appearances

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appearances is a page on some IndieWeb sites that lists external pages and media that mention or include the author or something they created in some form, by name, image or other likeness, an interview or quotes therefrom, photos or other media by the author perhaps as part of larger piece of content such as a news article.

If you’re looking for the general topic of visual appearance (of web sites & pages), see:

design

IndieWeb Examples

Aaron Parecki

Aaron Parecki has:

Tantek

Tantek Çelik has an appearances page at:

https://tantek.com/appearances.html
Previously:
- some interviews (old links) at: http://tantek.com/w/TantekInterviews (redirects to / hosted on PBWorks)

Matthias Pfefferle

Matthias Pfefferle has:

podcast appearances at: https://notiz.blog/podcasts/ and
public speakings: https://notiz.blog/speaking/

... add yourself

Add yourself here… (see this for more details)

Silo Examples

Tantek Çelik uses a "press" tag on his photos posted on Flickr to show a list of his Creative Commons licensed photos that have been published in online press articles: https://flickr.com/photos/tantek/tags/press
...

Broad Meaning

In practice, IndieWeb sites include different sets of things at "appearances" pages, from narrow to broad. There is not strict definition of what is considered an "appearance" or not, though there are plenty of possibilities and opinions on the matter.

See the What is an appearance or not brainstorming section for more thoughts (and add your own).

Brainstorming

What is an appearance or not

Thoughts on what belongs in an appearances summary and what belongs elsewhere.

Ask yourself: are you the subject or are you the speaker/writer?

One measure: if you're the subject, then it's an appearance, if you're the speaker/writer, then it's a primary work and belongs on a different page.

Examples of appearances:

interviews (regardless of medium, written, audio/video/podcast)
documentaries that include your likeness (interviews are a form of this)
films (not created by you) where you are a subject, an actor, or even as yourself (e.g. your IMDB page, the "Known for:" section)
media (book, magazine, newspaper, livestream) mentions/clips of you, your work/inventions, or quotations/excerpts from your work
use of your photography as a featured photo, or the photo of the subject of an article
...

Things that sound like or literally seem like "appearances" but are not in this meaning of the term and belong on a different page (noted inline)

speaking, e.g. panels, talks, other presentations
- panel participation — whether on a podcast or on a stage
- invited keynotes at conferences, and even conferences organized
  - these belong in their own "events" summary / pages, not "appearances".
  - Exception: a conference talk where you yourself were the subject, e.g. you were being interviewed, that would count as an appearance.
rsvps-page] events that you attended, i.e. put in an appearance
performances
- musical or other performances, e.g. singing karaoke
bibliography: writings like books, magazine/news articles, or editing thereof, e.g.
portfolio works: artworks, drawings, sketches, photography
- Examples: portfolio#Indieweb_Examples
projects, inventions, other science — separate page
- Example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_and_inventions_of_Leonardo_da_Vinci

How to organize

What are good ways to organize the items on an appearances page?

Timeline:

Strictly date-time / timeline?
Most recent first or oldest first?

Clustered by type of appearance then time-ordered? E.g.

interviews
talks given
use of photos in publications
quotes/references in publications

Do different media/events or significance deserve different lists? E.g.

Talks:

in-person talks vs online talks (webinars?)
lightning / Ignite talks vs 45-90 minute talks vs longer masterclasses or workshops?
keynote talks vs parallel track talks
clustered by conferences then timeline ordered, or a timeline of all talks across conferences

Type vs medium:

podcast interview vs podcast guest (panelist)

Interviews:

audio/video interviews separate from written interviews
podcast (as part of a series of interviews of other people) appearances separate from a standalone audio/video interview
"continuous" / conversational (or edited to seem)
disjoint Q&A style but still with complete / relatively unedited whole sentences/paragraphs
excerpts / rephrased sentences or sentence fragments
solo, or as part of a small group, or interspersed with others
incidentally as part of or to help substantiate a larger article or book

Media:

print media vs online news articles
books vs magazines vs newspapers
links to your site
links to specific pages
only name mention
only a photo of you
embedding of a photo that you took

Possible approaches:

Maybe keep track of all appearances with all such attributes in a collection, then use that to curate a particular presentation on an /appearances page.

Tantek organizing thoughts

Tantek Çelik: considering a couple of approaches, for both sustainable capturing & archive, and presenting useful summaries.

archive all appearances by year, time ordered, perhaps in a single static file, strictly time ordered for ease of discovery/navigation and relating time-adjacent appearances. Consider this canonical storage of this information.
summary /appearances page with deliberate time-ordered subsections based on the some of the above questions, the sections themselves time-ordered inside, and deliberately ordered on the page from most prominent/notable to least, omitting old/out-of-date/minimal appearances

This way it's easy to add occurrences when they’re found, into a canonical spot for storage/archival, and there is quite a bit of freedom to curate, redesign, a summary of appearances.

List of things I’m thinking of including:

interviews
photography used in news articles
notable 3rd person mentions of self, site, or personal projects
...

What goes in other sections. The following things, though "appearances" of a sort, are too close to primary source material to really be included in an "appearances" summary (or archives) and thus are either omitted, or in their own sections

presentations — have their own path/section
conference talks (both invited, and BarCamp-style sessions) — like presentations
events organized or attended — also a separate summary static file of h-events

Things that belong in a separate bibliography, perhaps both as a top level /bibliography summary, and collected/archived per year. These things that are primary source material even if edited, curated, hosted, or owned by external parties/sites:

books or magazine articles written, co-authored, contributed to, edited (typically owned/distributed by publishers)
news articles written, co-authored, contributed to — again owned/edited by external party/site
papers published in academic journals