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  2. demonstrates poor voter turnout not solved by fancy technology (to “engage the young people”) but by giving people a choice that they feel empowered by.

    Update: more electronic voting skepticism in this report (warning: PDF), also has interesting data on gender in voting.

  3. I love @allofbach but the website is not at all optimised for actually listening to/learning about the music. A potential redesign removes extraneous clicks and puts the focus completely on the music and performance:

    Additional possible improvements: link to wikipedia article, IMSLP page (e.g. BWV243)

  7. Eating inaugural new-apartment hot chocolate out of a jar, exhibits interesting elasticity gradient from near-liquid at the top to properly gelled at the bottom — possibly a result of the heat conducting properties of glass vs ceramic?

  10. ↪ Dan York: Questions About Known (@withknown) Platform, Webmentions and security / spam

    Webmention spam has already started to become a problem, especially thanks to Brid.gy’s backfeeding of twitter comments. For most of us it hasn’t yet been a big problem, but it inevitably will be in the future. There’s some ideas about potential spam prevention tools on the wiki: indiewebcamp.com/spam

  20. ↪ Kevin Marks: pondering webmentions of people with Aaron - it is tricky without a reader - should saying http://kevinmarks.com ping me?

    @kevinmarks depends if you want it to! I’d say yes, it’s analogous to a non-reply @mention on twitter. And whilst a reader w/ mentions feed+notifications is a good UI for consuming that data, you can have it on your own site too, e.g. aaronparecki.com/mentions, and even poll+post native OS notifications e.g.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYyNexN1qPA