One thing I shared from the Internet Phone Book in my post is this diagram that was put together by the two curator/editors of the book: Kristoffer Tjalve and Elliott Cost
It's a place to explore their thinking on curation and themes. There's a randomizer button at the bottom left that is worth a click or two.
I am going to start a personal inquiry project in 2026 with the Internet Phone Book as my guide, in hopes of finding interesting indie web sites. You can read what I hope to be up to here: https://dogtraxwrites.com/books/internet-phone-book-future-explorations-of-the-indie-web/ #clmooc #netnarr #ds106
I would like to say that if ever there was a project that resonates so well with the small web ethos of #DS106 and other web-adjacent projects (like #clmooc), the Internet Phone Book takes the cake. https://internetphonebook.net/ I have a hard copy and I am slowly diving in, nodding my head in affirmation of its celebration of independent web voices. (and thinking a lot of @cogdog and his continue mission to celebration many of the same concepts). I'm so glad projects like this still exist, you know?
to carry within us an orchard ...
-- Li-Young Lee, From Blossom
https://poets.org/poem/blossoms-0
Some of us bloom as flowers,
buds on a green stem,
with roots taken to soil
Succulent fruit, ripe
as rhymed words,
poems on branches of trees
Others of us wait in cold,
huddled up, battened down
for season's change
The pit we feel inside
our stomach may yet become
the seed of nourishment
A final #SmallPoems for Advent of Joy, with thanks to @deannamascle for her calendar of poetic paths #clmooc
RE: https://mastodon.social/@dogtrax/115751765781329135
This project just seems to get better and better. A year long reminder to stop and notice the colour of the roses. #clmooc create and collaborate.
long night once a year
marks celestial restart
weather lags behind
Thanks to @dogtrax.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy & #clmooc friends for this 2026 calendar. I used the 2025 one instead of buying one from the store.
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:43n5xrvtx47shgu4ugq6jr3n/post/3mag5svb3ks2v
And the video version of the #clmooc Calendar for 2026 (A Colorful Year)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSY04D_ibSU
@nomadwarmachine @wentale @cogdog @Algot @tellio @toddconaway @Sheri42
The #clmooc 2026 Calendar Collaboration is now live and available for free downloading or viewing. Fourteen of us spread out across the world contributed photos, artwork, and poetry.
Thx to Mastodon friends @nomadwarmachine @wentale @cogdog @Algot @tellio @toddconaway @Sheri42 and more
https://clmooc.com/clmooc-calendar-project-2026-a-colorful-year/
Heading into 2026 I hope to connect w people who share these interests: #tutor #mentor #tutormentor #youthdevelopment #workforcedevelopment #nonschoolhours #birthtowork #volunteer #complexproblems #socialcapital, #maps, #systemsthinking #leadership #clmooc #networkanalysis #conceptmaps
light snow gently falls,
coating the grass and sidewalks.
trucks spread salt freely.
scraping the windshield
after the full moon last night,
a winter event
@creating
#tdc5077 #ds106 #DailyCreate #clmooc
I do have something in mind for this prompt of messy imperfections but it is in another part of the house where someone is still sleeping so it will have to wait. I did enjoy the post by Sarah Leavitt, though.
Such as this:
"My guess is that the people you’ve met are one of the best things about your time with us. I hope you’ve found people who get you and your art, who support you and push you and celebrate you." -- Sarah Leavitt
We Don’t Need a New Internet. We Need to Leave the Silos.
https://wiobyrne.com/we-dont-need-a-new-internet/
via @Wiobyrne
"We lost interconnection across contexts. We traded curiosity for feeds. We let platforms become proxies for community. We shrank the web to a handful of apps.
The answer isn’t to burn it down. The answer is to walk outside again."
thirty degree chill
kept me under covers a
bit longer today
(I am up now with breakfast coffee at hand.)
