Dries/Drupal/Markdown/RSS
Dries Buytaert posted about tweaking his personal website to output Markdown. He made it discoverable by bots and crawlers, minimally, and was surprised to find immediate discovery.
He “borrowed” a feature from RSS:
But how did those crawlers find the Markdown version so fast? I borrowed a pattern from RSS: RSS auto-discovery. Many sites include a link tag with rel=”alternate” pointing to their RSS feed. I applied the same idea to Markdown: every HTML page now includes a link tag announcing that an alternative Markdown version exists at the .md URL
Dave Winer should read this. Not being a voluble blogger, I’m not sure how to let him know. Email’s probably best, at least for now.
Dries uses Drupal, of course, for his blog, and outputs Markdown internally.
Cognitive Reboot
I’m looking vigorously at Joan Westenberg’s Cognitive Reboot. Basically, it’s a way to wean your mind off digital shit, make room for deeper thinking and mind work, making time for reflection and slower expression, like reading physical books and writing with pen and paper. I’ll write about it here, but much of that will be private.