I suspect these are simple bluetooth low energy beacons.  Will find out more on my next visit.  I have to wonder about the cost-benefit of these.  It seems like you should already have a regular schedule for cleaning.  So that leaves out-of-band events.  Seems like a sign with a phone number for call/text would have worked as well...

End of day #1 with Known.  I'm quite pleased with the results.

Good Stuff

• brid.gy is awesome.  Having +1's, likes and comments consolidated is so nice.
• Webhooks!  I'm thinking of writing one to automatically archive pages to archive.org.
• PuSH appears to be fully working.  Again, could extend things there..
• Google+ renders images well.
• The editor saves drafts.
• Lightweight page editor should be useful.
• AMP support is there (add ?_t=amp to any page)  Some validation issues, but works.
• Real anchor tags and hyperlinks.  No more writing [1] [2] in posts with multiple links (like lynx)

Rough Edges

• The built-in Photo type doesn't send the permalink to Twitter, so now I have a weird post without context.  Flickr, Facebook working perfectly, might try another setting.
• I need to get to writing a Google+ outbound connector.  I'm doing those by hand now.
• TInyMCE sucks.  It has always sucked!  If only Medium would open source their editor.  At least markdown is an option.
• Looks like syndicated Google+ links are using profiles.google.com instead of plus.google.com.
• Some profile pics cloned from G+ are coming back with size 0.  This shows as broken images.
• Long status posts have extra long permalink URLs.
• Built-in analytics are weak.  Would rather avoid using GA for that.
• Limited import options.  Will need to convert Typepad export file to Wordpress format.
• Bulleted lists line-height is tight, tight, tight.

Overall I'm pretty happy and excited about getting more content in place.

And who knew that a post on SSL/TLS certs would be soooo exciting?

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Look at that upstream rate from the KMTel's (http://kmtel.com) $45 fiber plan.

... as I sit here with 20% Comcast packet loss on my 30/7 for double the money.

An interesting article about this phenonemom:

http://www.yesmagazine.org/new-economy/tired-of-waiting-for-corporate-high-speed-internet-minnesota-...

This is an experiment.  Can I take control of my online life and move it to a place where I have more control?  Can I pull my content out of multiple silos?  And can I import existing content from other platforms and keep it (somewhat) synced over time so I have a full record of my public online life?

We're going to find out..

The trigger for me was an article about my early days working with the Internet Gopher Community.  I had saved most of the email from back then and it was quite easy to reconstruct and remember what happened.  I don't think I'll have the luxury for much of what's happening recently.  The digital ephemera is spread out too far and wide to reconstruct and reflect.

To get there I'm experimenting with the hosted version of Known, a publishing platform that supports the things that matter to me.  I like that it's open source, interoperable and respectful of human effort -- it also supports a number of Indieweb technologies out of the box like WebMention, and brid.gy to pull back content from the Silos.

So.. you're going to see more content in more places as I'll be syndicating out to Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Google+.  And I'll be sharing more as I document this process.

Silos by Doc Searls / CC BY 2.0

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