Indieweb frustrations | x28's new Blog
After reading Downes’s critique, I understand now that a big part of my problem with IndieWeb is their concept of a post.| x28's new Blog
After reading Downes’s critique, I understand now that a big part of my problem with IndieWeb is their concept of a post.| x28's new Blog
4 posts published by Matthias Melcher during September 2025| x28's new Blog
This visualization experiment tries to show how my blog topics have changed during the last 21 years. Continue reading →| x28's new Blog
The plugin clearly makes non-fedi comments second class ‘citizens’ in the blogosphere, and pushes users towards the fediverse.| x28's new Blog
Someone hates pingback. I don't. Continue reading →| x28's new Blog
Recalling the pathway along an associative trail (finding the way back) helps avoiding the destructive kind of distractions and of getting bogged down by divergent thinking.| x28's new Blog
On a single page in an academic paper, space is just too scarce for ambitious overviews such as a meta-visualization of visualizations. Continue reading →| x28's new Blog
Viewing ‘intelligence’ as a variety rather than a measure or a binary.| x28's new Blog
For Kant’s 300th birthday today, I looked up some important ideas and their translations.| x28's new Blog
What personalized learning has in common with some productivity apps: a service interface.| x28's new Blog
Responding to this: “What is Digital Literacy? — What impact does digital literacy have on your personal, professional, and spiritual* life? (*However you interpret this.) — Who a…| x28's new Blog
Security is not a product that can be just sold and then be just consumed without much thinking. But the tension between dumbing down and responsible users, makes it difficult to design understanda…| x28's new Blog
Responding to: “Knowing what I know now, …, how would I run my own life?”| x28's new Blog
Talking about the cognition of plants and thermostats sounds a bit like a Humpty Dumpty word.| x28's new Blog
Punctuation may help quicker reading when it carries meaning, while harping on styles from the metal type era feels like unnecessary demonstration of ‘literacy’ or ‘erudition̵…| x28's new Blog
What kind of knowledge, understanding, and skills is necessary for people, jobs, and society, given that technology takes giant steps to compete with us in ever more aspects? I think it is the abil…| x28's new Blog
There is a paper talking about skills that are theoretical or intellectual vs. those that are practical and embodied. I partially agree.| x28's new Blog
