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Can Education Keep Up with Technology?
Wayne Skipper, EDUCAUSE Review, EDUCAUSE Review, 2018/09/28

My first thought on reading the question was, "probably not," but of course in a certain sense everything both does and does not 'keep up' with technology. Anyhow, what we have here is a good article with a lot of links covering some of the more important recent trends in technology: machine-readable learning, common building blocks, machine teaching, self-driving organizations, and change. But even as I look at this list, in contrast to some of the forward-looking applications, we can see that even this set of trends is being left behind. Now, of course, everything both is and is not 'left behind', so none of these things goes away; it all becomes part of a much more complex soup.

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MastoView
2018/09/28

This displays the most recent posts on any instance of Mastodon ytou care to name, or (even better!) allows you to select a random one (be warned - some random Mastodon instances have content not suited to everyone). It's from unmung.com, which demonstrates a bunch of distributed web stuff, including various other Javascript applications. Looked at the source but I can't tell who created it.

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Aperture
Aaron Parecki, 2018/09/28

Think of it as like a reader for microcontent. " Aperture is a Microsub server. Microsub is a spec that provides a standardized way for reader apps to interact with feeds. By splitting feed parsing and displaying posts into separate parts, a reader app can focus on presenting posts to the user instead of also having to parse feeds. A Microsub server manages the list of people you're following and collects their posts, and a Micropub app shows the posts to the user by fetching them from the server." The website mentions procing, but it's open source and you can install your own.

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Open Design Kit
2018/09/28

This is "a living collection of guides and best practices to help you to make and design openly. The Kit was originally incubated at Bocoup and became a community-owned project in Summer 2017." There's a dozen or so 'methods' with links to activities and applications. It speaks to the idea that design is a diverse and often collaborative activity, and needs to be able to be done in distriubuted online communities as well as by delegates in a closed room. "To share feedback, open an issue or a pull request see our Github repository."

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ActivityPub!
2018/09/28

This is a really neat concept. " ActivityPub is a decentralized social networking protocol based on the ActivityStreams 2.0 data format. ActivityPub is an official W3C recommended standard published by the W3C Social Web Working Group. It provides a client to server API for creating, updating and deleting content, as well as a federated server to server API for delivering notifications and subscribing to content." That said, see ActivityPub hot take.

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IndieAuth.com: Sign in with your domain name
2018/09/28

It's a bit complex but it's simpler than OpenID was. I'm still looking into it. " Instead of logging in to websites as "you on Twitter" or "you on Facebook", you should be able to log in as just "you". We should not be relying on Twitter or Facebook to provide our authenticated identities, we should be able to use our own domain names to log in to sites everywhere." Here's the IndieLogin test page.

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OwnYourGram
Aaron Parecki, 2018/09/28

Pretty simple concept: "Sign in with your domain, connect your Instagram account, when you post to Instagram, the photos will be sent to your site!" Signing in with your domain requires IndieAuth (the modern-day answer to "whatever happened to OpenID?"). The code for OwnYourGram is open source.

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