Paul Jacobson

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  • How to send a Webmention in comments?

    How to send a Webmention in comments?

    I’ve had Webmentions enabled on this site for some time now. Sending a Webmention is pretty straightforward thanks to plugins like Webmention for WordPress and Semantic-Linkbacks. The question is how to send Webmentions in comments when someone replies to one of my posts? 🤔 I reached out to Chris Aldrich on Twitter, and he pointed…

  • A feed reader that lets me comment and like?

    A feed reader that lets me comment and like?

    I use Feedly to subscribe to sites that I follow. I was just reading through some of the feeds, and I realised that I don’t seem to have a way to give feedback on posts, from Feedly. For example, if I read something that I like, I’d like to, well, “Like” the post, or leave…

  • How Instapaper could be an even better research tool

    How Instapaper could be an even better research tool

    I love Instapaper. It is my “read it later” app and, increasingly, one of my favorite research tools too. I had an idea for how it can be better for research and thought I’d explain how.

  • How Instapaper made me cry big tears of joy

    How Instapaper made me cry big tears of joy

    I use Instapaper every day and the day the app was updated to add highlights was a very happy one. Today’s update adds, among other things, notes that sync! Yes, Instapaper made me cry big tears of joy today. Annotate your Instapaper articles with Notes, now available on Instapaper 6.4! http://t.co/JATwoDQYDF — Instapaper (@instapaper) June 4, 2015…

  • Google+ fundamentally isn't about social or people

    I’m reading Om Malik’s interesting article titled “One diabetic’s take on Google’s Smart Contact Lenses” and his assessment of Google+ stood out for me: Google+, their social network, is a fail because it fundamentally isn’t social or about people — it is an effort to solve Google’s need for social data for better advertising using…

  • The stupid things some atheists come up with

    I am constantly amazed that some (not all) atheists come up with particularly short-sighted, superficial and even downright stupid comments when talking about an issue that has a religious aspect. I’ve spent a little time thinking about day to day religious practices and customs and what I’ve noticed is that many of them serve a…