Thanks @joe for writing this incredibly useful FRED guide https://josephcarrano.wordpress.com/2018/06/28/a-guide-to-fred-and-digital-preservation-sundries/ Looks like a must-read resource for anyone working on reading/imaging born-digital content from old media!

**Ed Summers** · Jun 29, 2018, 13:19

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**Are0h** @Are0h@playvicious.social · Jun 29, 2018, 13:19

Happy Friday beautiful people.

I’m glad we’re all here together. It’s kind of awesome when you think about the places we are all from and how we’ve all found each other.

I think that’s pretty cool.

**Ed Summers** · Jun 29, 2018, 12:36

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**Aral Balkan** @aral@mastodon.ar.al · Jun 29, 2018, 12:36

Reclaiming RSS

“Before Twitter, before algorithmic timelines filtered our reality for us, before surveillance capitalism, there was RSS: Really Simple Syndication … As we move away from the centralised web to the peer web, it’s time to rediscover, re-embrace, and reclaim RSS.”

https://ar.al/2018/06/29/reclaiming-rss/

#ethicaltechnology

**Ed Summers** @edsu · Jun 28, 2018, 20:11

**Ed Summers** @edsu · Jun 28, 2018, 20:11

I accidentally accepted a Linked In connection from someone I didn't know in Calcutta, and proceeded to have a really interesting conversation about the job market for data curation professionals. Sometimes media really is social.

**Ed Summers** · Jun 28, 2018, 13:03

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**Ruth [☕️ 👩🏻‍💻📚📖✍🏻🍵]** @platypus@glammr.us · Jun 28, 2018, 13:03

Extremely grateful that my colleague Ben Goldman put his thoughts on climate change, digital preservation, and the anthropocene into this book chapter "It's Not Easy Being Green(e): Digital Preservation in the Age of Climate Change"

https://scholarsphere.psu.edu/concern/generic_works/bvq27zn11p

Reading it moved me and challenged me.

**Ed Summers** @edsu · Jun 27, 2018, 11:16

**Ed Summers** @edsu · Jun 27, 2018, 11:16

uspol reality Show more

**Ed Summers** @edsu · Jun 26, 2018, 19:50

**Ed Summers** @edsu · Jun 26, 2018, 19:50

Look who was on my ballot this morning!

**Ed Summers** @edsu · Jun 26, 2018, 13:15

**Ed Summers** @edsu · Jun 26, 2018, 13:15

Bookmark: Humane Metrics/Metrics Noir | hc:19823 | Humanities CORE https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:19823/ #metrics #publishing #dh #scholarship

**Ed Summers** · Jun 26, 2018, 11:37

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**صفر** @charlyblack@mastodon.social · Jun 26, 2018, 11:37

publishers, close access, metrics and surveillance as mechanisms of control for scholars Show more

**Ed Summers** · Jun 26, 2018, 12:47

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**Are0h** @Are0h@playvicious.social · Jun 26, 2018, 12:47

Happy Tuesday, folks.

Always be open to lending a helping hand, but never take on someone else's anxieties or fears as your own. That does not help the person in need and it's not fair to you.

A big part of self care is setting your boundaries and knowing how much you can give and take. Be honest about them and be consistent in maintaining them until you feel you're ready to expand them.

You're a person too. You get to decide what you will and won't allow in your space.

**Ed Summers** @edsu · Jun 26, 2018, 12:55

**Ed Summers** @edsu · Jun 26, 2018, 12:55

This digital humanities, or as they call it, mobilized humanities, project uses web technology and research know-how to make the powerful point that our borders are everywhere.

https://www.wired.com/story/ice-is-everywhere-using-library-science-to-map-child-separation/

**Ed Summers** @edsu · Jun 25, 2018, 11:15

**Ed Summers** @edsu · Jun 25, 2018, 11:15

Bookmark: webtorrent/webtorrent: ⚡️ Streaming torrent client for the web https://github.com/webtorrent/webtorrent #bittorrent #javascript #web

**Ed Summers** @edsu · Jun 25, 2018, 11:02

**Ed Summers** @edsu · Jun 25, 2018, 11:02

While I don't fully agree with all the decisions that are being made recently at social.coop (but most) I really have been impressed with the level of engagement from other members, and the use of Loomio to mediate the decision making process, and build consensus. Being new to Loomio I wasn't sure about it at first, but clearly a ton of thought and experience has gone into building it.

**Ed Summers** @edsu · Jun 25, 2018, 10:54

**Ed Summers** @edsu · Jun 25, 2018, 10:54

@brainwane Hi! have you ever seen PyPI images get broken as a result of twine upload?

For example:

https://pypi.org/project/etudier/

The original markdown has an image with an absolute GitHub URL, but I see it is being rewritten to use https://warehouse-camo.cmh1.psfhosted.org ? But that URL is (currently) 404. Maybe I just need to wait for it to be eventually consistent -- or is it a bug?

**Ed Summers** @edsu · Jun 25, 2018, 00:55

**Ed Summers** @edsu · Jun 25, 2018, 00:55

“We need to move from competitive ideation, trying to push out individual ideas, to collective ideation, collaborative ideation. It isn’t about having the number one best idea, but having ideas that come from, and work for, more people.”

adrienne maree brown - Emergent Strategy

**Ed Summers** · Jun 24, 2018, 10:04

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**mike_hales** @mike_hales · Jun 24, 2018, 10:04

Anyone have a view on #GitBook vs #MediaWiki as a public way of developing a collection of informative documents, and presenting a view of a system (organisation, campaign, movement). Open to continuous collective (re)writing.
Look&feel of GitBook seems so much cleaner, MediaWiki typography IMHO is not pleasing.

But what's under the hood? What are they like to manage & maintain? How easy is it to put a different skin on MediaWiki?
GitBook costs, but offers a not-for-profit free option.