Carl Rustung wrote his original post, Zapping Instagram pics to micro.blog on Wed. January 30th, 2019. I wanted my Untappd check-ins automatically posted to my micro.blog. With some trial and error, I was able to tweak his Zap to do it for me. Here’s how: Set up a new access token for Zapier in your micro.blog account settings. Make a new Zap. Choose Untappd for your Trigger App and trigger the zap on “New Check-In”. Connect your Untappd account. Select…
@help is there a way to set the default Discover page to 🏎 racing in the micro.blog app?…
The Micro.blog experience and a few thoughts on the open web (Beardy Guy Musings) I write this and mull it over from the perspective of a creator and as a longer-term user of the “old web”. I have, at least, a basic grasp of the ideal (and importance of) the open web, ownership and access. I write it as someone frustrated with the nastiness of the business practices of the corporate entities that own the big social media as well…
Indie Microblogging (book.micro.blog) How the web used to be, and how it should be again. @manton's book on Indie Microblogging will be released on the web on January 2nd, 2020. If you missed the Kickstarter campaign, you can pre-order the book. Looking forward to reading the IndieWeb section.…
On blogging and intentional sharing by Smokey (A journal at al-Qâhira fî Amrîkâ) As I wrote in my reply on Micro.blog, the first, and most important, aspect of intentional sharing is simply to think about whether the “content” is appropriate for the community. I agree with much of what Smokey wrote but the post and the thread on the micro.blog smacked of one group of people - insiders - deciding for a much larger community. And what do you say…
