Month: April 2020

org-roam has a nice feature that lets you graph the notes in your wiki and the links between them. I just saw that there’s a pull request to produce that map for the current note.

When that lands, I’d like to try and hook up my publish step to add the note-specific graph to each published page. That’d give a navigation path something like the one in FedWiki:

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Though I would still want my own curated paths in addition to this generated map o’ everything.

Wiki graphs

The Roam approach to note-taking is to start with your daily page, and then link to things from there. This makes a lot of sense to me, and fits in with my current process for the blog and wiki combo.

You just start with whatever is currently on your mind, and that goes in the stream, but links out to things in the wiki. I tend to copy it into the wiki at the same time, too, if it makes sense. Probably one thing to think about though is what in the stream do I want to be public versus private – that would change the workflow a bit.

Stream-first

Getting events out of the silos seems like a hot topic this year, with plenty of IndieWeb and Fediverse activity around it. The COVID-19 pandemic might be changing the nature of events for the foreseeable, but there’s still plenty happening online.

A couple of weeks ago at IndieWebCamp London, Jamie led a session about owning your RSVPs: https://indieweb.org/2020/London/OwnYourRSVPs

Inspired by the session, my day 2 hacking revolved around events and RSVPs. The plan was to try indie-fy my event discovery a bit, and also try and decouple myself from Meetup a little for events there. I want to get a feed of upcoming events that I might be interested in in my social reader, and RSVP to them on my own site.

Continue reading “Indiewebifying events and RSVPs”

Indiewebifying events and RSVPs

Read Frantz Fanon Against Facebook: How to Decolonize Your Digital-Mind (Versobooks.com)

From the Algeria to algorithms, Lizzie O’Shea argues that Frantz Fanon’s ideas have much to offer us as we seek to understand, and resist, some of the most profound challenges of living in the digital age.

Lizzie O’Shea discusses digital self-determination as a means to understand and resist some of the problems with big tech, using the rubric of Fanon’s work on self-determination. How can we have agency and create our own identity under the thumb of the big surveilling platforms?

Digital self-determination will involve:

  • making use of the technical tools available to communicate freely
  • designing information infrastructure in ways that favour de-centralisation
  • designing online spaces and devices that are welcoming

I definitely like all the conclusions. At first blush, any comparison between colonialism and racism and the problems of digital platforms feels like it could be a little crass… but O’Shea explains her thinking and says she feels Fanon’s ideas are so strong that they can be applied to different times and situations.

Even in a technologically-saturated world, in which human beings are categorised, surveilled and discriminated against, it is possible for us to carve out space for our own identity and shape our destiny.

– Frantz Fanon Against Facebook: How to Decolonize Your Digital-Mind

Digital self-determinism

I posted that previous note with a link to a draft article in it mainly so it could be shown at the online HWC – but also it marks the point that I’m starting trying out working on draft articles ‘in public’. They are still tucked away in my wiki, so not really that public, but at least online somewhere in case (as sometimes happens) I never finish them – some of the nascent bits will at least still be there available to the world and possibly useful.

Public drafts