2016/Brighton/beyondstreams

 Beyond the Stream  was a session at IndieWebCamp Brighton 2016.

Notes archived from: https://etherpad.indieweb.org/beyondstreams

Participants

 * adactio.com
 * tantek.com
 * aaronpk.com
 * sgreger
 * jkphl
 * petermolnar
 * ... add yourself

Summary

 * last post in several categories
 * most minimal: just your most recent post (glennjones) at the top

Linear

 * grouped by category
 * list of things found by related tags/content
 * "algorithm" time-ish ordered subset. some items from the recent past.

Linear Clustered

 * calendar view, e.g. aaronpk's year achives: aaronpk.com/2016

Two Dimensional

 * on a map

axes

 * time - stream, calendar, streamgraph, sparklines
 * location - maps, streamgraph
 * content - show related posts, group by subject of photo, tag cloud, pinned post, highlighted select few posts, popularity

adactio
everything shows up in main stream

aaronpk

 * home page is some automatic filtering of post types, but any post can be promoted to the home page manually
 * shows the last sleep, last food, last photo, and next event
 * https://aaronparecki.com/2016 and https://aaronparecki.com/2016/09 - calendar style view of posts

tantek

 * I don't want to mess with the timeline so I don't include the future on my home page
 * future-dated posts do not appear on the home page, but can be seen at their URL and can be navigated to with the "next" button

sgreger

 * sidebar is algorithmically curated (never have more than 3 bookmarks)
 * intent is the stream on the left is related to the permalink being viewed

glenn

 * displays only the last post on the home page
 * a very strong entrance
 * if the latest post is an article, it does not show up here

flickr

 * time-ordered both by photo taken and photo uploaded
 * grouped by category/content "magic view"
 * map view

is time the ultimately best solution to organize a site

 * most indieweb sites are organized along a time line
 * historically, indieweb has been looking at the silos and recreating the experience
 * but more and more silos are moving away from chiefly timeline (though still mostly based on time)
 * alternative approach: organizing by content topics
 * one of the challenges of indieweb sites compared to silos is that we do not know our audience (no "following" feature)
 * idea: recreate the silo experience by e.g. creating a cookie and offering on next visit primarily what the user consumed last time
 * risk of a filter bubble, but could be made visible in the UI
 * adactio: "the problem is not the filter bubble, it's that it is opaque"
 * aaronpk: the issue might be best solved by a reader?
 * could it be some interactive element

other relevant notions
there are also other ways to push relevant posts to readers (re: glenn's "last post only" approach
 * pinned posts
 * "my most popular posts"
 * "on this day last year"
 * filter bubble reversed: randomness

other non-linear ideas

 * streamgraph: http://benjaminbenben.com/2012/11/04/lastfm-canvas-streamgraph/
 * http://feltron.com/2014
 * tag - location correlance ( which tags are common in which locations )

other notes
solution for former website snapshotting: http://wkhtmltopdf.org/docs.html

( subnote: run as /usr/bin/xvfb-run -- /usr/bin/wkhtmltoimage --height Y --width X --format png http://domain.com out.png )

readers
aaronpk: As a vegetarian, I don't want to see all of adactio's photos of fish, but I do want to see his other photos

Woodwind.xyz is a reader

tantek: I want to build the notebook from Adjustment Bureau as my reader:
 * http://tantek.com/2011/087/t5/future-probability-tree-adjustment-forking-paths

(x-axis is time, y-axis represents packed location using various algorithms; the length of the lines in y-direction represent the distance traveled?)

http://benjaminbenben.com/2012/11/04/lastfm-canvas-streamgraph