[Xmca-l] Re: XMCA home page?

[Andy Blunden]

How would you implement a "community garden" to support MCA and xmca, Huw?
Andy
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*Andy Blunden*
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Huw Lloyd wrote:
> Well I wrote a server-side library to achieve a broader version of that 5
> years ago.  But that is peripheral to what Andy's question is about.
>
> Huw
>
> On 8 March 2015 at 21:34, Greg Thompson <greg.a.thompson@gmail.com> wrote:
>
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>> Ha! Huw, I was looking at another, much simpler way of doing a feed than
>> what Annalisa had shown (and I don't really know how I got there since it
>> doesn't seem to be included in Annalisa's email).
>>
>> I was looking at a Quora page but I seem to recall that there are other
>> websites that will let you set up a page that will feed from other sites.
>> The idea being that you can set up a page and determine multiple other
>> sites that will feed to it (e.g., the XMCA home page, Andy's Vimeo page,
>> etc.). Seems like there was even a feature that you can set so that it will
>> regularly search the web and display new content that appears on the web
>> (e.g., you could set a search term for "cultural historical activity
>> theory" and there would be a section of the page that would display
>> everything that is recent on the web that relates to those search terms).
>>
>> I know there is at least one site out there that can do this but I can't
>> recall what it was called (I learned of it from Mike Wesch who used it for
>> one of his classes).
>>
>> Huw or anyone else, do you know what I'm talking about?
>>
>> That was what I meant when I said that it would be minimal time to maintain
>> and could be set up by anyone with minimal cost.
>>
>> But maybe that was all just a dream...
>> -greg
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 2:17 PM, Huw Lloyd <huw.softdesigns@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> On 8 March 2015 at 18:40, <greg.a.thompson@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> [...]
>>>
>>>       
>>>> .Anyway, it seems like it would be an easy thing to set up. And anyone
>>>> could do it, right?
>>>> So why not prototype it and see what works and what doesn't? And then
>>>> refine as needed.
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> It is easy only to the extent that anyone could use their spontaneous
>>> notions of what is required.  If they are persistent and thorough they
>>>       
>> will
>>     
>>> end up with some conceptions regarding how certain mistakes might be
>>> avoided.  If they reflected on that process with equal thoroughness, then
>>> they might end up with some concepts with which to start the work all
>>>       
>> over
>>     
>>> again.
>>>
>>> So, no, it isn't easy.  And it isn't actually cheap either.
>>>
>>> Huw
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>>>> Greg
>>>>
>>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> On Mar 7, 2015, at 10:43 PM, Annalisa Aguilar <annalisa@unm.edu>
>>>>>           
>>> wrote:
>>>       
>>>>> Hi Andy,
>>>>>
>>>>> My apologies, I did not mean to sound suspicious, I sincerely thought
>>>>>           
>>>> you both had something in mind.
>>>>         
>>>>> The site you link to doesn't look like a garden to me. It looks like
>>>>>           
>> a
>>     
>>>> regular website.
>>>>         
>>>>> How about these links below?
>>>>>
>>>>> The 1st site might be a drupal site, Drupal has something called
>>>>>           
>>> "drupal
>>>       
>>>> planet" that will collect feeds, but I'm not sure how it works exactly.
>>>>         
>>>>> [A feed assembly site might be more like a garden? Then there is no
>>>>>           
>>> need
>>>       
>>>> for permissions, just program the newsfeed and it sucks in links from
>>>> various independent sites? Does wordpress do something like this?]
>>>>         
>>>>> The 2nd, 3rd, and 4th sites below are wordpress sites.
>>>>>
>>>>> The 5th is site is using Open Journal.
>>>>>
>>>>> Not sure what the 6th is, but I couldn't resist to see what a real
>>>>>           
>>>> garden website might look like!  :)
>>>>         
>>>>> http://www.knightfoundation.org/
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>> http://www.knightfoundation.org/blogs/knightblog/2015/3/5/four-knight-fellows-how-community-shapes-creativity/
>>     
>>>>> or
>>>>> https://sweden.se/
>>>>> https://sweden.se/society/gender-equality-in-sweden/
>>>>> or
>>>>> http://ilovetypography.com/
>>>>> http://ilovetypography.com/2014/10/15/the-first-female-typographer/
>>>>> or
>>>>> http://www.clouds365.com/
>>>>> http://www.clouds365.com/6-22-14/
>>>>> or
>>>>> http://www.haujournal.org/index.php/hau/issue/view/13
>>>>> http://www.haujournal.org/index.php/hau/article/view/hau4.3.002
>>>>>
>>>>> Of course, here is the bona fide garden site:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/
>>>>> http://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/sustainability/
>>>>>
>>>>> On that happy note...
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>
>>>>> Annalisa
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>>         
>>
>> --
>> Gregory A. Thompson, Ph.D.
>> Assistant Professor
>> Department of Anthropology
>> 880 Spencer W. Kimball Tower
>> Brigham Young University
>> Provo, UT 84602
>> http://byu.academia.edu/GregoryThompson
>>
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