A Reading Plan: patrickrhone.net

@patrickrhone I like this and I'm totally going to copy it.

@patrickrhone we should start a micro.blog bookclub.

@kg Not a bad idea.

@patrickrhone @kg Kicking around thoughts about how that might work. What if there was a micro.blog account called, say, @MBbookclub. Would following it, and putting the @ in the text of any of your own posts about books, put those posts in the @MBbookclub timeline for other followers to see?

@tonybloggs @patrickrhone if we don’t call it micro.books we are leaving money on the table

@kg Haha! Not sure if you can have an @name with a period in it though?

@tonybloggs @patrickrhone more seriously we would ideally have a way to indicate a topic like a hashtag, is there an indieweb standard for this? Hashtags grew organically so maybe @micro or #micro.books would work.

@tonybloggs @patrickrhone since we all know @manton maybe we could make a feature request ;-)

@kg @tonybloggs Hmmm... All good ideas. But, let's trake a step back at what a book club is in the real world...

@kg @tonybloggs A group get's together and chooses a single book to read, then they gather together to discuss it...

@kg @tonybloggs So, to replicate that here, we'd need to discuss/decide what the book is, then, gather at a pre-determined future time to discuss... Just thinking through this.

@patrickrhone @kg @tonybloggs Love this discussion. I've been making some improvements to better support sharing book links from Goodreads on iOS. Both a traditional book club (everyone read the same thing) and just nice support for sharing book progress would be fun. One more idea: include the 📚 emoji and it works like a hashtag to gather posts together.

@manton @patrickrhone @tonybloggs as micro.blog is an aggregator in the classic sense of federating content from individual blogs I propose that we use the 📚 “hashmoji” to pick the book and arrange the date when everyone posts their thoughts.

@manton @patrickrhone @tonybloggs Then the 📚hashmoji can allow someone to partake in/follow the ongoing discussion.

@manton Can a tumblr be used to host a micro.blog?

@joecaiati Yes. Add the Tumblr RSS feed in Micro.blog on the web under Account → Edit Feeds. Your Tumblr posts will show up in the timeline.

@manton how do I do this with my WordPress website and Twitter?

@JeffPerry Add the WordPress feed under Account → Edit Feeds, which can also cross-post to Twitter, and check the settings in the iOS/Mac apps to post directly to WordPress.

@kg @manton I like the "hashmoji" term. Search found a hashing library that uses emoji which made me chuckle. 😊

@jthingelstad and here I thought I’d coined something novel.