Mozilla Webmaker
A couple months ago @cogdog blogged about Digital Durability and the importance of controlling your own stuff on the web. He quoted @holden in saying
If you want someone to find something, don’t put it in one place — put it everywhere.
Alan put a bit of a challenge out for people to
[make] suggestions for exceptions to my assertion- show me an organization; an institution outside of the Internet Archive, that operates in a manner of preserving their digital history and/or produces durable digital content.
And, here is my example that does the opposite. It provides evidence that Alan is correct.
I've had an instance of @withknown running for a year or so, but it's been sitting, neglected, while I pay more attention to WordPress. But now, with a major career transition coming my way, quite unexpectedly, (more on that soon) I'm thinking more of Known as a great publishing platform, simply because it has 'put it everywhere' baked right in.
By publishing here, you can automatically publish 'everywhere'.
When I originally set up Known, I had an active page on Mozilla Webmaker, that handy little tool you could use to tinker with html and publish your page. Using Embedly, I was able to embed that page into the header of my Known site as my profile. It worked pretty nicely.
However, today when I went to sign in to edit my page at WebMaker, I got the notice that you see at the top of this page.
html lang="en-US" dir="ltr"> head> title>Colin Madland | Mere Learningtitle> meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"> meta property="og:description" content="An 'about me' page for Colin Madland."> meta property="og:image" content="http:// merelearning.ca/ wp-content/ uploads/ 2014/ 09/ colinbw.jpg"> meta property="og:site_name" content="Mozilla Webmaker"> meta property="og:title" content="Colin Madland | Mere Learning"> meta property="og:type" content="website"> meta property="og:updated_time" content="1427152598041"> meta property="og:url" content="https:/ / cmadland.makes.org/ thimble/ LTg1MDkxOTE2OA==/ colin-madland-mere-learning"> link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico"> link rel="stylesheet" href="/static/stylesheets/makedetails.css"> script src="https:/ / cdn.optimizely.com/ js/ 206878104.js">script> head> body> div class="make-details-page"> div class="make-bar"> div class="make-bar-wrapper"> span class="make-bar-logospan"> a class="make-bar-link" href="https:/ / webmaker.org"> img src="/static/images/logo_small.png" alt="Mozilla Webmaker"> a> span class="make-bar-made-with"> Made with a class="make-bar-link" href="https:/ / webmaker.org">Webmakera> - Unfortunately, we no longer support this tool, so your awesome project is no longer remixable. Have you tried the new a class="make-bar-link" href="https:/ / thimble.mozilla.org">Mozilla Thimblea>? span> span> div> div> div> div class="embed-container "> div class="embed-wrapper"> div class="embed-padding"> iframe class="embed-iframe" src="https:/ / cmadland.makes.org/ thimble/ LTg1MDkxOTE2OA==/ colin-madland-mere-learning_" mozallowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen allowfullscreen>iframe> div> div> div> script src="/static/bower/jquery/jquery.min.js">script> script src="/static/bower/webmaker-analytics/analytics.js">script> script src="/dynamic/js/googleanalytics.js">script> body> html>
Useless to me. The only reference to the original HTML is the link to the page, which, as we now know, is not editable.
So, I think Alan is correct:
And that everywhere should start with your own space. Because you care the most about your own stuff.
UPDATE: June 27/16
Alan pointed my in the direction of the page where I could copy the HTML for my Thimble page, so I followed the link, copied the code and have now got it hosted on my portfolio site. It is also embedded (via embed.ly) here in Known. Now, when I update the original page, those updates will be propagated throughout.
I wish I were not correct. I'd like to be more wrong.
Without knowing the ins and outs I too am disappointed that Mozilla orphaned old Thimble stuff. Well you can get to it, somewhere I was able to get to the old thimble to edit my stuff, though when I look now on their new site, it says my projects should be available but sadly they are not listed as promised under "my projects"
https:/ / learning.mozilla.org/ me
Oh wait here they are / thimble.webmaker.org/
https:/
it says they are migrating old projects over tomorrow, hah.
But I found your source, there is a URL in the page you tried for the iframe
https:/ / cmadland.makes.org/ thimble/ LTg1MDkxOTE2OA==/ colin-madland-mere-learning_
grab that HTML while you can!
And congrats on the new position, Brian told me a little about it.
Alan Levine, Jun 27 2016 on klown.cogdogblog.com