tumblr or WordPress.com customers, but I think it's an exciting development. I deleted my Tumblr account last year. I created a new Tumblr account upon reading the announcement.

Perhaps we'll get more Indieweb features such as Webmentions. Maybe Automattic will reprise Tumblr as a WordPress powered microblogging service similar to micro.blog. It's something a few people have suggested may be easy for Automattic to do. The Jetpack module, combined with the Conversations feature of the Reader service, would be an impressive service.

Tip-o-hat to Dennis.

UPDATE: Matt Mullenweg has a short post about the acquisition.
UPDATE 2: Some thoughts from VC Fred Wilson:

... Tumblr was both a blogging platform and a social media application and while I always loved the versatility of the platform, native mobile applications benefit from simplicity, not complexity.

There was a time around 2010 and 2011 when Tumblr was the most engaging social platform that I was on. I followed and met quite a few interesting people there and it was a lot of fun to be on it.

David Karp, the founder of Tumblr, always focused on making Tumblr a “positive” experience. That is why he refused to have comments, even though I pushed him to do it and hacked Tumblr by putting Disqus on mine. That is why he made the primary (only?) form of engagement a heart.