I see that Mastodon is now an option for auto-sharing posts for WordPress.com. Also, Automattic acquired the ActivityPub for WordPress plugin and released v1.0 this week, and are working on connecting ActivityPub to WordPress.com. Good. It’s all coming together.
Still waiting for Automattic to join Tumblr to the Fediverse though.
This experiment with blogging on the same site as my web design business is no longer working out. I blog on too varied a field of topics than just tech or business-related topics. As a result, I will no longer maintain a blog on BigMinds Media.
Instead, I will blog at World of Values, which will be a widely-varied site. I will also move most of my posts (and comments) over to World of Values. I will maintain the BigMinds Media site for my media portfolio and business contact.
With the posts that I’ve posted, and how they have ranged across so many topics, I’m not going to limit myself to just technology-related or business-related topics.
I will blog what I like (with reasonable limits, of course).
I realize that maintaining a separate personal blog apart from BigMinds Media would be a bit redundant. Granted, I know that importing a personal blog into this one will result in a greater variety of topics to cover, and that it may be distracting to readers, but I think I’m OK with that.
BigMinds will become a personal blog + portfolio, more frequently updated with the widest-possible variety of topics imaginable: Secularity, tech, LGBT, politics, feminism, science, films and books, family, health, events, and so on.
Pretty much, this will become an experiment in maintaining an online presence outside of (not separate from) Facebook, Twitter and G+. A space that I can call my own and can import to my own site in the future.
I use to blog at LiveJournal in the 2000s, and that blog documents a lot of my life during that time, even though I’m reluctant to import those posts to this blog due to some of the embarrassing stuff I posted at that time. Maybe a few will be imported in the future, but not at the moment.
But for now, BigMinds will serve a greater duty for me and for my portfolio as well.
The ReTweet is, in terms of a growing number of indexing sites like Topsy, the equivalent of an upmod vote or endorsement of the post as has been practiced by Digg or Reddit: basically, if one prepends "RT" to the prior poster’s username, the content of the repost and the associated shortened URL to the external site, Topsy interprets the RT as an endorsement of the reposted content and the full URL.
So the "DeTweet" was introduced as a concept by various posters as being the opposite of the ReTweet last year, one that has not yet been credibly created or fleshed out for mass consumption or indexer use. Basically, instead of "RT" next to an associated post, a DT would be prepended in order to indicate dislike.
But what does that mean? Continue reading DeTweet or DownTweet: How?
