socialwg7-summary
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content: This post is my own opinion, and does not necessarily represent the opinion of the Social Web WG! We met in Lisbon, Portugal, during the last two days of the W3C's annual TPAC conference on the 22nd and 23rd of September. See also day 1 minutes and day 2 minutes. tl;dr It's crunch time, but we're on track. We have a selection of specifications which essentially cover creating content and then pinging people about it in various different ways. Many people in the group are using one or more of these specs to power their own personal online social stuff. There are so many more Social Web problems to solve, and we're just trying to dig some foundations and plant some posts in the ground to get everyone else started. Wednesday demos The first time the Social WG gathered last week was for an hour on Wednesday, to demo the products of all of our specs to the broader audience of TPAC attendees. We had a full house. Everything went smoothly, and our demos were fairly coherent. Aaron showed Micropub and Webmention working together in the context of posting a reply to his site (with Micropub), which automatically sent a Webmention to post he was replying to, and after a few seconds his reply showed up there (on the site of someone who isn't a WG member, and had implemented Webmention receiving independently). My site returns ActivityStreams 2.0 for everything when you request application/activity+json or application/ld+json, so I showed collections and individual objects at the commandline. Dumping a blob of JSON on the screen isn't a particularly compelling demo, but Chris was able to furnish me with a screenshot of his AS2 consumer, emacs-based, rendering one of my posts. Maybe you want to make an AS2 reader so you can design your own reading experience for my posts? Chris showed how he is able to create notes on his site using an emacs-based posting client, which prompts his server to send the message on to the inbox of anyone addressed, all using ActivityPub. Sarven showed…
name: 7th Social WG F2F Summary
published: 2016-10-15T18:41:00-07:00
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https-dream
type: Article
content: Woah woah woah! I just added an SSL certificate to my new Dreamhost account. Check this out: Click a button to turn https on under domain management. You get a self-signed cert, and a warning that this will generate warnings in browser. Click a button to switch it to a free LetsEncrypt cert. Profit. Beat that every other web host, I dare you.
generator: sloph
name: HTTPS: A dream with Dreamhost
published: 2016-10-30T22:26:00+09:00
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tag: dreamhost
tag: hacking
tag: https
tag: indieweb
tag: webhosting

japan-reviews
type: Article
content: Food in Kobe Modernark All vegetarian, mostly vegan, but many non-vegan desserts and drinks. Well labelled on the menu. I went here twice, once with a fairly big group of carnivores who were reasonably impressed or at least polite about it. It's open late which is a plus, has a nice atmosphere, and free wifi (you have to ask for the password, when I was there it was 88888888). They also sell some organic groceries, vegan cookies, etc. Food was delicious and portion sizes were reasonable. I tried the vegetarian plate (a selection of things), teriyaka wrap (contains wheat gluten and salad), and a curry and rice bowl. All dishes come with salads and soups. I also had a vegan lassi which was an unusual (but delicious) raspberry flavour, and coconut 'tiramisu' cake, which wasn't really like tiramisu, but was delicious anyway. Pricey in general, but average for the area. Natural House Food Court Tried to go here twice. The first time, though HappyCow says it's open until 2000, they told me they close at 1600. The grocery store part is open later, just not the restaurant. The second time I got there at about 1430 and they told me they'd sold out of curry. Oh well. Picked up some snacks from the store instead, which is extensive and healthy organic produce, though not cheap. Pink Weed All vegan, and proud. Loved this place, but maybe by this point the lack of options in Kobe was wearing on me. It's frustrating that it's only open for lunchtime. There's no wifi, but comfy seating and graphic novels and books to read. I went twice anyway and got a different lunch set each time. The curry was excellent, and more filling than it looked. The sandwich was interesting, I'm not sure what was in it, but it did the job. Accompanying salads and soups were great. I tried cheesecake and poundcake, and chai and iced black tea. Again, pricey in general but normal for this kind of place. It's also about a 15 minute walk from Sannomiya station, which is handy. Follow the trainline west (mou…
generator: sloph
name: Reviews make the world go round
published: 2016-11-04T18:06:00+09:00
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tag: food
tag: justgo
tag: kobe
tag: osaka
tag: reviews
tag: travel
tag: vegan
updated: 2016-11-22T10:28:00+09:00

new-amtrak-record
type: Article
content: So far I've met a leather-clad blues player called Jim and a lovely almost-80 year old lady called Glenda, who has been telling me about her various travel adventures. This is the tenth time Jim has made this journey, from Ohio to Arizona, and Glenda has been on the train since where it started in Chicago (she got off in Tuscon). During our four-hour layover in San Marcos I also met some early-twenties new army recruits, who invited me to go find a bar with them; I declined and stayed on the train to talk to Glenda instead. The majority of this journey has been through two nights, but the daytime took us through Texan desert, including Marfa (where a bunch of famous movies including No Country For Old Men) were filmed. Valentine, where there's an art exhibition which is a replica of a Prada shop (complete with the latest shoes and purses), and not much else. Sierra Blanca, where the main economy is United States Border Patrol. The Mexican border, inclusive of small wall. One of the train crew is helpfully providing commentary. And plenty of desert brush and interesting mountains. Apparently passed close enough to the Mexican border that Three have charged me now almost £25 for data not included in my free roaming. Including around £15 during a period of time when I disabled the SIM completely to stop this from happening any more. Hopefully they'll give me a refund. I wasn't even using the phone, it was just background activity. Sigh. Finally left Texas for a stint through New Mexico. Things started to get greener once we were in Arizona. After watching the sunset over Tuscon (and a couple of movies) I went to sleep. I woke up a few hours later, over an hour early, in LA.
name: New Amtrak record: 37 hours through the Wild West
published: 2016-10-14T11:14:00-07:00
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tag: travel
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october-in-review
type: Article
content: This was going to be a week in review, but then I realised I hadn't done one for a while. Week 1: 3-9 Had my last couple of days at MIT Got rid of everything I couldn't fit into two backpacks (or thereabouts) Week 2: 10-16 Went to Austin for a few days Took the train to LA for the weekend Flew to Osaka Worked on getting LDN CR-ready once and for all. Caught up on some bugfixes for Sloph Got started on a workshop proposal for WWW Week 3: 17-23 Hung around ISWC in Kobe for a week. Climbed a small mountain. Worked on adding literature to a submission for WWW I'd ultimately miss the deadline for. Got the SocialWG approval to take LDN to CR. Worked on the WWW workshop proposal. Finally published PubSub as a FPWD. Spent some time touristing and eating in Osaka. Week 4: 24-30 Moved onto my brother's floor, in Nerima just outside Tokyo. Continued improving the WWW workshop proposal. Did a bunch of work on the new Linked Research site. Still working on new issues being opened on LDN, mostly editorial. W3C admin stuff to do with the LDN CR and Webmention PR. Had a couple of not-really-get-out-of-bed days. Today is one of them, but my brain is finally coming online around 5pm. Learnt enough kanji to start grocery shopping (soy bean, meat, fish, egg, dairy). Explored a few areas of Tokyo, including: Roppongi, which has lots of fancy pants art and a big park and two excellent vegan restaurants. Shiodome, which I went to for the advertising museum, but it was closed. Wandered around some of the giant mall buildings, and stumbled into the viewing area of the 46th floor of the Caretta, which is surprisingly free. The turbo lifts are super fast. There's also wifi and power. Unfortunately there's also an steady influx of tourists, but maybe it's not a bad place to work. Walked through the Imperial Palace grounds, just as everything was closing so I only got to go around the edge. TODO: PhD thesis PhD thesis PhD thesis PhD thesis PhD thesis PhD thesis PhD thesis PhD thesis PhD thesis …
generator: sloph
name: October in review
published: 2016-10-30T16:56:00+09:00
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vegan-mayo-in-japan
type: Article
content: I read online that it was surprisingly easy to get vegan mayo in Japan, and that it's much better than its US or European counterparts. So I set out on a quest. Armed with the kanji for tamago, I spent upwards of 20 minutes squinting at dozens of ingredients lists on mayo packs at two different supermarkets. I first searched for the brand I'd seen online, and found one, and it said egg on it... but in red... did that mean it was saying it didn't contain egg? Was it talking about how bad egg is? Then I found one that said in english 'olive oil mayo' on it, but on a second reading I found egg in what looked to probably be an ingredients list. I was gradually noticing patterns, and getting the hang of where to look for ingredients and allergy information. I was almost ready to give up, when I picked up one of the really common seemingly cheap brands (Kewpie) and started reading... and where most brands list egg, soy bean, and katakana my brother later identified as 'apple' (I'm not convinced, need to get J to confirm) in their allergy list, this one only listed the latter two! I re-read the whole pack twice, scouring for tamago and didn't find it. Delighted, I flipped it back over... and saw "NO EGG ADDED" in English, plus a big picture of an egg with a cross through it. But the point is, I practiced my kanji pattern matching. And now I have mayo. And it is better than any I've had in the US or UK.
name: Vegan mayo in Japan
published: 2016-10-28T19:05:00+09:00
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tag: japan
tag: mayo
tag: travel
tag: vegan

anonymous-cowards
type: Article
content: How do I know the reviewers are experts? I don't know who they are. I know the context and background of my facebook friends, I can critically interpret their replies. The reviewers are anonymous. They're people who had some time, just barely, probably during a commute or on the toilet. Or who owed someone a favour. I've reviewed papers, usually having been asked to by the person who was supposed to be reviewing, about topics I barely know. I think: "it's okay, the other reviewers will swing it if I'm wrong." ...
generator: sloph
name: Why is three positive conference reviews more reassuring than one thousand facebook comments?
published: 2016-11-04T16:02:00+0900
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tag: academia
tag: linked+research
tag: publishing
tag: social+media

decentralising-social-tokyo
type: Article
content: This is what I talked about at the W3C TAG developer summit in Tokyo tonight. 東京で2016年11月3日にて開催されたW3C TAGデベロッパー・サミットにて話した内容となります。 I am one of the staff contacts for the W3C Social Web WG. I also co-edit a couple of specs in the group, and procrastinate from finishing my PhD thesis by implementing the group's specs as part of my own website. まずは自己紹介から、 W3C Social Webワーキンググループのコンタクトを務めています。また、そのワーキンググループにていくつかの仕様についても共同編集者をしてたりもします。そのグループの仕様を自分のサイトへの実装がPhDの論文がなかなか終わらない理由だったりします。 I'm a strong believer in owning your online presence and social data on the Web. What this means (to me) is: making data accessible through a URL that you have authority over - either you own it and host it yourself, or someone you trust does. It also means having control and choice over how and when you express yourself; working against censorship and being free to share as much - or as little - about yourself as you want. This is particularly important when we think about a how social networking works today. Big systems like twitter and facebook - silos - are hoarding the data, and creative, expressive content, and livelihoods, of millions of people. And they're mining it and using it in ways that most people are completely unaware of. If twitter goes down tomorrow - and it could, they just shut down Vine - what happens to your history and interactions? We have this huge hoard of collective digital history that we, as societies, have aggregated over the last decade, and we just gave it right up. The culture of a generation is completely out of the hands of the people who created it, and who it's important to. This could disappear at the whim of an investor, or a glitch in a data center. 私は自分自身のオンラインにおけるプレゼンスとソーシャル・データを所有することについて、強い信念を持っています。(自分にとって)どういう意味を持つか、というと、自分がオーソリティを持っている(たとえば自分自身が所有しているか、あるいは自分が信頼する誰かが所有しているような)URLからデータをアクセス可能にすることを意味します。また同じく自分自身がどう表現させるかについて制御したり、選択したりできることも含んでいます。検閲から逃れたり、自分自身のことをどれだけでも多く、もちろん少なくでも自由に共有できることも大切です。 現在ソーシャルネットワークサービスを鑑みると、非常に重要なことだと考えています。TwitterやF…
generator: sloph
name: Decentralising the Social Web in Tokyo
published: 2016-11-02T19:28:00+09:00
tag: decentralisation
tag: social+web
tag: socialwg
tag: tokyo
tag: w3c

deep-fried-soy
type: Article
content: One of the things I've loved at vegan restaurants in Japan is deep fried soy meat. Most have it, and meat-eaters I've dined with have compared it favourably to fried chicken or other meat. It's crunchy and juicy and just really super satisfying. So naturally I decided to make my own. As usual, the following image sums up my cooking style: And as usual, I googled it a bit, skimmed a couple of articles or recipes, and then closed everything and jumped in working on Web-refreshed instincts. Well, first I went to Seiyu and bought soy meat (obviously) and katakuriko, a potato starch that I'd read was much better than using normal wheat flour. I found it by screenshotting a google image search result and searching the supermarket to match the kanji on packaging. In case you were interested. I marinated the soy meat in soy sauce, ginger paste, garlic paste, and sesame oil for about 20 minutes. I deep fried some potatoes in the mean time, because I read somewhere you are supposed to fry vegetables before using the oil for meat or something. Also because I love fried potato. Then I rolled the soy meat in the katakuriko until it had a thin coating. Then I deep fried it. Success! This was delicious. The chunks weren't as big as the ones I've had in restaurants, but that's all Seiyu have. It was so good I'd already eaten half before it even occurred to me to reach for the mayonnaiase. While I was at it, I did the same with some thin slices of konnyaku. Also successful, though not quiet as delicious. I think I should have probably made an effort to make a thick, consistent coating of flour.
generator: sloph
name: Deep fried soy meat
published: 2016-11-11T20:00:00+09:00
tag: food
tag: japan
tag: vegan
tag: soy

dentist-tokyo
type: Article
content: aka. The Tooth Hurts aka Visting a dentist as a foreigner in Tokyo, Japan, since I need a more SEO friendly header After minor face explosion due to wisdom teeth over the weekend, I eventually decided I should go see a dentist rather than try to wait it out until after my upcoming trip to the US. I am extremely thankful to Mike and Nao for taking me to their local dentist, and translating forms and conversation for me. It's nice to have W3C family all over the world :) We dropped by about 3.30 in the afternoon, without calling ahead, and I was seen within about five minutes, after filling in (or mostly, as it was all in Japanese, Nao filling in) a form. They estimated the prices upfront (without being asked) and to check that I was okay with it, promising for sure less than 10,000 JPY. This is about what I expected following extensive googling yesterday. First was an xray. The xray machine played like 8bit elevator music, and I had to stop myself from laughing. Then some waiting around, and then I was seated in a dentist chair. Then more waiting around. Everything seemed to happen at a very leisurely pace, but staff were friendly and smiley and chatty (in Japanese). The dentist talked to Nao for ages while I was in the chair, and Nao periodically gave me one-sentence summaries. I was reminded of the "moar... intensity" scene in Lost in Translation, and again had to stop myself from giggling. The xray was produced, and I got a detailed explanation of everything wrong with my wisdom teeth. My left side is infected right now, but the right side is just as at risk. The dentist noted that were she to be removing them, she'd take the top ones first. She showed me the best angle at which to clean the emerging tooth, and put some gel on it. She produced antibiotics and very strong painkillers. Yay! And if I'm still in pain on Thursday, I'm to go back. This came to 7,790 JPY - less than expected, though not something I had budgeted for. I'm going to see if I can claim any of…
generator: sloph
name: An Inconvenient Tooth
published: 2016-11-07T18:03:00+09:00
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tag: health
tag: japan
tag: justgo
tag: life
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gyoza
type: Article
content: J taught me to make gyoza today. We even found soy meat in Seiyu (Walmart/Asda). The gyoza wrappers are on the top shelf in a fridge full of packaged meat. It never would have occurred to me to look for them there. The soy meat was not dry, but in a packet of liquid, and needed draining. All of the vegetables get finely chopped and mixed together, plus ginger paste, garlic paste, and sesame oil. Add filling to skin, wet around the edges, fold, squeeze, crimp. Ta da! And fry. And dip! In a mixture of soy sauce, vinegar, and chilli oil. Delicious!
generator: sloph
name: Gyoza
published: 2016-11-05T22:31:00+09:00
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tag: food
tag: gyoza
tag: japanese
tag: recipe
tag: tokyo
tag: vegan
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some-questions
type: Article
content: How do we get people to mistrust the media? How do we get people to take context into account? Are food bloggers the bane of professional chefs? How do I prove I know what I'm talking about? How do I know I know what I'm talking about? Why would anyone care what I think? Should I publish it anyway? Why is three positive conference reviews more reassuring than one thousand facebook comments? What will I do when the Web runs out? What comes after? Where can I hide?
generator: sloph
name: Some questions
published: 2016-11-04T15:53:00+0900
tag: existentialism
tag: life
tag: politics
tag: publishing
tag: web

the-virtue-of-paywalls
type: Article
content: Gatekeepers are required in academic publishing to enforce quality, coherance and to lend authority. When anyone can publish anything, as is the case on the Web today, lies and misinformation spread much faster than the truth. People publish opinions as facts, distorted interpretations of data, make general statements based on samples and take things out of context. Academia is better than this. We value scientific rigour. We value evidence for claims, and repeatability of experiments. Nothing is more important to us than seeking the truth, whole and unbiased. Except tenure or grant funding. People all over the world write about their experiences, but these are anecdotal. If I want to understand a topic, I read about it in an established journal or conference proceedings. I can tell it's reliable because I have to log in from behind my institution's IP address to access it. It's great that the taxpayers generously cover the cost for me to access material that most of them can't. Not that they want to. The general public, and even our world leaders, are skeptical of 'experts'. Despite the fact that we have devoted our lives to specialising in one topic so we can understand it to its fullest, so that others don't have to. They deried us as 'out of touch'. Meanwhile continuing to proliferate their gut feelings on social media, spreading nonsense, missing nuance. It's a good job we can rely on our trusty paywalls to keep the real knowledge separate from all of that.
generator: sloph
name: The Virtue of Paywalls
published: 2016-11-04T16:37:00+09:00
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tag: linked+research
tag: open+access
tag: paywalls
tag: publishing

vegan-in-tokyo
type: Article
content: Being vegan in Japan is this emotional rollercoaster, being stuck between the two extremes of hunger-weighted frustration that there's nothing to eat, and wallet-weighted frustration that there are too many good things all in one place all at the same time, which are all really expensive. Groceries A lot of Japanese food is vegan by default, including loads of desserts made from rice (mochi!), tofu, or agar agar. A lot is mostly vegan. In the latter case, restaurants either can't or won't substitute ingredients upon request, if they understand what you're asking. Plus things that look vegan probably have secret fish in. Similarly, grocery shopping is fine; buying staples is easy. But there are loads of super interesting looking unfamiliar things that I want to eat but I don't know what they are... they're probably soy, or vegetable, or seaweed, or bean... but I can't be sure. I carried around a list of all the kanji I needed to look for to read ingredients lists, but this is exhausting enough in English. First I googled the problem, and found pictures of things that the internet said are definitely vegan, and hunted some of those down. This includes this brand of soy milk, and these azduki bean ice creams: // Todo photos Then I obtained the services of my brother's Japanese girlfriend, J, and took her grocery shopping so I could point at things and ask what they are. I got all sorts of treats (descriptions on hover): <img class="w1of2" src="https://i.amy.gy/2016tokyo/IMG_20161101_144158.jpg" alt="Flavoured savoury silken tofu. This one is mushroom and pine. I also tried edamame. I tried spreading it on bread, but J told me it is to be eaten with a spoon, with soy sauce." title="Flavoured savoury silken tofu. This one is mushroom and pine. I also tried edamame. I tried spreading it on bread, but J told me it is to be eaten with a spoon, with soy sauce." /> <img class="w1of2" src="https://i.amy.gy/2016tokyo/IMG_20161105_123040.jpg" alt="Soy meat. In Seiyu, it comes in…
generator: sloph
name: Vegan in Tokyo
published: 2016-11-20T14:28:00+09:00
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tag: justgo
tag: kamakura
tag: kerela+bhuvan
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tag: veganic
updated: 2016-11-20T14:28:00+09:00

week-in-review-1
type: Article
content: Copypasted results from #ownYourData paper into thesis chapter 3, and edited and added to other bits already in chapter 3. Helped transition LDN to CR and Webmention to PR. Published two WD updates to Social Web Protocols. Went to an Onsen. Learnt to count to ten in Japanese whilst waiting for the bus. Only the basic numbers though. There are whole different sets of words if you're counting something specific like people or things. Obviously. Gave a lightning talk at the W3C TAG Developer Meetup about some of the work the Social Web WG is doing. Fixed my homepage AS2 output (it's still not perfect, but it had disappeared completely for a while). Learnt to make gyoza.
generator: sloph
name: Week in review: 31 Oct - 6 Nov
published: 2016-11-06T23:59:00+09:00
tag: japan
tag: life
tag: phd
tag: week+in+review

week-in-review-2
type: Article
content: Went to a Japanese dentist Outlined chapter 5 of thesis Started to make chapter 1 (intro) make more sense. Fixed more sloph bugs. Went to Kamakura to see temples and statues and stuff. Existed through the potential beginning of the end of the western world as we know it. Worked from the W3C office at Keio University Added ActivityPub terms to the AS2 namespace and made the human readable version. Went to Kawagoe with Dave and J, ate lots of sweet-potato based foods.
generator: sloph
name: Week in review: 7 - 13 Nov
published: 2016-11-13T23:59:59+09:00
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