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    "type": "entry",
    "published": "2018-04-26T11:05:18+10:00",
    "url": "https://unicyclic.com/mal/2018-04-26-I_was_flying_home_yesterday_and_one_of_the_habits",
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        "itches",
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        "text": "I was flying home yesterday, and one of the habits I've got into is loading a bunch of content into my reader before putting my phone in flight mode. Unfortunately I got distracted early into the flight and brushed a button on my phone, which needlessly triggers loading the previous page in the browser.\n\n\nI store content in local storage, so it's pretty annoying to know it's still there but I can't access it. Adding support for offline mode and service workers to my website just moved up the priority list slightly.",
        "html": "I was flying home yesterday, and one of the habits I've got into is loading a bunch of content into my reader before putting my phone in flight mode. Unfortunately I got distracted early into the flight and brushed a button on my phone, which needlessly triggers loading the previous page in the browser.<br /><br />\nI store content in local storage, so it's pretty annoying to know it's still there but I can't access it. Adding support for offline mode and service workers to my website just moved up the priority list slightly."
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        "type": "card",
        "name": "Malcolm Blaney",
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    "type": "entry",
    "published": "2018-04-26T00:55:00-04:00",
    "summary": "In March I said I was leaving Facebook but I hadn\u2019t set a date. Because of Facebook\u2019s API changes that will stop me from posting from my website, I will no longer be posting on Facebook as of August 1st #deleteFacebook #indieweb",
    "url": "https://eddiehinkle.com/2018/04/26/3/note/",
    "category": [
        "silo-quit",
        "Facebook",
        "deleteFacebook",
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        "text": "In March I said I was leaving Facebook but I hadn\u2019t set a date. Because of Facebook\u2019s API changes that will stop me from posting from my website, I will no longer be posting on Facebook as of August 1st #deleteFacebook #indieweb",
        "html": "<p>In March <a href=\"https://eddiehinkle.com/2018/03/22/5/article/\">I said I was leaving Facebook</a> but I hadn\u2019t set a date. Because of Facebook\u2019s API changes that will stop me from posting from my website, I will no longer be posting on Facebook as of August 1st <a href=\"https://eddiehinkle.com/tag/deleteFacebook/\">#deleteFacebook</a> <a href=\"https://eddiehinkle.com/tag/indieweb/\">#indieweb</a></p>"
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    "author": {
        "type": "card",
        "name": "Eddie Hinkle",
        "url": "https://eddiehinkle.com/",
        "photo": "https://aperture-media.p3k.io/eddiehinkle.com/cf9f85e26d4be531bc908d37f69bff1c50b50b87fd066b254f1332c3553df1a8.jpg"
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    "type": "entry",
    "published": "2018-04-25T10:28:26-04:00",
    "summary": "Inspired by Tweetbot, I have reply if you swipe from left to right and conversation/detailed view if you swipe right to left on my IndieWeb reader app. As a Tweetbot fan, that feels very natural to me",
    "url": "https://eddiehinkle.com/2018/04/25/2/reply/",
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        "text": "Inspired by Tweetbot, I have reply if you swipe from left to right and conversation/detailed view if you swipe right to left on my IndieWeb reader app. As a Tweetbot fan, that feels very natural to me",
        "html": "<p>Inspired by Tweetbot, I have reply if you swipe from left to right and conversation/detailed view if you swipe right to left on my IndieWeb reader app. As a Tweetbot fan, that feels very natural to me</p>"
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    "author": {
        "type": "card",
        "name": "Eddie Hinkle",
        "url": "https://eddiehinkle.com/",
        "photo": "https://aperture-media.p3k.io/eddiehinkle.com/cf9f85e26d4be531bc908d37f69bff1c50b50b87fd066b254f1332c3553df1a8.jpg"
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How I Set Up My Indieweb WordPress Site – 2018 Edition

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    "published": "2018-04-24T06:43:06-04:00",
    "url": "https://david.shanske.com/2018/04/24/how-i-set-up-my-indieweb-wordpress-site-2018-edition/",
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        "text": "This is an update to my 2014 article on how I set up my WordPress site. It was requested I update it.\n\nStandard Plugins\n\n\nCharacter Count for Post Content and Excerpt(Link) \u2013 Because I need to be aware of the 140 character limit of Twitter, one of the services I send my content to, I need to know the character count of what I\u2019m typing. This adds that to my editing screen. No longer using this plugin and could not find a replacement.\nEWWW Image Optimizer(Link) \u2013 It reduces file sizes for images to ensure faster loading\nPushover Notifications(Link)or the forked alternative Pushbullet Notifications(Link) for WordPress \u2013 This plugin sends notifications of site events to my phone. The Pushover version is actively maintained and allows for extensions.\nSimple Local Avatars(Link) \u2013 Overrides the default of using the Gravatar service for profile pictures to storing them locally. However, this plugin hasn\u2019t been updated in years. May look for a new one.\n\nWordPress SEO by Yoast(Link) \u2013 While I\u2019m not obsessive about Search Engine Optimization, I find this plugin assists in my writing by reminding me about the importance of certain elements. While this is still a popular plugin and good for many people, it\u2019s become a bit too aggressive for me.\nThe SEO Framework (Link) \u2013 Sometimes, I think about getting rid of all SEO plugins. I\u2019m not really obsessed with this. This does add non-Indieweb markup for some sites that require it. It isn\u2019t worth it for me to manually add this right now.\nHum(Link) \u2013 This is a simple URL shortener. So for each post, there is an equivalent URL address at di5.us. This allows me to give out easier to enter links to longer post titles.\nJSON Feed(Link) \u2013 Adds a JSON Feed to a WordPress site. This is an alternative to RSS as a feed. I\u2019ve used it to feed my content to Micro.blog more effectively, as the specification was co-created by Manton Reece, who is the creator of that service. The plugin could stand some enhancement.\nSeries(Link) \u2013 Creates a simple taxonomy called \u2018Series\u2019. I added this to my site to allow creating series of articles.\nWP Photo Sphere(Link) \u2013 For the rare occasions that I post 360 degree images. Rare as in I\u2019ve only posted one.\nSocial Network Auto Poster(Link) \u2013 I keep wanting to get rid of this thing. But I haven\u2019t spent the time to replace it. Thinking of doing that soon.\nSimple Location(Link) \u2013 You can call this an Indieweb plugin, but it isn\u2019t specifically an Indieweb technology(although it does use Microformats markup). It adds location and weather awareness to a post. So, you can click to add your location and the current weather conditions at that location to a post.\nHome Assistant for WordPress(Link) \u2013 I use Home Assistant for my Home Automation integration. Since it has an API, I wrote this simple plugin. While at the moment, I hope to add the ability to display information from any sensor and to update a sensor on the Home Assistant side from WordPress, I use it right now as an enhancement to Simple Location. Instead of getting my location from the browser, it gets it from my Home Assistant installation, which tracks my presence.\nThe Indieweb Stuff\nWordPress Webmention(Link) \u2013 Adds webmention support for WordPress. This allows communications between sites.\nSemantic Linkbacks(Link) \u2013 Adds richer content to WordPress comments received by Webmention. For example, interprets them as reply, repost, like, favorite, mention, etc. This allows different displays and actions to be done with them.\n\nSemantic Comments(Link) \u2013 One of my own plugins. It changes the display of WordPress comments based on the information from Semantic Linkbacks. It presents the profile pictures in a Facepile for the various types of mentions with the comments separately below. This functionality has now been rolled into Semantic Linkbacks and is even better than it was.\n\nIndieweb Taxonomy(Link) \u2013 Semantic Linkbacks is all about receiving webmentions for the various semantic types. But this plugin, another one of mine(although I credit several with contributions), adds new terms to WordPress posts for responding to content on another site. So, a post on this site can be a reply to another site, a like, etc. It will automatically send a webmention to the other site, if that site supports it, of course. Replaced by Post Kinds\nPost Kinds (Link) \u2013 This replaced Indieweb Taxonomy. It is a replacement for the WordPress Post Formats which uses Indieweb post types. It allows you to respond to content on other sites, generates previews of those sites for context, allows you to post activity type posts(like watching, listening, reading, etc).\nSyndication Links(Link) \u2013 Another project, which adds fields to a post for the corresponding versions on other networks. It also adds links to same to the post.\n\nH-Card Tools \u2013 Still under development and not yet available for download, this is just the profile widget marked up appropriately, in the sidebar of the site. Some of this was rolled into the Indieweb plugin\nIndieweb Plugin(Link) \u2013 The Indieweb plugin is not only a plugin installer, but it contains tools for adding rel-me links based on your profile, declaring the default author for your site, and adding a simple h-card widget to show off a primary author.\nA Few Choices\nThere is an alternative to my Syndication Links plugin\u2026a plugin called WordPress Syndication (Link). \u00a0It automatically adds the links to the post, and extracts the data from a variety of sources that post to other sites. This includes NextScripts Social Network Auto-Poster(Link) or Mailchimp\u2019s Social plugin(Link), and even Bridgy(we\u2019ll get back to Bridgy in a moment).\nThe theme I use is a custom one I built, but the most popular theme for Indieweb sites is Sempress(Link). My theme isn\u2019t quite refined, but if you want it, a copy can be downloaded here. The version in use on my site is just a colored version of the minimal style the theme offers. I am currently using a fork of the WordPress Twenty-Sixteen theme(link) I modified for Microformats and support of the plugins I use.\nBridgy\nBridgy is not a WordPress plugin, or something you need to install(although you can host it yourself). Bridgy now has a WordPress plugin(link) which acts as a UI for registering and posting to Bridgy. Oddly enough, I wrote the plugin, but don\u2019t actively use it. I need to fix my handling of syndication.\nBridgy is a service that you can link your accounts on places like Twitter, Github and Facebook to, and it will pull in comments, likes, etc from those sites and send them to your site to be integrated. This requires the Webmention and Semantic Linkback plugins to understand what is being sent.\nTo the Future\nI enjoy developing this site as a learning tool. I hadn\u2019t done much WordPress development before this and it is very useful to know.\nFor anyone who comes here considering trying my setup, I\u2019m always available to help. For those who are trying my plugins\u2026they are still being refined, but feedback and contributions(of code) are appreciated.\nThis site is under development, so it does change regularly. I will often summarize some of the changes with a post, but sometimes not.",
        "html": "<p class=\"p-name\"><em>This is an update to my 2014 <a href=\"https://david.shanske.com/2014/10/02/site-setup/\">article</a> on how I set up my WordPress site. It was requested I update it.</em></p>\n\n<h2 class=\"e-content\">Standard Plugins</h2>\n\n<ol><li>\n<del>Character Count for Post Content and Excerpt(<a href=\"https://wordpress.org/plugins/character-count-for-post-content-excerpt/\">Link</a>) \u2013 Because I need to be aware of the 140 character limit of Twitter, one of the services I send my content to, I need to know the character count of what I\u2019m typing. This adds that to my editing screen.</del> No longer using this plugin and could not find a replacement.</li>\n<li>EWWW Image Optimizer(<a href=\"https://wordpress.org/plugins/ewww-image-optimizer/\">Link</a>) \u2013 It reduces file sizes for images to ensure faster loading</li>\n<li>Pushover Notifications(<a href=\"https://wordpress.org/plugins/pushover-notifications/changelog/\">Link</a>)or the forked alternative Pushbullet Notifications(<a href=\"https://wordpress.org/plugins/pushbullet-notification/\">Link</a>) for WordPress \u2013 This plugin sends notifications of site events to my phone. The Pushover version is actively maintained and allows for extensions.</li>\n<li>Simple Local Avatars(<a href=\"https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-local-avatars/\">Link</a>) \u2013 Overrides the default of using the Gravatar service for profile pictures to storing them locally. However, this plugin hasn\u2019t been updated in years. May look for a new one.</li>\n<li>\n<del>WordPress SEO by Yoast(<a href=\"https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-seo/\">Link</a>) \u2013 While I\u2019m not obsessive about Search Engine Optimization, I find this plugin assists in my writing by reminding me about the importance of certain elements.</del> While this is still a popular plugin and good for many people, it\u2019s become a bit too aggressive for me.</li>\n<li>The SEO Framework (<a href=\"https://wordpress.org/plugins/autodescription/\">Link</a>) \u2013 Sometimes, I think about getting rid of all SEO plugins. I\u2019m not really obsessed with this. This does add non-Indieweb markup for some sites that require it. It isn\u2019t worth it for me to manually add this right now.</li>\n<li>Hum(<a href=\"https://wordpress.org/plugins/hum/\">Link</a>) \u2013 This is a simple URL shortener. So for each post, there is an equivalent URL address at di5.us. This allows me to give out easier to enter links to longer post titles.</li>\n<li>JSON Feed(<a href=\"https://wordpress.org/plugins/jsonfeed/\">Link</a>) \u2013 Adds a JSON Feed to a WordPress site. This is an alternative to RSS as a feed. I\u2019ve used it to feed my content to Micro.blog more effectively, as the specification was co-created by Manton Reece, who is the creator of that service. The plugin could stand some enhancement.</li>\n<li>Series(<a href=\"https://wordpress.org/plugins/series/\">Link</a>) \u2013 Creates a simple taxonomy called \u2018Series\u2019. I added this to my site to allow creating series of articles.</li>\n<li>WP Photo Sphere(<a href=\"https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-photo-sphere/\">Link</a>) \u2013 For the rare occasions that I post 360 degree images. Rare as in I\u2019ve only posted one.</li>\n<li>Social Network Auto Poster(<a href=\"https://wordpress.org/plugins/social-networks-auto-poster-facebook-twitter-g/\">Link</a>) \u2013 I keep wanting to get rid of this thing. But I haven\u2019t spent the time to replace it. Thinking of doing that soon.</li>\n<li>Simple Location(<a href=\"https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-location\">Link</a>) \u2013 You can call this an Indieweb plugin, but it isn\u2019t specifically an Indieweb technology(although it does use Microformats markup). It adds location and weather awareness to a post. So, you can click to add your location and the current weather conditions at that location to a post.</li>\n<li>Home Assistant for WordPress(<a href=\"https://github.com/dshanske/wordpress-homeassistant\">Link</a>) \u2013 I use <a href=\"https://home-assistant.io/\">Home Assistant</a> for my Home Automation integration. Since it has an API, I wrote this simple plugin. While at the moment, I hope to add the ability to display information from any sensor and to update a sensor on the Home Assistant side from WordPress, I use it right now as an enhancement to Simple Location. Instead of getting my location from the browser, it gets it from my Home Assistant installation, which tracks my presence.</li>\n</ol><h2>The Indieweb Stuff</h2>\n<ul><li>WordPress Webmention(<a href=\"https://wordpress.org/plugins/webmention/\">Link</a>) \u2013 Adds webmention support for WordPress. This allows communications between sites.</li>\n<li>Semantic Linkbacks(<a href=\"https://wordpress.org/plugins/semantic-linkbacks/\">Link</a>) \u2013 Adds richer content to WordPress comments received by Webmention. For example, interprets them as reply, repost, like, favorite, mention, etc. This allows different displays and actions to be done with them.</li>\n<li>\n<del>Semantic Comments(<a href=\"https://david.shanske.com/projects/indieweb/semantic-comments/\">Link</a>) \u2013 One of my own plugins. It changes the display of WordPress comments based on the information from Semantic Linkbacks. It presents the profile pictures in a Facepile for the various types of mentions with the comments separately below.</del> This functionality has now been rolled into Semantic Linkbacks and is even better than it was.</li>\n<li>\n<del>Indieweb Taxonomy(<a href=\"https://david.shanske.com/projects/indieweb/indieweb-taxonomy/\">Link</a>) \u2013 Semantic Linkbacks is all about receiving webmentions for the various semantic types. But this plugin, another one of mine(although I credit several with contributions), adds new terms to WordPress posts for responding to content on another site. So, a post on this site can be a reply to another site, a like, etc. It will automatically send a webmention to the other site, if that site supports it, of course. </del>Replaced by Post Kinds</li>\n<li>Post Kinds (<a href=\"https://wordpress.org/plugins/indieweb-post-kinds/\">Link</a>) \u2013 This replaced Indieweb Taxonomy. It is a replacement for the WordPress Post Formats which uses Indieweb post types. It allows you to respond to content on other sites, generates previews of those sites for context, allows you to post activity type posts(like watching, listening, reading, etc).</li>\n<li>Syndication Links(<a href=\"https://wordpress.org/plugins/syndication-links\">Link</a>) \u2013 Another project, which adds fields to a post for the corresponding versions on other networks. It also adds links to same to the post.</li>\n<li>\n<del>H-Card Tools \u2013 Still under development and not yet available for download, this is just the profile widget marked up appropriately, in the sidebar of the site. </del>Some of this was rolled into the Indieweb plugin</li>\n<li>Indieweb Plugin(<a href=\"https://wordpress.org/plugins/indieweb/\">Link</a>) \u2013 The Indieweb plugin is not only a plugin installer, but it contains tools for adding rel-me links based on your profile, declaring the default author for your site, and adding a simple h-card widget to show off a primary author.</li>\n</ul><h2>A Few Choices</h2>\n<ul><li>There is an alternative to my Syndication Links plugin\u2026a plugin called WordPress Syndication (<a href=\"https://github.com/jihaisse/wordpress-syndication\">Link</a>). \u00a0It automatically adds the links to the post, and extracts the data from a variety of sources that post to other sites. This includes NextScripts Social Network Auto-Poster(<a href=\"https://wordpress.org/plugins/social-networks-auto-poster-facebook-twitter-g/\">Link</a>) or Mailchimp\u2019s Social plugin(<a href=\"https://wordpress.org/plugins/social/\">Link</a>), and even Bridgy(we\u2019ll get back to Bridgy in a moment).</li>\n<li>The theme I use is a custom one I built, but the most popular theme for Indieweb sites is Sempress(<a href=\"https://wordpress.org/themes/sempress\">Link</a>). My theme isn\u2019t quite refined, but if you want it, <del>a copy can be downloaded <a href=\"https://github.com/dshanske/mf2_bootstrap\">here</a>. The version in use on my site is just a colored version of the minimal style the theme offers.</del> I am currently using a fork of the WordPress Twenty-Sixteen theme(<a href=\"https://github.com/dshanske/twentysixteen-indieweb\">link</a>) I modified for Microformats and support of the plugins I use.</li>\n</ul><h2>Bridgy</h2>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.brid.gy/\">Bridgy</a> is <del>not a WordPress plugin, or something you need to install(although you can host it yourself)</del>. Bridgy now has a WordPress plugin(<a href=\"https://wordpress.org/plugins/bridgy-publish/\">link</a>) which acts as a UI for registering and posting to Bridgy. Oddly enough, I wrote the plugin, but don\u2019t actively use it. I need to fix my handling of syndication.</p>\n<p>Bridgy is a service that you can link your accounts on places like Twitter, Github and Facebook to, and it will pull in comments, likes, etc from those sites and send them to your site to be integrated. This requires the Webmention and Semantic Linkback plugins to understand what is being sent.</p>\n<h2>To the Future</h2>\n<p>I enjoy developing this site as a learning tool. I hadn\u2019t done much WordPress development before this and it is very useful to know.</p>\n<p>For anyone who comes here considering trying my setup, I\u2019m always available to help. For those who are trying my plugins\u2026they are still being refined, but feedback and contributions(of code) are appreciated.</p>\n<p>This site is under development, so it does change regularly. I will often summarize some of the changes with a post, but sometimes not.</p>"
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Congrats, Chris!

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        "name": "Kh\u00fcrt Williams",
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    "url": "https://islandinthenet.com/congrats-chris/",
    "published": "2018-04-23T23:07:33+00:00",
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        "text": "Island in the Net - A personal website by Kh\u00fcrt Williams, with imagery, and inchoate ramblings on coffee, beer, and geekery.\n\n\n\nChris Aldrich by Chris Aldrich (Chris Aldrich | BoffoSocko)\nToday, with the help of Webmention and tools like Brid.gy, I\u2019ve just passed the 9,000 reactions mark (and added many new friends in the process)!\n\nCongrats, Chris!\nThe post Congrats, Chris! by Kh\u00fcrt Williams appeared first on Island in the Net."
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    "published": "2018-04-23T18:06:11-04:00",
    "summary": "@johnbrayton Adding Microsub servers would be an excellent addition to Unread! Microsub is a client-Server communication spec that allows for people to host their own RSS feeds and use different clients to see the data: https://indieweb.org/Microsub-spec",
    "url": "https://eddiehinkle.com/2018/04/23/20/note/",
    "category": [
        "Microsub",
        "indieweb"
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        "text": "@johnbrayton Adding Microsub servers would be an excellent addition to Unread! Microsub is a client-Server communication spec that allows for people to host their own RSS feeds and use different clients to see the data: https://indieweb.org/Microsub-spec",
        "html": "<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/johnbrayton\">@johnbrayton</a> Adding Microsub servers would be an excellent addition to Unread! Microsub is a client-Server communication spec that allows for people to host their own RSS feeds and use different clients to see the data: <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/Microsub-spec\">https://indieweb.org/Microsub-spec</a></p>"
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    "author": {
        "type": "card",
        "name": "Eddie Hinkle",
        "url": "https://eddiehinkle.com/",
        "photo": "https://aperture-media.p3k.io/eddiehinkle.com/cf9f85e26d4be531bc908d37f69bff1c50b50b87fd066b254f1332c3553df1a8.jpg"
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        "text": "\u201cBy focusing on growth and growth only and ignoring the problems, they amassed a large set of cultural norms on their platforms\u2026from harassment or abuse or bad behavior\u2026 they\u2019re completely defensive and they can just never catch up on the problem.\u201d  http://nymag.com/selectall/2018/04/dan-mccomas-reddit-product-svp-and-imzy-founder-interview.html #indieweb",
        "html": "\u201cBy focusing on growth and growth only and ignoring the problems, they amassed a large set of cultural norms on their platforms\u2026from harassment or abuse or bad behavior\u2026 they\u2019re completely defensive and they can just never catch up on the problem.\u201d  <a href=\"http://nymag.com/selectall/2018/04/dan-mccomas-reddit-product-svp-and-imzy-founder-interview.html\">http://nymag.com/selectall/2018/04/dan-mccomas-reddit-product-svp-and-imzy-founder-interview.html</a> <a href=\"http://known.kevinmarks.com/tag/indieweb\" class=\"p-category\">#indieweb</a>"
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    "author": {
        "type": "card",
        "name": "Kevin Marks",
        "url": "http://known.kevinmarks.com/profile/kevinmarks",
        "photo": "https://aperture-media.p3k.io/known.kevinmarks.com/f893d11435a62200ec9585e0ea3d84b2bdc478aa0a056dda35a43ce4c04d58a0.jpg"
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Why we need to bring back the vision of the read-write web

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    "author": {
        "name": "Duncan Stephen",
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        "html": "<img src=\"https://duncanstephen.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/web-development-360x189.jpg\" alt=\"Laptop, notebook and HTML &amp; CSS book\" /><p><a href=\"https://medium.com/@anildash/the-missing-building-blocks-of-the-web-3fa490ae5cbc\">Anil Dash recently considered</a> the bits of the web that have been lost, or were perhaps never implemented as envisaged by the original hypertext visionaries of the mid-20th century.</p>\n<p>I was particularly struck by his first point, about how underutilised \u2018View Source\u2019 has become.</p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  For the first few years of the web, the fundamental way that people learned to build web pages was by using the \u201cView Source\u201d feature in their web browser. You would point your mouse at a menu that said something like \u201cView Source\u201d (nobody was browsing the web on a touchscreen back then) and suddenly you\u2019d see the HTML code that made up the page you were looking at. If you squinted, you could see the text you\u2019d been reading, and wrapped around it was a fairly comprehensible set of tags\u200a\u2014\u200ayou know, that <code>&lt;p&gt;paragraph&lt;/p&gt;</code> kind of stuff.\n</p></blockquote>\n<p>This is precisely the way I learnt how to make websites.</p>\n<p>The way many websites are built these days is over-engineered. This is a great shame. It would be impossible for a newbie to understand today\u2019s web code in the way it was possible for me to understand the simple and intuitive HTML markup.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://robinrendle.com/notes/the-missing-building-blocks-of-the-web/\">As Robin Rendle says</a>:</p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  It\u2019s interesting to note after reading this that it\u2019s clear at one point or another we all agreed that browsers should be \u201cread-by-default.\u201d\n</p></blockquote>\n<p>On which note, Anil Dash has this on authoring:</p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  When Tim Berners-Lee invented the world wide web, he assumed that, just like in earlier hypertext systems, every web browser would be able to write web pages just as easily as it read them.\n</p></blockquote>\n<p>Another great loss to the web. It was intended as a read-write medium. But while it has become very easy to read to web, writing to it is a different matter \u2014 at least, if you want to do it on your own terms.</p>\n<p>Sure, you can easily write to the web if you are up for funding Facebook, or you want to relinquish your writing to a platform like Medium where you have no control. But if you want to do it independently, it remains pitifully difficult to easily publish to the web, unless you\u2019re up for tackling an increasingly steep learning curve.</p>\n<p>Then, Anil Dash talks about embedding:</p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  These days that capability is mostly used to put a Google Map onto a company\u2019s site so you can find their nearest location.</p>\n<p>  Those old hypertext theory people had broader ambitions, though. They thought we might someday be able to pull live, updated pieces of other sites into our own websites, mixing and matching data or even whole apps as needed.\n</p></blockquote>\n<p>APIs enable us to do this a little bit \u2014 assuming a service offers them. But using APIs requires a fair amount of expertise, and results are very inconsistent.</p>\n<p>Perhaps most importantly of all, Anil Dash points out a key idea that was originally at the core of the web: your own website at your own address.</p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  \u2026[W]hile companies still usually have a website of their own, an individual having a substantial website (not just a one-page placeholder) is pretty unusual these days unless they\u2019re a Social Media Expert or somebody with a book to sell.</p>\n<p>  There\u2019s no reason it has to be that way, though. There are no technical barriers for why we couldn\u2019t share our photos to our own sites instead of to Instagram, or why we couldn\u2019t post stupid memes to our own web address instead of on Facebook or Reddit. There are social barriers, of course\u200a\u2014\u200aif we stubbornly used our own websites right now, none of our family or friends would see our stuff. Yet there\u2019s been a dogged community of web nerds working on that problem for a decade or two\u2026\n</p></blockquote>\n<p>I think this may be a reference to the <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/\">IndieWeb</a> efforts, which I have been <a href=\"https://duncanstephen.co.uk/a-brutal-redesign/\">dipping my toe into a little bit</a>. But as Anil Dash implies, it is mainly the pursuit of nerds.</p>\n<p>This stuff is all a long way off being as easy as it needs to be.</p>\n<p>The problem the web has run into is a simple user experience problem. The economics of the web have meant that those with vested interests and funding can invest in making sure their product is as easy to use as possible.</p>\n<p>Facebook gave people a very easy way to express themselves online, in a highly-organised way. This could never have been achieved by every individual on the planet doing their own thing on their own webspace and hoping that everyone else used the same open <a href=\"https://xkcd.com/927/\">standard</a> as they did.</p>\n<p>The sad consequence of this is what we see today: a giant using their dominant position to the detriment of its users\u2019 interests.</p>\n<p>This is why I am now determined to <a href=\"https://duncanstephen.co.uk/why-its-time-to-reclaim-our-digital-lives/\">reclaim my website as the place where I express myself</a>. Not Facebook, not <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/apr/23/flickr-bought-by-smugmug-yahoo-breakup\">Flickr</a>, nor any other here-today-gone-tomorrow service that I have no control over.</p>\n<p>But those web nerds working on this problem have a long hill to climb. Because <a href=\"https://duncanstephen.co.uk/why-the-cruel-culture-of-coding-is-damaging-society/\">developers have a tendency to make things more complicated than they need to be</a>. When what we need is to make things as simple as possible.</p>\n<p>I am lucky to have grown up with the web at a time where the principles were simple, and the basics were attainable. I ultimately made a career out of doing stuff with the web.</p>\n<p>But the web has become too complex in the face of simpler alternatives. I highly doubt if I would bother learning how to make a website from scratch today.</p>\n<p>This is something we need to fix. Because if the web is to fulfil its potential, it needs to be simple for anyone to pick up in the way they want to, democratically and accessibly.</p>",
        "text": "Anil Dash recently considered the bits of the web that have been lost, or were perhaps never implemented as envisaged by the original hypertext visionaries of the mid-20th century.\nI was particularly struck by his first point, about how underutilised \u2018View Source\u2019 has become.\n\n  For the first few years of the web, the fundamental way that people learned to build web pages was by using the \u201cView Source\u201d feature in their web browser. You would point your mouse at a menu that said something like \u201cView Source\u201d (nobody was browsing the web on a touchscreen back then) and suddenly you\u2019d see the HTML code that made up the page you were looking at. If you squinted, you could see the text you\u2019d been reading, and wrapped around it was a fairly comprehensible set of tags\u200a\u2014\u200ayou know, that <p>paragraph</p> kind of stuff.\n\nThis is precisely the way I learnt how to make websites.\nThe way many websites are built these days is over-engineered. This is a great shame. It would be impossible for a newbie to understand today\u2019s web code in the way it was possible for me to understand the simple and intuitive HTML markup.\nAs Robin Rendle says:\n\n  It\u2019s interesting to note after reading this that it\u2019s clear at one point or another we all agreed that browsers should be \u201cread-by-default.\u201d\n\nOn which note, Anil Dash has this on authoring:\n\n  When Tim Berners-Lee invented the world wide web, he assumed that, just like in earlier hypertext systems, every web browser would be able to write web pages just as easily as it read them.\n\nAnother great loss to the web. It was intended as a read-write medium. But while it has become very easy to read to web, writing to it is a different matter \u2014 at least, if you want to do it on your own terms.\nSure, you can easily write to the web if you are up for funding Facebook, or you want to relinquish your writing to a platform like Medium where you have no control. But if you want to do it independently, it remains pitifully difficult to easily publish to the web, unless you\u2019re up for tackling an increasingly steep learning curve.\nThen, Anil Dash talks about embedding:\n\n  These days that capability is mostly used to put a Google Map onto a company\u2019s site so you can find their nearest location.\n  Those old hypertext theory people had broader ambitions, though. They thought we might someday be able to pull live, updated pieces of other sites into our own websites, mixing and matching data or even whole apps as needed.\n\nAPIs enable us to do this a little bit \u2014 assuming a service offers them. But using APIs requires a fair amount of expertise, and results are very inconsistent.\nPerhaps most importantly of all, Anil Dash points out a key idea that was originally at the core of the web: your own website at your own address.\n\n  \u2026[W]hile companies still usually have a website of their own, an individual having a substantial website (not just a one-page placeholder) is pretty unusual these days unless they\u2019re a Social Media Expert or somebody with a book to sell.\n  There\u2019s no reason it has to be that way, though. There are no technical barriers for why we couldn\u2019t share our photos to our own sites instead of to Instagram, or why we couldn\u2019t post stupid memes to our own web address instead of on Facebook or Reddit. There are social barriers, of course\u200a\u2014\u200aif we stubbornly used our own websites right now, none of our family or friends would see our stuff. Yet there\u2019s been a dogged community of web nerds working on that problem for a decade or two\u2026\n\nI think this may be a reference to the IndieWeb efforts, which I have been dipping my toe into a little bit. But as Anil Dash implies, it is mainly the pursuit of nerds.\nThis stuff is all a long way off being as easy as it needs to be.\nThe problem the web has run into is a simple user experience problem. The economics of the web have meant that those with vested interests and funding can invest in making sure their product is as easy to use as possible.\nFacebook gave people a very easy way to express themselves online, in a highly-organised way. This could never have been achieved by every individual on the planet doing their own thing on their own webspace and hoping that everyone else used the same open standard as they did.\nThe sad consequence of this is what we see today: a giant using their dominant position to the detriment of its users\u2019 interests.\nThis is why I am now determined to reclaim my website as the place where I express myself. Not Facebook, not Flickr, nor any other here-today-gone-tomorrow service that I have no control over.\nBut those web nerds working on this problem have a long hill to climb. Because developers have a tendency to make things more complicated than they need to be. When what we need is to make things as simple as possible.\nI am lucky to have grown up with the web at a time where the principles were simple, and the basics were attainable. I ultimately made a career out of doing stuff with the web.\nBut the web has become too complex in the face of simpler alternatives. I highly doubt if I would bother learning how to make a website from scratch today.\nThis is something we need to fix. Because if the web is to fulfil its potential, it needs to be simple for anyone to pick up in the way they want to, democratically and accessibly."
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        "text": "@matthilt There's a number of ways of doing this typically under the titles of POSSE or PESOS. Some for WordPress are documented here: https://indieweb.org/WordPress/Plugins#POSSE_Plugins \n\nSpecifically for Instagram, I think the majority use OwnYourGram.\n\nTypically the more control you want over output for syndication means a bit more work upfront, while the easy solutions give you less control over how things look. Feel free to ask for opinions in chat as well either in the main channel or the #WordPress channel.",
        "html": "@matthilt There's a number of ways of doing this typically under the titles of POSSE or PESOS. Some for WordPress are documented here: <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/WordPress/Plugins#POSSE_Plugins\">https://indieweb.org/WordPress/Plugins#POSSE_Plugins</a> <br />\nSpecifically for Instagram, I think the majority use OwnYourGram.<br />\nTypically the more control you want over output for syndication means a bit more work upfront, while the easy solutions give you less control over how things look. Feel free to ask for opinions in chat as well either in the main channel or the <a href=\"http://stream.boffosocko.com/tag/WordPress\" class=\"p-category\">#WordPress</a> channel."
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At @TheWebConf today or Tuesday? Do you post to your personal site? Find me for an @IndieWebCamp sticker!

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        "html": "<a href=\"https://media.martymcgui.re/8c/4d/1e/fb/7fe949332e7ddf117d1877580c234b1300d537c324c36fb8f2e09b0f.jpg\"></a>                        \n                \n                  \n\n                  \n                  <p>At <a href=\"https://www2018.thewebconf.org/\">@TheWebConf</a> today or Tuesday? Do you post to your personal site? Find me for an <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/\">@IndieWebCamp</a> sticker!</p>"
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Episode 2: IndieAuth

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        "text": "In this third episode of An IndieWeb Podcast, I invited Chris to discuss my project of the last few months, the IndieAuth endpoints for WordPress, and some related Micropub work I\u2019ve been doing, and some other ideas, and try to teach him about IndieAuth, so far as I understand it.\n\u00a0\nWordPress Plugin for IndieAuth\nRelated IndieWeb Wiki Pages\nOAuth\n\nIndieAuth\nIndieAuth spec\n\nRelMeAuth\n\nMicropub Apps Mentioned in the episode\nOwn Your Gram\nOwn Your Swarm\nOwn Your Checkin\nQuill\nOther micropub clients\n\u00a0\nPESOS \u2013 Post Elsewhere, Syndicate to your Own Site\nPOSSE \u2013 Post on your Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere\nClosing discussion of IndieWeb Readers and MicroSub Pieces\n\nAperture (Aaron Parecki)\n\nIndigenous (Eddie Hinckle)\n\nAndroid Alpha app (Kristof De Jaeger)\n\n\nTogether (Jonathan LaCour and Grant Richmond)",
        "html": "In this third episode of An IndieWeb Podcast, I invited Chris to discuss my project of the last few months, the IndieAuth endpoints for WordPress, and some related Micropub work I\u2019ve been doing, and some other ideas, and try to teach him about IndieAuth, so far as I understand it.\n<p>\u00a0</p>\n<h3><a href=\"https://wordpress.org/plugins/indieauth/\">WordPress Plugin for IndieAuth</a></h3>\n<h3>Related IndieWeb Wiki Pages</h3>\n<ul><li><a href=\"https://indieweb.org/OAuth\">OAuth</a></li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"https://indieweb.org/IndieAuth\">IndieAuth</a>\n<ul><li><a href=\"https://indieweb.org/IndieAuth-spec\">IndieAuth spec</a></li>\n</ul></li>\n<li><a href=\"https://indieweb.org/RelMeAuth\">RelMeAuth</a></li>\n</ul><h3>\n<a href=\"https://indieweb.org/Micropub\">Micropub</a> Apps Mentioned in the episode</h3>\n<ul><li><a href=\"https://indieweb.org/OwnYourGram\">Own Your Gram</a></li>\n<li><a href=\"https://indieweb.org/OwnYourSwarm\">Own Your Swarm</a></li>\n<li><a href=\"https://indieweb.org/OwnYourCheckin\">Own Your Checkin</a></li>\n<li><a href=\"https://indieweb.org/Quill\">Quill</a></li>\n<li><a href=\"https://indieweb.org/Micropub/Clients\">Other micropub clients</a></li>\n</ul><p>\u00a0</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://indieweb.org/PESOS\">PESOS</a> \u2013 Post Elsewhere, Syndicate to your Own Site</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://indieweb.org/POSSE\">POSSE</a> \u2013 Post on your Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere</p>\n<h3>Closing discussion of IndieWeb Readers and <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/Microsub\">MicroSub</a> Pieces</h3>\n<ul><li>\n<a href=\"https://indieweb.org/Aperture\">Aperture</a> (<a href=\"https://aaronparecki.com/\">Aaron Parecki</a>)</li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"https://indieweb.org/Indigenous\">Indigenous</a> (<a href=\"https://eddiehinkle.com/\">Eddie Hinckle</a>)\n<ul><li>\n<a href=\"https://realize.be/blog/indigenous-android\">Android Alpha app</a> (<a href=\"https://realize.be/\">Kristof De Jaeger</a>)</li>\n</ul></li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"https://indieweb.org/Together\">Together</a> (<a href=\"https://cleverdevil.io/\">Jonathan LaCour</a> and <a href=\"https://grant.codes/\">Grant Richmond</a>)</li>\n</ul>"
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This Week in the IndieWeb Audio Edition • April 14th - 20th, 2018

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        "text": "Show/Hide Transcript  \n            \n            IndieWeb Leaders Summit planning, escaping social media maniplation, and printing out websites. It\u2019s the audio edition for This Week in the IndieWeb for April 14th - 20th, 2018.\n\nYou can find all of my audio editions and subscribe with your favorite podcast app here: martymcgui.re/podcasts/indieweb/.\n\nMusic from Aaron Parecki\u2019s 100DaysOfMusic project: Day 85 - Suit, Day 48 - Glitch, Day 49 - Floating, Day 9, and Day 11\n\nThanks to everyone in the IndieWeb chat for their feedback and suggestions. Please drop me a note if there are any changes you\u2019d like to see for this audio edition!",
        "html": "Show/Hide Transcript  \n            \n            <p>IndieWeb Leaders Summit planning, escaping social media maniplation, and printing out websites. It\u2019s the audio edition for <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/this-week/2018-04-20.html\">This Week in the IndieWeb for April 14th - 20th, 2018</a>.</p>\n\n<p>You can find all of my audio editions and subscribe with your favorite podcast app here: <a href=\"https://martymcgui.re/podcasts/indieweb/\">martymcgui.re/podcasts/indieweb/</a>.</p>\n\n<p>Music from <a href=\"https://aaronparecki.com/\">Aaron Parecki</a>\u2019s <a href=\"https://100.aaronparecki.com/\">100DaysOfMusic project</a>: <a href=\"https://aaronparecki.com/2017/03/15/14/day85\">Day 85 - Suit</a>, <a href=\"https://aaronparecki.com/2017/02/06/7/day48\">Day 48 - Glitch</a>, <a href=\"https://aaronparecki.com/2017/02/07/4/day49\">Day 49 - Floating</a>, <a href=\"https://aaronparecki.com/2016/12/29/21/day-9\">Day 9</a>, and <a href=\"https://aaronparecki.com/2016/12/31/15/\">Day 11</a></p>\n\n<p>Thanks to everyone in the <a href=\"https://chat.indieweb.org/\">IndieWeb chat</a> for their feedback and suggestions. Please drop me a note if there are any changes you\u2019d like to see for this audio edition!</p>"
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        "html": "<p>\"On this day...\" reminded me that I set up my user page on <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/\">indieweb.org</a> exactly a year ago. I don't think I'd updated it since and it was sorely out of date. Fixed!</p>",
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        "text": "I'm going!Can\u2019t wait! IndieWeb Summit was one of my favorite events last year. Really looking forward to seeing what\u2019s changed since last summer. More importantly, looking forward to catching up with everyone and hopefully meeting some new folks as well!",
        "html": "I'm going!<p>Can\u2019t wait! IndieWeb Summit was one of my favorite events last year. Really looking forward to seeing what\u2019s changed since last summer. More importantly, looking forward to catching up with everyone and hopefully meeting some new folks as well!</p>"
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    "summary": "Yeah, that\u2019s great to reduce mental pressure. The options already exist for each channel to either not track read/unread status, only show an unread indicator (the read dot in the screenshot) or to display unread counts. I actually find that not knowing the unread count in many cases creates MORE mental pressure because I don\u2019t know how many are there. I do use it in select cases like the Saved and IndieWeb tweets channels.",
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        "text": "Yeah, that\u2019s great to reduce mental pressure. The options already exist for each channel to either not track read/unread status, only show an unread indicator (the read dot in the screenshot) or to display unread counts. I actually find that not knowing the unread count in many cases creates MORE mental pressure because I don\u2019t know how many are there. I do use it in select cases like the Saved and IndieWeb tweets channels.",
        "html": "<p>Yeah, that\u2019s great to reduce mental pressure. The options already exist for each channel to either not track read/unread status, only show an unread indicator (the read dot in the screenshot) or to display unread counts. I actually find that not knowing the unread count in many cases creates MORE mental pressure because I don\u2019t know how many are there. I do use it in select cases like the Saved and IndieWeb tweets channels.</p>"
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    "type": "entry",
    "published": "2018-04-20T12:46:57-07:00",
    "url": "https://aaronparecki.com/2018/04/20/24/indieweb",
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        "text": "An IndieWeb reader: My new home on the internet https://www.godaddy.com/garage/an-indieweb-reader-my-new-home-on-the-internet/ #indieweb",
        "html": "An IndieWeb reader: My new home on the internet <a href=\"https://www.godaddy.com/garage/an-indieweb-reader-my-new-home-on-the-internet/\">https://www.godaddy.com/garage/an-indieweb-reader-my-new-home-on-the-internet/</a> <a href=\"https://aaronparecki.com/tag/indieweb\">#indieweb</a>"
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Promises

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        "html": "<p>While working for an outsourcing company a number of years ago I came up with the phrase <em>\"the apathy of the outsourced worker\"</em> as a play on \"the loneliness of the long distance runner.\"</p>\n<p>No matter how well the client might integrate outsourcers you're still not truly part of the team and something always comes up to remind you of it, normally around pay or contracts or benefits. You don't have a stake in the organisation you are effectively working for and, while based on the client site, are isolated from your actual employer leading to a feeling of being stuck in limbo, unsure of where your loyalties really lie.</p>\n<p>When looking to leave I told myself I would never work for outsourcer again - why would I want to put myself through that a second time - but ended up at a different outsourcer because of the promises they made at interview.</p>\n<h3>Social</h3>\n<p>Similarly, having become disillusioned with, and eventually leaving, the major social networks some might question why I would want to dive back in to another online social environment and potentially expose myself to more of the same.</p>\n<p>Just because certain networks have failed their users it doesn't mean that those same users don't want to be social, they just need to find another, hopefully better, way to do it.</p>\n<p>In an episode of the <a href=\"http://www.internetfriends.show/5\">Internet Friends podcast</a> Jon Mitchell talks about maintaining your relationships when you don't have the default options of Facebook or Twitter to fall back on. How do you reach out, how often, and who should control that relationship? Because you are the one who has eschewed what are seen as the \"normal\" channels, forcing an additional means of communication on others, do you have to rely on them to dictate the pace and frequency of connection?</p>\n<p>It's an interesting question. <em>(Which reminds me, I need to drop him a mail.)</em></p>\n<p>Although the number of people quitting the networks has increased, thanks to a growing distrust and recent scandal, they are still an incredibly small minority. While the attraction of the open web may be strong some will inevitably embrace it but then think \"now what?\" They may have been unhappy on the network but at least they were connected; after leaving there is a real danger of becoming isolated.</p>\n<p>Some may question the sense in leaving Twitter and then jumping on to a service like <a href=\"https://micro.blog/\">micro.blog</a>. Why decry social networks and sign up to another?</p>\n<p>Two reasons:</p>\n<ol><li>it's not a social network in the normal sense, and</li>\n<li>promises.</li>\n</ol><p>I've outlined before how micro.blog shares certain attributes with somewhere like Twitter but is a different beast because it is actually the hosting and social connection of blogs.</p>\n<p>It is the second point that I really want to emphasise, however \u2013 promises. Unlike the empty promises made at interview by that second outsourcing company, the indieweb promises to put you in control and can deliver. Having your own site and using <em>that</em> as your main identity. No algorithms to determine what you should see. No ads placed alongside your posts unless <em>you</em> choose to put them there.</p>\n<p>Micro.blog is the first mass market implementation of the indieweb that aims to make things as simple as posting to Facebook or Twitter. Because of this, I feel it delivers on that promise. People may see the apps and the timeline and think \"why should I just give all my content to another social network, put it all in another silo?\" but that's not what this is.</p>\n<p>To understand micro.blog you have to think of it more like WordPress.com or a web hosting company. The core service - and what users actually pay for - is to have their blog hosted in an incredibly simple environment, the difference is that an additional social layer is placed on top which negates those fears of isolation mentioned above.</p>\n<p>You don't have to have your own domain or point it to your microblog - it's better if you do - but it doesn't stop you from being able to export your posts and move them to another host.</p>\n<p>Posting to, and commenting on, blogs is as easy as sending a tweet. Because of the timeline (which is essentially the output of an RSS reader) you don't have to waste time visiting multiple websites to see what's new.</p>\n<p>Micro.blog is firmly built on indieweb principles and, in my view, has achieved its ultimate goal: to make all of the technical stuff (like microformats and webmentions) invisible to the user unless they choose to go under the hood and take advantage of these capabilities out on the wider web - as I do with this blog.</p>\n<p>This all helps further the overall open/indieweb agenda.</p>\n<h3>Guilt</h3>\n<p>But there's another side to this.</p>\n<p>I backed the micro.blog Kickstarter because I was already disillusioned with the status quo, understood the vision, and really wanted Manton to succeed. However, I am aware that, being self hosted, I haven't contributed anything financially since.</p>\n<p>There's an element of guilt to that.</p>\n<p>I have no need for a hosted microblog seeing as everything happens here and I don't use the facility to cross-post to Facebook or Twitter (kind of hard when I don't have accounts anymore) so the option to provide revenue to support my usage of the social elements (even if only $2 a month) via that avenue is not available.</p>\n<p>In an episode of the <a href=\"https://coreint.org/2018/04/episode-324-definitely-a-business-mistake/\">Core Intuition podcast</a> Manton talks about the importance of keeping the platform open, so that the social layer extends beyond its timeline, and not trying to force everyone who joins to be a paying customer. That would push people away who, like me, have their own blog and would only serve to reinforce the potential for social isolation on the open web.</p>\n<p>Like the introduction of his new podcasting feature and app (Wavelength) he discusses how growth and functionality, even if not used by some, attracts others and adds value to the community as a whole. Even those who are not <em>paying</em> customers are still contributing to that community thus making it better for everyone - it's the value of the network effect. Just look at Facebook!</p>\n<p>A rising tide floats all boats, as the saying goes.</p>\n<p>While I agree, it sometimes feels a little hollow. There is this nagging doubt about not actually providing <em>enough</em> value to make it worth it, to properly offset the cost of giving a non-fare paying passenger a free ride.</p>\n<p>So that's why I choose to write about micro.blog, to extol its virtues and those of the indieweb as a whole. Even if the service doesn't succeed in the long term it has created a blueprint, an example of how such a service can operate. That's why I share any code or solutions I create to make its interaction with WordPress easier. If I can help others get started or prevent issues and frustrations from driving them away it benefits all. A rising tide.</p>\n<p>My promise is to do what I can, as much or as little as that may be, to help it fulfil its promise.</p>",
        "text": "While working for an outsourcing company a number of years ago I came up with the phrase \"the apathy of the outsourced worker\" as a play on \"the loneliness of the long distance runner.\"\nNo matter how well the client might integrate outsourcers you're still not truly part of the team and something always comes up to remind you of it, normally around pay or contracts or benefits. You don't have a stake in the organisation you are effectively working for and, while based on the client site, are isolated from your actual employer leading to a feeling of being stuck in limbo, unsure of where your loyalties really lie.\nWhen looking to leave I told myself I would never work for outsourcer again - why would I want to put myself through that a second time - but ended up at a different outsourcer because of the promises they made at interview.\nSocial\nSimilarly, having become disillusioned with, and eventually leaving, the major social networks some might question why I would want to dive back in to another online social environment and potentially expose myself to more of the same.\nJust because certain networks have failed their users it doesn't mean that those same users don't want to be social, they just need to find another, hopefully better, way to do it.\nIn an episode of the Internet Friends podcast Jon Mitchell talks about maintaining your relationships when you don't have the default options of Facebook or Twitter to fall back on. How do you reach out, how often, and who should control that relationship? Because you are the one who has eschewed what are seen as the \"normal\" channels, forcing an additional means of communication on others, do you have to rely on them to dictate the pace and frequency of connection?\nIt's an interesting question. (Which reminds me, I need to drop him a mail.)\nAlthough the number of people quitting the networks has increased, thanks to a growing distrust and recent scandal, they are still an incredibly small minority. While the attraction of the open web may be strong some will inevitably embrace it but then think \"now what?\" They may have been unhappy on the network but at least they were connected; after leaving there is a real danger of becoming isolated.\nSome may question the sense in leaving Twitter and then jumping on to a service like micro.blog. Why decry social networks and sign up to another?\nTwo reasons:\nit's not a social network in the normal sense, and\npromises.\nI've outlined before how micro.blog shares certain attributes with somewhere like Twitter but is a different beast because it is actually the hosting and social connection of blogs.\nIt is the second point that I really want to emphasise, however \u2013 promises. Unlike the empty promises made at interview by that second outsourcing company, the indieweb promises to put you in control and can deliver. Having your own site and using that as your main identity. No algorithms to determine what you should see. No ads placed alongside your posts unless you choose to put them there.\nMicro.blog is the first mass market implementation of the indieweb that aims to make things as simple as posting to Facebook or Twitter. Because of this, I feel it delivers on that promise. People may see the apps and the timeline and think \"why should I just give all my content to another social network, put it all in another silo?\" but that's not what this is.\nTo understand micro.blog you have to think of it more like WordPress.com or a web hosting company. The core service - and what users actually pay for - is to have their blog hosted in an incredibly simple environment, the difference is that an additional social layer is placed on top which negates those fears of isolation mentioned above.\nYou don't have to have your own domain or point it to your microblog - it's better if you do - but it doesn't stop you from being able to export your posts and move them to another host.\nPosting to, and commenting on, blogs is as easy as sending a tweet. Because of the timeline (which is essentially the output of an RSS reader) you don't have to waste time visiting multiple websites to see what's new.\nMicro.blog is firmly built on indieweb principles and, in my view, has achieved its ultimate goal: to make all of the technical stuff (like microformats and webmentions) invisible to the user unless they choose to go under the hood and take advantage of these capabilities out on the wider web - as I do with this blog.\nThis all helps further the overall open/indieweb agenda.\nGuilt\nBut there's another side to this.\nI backed the micro.blog Kickstarter because I was already disillusioned with the status quo, understood the vision, and really wanted Manton to succeed. However, I am aware that, being self hosted, I haven't contributed anything financially since.\nThere's an element of guilt to that.\nI have no need for a hosted microblog seeing as everything happens here and I don't use the facility to cross-post to Facebook or Twitter (kind of hard when I don't have accounts anymore) so the option to provide revenue to support my usage of the social elements (even if only $2 a month) via that avenue is not available.\nIn an episode of the Core Intuition podcast Manton talks about the importance of keeping the platform open, so that the social layer extends beyond its timeline, and not trying to force everyone who joins to be a paying customer. That would push people away who, like me, have their own blog and would only serve to reinforce the potential for social isolation on the open web.\nLike the introduction of his new podcasting feature and app (Wavelength) he discusses how growth and functionality, even if not used by some, attracts others and adds value to the community as a whole. Even those who are not paying customers are still contributing to that community thus making it better for everyone - it's the value of the network effect. Just look at Facebook!\nA rising tide floats all boats, as the saying goes.\nWhile I agree, it sometimes feels a little hollow. There is this nagging doubt about not actually providing enough value to make it worth it, to properly offset the cost of giving a non-fare paying passenger a free ride.\nSo that's why I choose to write about micro.blog, to extol its virtues and those of the indieweb as a whole. Even if the service doesn't succeed in the long term it has created a blueprint, an example of how such a service can operate. That's why I share any code or solutions I create to make its interaction with WordPress easier. If I can help others get started or prevent issues and frustrations from driving them away it benefits all. A rising tide.\nMy promise is to do what I can, as much or as little as that may be, to help it fulfil its promise."
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    "url": "https://colinwalker.blog/18-04-2018-0837/",
    "published": "2018-04-18T08:37:38+00:00",
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        "html": "<p><em>Liked: <a href=\"https://www.sadlerjw.com/2018/04/17/wrapping-my-head-around-micro-blog-and-indieweb/\">Wrapping My Head Around Micro.blog and IndieWeb \u2013 JSON Writes</a>...</em></p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  <em>Even the IndieWeb website doesn\u2019t do a great job of explaining what it is, or what it means to \u201cjoin the IndieWeb\u201d. As far as I can tell, it\u2019s a collection of practices and technologies that connects independent blog-type websites together into a quasi social network.</em>\n</p></blockquote>\n<p>In discussing <a href=\"https://micro.blog/\">micro.blog</a> and the <a href=\"https://colinwalker.blog/?s=%23indieweb,\">#indieweb,</a> Jason makes a valid point which others, and myself, have echoed. Social networks are so ingrained, so easy and so <em>obvious</em> that people don't need to think about them. It's by design, of course - make them sticky, make them frictionless.</p>\n<p>To have to put real effort into what you are doing and actually adopt a <em>philosophy</em> for how you engage on the web is further than many are willing to go without having a real sense of why they should or what benefits they might gain from it.</p>\n<p>As much as the technology needs to be easy to use the rationale is, perhaps, more important.</p>",
        "text": "Liked: Wrapping My Head Around Micro.blog and IndieWeb \u2013 JSON Writes...\n\n  Even the IndieWeb website doesn\u2019t do a great job of explaining what it is, or what it means to \u201cjoin the IndieWeb\u201d. As far as I can tell, it\u2019s a collection of practices and technologies that connects independent blog-type websites together into a quasi social network.\n\nIn discussing micro.blog and the #indieweb, Jason makes a valid point which others, and myself, have echoed. Social networks are so ingrained, so easy and so obvious that people don't need to think about them. It's by design, of course - make them sticky, make them frictionless.\nTo have to put real effort into what you are doing and actually adopt a philosophy for how you engage on the web is further than many are willing to go without having a real sense of why they should or what benefits they might gain from it.\nAs much as the technology needs to be easy to use the rationale is, perhaps, more important."
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The Social Web

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        "html": "<p>Something I've written about a lot over the years is the social web. The context and scope of what that entails has changed sometimes but when I think of it now I know exactly what I'm referring to. Still, <a href=\"https://colinwalker.blog/06-04-2018-1823/#54449\">after my recent comment</a>, I wanted to really get my thoughts together.</p>\n<p>When we hear the word <em>social</em> we invariably follow it with media or network - the pervasiveness of Twitter and Facebook <em>et al.</em> has co-opted the word in 21st century parlance. Such is their power.</p>\n<p>What is social?</p>\n<p><strong>Social</strong><br />/\u2019s\u014dSH\u0259l/<br /><em>adjective</em></p>\n<ol><li>of or relating to society or its organization.</li>\n<li>needing companionship and therefore best suited to living in communities.</li>\n</ol><p>Four and a half years ago I came up with:</p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  <em>\"Social is a series of shared experiences.\"</em>\n</p></blockquote>\n<p>Shared experiences can happen anywhere - online, offline, a social network, the comments on an article, a forum, a football stadium, discussing last night's TV on your lunch break.</p>\n<p>The point is that social is so much bigger than social networks, even if Facebook <em>does</em> have over two billion active users.</p>\n<p>It's not quantity that's important, it's not reach nor influence. No, it's the quality of the connection itself that's key. It's the relationship that is built between individuals rather than the metrics games of followers, likes and retweets.</p>\n<p>Numbers mean nothing if they are empty.</p>\n<p>The social web encompasses so much more than a timeline, it is any means to interact and engage with someone else via the internet. Any way that we can mention someone, get a message across, talk to them and discuss - <em>this</em> is the social web.</p>\n<p>Email, blogs, forums, anywhere that allows comments or replies, anyone who responds to something and links back to the original piece, it is those connections that matter.</p>\n<p>Cal Newport described the difference between the <em><a href=\"http://calnewport.com/blog/2018/03/20/on-social-media-and-its-discontents/\">social internet and social media</a></em> as follows:</p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  <em>\"The social internet describes the general ways in which the global communication network and open protocols known as \u201cthe internet\u201d enable good things like connecting people, spreading information, and supporting expression and activism.</em></p>\n<p>  <em>\"Social media, by contrast, describes the attempt to privatize these capabilities by large companies within the newly emerged algorithmic attention economy, a particularly virulent strain of the attention sector that leverages personal data and sophisticated algorithms to ruthlessly siphon users\u2019 cognitive capital.\"</em>\n</p></blockquote>\n<p>I've always used web rather than internet but it's the same thing.</p>\n<p>Yes, social media is a <em>part</em> of the social web - it used to supplement it perfectly - but it has become increasingly closed, increasingly profit driven, for the benefit of the networks rather than those who use them.</p>\n<p>And we went along with it.</p>\n<p>The social web shrank because people and businesses abandoned their own properties, closed comments, posted on the social networks to once again reach those that no longer visited. How many times have we heard <em>\"go where your audience is\"</em> as an online strategy.</p>\n<p>For an offline equivalent consider how many rural communities are dying as successive generations abandon them and flee to the cities in search of work and a \"better\" life. Then the transport links to those communities suffer as is it not economically viable to run regular services, further isolating those that remain.</p>\n<p>The same thing happened to the social web. The networks grew in size and scope meaning you almost never had to leave. Everything you ever needed was a few clicks away, held within the walls of these great cities. Personal websites sat idle like the empty second homes of those who holiday in the country a couple of times a year.</p>\n<p>Convenience is a powerful motivator even if there is a cost.</p>\n<p>Recently, however, there is a growing dissatisfaction with the networks and some seek a return to the social web, to their own sites and ways to connect them with those of others. They look to move back to those rural communities and re-establish those links but in better, more efficient ways than before.</p>\n<p>Cal talks of \"social protocols\" whereby people can <em>\"create and own a digital identity\"</em> and for those <em>\"digital identities to agree to establish a descriptive social link\"</em> such that we know who we are dealing with and can trust those interactions. The Indieweb sees the domain as this identity.</p>\n<p>He is right - <em>\"there are few serious technical obstacles to implementing these protocols\"</em> but there are major <em>cultural</em> obstacles and the unwillingness of the networks to cede even the slightest control of the data housed within their walls.</p>\n<p>Whatever form these new social protocols ultimately take, their use must at least match the convenience of the networks or the social web could be lost forever.</p>",
        "text": "Something I've written about a lot over the years is the social web. The context and scope of what that entails has changed sometimes but when I think of it now I know exactly what I'm referring to. Still, after my recent comment, I wanted to really get my thoughts together.\nWhen we hear the word social we invariably follow it with media or network - the pervasiveness of Twitter and Facebook et al. has co-opted the word in 21st century parlance. Such is their power.\nWhat is social?\nSocial\n/\u2019s\u014dSH\u0259l/\nadjective\nof or relating to society or its organization.\nneeding companionship and therefore best suited to living in communities.\nFour and a half years ago I came up with:\n\n  \"Social is a series of shared experiences.\"\n\nShared experiences can happen anywhere - online, offline, a social network, the comments on an article, a forum, a football stadium, discussing last night's TV on your lunch break.\nThe point is that social is so much bigger than social networks, even if Facebook does have over two billion active users.\nIt's not quantity that's important, it's not reach nor influence. No, it's the quality of the connection itself that's key. It's the relationship that is built between individuals rather than the metrics games of followers, likes and retweets.\nNumbers mean nothing if they are empty.\nThe social web encompasses so much more than a timeline, it is any means to interact and engage with someone else via the internet. Any way that we can mention someone, get a message across, talk to them and discuss - this is the social web.\nEmail, blogs, forums, anywhere that allows comments or replies, anyone who responds to something and links back to the original piece, it is those connections that matter.\nCal Newport described the difference between the social internet and social media as follows:\n\n  \"The social internet describes the general ways in which the global communication network and open protocols known as \u201cthe internet\u201d enable good things like connecting people, spreading information, and supporting expression and activism.\n  \"Social media, by contrast, describes the attempt to privatize these capabilities by large companies within the newly emerged algorithmic attention economy, a particularly virulent strain of the attention sector that leverages personal data and sophisticated algorithms to ruthlessly siphon users\u2019 cognitive capital.\"\n\nI've always used web rather than internet but it's the same thing.\nYes, social media is a part of the social web - it used to supplement it perfectly - but it has become increasingly closed, increasingly profit driven, for the benefit of the networks rather than those who use them.\nAnd we went along with it.\nThe social web shrank because people and businesses abandoned their own properties, closed comments, posted on the social networks to once again reach those that no longer visited. How many times have we heard \"go where your audience is\" as an online strategy.\nFor an offline equivalent consider how many rural communities are dying as successive generations abandon them and flee to the cities in search of work and a \"better\" life. Then the transport links to those communities suffer as is it not economically viable to run regular services, further isolating those that remain.\nThe same thing happened to the social web. The networks grew in size and scope meaning you almost never had to leave. Everything you ever needed was a few clicks away, held within the walls of these great cities. Personal websites sat idle like the empty second homes of those who holiday in the country a couple of times a year.\nConvenience is a powerful motivator even if there is a cost.\nRecently, however, there is a growing dissatisfaction with the networks and some seek a return to the social web, to their own sites and ways to connect them with those of others. They look to move back to those rural communities and re-establish those links but in better, more efficient ways than before.\nCal talks of \"social protocols\" whereby people can \"create and own a digital identity\" and for those \"digital identities to agree to establish a descriptive social link\" such that we know who we are dealing with and can trust those interactions. The Indieweb sees the domain as this identity.\nHe is right - \"there are few serious technical obstacles to implementing these protocols\" but there are major cultural obstacles and the unwillingness of the networks to cede even the slightest control of the data housed within their walls.\nWhatever form these new social protocols ultimately take, their use must at least match the convenience of the networks or the social web could be lost forever."
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Homebrew Website Club Baltimore

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