Hello! I\u2019m Chris. I use this website as my primary hub for online identity and communication. It\u2019s also my online commonplace book.
\nBelow, you\u2019ll find a variety of media types I publish. You\u2019ll also see lists of categories I frequently publish to including IndieWeb, mathematics, information theory, biology, history, economics, humanities, note taking & related topics. If you\u2019re interested in more niche sub-topics, I have a list of tags available for searching and following as well.
\nAs a member of the IndieWeb movement/community, I follow many of their principles including owning all of my own data by publishing it on my own website. When I participate on most social media sites, I generally post here first and syndicate/cross-post duplicates out to them (POSSE). In some cases, I may post to social services first and then immediately syndicate copies of that content to my own website (PESOS). This site supports the receipt of Webmention notifications and, when possible, will show replies from other websites. If you @mention me on Twitter or link to my posts there, I should receive notifications here and can show those replies as comments on my posts.
\nYou\u2019re welcome to subscribe to or follow my content in any manner or on any platform you prefer. However, keep in mind that the canonical copies live on this site and are the most complete. You\u2019d have to follow me on a plethora of sites to be able to follow even a small portion of my online content output, and even then you\u2019ll find that this is the only site with complete copies of all of it.
\n\n\n\nHello! I\u2019m Chris. I use this website as my primary hub for online identity and communication. It\u2019s also my online commonplace book.
\nBelow, you\u2019ll find a variety of media types I publish. You\u2019ll also see lists of categories I frequently publish to including IndieWeb, mathematics, information theory, biology, history, economics, humanities, note taking & related topics. If you\u2019re interested in more niche sub-topics, I have a list of tags available for searching and following as well.
\nAs a member of the IndieWeb movement/community, I follow many of their principles including owning all of my own data by publishing it on my own website. When I participate on most social media sites, I generally post here first and syndicate/cross-post duplicates out to them (POSSE). In some cases, I may post to social services first and then immediately syndicate copies of that content to my own website (PESOS). This site supports the receipt of Webmention notifications and, when possible, will show replies from other websites. If you @mention me on Twitter or link to my posts there, I should receive notifications here and can show those replies as comments on my posts.
\nYou\u2019re welcome to subscribe to or follow my content in any manner or on any platform you prefer. However, keep in mind that the canonical copies live on this site and are the most complete. You\u2019d have to follow me on a plethora of sites to be able to follow even a small portion of my online content output, and even then you\u2019ll find that this is the only site with complete copies of all of it.
\n\n\n", "value": "Chris Aldrich\nHello! I\u2019m Chris. I use this website as my primary hub for online identity and communication. It\u2019s also my online commonplace book.\nBelow, you\u2019ll find a variety of media types I publish. You\u2019ll also see lists of categories I frequently publish to including IndieWeb, mathematics, information theory, biology, history, economics, humanities, note taking & related topics. If you\u2019re interested in more niche sub-topics, I have a list of tags available for searching and following as well.\nAs a member of the IndieWeb movement/community, I follow many of their principles including owning all of my own data by publishing it on my own website. When I participate on most social media sites, I generally post here first and syndicate/cross-post duplicates out to them (POSSE). In some cases, I may post to social services first and then immediately syndicate copies of that content to my own website (PESOS). This site supports the receipt of Webmention notifications and, when possible, will show replies from other websites. If you @mention me on Twitter or link to my posts there, I should receive notifications here and can show those replies as comments on my posts.\nYou\u2019re welcome to subscribe to or follow my content in any manner or on any platform you prefer. However, keep in mind that the canonical copies live on this site and are the most complete. You\u2019d have to follow me on a plethora of sites to be able to follow even a small portion of my online content output, and even then you\u2019ll find that this is the only site with complete copies of all of it. \u00a0Firehose \u00a0Microblog \u00a0Linkblog \u00a0 \u00a0Articles \u00a0Notes \u00a0Replies \u00a0Photos \u00a0Checkins \u00a0Reads \u00a0Watches \u00a0Listens \u00a0Bookmarks \u00a0Favorites \u00a0Likes \u00a0Reposts \u00a0Itches \u00a0Issues \u00a0RSVPs \u00a0Wishlist \u00a0Books \u00a0Annotation \u00a0Microcast \u00a0Follows \u00a0Jams \u00a0Acquisition \u00a0Audio \u00a0Video \u00a0Quotes \u00a0Chat \u00a0Recipes \u00a0Food Diary \u00a0Eat \u00a0Drink \u00a0Exercise \u00a0Plays \u00a0Chickens \u00a0IndieWeb Podcast \u00a0 \u00a0", "lang": "en-US" } ] }, "id": "post-55669927", "lang": "en-US" }, { "type": [ "h-cite" ], "properties": { "name": [ "Somewhere between the granularity of following my daily updates\u00a0and\u00a0my about page\u00a0here\u2019s a quick outline of things I\u2019ve been doing within the past month or reasonably plan to do in the coming weeks. What am I focused on Now? Finishing up recovery from the Eaton Fire on January 7, 2025 A new roof on the house\u2026" ], "url": [ "https://boffosocko.com/now/" ], "published": [ "2016-07-03T14:41:00-07:00" ], "content": [ { "html": "Somewhere between the granularity of following my daily updates and my about page here\u2019s a quick outline of things I\u2019ve been doing within the past month or reasonably plan to do in the coming weeks. What am I focused on Now? Finishing up recovery from the Eaton Fire on January 7, 2025 A new roof on the house\u2026
", "value": "Somewhere between the granularity of following my daily updates\u00a0and\u00a0my about page\u00a0here\u2019s a quick outline of things I\u2019ve been doing within the past month or reasonably plan to do in the coming weeks. What am I focused on Now? Finishing up recovery from the Eaton Fire on January 7, 2025 A new roof on the house\u2026", "lang": "en-US" } ], "author": [ { "type": [ "h-card" ], "properties": { "name": [ "Chris Aldrich says: @ boffosocko.com" ], "photo": [ { "value": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/d5fb4e498fe609cc29b04e5b7ad688c4?s=96&d=identicon&r=pg", "alt": "" } ] }, "lang": "en-US", "value": "https://boffosocko.com/Chris Aldrich says:\u00a0@\u00a0boffosocko.com" } ] }, "id": "div-comment-513642", "lang": "en-US" }, { "type": [ "h-card" ], "properties": { "name": [ "Kevin Marks" ], "photo": [ { "value": "http://known.kevinmarks.com/file/9255656669173b7867ab839ee6556f9e", "alt": "" }, { "value": "http://known.kevinmarks.com/file/9255656669173b7867ab839ee6556f9e", "alt": "" } ], "url": [ "http://known.kevinmarks.com/profile/kevinmarks" ] }, "lang": "en-US" }, { "type": [ "h-cite" ], "properties": { "name": [ "I can\u2019t wait until WordPress.TV (presumably) posts this up in a few weeks. This sounds a lot like Brianna\u2019s talking about a web-enabled commonplace book, a topic which intrigues me greatly and the purpose for which I\u2019m most often using my own site.\nIn looking briefly at her personal site, I don\u2019t see lots of evidence of her use of the idea, so I\u2019m guessing that she\u2019s either keeping it privately on her back end, password protected, or on another site altogether like I do for some of my content. Her talk mentions this, so I\u2019m excited to see how she executes on it.\nI\u2019m also curious, after having recently remotely attended the Dodging the Memory Hole 2017 conference, how she\u2019s archiving and backing it up for future generations, particularly if she\u2019s keeping large chunks privately.\nI\u2019m keeping my eyes open to see if she posts slides from her presentation.\nUpdate December 10, 2017:\nHere are links to the slides (Google Docs version).\nThe video has also been posted today on WordPress.tv:\nBrianna Privett: The Story of Your Life: Using WordPress as Your Memory Warehouse\nSyndicated copies: WordPress X" ], "url": [ "https://boffosocko.com/2017/12/01/the-story-of-your-life-using-wordpress-as-your-memory-warehouse/" ], "syndication": [ "https://chrisaldrich.wordpress.com/?p=55676125", "https://twitter.com/ChrisAldrich/status/936712556441255936" ], "published": [ "2017-12-01T13:40:12-08:00" ], "content": [ { "html": "I can\u2019t wait until WordPress.TV (presumably) posts this up in a few weeks. This sounds a lot like Brianna\u2019s talking about a web-enabled commonplace book, a topic which intrigues me greatly and the purpose for which I\u2019m most often using my own site.
\nIn looking briefly at her personal site, I don\u2019t see lots of evidence of her use of the idea, so I\u2019m guessing that she\u2019s either keeping it privately on her back end, password protected, or on another site altogether like I do for some of my content. Her talk mentions this, so I\u2019m excited to see how she executes on it.
\nI\u2019m also curious, after having recently remotely attended the Dodging the Memory Hole 2017 conference, how she\u2019s archiving and backing it up for future generations, particularly if she\u2019s keeping large chunks privately.
\nI\u2019m keeping my eyes open to see if she posts slides from her presentation.
\nUpdate December 10, 2017:
\nHere are links to the slides (Google Docs version).
\nThe video has also been posted today on WordPress.tv:
\nBrianna Privett: The Story of Your Life: Using WordPress as Your Memory Warehouse
Syndicated copies:
\n", "value": "I can\u2019t wait until WordPress.TV (presumably) posts this up in a few weeks. This sounds a lot like Brianna\u2019s talking about a web-enabled commonplace book, a topic which intrigues me greatly and the purpose for which I\u2019m most often using my own site.\nIn looking briefly at her personal site, I don\u2019t see lots of evidence of her use of the idea, so I\u2019m guessing that she\u2019s either keeping it privately on her back end, password protected, or on another site altogether like I do for some of my content. Her talk mentions this, so I\u2019m excited to see how she executes on it.\nI\u2019m also curious, after having recently remotely attended the Dodging the Memory Hole 2017 conference, how she\u2019s archiving and backing it up for future generations, particularly if she\u2019s keeping large chunks privately.\nI\u2019m keeping my eyes open to see if she posts slides from her presentation.\nUpdate December 10, 2017:\nHere are links to the slides (Google Docs version).\nThe video has also been posted today on WordPress.tv:\nBrianna Privett: The Story of Your Life: Using WordPress as Your Memory Warehouse\nSyndicated copies: WordPress X", "lang": "en-US" } ], "author": [ { "type": [ "h-card" ], "properties": { "name": [ "Chris Aldrich says: @ boffosocko.com" ], "photo": [ { "value": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/d5fb4e498fe609cc29b04e5b7ad688c4?s=96&d=identicon&r=pg", "alt": "" } ] }, "lang": "en-US", "value": "https://boffosocko.com/Chris Aldrich says:\u00a0@\u00a0boffosocko.com" } ] }, "id": "div-comment-386927", "lang": "en-US" }, { "type": [ "h-card" ], "properties": { "name": [ "jacky" ], "photo": [ { "value": "https://chat.indieweb.org/img.php?url=https%3A%2F%2Fjacky.wtf%2Fassets%2Ffavicon.c9a993d2.png&sig=f2731de85966af5259a40133cfd12adf08de58bdc4e0afcf86d5e5da01d988cc", "alt": "" }, { "value": "https://chat.indieweb.org/img.php?url=https%3A%2F%2Fjacky.wtf%2Fassets%2Ffavicon.c9a993d2.png&sig=f2731de85966af5259a40133cfd12adf08de58bdc4e0afcf86d5e5da01d988cc", "alt": "" } ], "url": [ "http://jacky.wtf" ] }, "lang": "en-US" }, { "type": [ "h-card" ], "properties": { "name": [ "davidak" ], "photo": [ { "value": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/2145ea297e6bb995e1f5841b1185004f?s=56&d=identicon&r=pg", "alt": "" }, { "value": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/2145ea297e6bb995e1f5841b1185004f?s=56&d=identicon&r=pg", "alt": "" } ], "url": [ "https://davidak.de/" ] }, "lang": "en-US" }, { "type": [ "h-cite" ], "properties": { "name": [ "On the IndieWeb front there are some interesting evolving examples and state of the art documented at:\nhttps://indieweb.org/personal_library\nhttps://indieweb.org/read\nIn particular, I quite enjoy the micropub client IndieBookClub for posting reading updates to my WordPress site (it supports other platforms with Micropub support too.) More details: https://indieweb.org/indiebookclub. Here\u2019s an example of how I\u2019m tracking what I read on my own site: https://boffosocko.com/kind/read/ or if you want just the books.\nIf you\u2019d like a non-WordPress hosted solution, you might take a look at Manton Reece\u2019s excellent Micro.blog platform which has a nice book/reading UI: https://micro.blog/discover/books or https://micro.blog/discover/books/grid. (It uses IndieWeb technologies including micropub, so you can use IndieBookClub with it. You can also syndicate to it from your WordPress site if you prefer to have your own infrastructure and just join the community there for the conversation.)\nI\u2019m happy to help if you\u2019d like further tips/pointers for any of the above.\nOn the Mastodon front, you might take a look at Mouse Reeve\u2018s Bookwyrm (GitHub) which is one of the best custom set ups in the ActivityPub space." ], "url": [ "https://boffosocko.com/2021/10/27/55797602/" ], "published": [ "2021-10-27T10:26:44-07:00" ], "content": [ { "html": "On the IndieWeb front there are some interesting evolving examples and state of the art documented at:
\nhttps://indieweb.org/personal_library
\nhttps://indieweb.org/read
In particular, I quite enjoy the micropub client IndieBookClub for posting reading updates to my WordPress site (it supports other platforms with Micropub support too.) More details: https://indieweb.org/indiebookclub. Here\u2019s an example of how I\u2019m tracking what I read on my own site: https://boffosocko.com/kind/read/ or if you want just the books.
\nIf you\u2019d like a non-WordPress hosted solution, you might take a look at Manton Reece\u2019s excellent Micro.blog platform which has a nice book/reading UI: https://micro.blog/discover/books or https://micro.blog/discover/books/grid. (It uses IndieWeb technologies including micropub, so you can use IndieBookClub with it. You can also syndicate to it from your WordPress site if you prefer to have your own infrastructure and just join the community there for the conversation.)
\nI\u2019m happy to help if you\u2019d like further tips/pointers for any of the above.
\nOn the Mastodon front, you might take a look at Mouse Reeve\u2018s Bookwyrm (GitHub) which is one of the best custom set ups in the ActivityPub space.