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roam.elaptics.co.uk roam.elaptics.co.uk
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Gall’s Law, which states that a complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. Contrast this with a complex system designed from scratch, which never works and cannot be patched up to make it work.
Gall's Law: Working complex systems invariably evolve from simple systems which actually worked.
It is rare to find working complex systems designed from scratch. They rarely work and are incredibly difficult to patch to make them work.
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dev.authorbuzz.co.uk dev.authorbuzz.co.uk
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movement-ontology.brandazzle.net movement-ontology.brandazzle.net
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https://movement-ontology.brandazzle.net/docs/introduction/#how-do-i-use-it
Built using Markdown text files and PDFs using Obsidian, versioned through GitHub, and connected to a website through Netlify and Peter Yuen's Zola site project.
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castopod.org castopod.org
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Open source software for podcasting.
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world.hey.com world.hey.com
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twitter.com twitter.com
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I need to #indieweb my photos though
<script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>A real shame for what it’s now become, I’ve stopped uploading a while ago and stopped paying when they doubled the price - I wasn’t getting any value out of it. I need to #indieweb my photos though
— Serdar Kiliç (@serdar) March 18, 2022Use of IndieWeb as a verb in the wild.
The only older use I can think of is "indiewebify" stemming from the website https://indiewebify.me.
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twitter.com twitter.com
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Anything’s a CMS if you indieweb it hard enough!
<script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>Anything’s a CMS if you indieweb it hard enough!<br><br>This is super cool.
— MWDelaney (@MichaelWDelaney) March 19, 2022Use of IndieWeb as a verb in the wild.
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search.marginalia.nu search.marginalia.nu
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A search engine for IndieWeb sites.
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www.youtube.com www.youtube.com
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTSEr0cRJY8
Starts out with four and a half minutes of anti-crypto and Web3 material. Presumably most of her audience is in the web3 space.
http://youvegotkat.neocities.org
Neocities: http://neocities.org
The Yesterweb: http://yesterweb.org
Marginalia Search: https://search.marginalia.nu/explore/random
It [the IndieWeb] is so so queer. Like it's super gay, super trans, super good.
The indie web also questions tech solutionism which often attempts to solve human problems by removing the human element. But easily the most remarkable and powerful thing about the internet is the ability it has to connect us with one another.
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web3.14159.site web3.14159.sitewebπ1
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https://web3.14159.site/
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www.cs.umd.edu www.cs.umd.edu
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A key issue is the role of empathic communications in forming trusting relationships (Pr eece, 1998).
It's depressing to see that this fundamental problem of the early web seemingly has seen almost no progress in almost a quarter of a century.
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Genex: A generator of excellence The four foundational beliefs lead to a model of creativity with four phases and therefore four categories of tools. I hope this framework (Table 1) aids designers in building genexes that will enable creative individuals in many domains to: - collect information from an existing domain of knowledge, - create innovations using advanced tools, - consult with peers or mentors in the field, and then - disseminate the results widely.
Given these criteria for requisite tools of a genex, I can certain create a case that the IndieWeb community is doing most of these fairly well with respect to their domain of interest.
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www.amitgawande.com www.amitgawande.com
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https://www.amitgawande.com/2018/07/18/223800.html
Details for adding date/time microformats to Blot.im.
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www.amitgawande.com www.amitgawande.com
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https://www.amitgawande.com/2018/07/17/195200.html
Amit Gawande outlines some of his work to IndieWebify his Blot.im website.
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github.com github.com
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https://github.com/am1t/blotpub
Blotpub, a self-hosteable Micropub and media endpoint for blot.im and Dropbox.
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www.amitgawande.com www.amitgawande.com
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https://www.amitgawande.com/2018/08/02/164900.html
Overview of thinking about beginning to IndieWebify a Blot website.
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kiriska.com kiriska.com
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https://kiriska.com/blog/2022/your-website-is-useless/
Some general discussion about the value of having a portfolio on your own website in a social media driven world. Touches on the ease of use and user interface problems that are out there.
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indieweb.xyz indieweb.xyz
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- Feb 2022
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brainbaking.com brainbaking.com
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https://brainbaking.com/post/2021/10/are-digital-gardens-blogs/
We definitely need better definitions of digital gardens (public or otherwise) to delineate them from blogs, zettelkasten, wikis, social media, and other forms of information exchange.
Wouter Groeneveld describes some of his thoughts here.
Link to notes from https://collect.readwriterespond.com/are-digital-gardens-blogs/
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macwright.com macwright.com
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The mere fact that there’s still a community with values that are just about sharing, learning, and getting to know each other, who want something like this, should be a happy sign for everyone involved.
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I recently attended an IndieWeb pop-up session on distributed libraries.It was thoroughly refreshing.
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The thing about IndieWeb is that it’s still a place where people and ideas matter.
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penpub.ink penpub.ink
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Gerben and Brendan Howell created PenPub which connects with a Moleskine/Neo smartpen via bluetooth, turns the lines into an SVG file, uploads that to a static web server, and thereby creates a ‘paper website’ that is a live reflection of your notebook (with a few seconds delay)
- Example page: http://penpub.ink/page38.html
- PenPub code is available at: https://gitlab.com/bhowell/penpub
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every.to every.to
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You can’t take your audience with you.
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www.yammer.com www.yammer.com
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Nonfiction Techniques Spring 2022
Caveat emptor. A lot of these "influencer" methods are leaving 30% or far more of their value with the platforms they're using for distribution. A better path is to build and promote your own platform and have a direct relationship with one's readers (in newsletter spaces, it's about "owning"/having your reader's email address). Some other newsletter options can be found here: https://indieweb.org/newsletter as well as methods for building and owning your own technology stack across its site. If nothing else, consider having a website where you can have a portfolio/archive of your work.
Careful watchers of the newsletter space will notice that almost all of the highlight examples on these services are established big names with pre-existing platforms and audience. Where are the stories of the other 99.9% and how well they're doing? Who is actually making a full time living doing this without a significant leg up to start? As examples, look for major writers leaving the New York Times to set up newsletters, or people like Steve Hayes and Jonah Goldberg leaving The National Review to set up The Dispatch (as a newsletter platform)—it's a good bet that they're getting a better deal from Substack than the average person. The NiemanLab has some relatively good coverage of some of this space. (Their annual predictions series also has solid forward looking coverage of the journalism/technology space: https://www.niemanlab.org/collection/predictions-2022/.)
(Apologies for lurking... 😅, but happy to chat technology/publishing with anyone interested.)
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boffosocko.com boffosocko.com
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Introductory Articles
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indieweb.org indieweb.org
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Better search.
Needed.
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- Jan 2022
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www.theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com
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Even major corporations such as Qantas Airlines, Red Bull, and the Los Angeles Clippers have started putting a Linktree in their Instagram and TikTok bios, Anthony Zaccaria, Linktree’s co-founder and chief commercial officer, told me. These companies all have expensive websites, but he said that link-in-bios have come to represent a space in between social media and websites: a regularly updated page where artists can plug their new music, airlines can promote their new flight routes, and even non-influencers can list out the TV shows they’re currently watching. While a traditional website might remain relatively static over time—an airline like Qantas, for instance, is always going to want its flight-booking tool to be front and center—a link-in-bio is a sort of ever-shifting homepage, the ideal spot for brands and influencers to house updates or tout new products.
Who says the link in bio needs to go to a company's homepage? Why couldn't it be a custom landing page geared toward the social media site the link is placed on?
The reasoning here is completely false.
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github.com github.com
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https://github.com/tegon/traktflix
Code for making a Trakt.tv scrobbler for Netflix.
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webmention.io webmention.io
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https://webmention.io/api/mentions.jf2?target=https://indieweb.org
Link for mentions of the IndieWeb wiki. Ought to dump this into into Fluffy's webmention.js (https://github.com/PlaidWeb/webmention.js/) to provide a better experience.
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johannesklingebiel.de johannesklingebiel.de
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https://johannesklingebiel.de/2021/03/10/new-website.html
I know that Johannes has a digital garden, but I didn't expect his post to take the turn it did! What a lovely little piece.
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To learn—A rather obvious one, but I wanted to challenge myself again.
I love that Johannes Klingbiel highlights having his own place on the Internet as a means to learn. While I suspect that part of the idea here is to learn about the web and programming, it's also important to have a place you can more easily look over and review as well as build out on as one learns. This dovetails in part with his third reason to have his own website: "to build". It's much harder to build out a learning space on platforms like Medium and Twitter. It's not as easy to revisit those articles and notes as those platforms aren't custom built for those sorts of learning affordances.
Building your own website for learning makes it by definition a learning management system. The difference between my idea of a learning management system here and the more corporate LMSes (Canvas, Blackboard, Moodle, etc.) is that you can change and modify the playground as you go. While your own personal LMS may also be a container for holding knowledge, it is a container for building and expanding knowledge. Corporate LMSes aren't good at these last two things, but are built toward making it easier for a course facilitator to grade material.
We definitely need more small personal learning management systems. (pLMS, anyone? I like the idea of the small "p" to highlight the value of these being small.) Even better if they have social components like some of the IndieWeb building blocks that make it easier for one to build a personal learning network and interact with others' LMSes on the web. I see some of this happening in the Digital Gardens space and with people learning and sharing in public.
[[Flancian]]'s Anagora.org is a good example of this type of public learning space that is taking the individual efforts of public learners and active thinkers and knitting their efforts together to facilitate a whole that is bigger than the sum of it's pieces.
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meta.miraheze.org meta.miraheze.orgMiraheze1
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gregorlove.com gregorlove.com
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telepathics.xyz telepathics.xyz
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What an awesome little site. Sadly no RSS to make it easy to follow, so bookmarking here.
I like that she's titled her posts feed as a "notebook": https://telepathics.xyz/notebook. There's not enough content here (yet) to make a determination that they're using it as a commonplace book though.
Someone in the IndieWeb chat pointed out an awesome implementation of "stories" she's got on her personal site: https://telepathics.xyz/notes/2020/new-york-city-friends-food-sights/
I particularly also like the layout and presentation of her Social Media Links page which has tags for the types of content as well as indicators for which are no longer active.
This makes me wonder if I could use tags on some of my links to provide CSS styling on them to do the same thing for inactive services?
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memes.yarn.co memes.yarn.co
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https://y.yarn.co/d4aa882e-7143-4163-869b-458fa1519cbb_text.mp4
https://memes.yarn.co/yarn-clip/d4aa882e-7143-4163-869b-458fa1519cbb
IndieAuth: My Website is my passport. Verify Me.
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status.cafe status.cafe
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status.cafe is a place to share your current status.
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jon.bo jon.bo
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https://jon.bo/posts/can-blogging-be-simple/
Syndicated copy: https://twitter.com/jondotbo/status/1475581785874612234
Has some hint of the IndieWeb space here. My first thought is of micro.blog---for a reasonable subscription price it's relatively easy for folks to get started and allow customization and flexibility if they want/need it.
It also tries to meet users where they're at, so if you've already got a site you can still participate and it can provide services one may not want to self-host like a social reader, webmentions, micropub, etc.
To encourage people to write its UI starts out with short Twitter like notes, and if you keep writing, it provides you with a "title" field to turn a post into an article.
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snarfed.org snarfed.org
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https://snarfed.org/2022-01-08_happy-10th-birthday-bridgy
Congratulations Ryan! Thanks so much for all your work on Brid.gy and for/on behalf of the bigger community. I'm sending my reply directly from my own website to underline some of your point, but I'm going to have send a like using Twitter with hopes that it feels some of the love as well. 😁
Thanks again!
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eleanorkonik.com eleanorkonik.com
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So ultimately, I wound up not doing a lot with my stories… until I stumbled across a newsletter article on substack talking about how people were serializing their novels on newsletters, because the new newsletter-subscription models let them sell directly to fans without using Amazon or Wattpad or Patreon as a middleman.
People have begun serializing their novels using newsletters. This allows them to sell directly to fans without allowing middleman companies like Amazon, Patreon, or Wattpad to disintermediate them.
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maya.land maya.land
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https://maya.land/responses/2021/09/17/altweb-indieweb-squabble.html
This week on soap operas in the small web....
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www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
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hypertext.monster hypertext.monster
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https://hypertext.monster/2022/01/05/i-was-entertained.html
First Wordle post I've seen on a personal website instead of on Twitter.
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www.manton.org www.manton.org
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https://www.manton.org/2022/01/05/ive-updated-microblogs.html
I've been waiting to see plugins appear for micro.blog!
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jamesg.blog jamesg.blog
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https://jamesg.blog/2022/01/04/simple-taxonomies/
Keeping things simple is a useful thing, particularly when there aren't any consuming applications that use that sort of complexity. A simple note with some tags can be incredibly versatile.
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cogdogblog.com cogdogblog.com
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legacy.imagemagick.org legacy.imagemagick.org
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indieweb-search.jamesg.blog indieweb-search.jamesg.blog
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tracydurnell.com tracydurnell.com
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Why is dystopian sci-fi seem more ubiquitous than optomistic sci-fi?
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artlung.com artlung.com
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thewebisfucked.com thewebisfucked.com
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www.jeremycherfas.net www.jeremycherfas.net
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web.archive.org web.archive.org
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The indie web is a new type of link between people, it's a free and open space of shared knowledge where vanity has no place.
While this indie web manifesto rails against vanity, it would seem that so much of social media is about exactly vanity and creating some sort of mythical online identity for others.
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thesephist.com thesephist.com
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I think this new identity should… build upon a diverse group of people and ideas remember, but not revere, past research and tradition welcome independent contributors, and view itself as a collective of people, not an industry of companies work in the open, and value building and testing ideas over spreading them.
From the jump, I can't help but think that it sounds like he's looking for a niche within the IndieWeb space.
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samwilson.id.au samwilson.id.au
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boris.libra.re boris.libra.reLibrary1
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http://boris.libra.re/library/ Made apparently using Calibre.
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- Nov 2021
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blogroll.org blogroll.org
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when I browse from someone’s blog over to their Substack it feels like going from a sweet little neighborhood into a staid corporate park. A little piece of joy dies in me when that happens because it’s another reminder of the corporatization of the web.
--Ray
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archivebox.io archivebox.io
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david.shanske.com david.shanske.com
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https://david.shanske.com/2021/11/24/5364/
I've been thinking about how to best do photo uploads myself. I've got something quirky right now myself, but want something more solid with less after-the-fact work.
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paperwebsite.com paperwebsite.com
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I find something very appealing about this user interface as a way to create a website: https://paperwebsite.com/.
A micropub client that could do this would be fascinating...
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collect.readwriterespond.com collect.readwriterespond.com
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https://collect.readwriterespond.com/antennapod/
I feel your pain here Aaron.
Perhaps it helps, perhaps not, but I've been using AntennaPod for a few years now. In particular I love it on Android because I can use the share functionality to share to a custom email address which posts to reading.am for an account that aggregates everything I'm listening to. Then I port the RSS feed of that back into my site. It's a stupid amount of manual work, but it mostly works.
Alternately you could share material you listen to to Huffduffer and pull data out that way as well. My problem here is that Huffduffer is more of a bookmark service than a "listened to this" sort of service, though you could always add a "listened" tag to the things you've heard in the past.
The tougher part of all this is that podcasts have "canonical" links for the podcast episodes (sometimes) and an entirely different link for the audio file which has no meta data attached to it (presuming you can even find the URL for the audio file to begin with.)
AntennaPod allows you to pick and choose what you want to share, so usually I default to the audio file to get that in to the workflow and finding/adding the data for the particular episode is a bit easier.
I will say that this is one of the ugliest and most labor intensive workflows I've got for social posts, so I'm usually only doing it and posting publicly for things that I really think are worth the time that make for interesting notes/observations that go along with the post.
I'm curious to see what others come up with for this workflow.
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news.ycombinator.com news.ycombinator.com
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29115696
Read through comments for the fun of it.
Nothing beyond the extraordinary here.
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www.eventbrite.com www.eventbrite.com
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https://www.eventbrite.com/e/logging-off-facebook-what-comes-next-tickets-201128228947
Not attending, but an interesting list of people and related projects to watch.
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anagora.org anagora.org
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I want a [[community]], not an [[audience]]. Audience is stuff like reach, personality/celebrity, spectacle, anxiety, alienation, competition. Community is more like voice, discussion, comradery.
I love this sentiment.
It's an analogy that reminds me of a quote by Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington:
Suppose that we were asked to arrange the following in two categories– distance, mass, electric force, entropy, beauty, melody. I think there are the strongest grounds for placing entropy alongside beauty and melody and not with the first three.
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- Oct 2021
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penguinscreative.com penguinscreative.com
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https://penguinscreative.com/2019/09/18/13-reasons-why-i-love-using-a-hobonichi-techo/
How can we compare the Hobonichi community to the IndieWeb community in terms of practice, creativity, and growth?
What can IndieWeb gain from looking at some of the practices?
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opensourcelibs.com opensourcelibs.com
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The IndieWeb is a movement to decentralize the social web.
Shared by Ru Singh in an article, “A new microblogging strategy.”
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- Sep 2021
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www.youtube.com www.youtube.com
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chat.indieweb.org chat.indieweb.org
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# 21:30 @voxpelli ↩️ Better to name things for what they are rather than trying to make it into something else through deceptive names like "web 3.0". I mean, eg. the IndieWeb could also have called itself "web 3.0", I guess Mastodon could as well. There truly must be a better name? (twitter.com/_/status/1442601857105346560)
The conversation here makes me wonder about the idea of a more humanist web following onto the humanist movement in the 1400-1500s.
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tracydurnell.com tracydurnell.com
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I think it’s valuable to add some initial thinking and reflection when I bookmark an article or finish reading a book, but haven’t yet figured out a process for revisiting recent notes to find connections and turn that into longer or more complex thought.
This is definitely the harder part of the practice, but daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual reviews can definitely help.
To start I primarily focused on 3-5 broader sub-topics of things I felt were most important to me and always did those first. This helps to begin aggregating things and making a bigger difference. The rest of my smaller "fleeting" notes I didn't worry so much about and left to either come back to later or just allow them to sit there.
I think Sonke Ahrens' book How to Take Smart Notes was fairly helpful in laying this out.
Incidentally the spaced repetition of review is also good for your memory of the things you find important.
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I wasn’t expecting to facilitate a session
My work here is done! 😁
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tracydurnell.com tracydurnell.com
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https://tracydurnell.com/2021/09/26/getting-more-women-involved-in-the-indieweb/
Some great questions here and it's a difficult problem.
My personal solution is to do my best to provide personal invitations to people I think would enjoy participating and then trying to provide some space and support for them once they've arrived.
I do remember a self-named DrupalChix group of women around 2008 who banded together and created their own space within the Drupal community. Their leadership from within certainly helped to dramatically move the needle within Southern California. (cross reference: https://groups.drupal.org/women-drupal)
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Are women generally more interested in other social causes besides online surveillance and the negative cultural impacts of social media companies?
Most of the advanced researchers I seen on these topics are almost all women: Safiya Umoja Noble, Meredith Broussard, Ruha Benjamin, Cathy O'Neil, Shoshana Zuboff, Joan Donovan, danah boyd,Tressie McMillan Cottom, to name but a few.
The tougher part is that they are all fighting against problems created primarily by privileged, cis-gender, white men.
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www.alasdairekpenyong.com www.alasdairekpenyong.com
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Alasdair Ekpenyong's Digital Garden
Alasdair is an academic in the area of library science.
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jamesg.blog jamesg.blog
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https://jamesg.blog/2021/09/13/new-social-pages
Some awesome looking progress here.
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finiteeyes.net finiteeyes.net
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Build pathways between communal and private work. Too often, we celebrate one or the other, but thinking actually works best when it has the opporunity to be done both in private and alongside other people. Proximity and ease of movement between the two modes matters. If a person can work on ideas alone and privately for a little while, then easily bring those ideas to a group, then move back to the private space, and continue this cycle as necessary, the thinking will be better.
This is a model that is tacitly being used by the IndieWeb in slowly developing better social media and communication on the web.
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en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confession_album
Interesting historical personal document type. This feels like it has some influence within the realm of the commonplace book tradition.
Is there a way to revive these in an internet age and nudge them along with webmentions?
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www.sheet-posting.me www.sheet-posting.me
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<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>Kevin Marks </span> in #indieweb 2021-09-06 (<time class='dt-published'>09/06/2021 16:14:19</time>)</cite></small>
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https://jamesg.blog/2021/09/02/micropub-social
A solid overview for folks interested in implementing Micropub on their own websites.
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nicksimson.com nicksimson.com
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https://nicksimson.com/posts/2021-commonplace-books/
Introductory post about how Nick has found and begun looking at digital commonplace books.
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- Aug 2021
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indieweb.org indieweb.org
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https://indieweb.org/2012/Positive_Arguments
It would be fun to revisit this. I'm not sure how much we can expand on the why portions, but looking closer at and thinking about expanding the how would be useful.
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kimberlyhirsh.com kimberlyhirsh.com
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https://kimberlyhirsh.com/2019/04/01/dissertating-in-the.html
A description of some of Kimiberly Hirsh's workflow in keeping a public research notebook (or commonplace book).
I'd be curious to know what type of readership and response she's gotten from this work in the past. For some it'll bet it's possibly too niche for a lot of direct feedback, but some pieces may be more interesting than others.
Did it help her organize her thoughts and reuse the material later on?
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11ndieweb.netlify.app 11ndieweb.netlify.app
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https://11ndieweb.netlify.app/
A cool looking 11thy starter site for joining the IndieWeb.
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By the end of the decade, the printed and bound confession book had been introduced. The earliest currently known example with a printed publication date is Mental Photographs, an album published in New York in 1869, which contained place for a photograph as well as the set of questions (a combination already found in Jenny Marx's album).[9]
This seems like something that could be profitably published into children's school yearbooks for being filled out by friends. They've already got names and photographs, and usually are autographed with quotes or notes already.
These could be tied into personal websites as well.
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refined.blog refined.blog
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An interesting directory of personal blogs on software and security.
While it aggregates from various sources and allows people to submit directly to it, it also calculates a quality score/metric by using a total number of Hacker News points earned by the raw URL
Apparently uses a query like: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=example.com to view all posts from HN.
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- Jul 2021
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ayjay.org ayjay.org
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As Berry says, “We arespeaking where we stand, and we shall stand afterwards in thepresence of what we have said.”
A great quote to be sure. Perhaps a definition of having a personal website for online communication?
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Coding is a problem-solving skill, and few of theproblems that beset young people today, or are likely to in thefuture, can be solved by writing scripts or programs for computersto execute. I suggest a less ambitious enterprise with broaderapplications, and I’ll begin by listing the primary elements of thatenterprise. I think every young person who regularly uses acomputer should learn the following:
Alan Jacobs eschews the admonishment that everyone should learn to code and posits a more basic early literacy stepping-stone to coding: learning some basic preliminaries of self-hosting. This is likely much easier for most people and could build a better runway for those who would like to learn to code later on.
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www.thecut.com www.thecut.com
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Earlier this year, a group of writers with popular tech and culture newsletters expanded upon this premise; they joined together to launch a Discord server called Sidechannel where all their subscribers could meet and chat. (“So it’s just people paying for internet friends?” asked one woman I know when this arrangement was described to her. Yes, and currently Sidechannel has some 5,000 members, several hundred of whom may be active at a given time.)
There's something a bit depressing about the idea of paying for online friends. Though creating, managing, and tummeling these sorts of community is definitely a form of social and creative "work".
How much work do these creators do on this front? How much is the writing and creating versus the management and community building? What else goes into it all?
Compare and contrast the work done by individuals in the IndieWeb community.
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Early on, circa 2015, there was a while when every first-person writer who might once have written a Tumblr began writing a TinyLetter. At the time, the writer Lyz Lenz observed that newsletters seemed to create a new kind of safe space. A newsletter’s self-selecting audience was part of its appeal, especially for women writers who had experienced harassment elsewhere online.
What sort of spaces do newsletters create based upon their modes of delivery? What makes them "safer" for marginalized groups? Is there a mitigation of algorithmic speed and reach that helps? Is it a more tacit building of community and conversation? How can these benefits be built into an IndieWeb space?
How can a platform provide "reach" while simultaneously creating negative feedback for trolls and bad actors?
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tracydurnell.com tracydurnell.com
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fireburn.ru fireburn.ru
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chat.indieweb.org chat.indieweb.org
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# 17:52 GWG Welcome to the Indieweb, where our dreams are limited by time
https://chat.indieweb.org/dev/2021-07-09
A great tagline for IndieWeb
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warmedal.se warmedal.se
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doosboox's website
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hopesnotes.net hopesnotes.net
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I guess my Pastor wanted to take today off. We didn't have church today, which is strange. OK interesting question that someone brought up on Twitter. Is it weird that you can't tweet from an RSS reader? I mean, someone said they don't use RSS for this reason.
@ladyhope It is weird. It's also something that the IndieWeb community has been working on fixing. There is a class of social feed readers (using Microsub, and including micro.blog) that allows one to subscribe and read, but also allows one to reply inline and post to their own websites (which could then also syndicate to social media sites). indieweb.org/social_re... has some examples, including several you could dovetail with your WordPress site.
Syndication: https://micro.blog/chrisaldrich/11655781
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This is old school awesomeness!
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www.jayeless.net www.jayeless.net
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A great overview of some of the various definitions of small web and what it might entail.
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Another interpretation of the “Small Web” concept is that it refers to the use of alternative protocols to the dominant HTTP(S), lightweight ones like the older Gopher and newer Gemini. For example, the blog post Introduction to Gemini describes these collectively as “the Small Internet”.
Maybe the idea of a "personal internet" is what we're all really looking for? Something with some humanity? Something that's fun? Something that has some serendipity?
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blog.ayjay.org blog.ayjay.org
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www.thenewatlantis.com www.thenewatlantis.com
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What a great about page. Reminds me in part of some of the underlying ethos of the IndieWeb.
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bionicjulia.com bionicjulia.com
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It wasn't as straightforward as I thought it would be, so I've written this blog post for anyone who's trying to do the same with their NextJS blog.
I recall Monica Powell writing a bit about this with some video a while back.
Perhaps not as useful after-the-fact, but her post is hiding on in the see also section of https://indieweb.org/Webmention where I've archived a copy of your article as well. Maybe the IndieWeb wiki needs a NextJS page to make this a bit more findable?
Perhaps the similarities and differences in your approaches will help others in the future.
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beesbuzz.biz beesbuzz.biz
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Fluffy's work here gives me such hope for the future. :)
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david.shanske.com david.shanske.com
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I do wonder a bit about the potential misuse/abuse of sending tickets as notifications to people who don't want them.
Hopefully once the system is up and distributed it's relatively easy to ignore or block tickets from bad actors. Email spam is a similar model to this.
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<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>KevinMarks</span> in #indieweb 2021-06-25 (<time class='dt-published'>06/26/2021 01:52:39</time>)</cite></small>
IndieWeb + Welsh finally comes in handy! The Cwtch service Kevin Marks mentioned is the the Welsh word for "hug" or "cuddle" and cleverly has a heart shaped Celtic design for their logo. Kind of cute when you think about it. And speaking of opaque ids, if they're using a new protocol I hope they call it Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch....
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sdi.thoughtstorms.info sdi.thoughtstorms.info
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I've run into Phil Jones in the digital gardens telegram group, but not looked very closely at [[Cardigan Bay]] before.
Based on the idea of teh [[Smallest Federated Wiki]], Cardigan Bay is a wiki engine in Clojure which can be found on GitHub at interstar/cardigan-bay.
Be sure to invite Jones to [[Gardens and Streams II]].
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readium.org readium.org
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I totally want this!
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0data.app 0data.app
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Apps that allow one to own/control their own data. Many apps work with [[Fission]] and [[Solid]].
This may be one of the first places that I've seen multiple apps that appear to actually run Solid. Will have to dig further to see if it's not vaporware.
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This is badass James!
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forum.obsidian.md forum.obsidian.md
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Ward Cunningham may have been using a similar UI prior to it for other projects, but he unveiled the Smallest Federated Wiki at IndieWeb Camp 2011 in late June: https://indieweb.org/2011/Smallest_Federated_Wiki. I don't have a receipt to prove it, but I have to suspect that Andy's version was certainly influenced by Cunningham's work.
Mike Caulfield, subsequent author of the influential The Garden and the Stream: a Technopastoral, Iterated on the Smallest Federated Wiki and created a WordPress-based plugin shortly thereafter called Wikity that used some of the card-based UI that Obsidian comes with out of the box.
Both had some early influence on the UI-based research that the IndieWeb space has done since. For those interested, there's also a sub-group within it focusing on digital gardens, commonplace books, Zettelkasten, etc. that can be found here: https://indieweb.org/commonplace_book
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booktwo.org booktwo.org
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I like the idea of this checklist.
If one replaced Ebooks on this list with "personal website" it would sound very IndieWeb in spirit.
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samwilson.id.au samwilson.id.au
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This sounds cool. I sort of wish I could easily do this with my own WikiMedia install.
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snarfed.org snarfed.org
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www.indieforums.net www.indieforums.net
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maggieappleton.com maggieappleton.com
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Keeping your garden on the open web also sets you up to take part in the future of gardening. At the moment our gardens are rather solo affairs. We haven't figure out how to make them multi-player. But there's an enthusiastic community of developers and designers trying to fix that. It's hard to say what kind of libraries, frameworks, and design patterns might emerge out of that effort, but it certainly isn't going to happen behind a Medium paywall.
There are a few of us using Webmention for this. Similarly there are some running open wikis or experiments like Flancian's agora.
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In performance-blog-land you do that thinking and researching privately, then shove it out at the final moment. A grand flourish that hides the process.
This generally doesn't happen with IndieWeb-based sites where one often publishes all the smaller tidbits along the way and intersperses them with the longer articles.
Of course, not everyone here necessarily publishes everything publicly either.
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They're less rigid, less performative, and less perfect than the personal websites we're used to seeing.
Is this also because they have inherently different audiences?
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devonzuegel.com devonzuegel.com
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I have received a lot of positive feedback for noting my epistemic status and effort at the top of my posts. This is hilarious, because I originally started using these as a hack in order to publish half-baked ideas that I'd otherwise not feel comfortable sharing.
This is an interesting hack for getting one to hit the publish button.
I wonder if people have renamed the "publish" button in their CMS to make hitting it easier?
My own anecdotal evidence is that hitting it often can certainly make it seem trivial, particularly if one is posting their status updates to their site along with everything else.
<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>Maggie Appleton</span> in A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden (<time class='dt-published'>05/28/2021 18:08:16</time>)</cite></small>
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indieweb.org indieweb.org
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rusingh.com rusingh.com
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Ru does a retrospective about how much work and energy a static site can be to maintain a personal website.
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Yet, every time I open up my Eleventy codebase, I want to puke (figuratively). Having gained distance and perspective from the codebase, it now looks less like a personal website and more like software. Even if a lot of it is well-engineered, it feels overblown for what it is supposed to do.
Even for a smart and experienced programmer, maintaining a static website generator site can be a lot of work.
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www.indieforums.net www.indieforums.net
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wordpress.tv wordpress.tv
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indieweb.org indieweb.org
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github.com github.com
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Proof-of-concept forums, powered by the IndieWeb www.indieforums.net
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brainbaking.com brainbaking.com
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go-jamming is a cool looking Webmention sender and receiver, particularly for SSGs. It can be used to service multiple websites as well.
Requires a bit of configuration and build into one's templates, but it looks pretty well documented.
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www.thedriftmag.com www.thedriftmag.com
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<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>KevinMarks</span> in #indieweb 2021-05-12 (<time class='dt-published'>05/18/2021 19:50:04</time>)</cite></small>
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github.com github.com
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www.stempen.org www.stempen.orgSTEMPEN1
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crookedtimber.org crookedtimber.org
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I am now definitely Team Maria!
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A former FB executive and long-standing friend of Zuckerberg emailed him in 2012 (page 31) to say “The number one threat to Facebook is not another scaled social network, it is the fracturing of information / death by a thousand small vertical apps which are loosely integrated together.”
And this is almost exactly what the IndieWeb is.
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laurenhanks.com laurenhanks.com
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This is a rather cool find and I can think of a few ways of using it.
Being able to add widgets easily to the dashboard can be a highly useful thing!
Also having the ability to easily add an admin page in the menu could be incredibly helpful in this setting.
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phirephoenix.com phirephoenix.com
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Assuming I’m not reusing passwords all over the place, at least the worst thing you could do with my Neopets account is mistreat my virtual pet. Imagine, instead, that you’re a queer kid living in a small town in 1999, and you sign up for Livejournal and use it to find a supportive and loving queer community online. Then in 2007 Livejournal gets sold to a company based in Russia, which in 2013 criminalizes the distribution of pro-LGBTQ content to minors, and in 2017 Livejournal loses the account info of 26 million users. Was it your responsibility to monitor the shifting geopolitical context of your childhood diary for the next two decades?
With regard to these portions, being a member of the IndieWeb and maintaining your own data on your own website is useful as one doesn't need to worry about these sorts of corporate shifts, sell-off, changes, etc.
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indieweb.org indieweb.org
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indieseek.xyz indieseek.xyz
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I cannot speak for the editor but I don’t see why Searchmysite would not also accept and crawl static HTML websites (ie. Retro or vintage HTML sites) so long as the site has some value and content that it can index, but they might not.
They certainly could. I've seen the author haunting the IndieWeb chat in the past and they've mentioned that crawling and saving data can tend to be a bit on the expensive side, so they're trying to do more targeted search/save when they can. Perhaps as the project matures, it will add these sorts of functionalities.
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whitneyannetrettien.com whitneyannetrettien.comWhiki1
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This has to be one of the baddest-ass things I've seen in months. I wish more people had public-facing commonplace books like this!
Bonus points that Whitney calls it a Whiki! :)
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www.digitalmappa.org www.digitalmappa.org
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<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>whitney trettien</span> on Twitter: "I'm excited to share a digital edition of Susanna Collet's 17th-century commonplace book, held at @morganlibrary. @zoe_braccia & I made it using @digitalmappa. It features a full transcription/facsimile & a searchable library of Collet's source texts. https://t.co/VSCMmBhMS6 https://t.co/fyrbwS9kk1" (<time class='dt-published'>04/09/2021 10:49:31</time>)</cite></small>
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www.thewrap.com www.thewrap.com
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You can check out the new platform — which is essentially a short-form blog — by heading to www.DonaldJTrump.com/desk.
Apparently he's invented the idea of a microblog? And he's got a /desk page?
What comes next?
But let's be honest, he was posting these short status updates like this just a few days after he got kicked off of Twitter. He's just got a slightly better UI now.
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twitter.com twitter.com
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Oh, FFS!
<script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>Donald Trump invents blogging.<br><br> https://t.co/Wl06PnekU7
— Theo Priestley (@tprstly) May 4, 2021
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brainbaking.com brainbaking.com
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all active note-takers, life-hackers, and apparently also IndieWeb-enabled bloggers!
We really need to get around to scheduling the second session of Gardens and Streams.
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esterday evening, Ton Zijlstra organized the first Dutch Obsidian meetup. I didn’t really know what to expect, and in the end I’m glad I let my curiosity get the better of me, as we chatted for almost two hours on various struggles with contemporary note-taking using the relatively new note-taking player, Obsidian. Read Frank Meeuwsen’s expectations and Ton’s afterthoughts on their respective blogs (in Dutch). Together with Sebastiaan Andeweg and myself, the four of us had a great time showing each other how we tackle digital note-taking. It turned out to be a small but quirky group of like-minded people: all active note-takers, life-hackers, and apparently also IndieWeb-enabled bloggers!
This sounds like a fun way to get together. I'm personally curious to see people taking their Obsidian data and turning them into IndieWeb-friendly linked Memexes. It's interesting to use Obsidian to have a thought conversation with one's self, but it could also be interesting if they could have conversations with each other via Webmention.
For me the more difficult piece is not so much getting the thing online, but setting it up so that the backlinks all work properly using the [[wikilink]] syntax.
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www.collindonnell.com www.collindonnell.com
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After the recent brouhaha at Basecamp (context: https://www.platformer.news/p/-what-really-happened-at-basecamp), a great example of someone using their own domain because they didn't want the bad press of a silo/platform to stick to them
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glitch.com glitch.comGlitch1
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stephaniewalter.design stephaniewalter.design
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datatogether.org datatogether.org
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<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>Internet Archive</span> in (6) Why Trust A Corporation to Do a Library’s Job? - YouTube (<time class='dt-published'>04/28/2021 11:46:41</time>)</cite></small>
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www.youtube.com www.youtube.com
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Darius Kazemi randomly tweets out pages from books in the Internet Archive as a means of creating discovery and serendipity.
Library Futures, Jennie Rose Halperin @Library_futures @little_wow
Idea of artificial scarcity being imposed on digital objects is a damaging thing for society.
Ideas to explore:
Libraries as a free resource could be reframed as a human right within a community.
Librarians as local community tummelers around information.
Joanne McNeill
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www.eventbrite.com www.eventbrite.com
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This sounds tangential to the sort of idea that Greg McVerry and I have noodled around with in the past.
<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>Darius Kazemi</span> in Darius Kazemi: "In just a couple hours I'll be speaking with @jom…" - Friend Camp (<time class='dt-published'>04/28/2021 10:19:27</time>)</cite></small>
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news.ycombinator.com news.ycombinator.com
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enumjorge 7 hours ago [–] Same. I was intrigued and wanted to start exploring the sites that make up this “indie web”, but the landing page doesn’t list them. Clicked on “Getting Started Now” which took me to a busy looking wiki page talking about Wordpress? Confused, I left.
This is an intriguing question that I've seen a few different times:
Where is the IndieWeb?
Perhaps worth writing an essay to describe where to find some of these sites if you wanted to interact with them.
Include
- chat names
- indie map lists
- web ring
Part of it is how you define IndieWeb. What are those potential criteria.
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aaronparecki.com aaronparecki.com
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community.reclaimhosting.com community.reclaimhosting.com
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What I like about some of the newer platforms (Ghost, Medium, Social Media platforms) is the way the default post and the menus themselves more clearly guide the user in their decisions about how to interact. There is a sense that the platform offers points of entry. Doesn’t hold the user’s hand – but welcomes them, points to stuff, and smiles at the user a bit more.
Here's a great example of a person who wants some of the UI niceties provided by onboarding for new users. This can be incredibly important for people who are new to the platform.
On the flip side, it's much easier to do for a social media platform like Twitter which only does one or two things. It can be far harder for platforms like WordPress which have a lot more complexity or uses and require personas or use-types to do this well.
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danallosso.substack.com danallosso.substack.com
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Since I’m doing that, I’m also considering whether it makes sense for me to have a substack blog as well?
Given some of the press Substack has gotten in the past few months, I think there's more to be said for actively leaving Substack to move to WordPress or some other platform where you can use your own domain name and content.
Congratulations on the move!
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I'll be a bit on the late side, but I'll try to make this around 11 am my time.
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github.com github.com
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Yunaru.com source code. Follow anyone. Blog anything.
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www.digitalmappa.org www.digitalmappa.org
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DM gives you simple but/and powerful tools to mark up, annotate and link your own networked collections of digital images and texts. Mark up your image and text documents with highlights that you can then annotate and link together. Identify discreet moments on images and texts with highlight tools including dots, lines, rectangles, circles, polygons, text tags, and multiple color options. Develop your projects and publications with an unlimited number of annotations on individual highlights and entire image and text documents. Highlights and entire documents can host an unlimited number of annotations, and annotations themselves can include additional layers of annotations. Once you've marked up your text and image documents with highlights and annotations, you can create links between individual highlights and entire documents, and your links are bi-directional, so you and other viewers can travel back and forth between highlights. Three kinds of tools, entire digital worlds of possible networks and connections.
This looks like the sort of project that @judell @dwhly @remikalir and the Hypothes.is team may appreciate, if nothing else but for the user interface set up and interactions.
I'll have to spin up a copy shortly to take a look under the hood.
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I totally get where Jacy is coming from.
It's difficult to try to be all things to all people, particularly when they have so many diverse needs/wants and there are so many options for various levels of technical expertise.
It's like teaching algebra to a 4th grader, an 8th grader and an advanced graduate student. They all need dramatically different textbooks for their different levels of sophistication.
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www.stefanjudis.com www.stefanjudis.com
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Could this maybe be used when publishing content on third party sites to ping your own website?
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www.wired.com www.wired.com
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I asked Seyal if Pinterest had ever considered a feature that let users mark a life event complete. Canceled. Finished. Done. “We would have to have a system that thinks about things on an event level, so we could deliver on the promise,” Seyal said. “Right now we just use relevance as a measure.” But had Pinterest considered that, in the long run, people might be more inclined to use the app if it could become a clean space for them when they needed it to be, a corner of the internet uncluttered with grief?
This would be a great feature for IndieWeb creators to consider.
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www.washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com
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This year’s Slow Art Day — April 10 — comes at a time when museums find themselves in vastly different circumstances.
Idea: Implement a slow web week for the IndieWeb, perhaps to coincide with the summit at the end of the week.
People eschew reading material from social media and only consume from websites and personal blogs for a week. The tough part is how to implement actually doing this. Many people would have a tough time finding interesting reading material in a short time. What are good discovery endpoints for that? WordPress.com's reader? Perhaps support from feed reader community?
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www.sarasoueidan.com www.sarasoueidan.com
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While it is work in progress, it will live on sarasoueidan.dev. So this Web site you’re on right now will still be here while the new one comes to life. Once the new site is done, it will replace this one on the dot com domain.
This is a fun reason to have more than one website.
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www.theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com
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The United States has no real answer to these challenges, and no wonder: We don’t have an internet based on our democratic values of openness, accountability, and respect for human rights. An online system controlled by a tiny number of secretive companies in Silicon Valley is not democratic but rather oligopolistic, even oligarchic.
Again, a piece that nudges me to thing that a local-based IndieWeb provider/solution would be a good one. Either co-op based, journalism-based, or library-based.
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Americans worked together: “As soon as several of the inhabitants of the United States have conceived a sentiment or an idea that they want to produce in the world, they seek each other out; and when they have found each other, they unite.”
The IndieWeb is very much this.
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html5up.net html5up.netHTML5 UP1
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@ajlkn has several related projects including this one:
Might be an interesting experiment to make one or more of them IndieWeb friendly and create a set up to dovetail one or more of them in with the GitHub pages set up.
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<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>James Van Dyne</span> in James Van Dyne on Twitter: "VERY fun hack: using lazy loading turbo-frames as a queue in dom. Each row needs to be imported. Frame source is api (returns html) and loads when visible. Scroll the page and one-by-one it imports your images. ZERO JS. #IndieWeb https://t.co/LOk0tq08tO https://t.co/lJ2hh1tDf3" / Twitter (<time class='dt-published'>03/29/2021 15:45:00</time>)</cite></small>
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www.daringgourmet.com www.daringgourmet.com
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There's been occasional talk in the IndieWeb chat about recipes that have long boring pre-stories and don't get to the point.
This is one of the first examples I've seen of a food blog that has a "Jump to Recipe" button and a "Print Recipe" button right at the top for those who are in a hurry, or who have read the post previously.
Will look for other examples...
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It comprises the collection of "mutual knowledge, mutual beliefs, and mutual assumptions" that is essential for communication between two people.
I've seen a few people with websites that have a grouping of some of their past posts to help orient new readers into their way of thinking and understanding to help provide common grounding for new readers.
Colin Walker is an example that has had one in the past, but it looks like the move from WordPress to his new system, the original link to that data is gone now. His page was called "required" and an archived version of his example(s) can be found archived here: https://web.archive.org/web/2020*/https://colinwalker.blog/required/
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