Plutopia.io podcast on the Indieweb

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        "html": "<p>I had fun participating in the <a href=\"https://www.plutopia.io/2018/12/02/tom-brown-and-manton-reece-an-introduction-to-indieweb/\">Introduction to Indieweb</a> podcast with Manton, Jon and Scoop where we talk about some of the latest <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/\">Indieweb</a> progress.</p>\n\n<p>Also mentioned is the upcoming <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/2019/Austin\">IndieWebCamp Austin</a> (February 23-24) as well as the monthly <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/Homebrew_Website_Club\">Homebrew Website Club</a> meetings (first Wednesday of the month) at <a href=\"http://mozartscoffee.com/\">Mozart\u2019s Coffee</a>.</p>",
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Vika fireburn.ru

#IndieWebChallenge Day 1: #Python Micropub endpoint with potential

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Vika fireburn.ru

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Ryan Barrett snarfed.org

IndieWeb Google Custom Search Engine

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        "text": "TL;DR: it exists! Try it below, or here.\n\n\n\n\n A search engine for the whole IndieWeb has been a hot conversation topic, on and off, for many years now. Many of us offer search on our own individual sites, and more ambitious projects like cweiske\u2018s phinde can search our IRC archives, but building a full fledged search engine to crawl and index all IndieWeb sites has always been a bit too big of a project to tackle. (Not to mention the question of which sites we should include in the first place.)\nAs usual, my first instinct is always software prevention. Whatever the task at hand is, someone has else has usually already tried to do it. Often they\u2019ve even succeeded, to some degree. Search is certainly no exception. Google has offered custom search engines for individual sites for a long time, so I threw together one that searches all of the sites in Indie Map, plus lots more that have joined the IndieWeb since then. It seems to work ok so far. Try it out and let me know what you think!\n Continue reading \u2192",
        "html": "<em>TL;DR: it exists! Try it below, <a href=\"https://cse.google.com/cse?cx=001473925626342383772:izm-5gxypp4\">or here</a>.</em>\n<p></p>\n<p></p>\n<p></p>\n<p>\n <img src=\"https://aperture-proxy.p3k.io/3f73cab69d2a5a859e37f9d4afe4e8f9c115eb46/68747470733a2f2f736e61726665642e6f72672f6d61676e696679696e675f676c6173732e6a7067\" alt=\"magnifying_glass.jpg\" /></p><img src=\"https://aperture-proxy.p3k.io/3f73cab69d2a5a859e37f9d4afe4e8f9c115eb46/68747470733a2f2f736e61726665642e6f72672f6d61676e696679696e675f676c6173732e6a7067\" alt=\"magnifying_glass.jpg\" />\n<p>A search engine for the whole <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/\">IndieWeb</a> has been a <a href=\"https://quickthoughts.jgregorymcverry.com/2018/11/25/scoping-out-basics-of-indieweb-search\">hot conversation topic</a>, on and off, for many years now. Many of us offer <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/search\">search</a> on our own individual sites, and more ambitious projects like <a href=\"https://cweiske.de/\">cweiske</a>\u2018s <a href=\"https://cweiske.de/tagebuch/phinde.htm\">phinde</a> can <a href=\"http://indiechat.search.cweiske.de/\">search our IRC archives</a>, but building a full fledged search engine to crawl and index <em>all</em> IndieWeb sites has always been a bit too big of a project to tackle. (Not to mention the question of <a href=\"https://indiemap.org/docs.html#sites\">which sites we should include</a> in the first place.)</p>\n<p>As usual, my first instinct is always <a href=\"https://snarfed.org/2017-01-23_23351\">software prevention</a>. Whatever the task at hand is, someone has else has usually already tried to do it. Often they\u2019ve even succeeded, to some degree. Search is certainly no exception. Google has offered <a href=\"https://developers.google.com/custom-search/\">custom search engines</a> for individual sites for a long time, so I threw together one that searches all of the sites in <a href=\"https://indiemap.org/\">Indie Map</a>, plus lots more that have joined the IndieWeb since then. It seems to work ok so far. <a href=\"https://cse.google.com/cse?cx=001473925626342383772:izm-5gxypp4\">Try it out</a> and let me know what you think!\n <a href=\"https://snarfed.org/2018-11-30_indieweb-google-custom-search-engine#more-30513\">Continue reading <span>\u2192</span></a></p>"
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Homebrew Website Club SF!

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Vika fireburn.ru

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Homebrew Website Club SF!

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Webmention Reply from Island in the Net

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Marty McGuire

HWC Baltimore 2018-11-27 Wrap-Up

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David Shanske david.shanske.com

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        "text": "Trying something different over the next few days. The Parkeology Disneyworld Challenge, to ride all open rides at 4 Disney World parks in one day. The challenge requires tweeting to @Parkeology with the tag #parkeologychallenge. Another team member will be keeping that record for official certification. I\u2019ll be doing my Indieweb version when it won\u2019t interfere. Only 1 rule for that. It must be posted to my website.",
        "html": "Trying something different over the next few days. The <a href=\"http://www.parkeology.com/parkeology-challenge-all-disney-world-disneyland-rides-one-day\">Parkeology Disneyworld Challenge</a>, to ride all open rides at 4 Disney World parks in one day. The challenge requires tweeting to @Parkeology with the tag #parkeologychallenge. Another team member will be keeping that record for official certification. I\u2019ll be doing my Indieweb version when it won\u2019t interfere. Only 1 rule for that. It must be posted to my website."
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Marty McGuire

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        "text": "I'm going!Put those Thanksgiving calories to good use and give yourself the gift of control over everything you post online by working on your own website!\nWhat will you finish before 2019? Will you help the IndieWeb community post something every day in December?",
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Jeremy Keith adactio.com

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    "type": "entry",
    "published": "2018-11-26T14:18:09Z",
    "url": "https://adactio.com/links/14561",
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        "text": "Warp and Weft \u2014\u00a0Paul Robert Lloyd\n\n\n\nPaul was at the Material conference in Iceland too, and we had some good chats. Here, he speaks his brains with Deep Thoughts prompted by the event.\n\nI really get where he\u2019s coming from when he says that \u201ccertain websites feel more \u2018webby\u2019 than others\u201d, but it sure is tricky to nail down.",
        "html": "<h3>\n<a class=\"p-name u-bookmark-of\" href=\"https://paulrobertlloyd.com/2018/11/warp_and_weft\">\nWarp and Weft \u2014\u00a0Paul Robert Lloyd\n</a>\n</h3>\n\n<p>Paul was at the Material conference in Iceland too, and we had some good chats. Here, he speaks his brains with Deep Thoughts prompted by the event.</p>\n\n<p>I really get where he\u2019s coming from when he says that \u201ccertain websites feel more \u2018webby\u2019 than others\u201d, but it sure is tricky to nail down.</p>"
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Jeremy Keith adactio.com

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    "type": "entry",
    "published": "2018-11-25T00:08:12Z",
    "url": "https://adactio.com/links/14557",
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        "text": "Stats: Creating (Phil Gyford\u2019s website)\n\n\n\nI quite like Phil\u2019s idea of having charts like this. It might be a fun project for Homebrew Website Club to do something like this for my site.",
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Jeremy Keith adactio.com

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    "type": "entry",
    "published": "2018-11-24T13:47:38Z",
    "url": "https://adactio.com/links/14554",
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        "text": "PushAPI without Notifications | Seblog\n\n\n\nRemember when I wrote about using push without notifications? Sebastiaan has written up the details of the experiment he conducted at Indie Web Camp Berlin.",
        "html": "<h3>\n<a class=\"p-name u-bookmark-of\" href=\"https://seblog.nl/2018/11/13/3/pushapi-without-notifications\">\nPushAPI without Notifications | Seblog\n</a>\n</h3>\n\n<p>Remember when I wrote about using <a href=\"https://adactio.com/journal/14511\">push without notifications</a>? Sebastiaan has written up the details of the experiment he conducted at Indie Web Camp Berlin.</p>"
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Matthias Pfefferle pfefferle.org

facebook

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    "type": "entry",
    "published": "2018-11-22T10:58:41+01:00",
    "summary": "In den letzten 4…5 Jahren hab ich immer wieder mit dem Gedanken gespielt meinen facebook Account zu l\u00f6schen. Mein Account hatte wirklich wenig pers\u00f6nliches und ich habe ihn fast ausschlie\u00dflich dazu benutzt, meine Blogposts zu teilen. Der einzig plausible Grund der mich noch daraun gehindert hat ihn zu l\u00f6schen, ist mein Beruf. Mittlerweile bin ich […]",
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        "text": "In den letzten 4...5 Jahren hab ich immer wieder mit dem Gedanken gespielt meinen facebook Account zu l\u00f6schen. Mein Account hatte wirklich wenig pers\u00f6nliches und ich habe ihn fast ausschlie\u00dflich dazu benutzt, meine Blogposts zu teilen. Der einzig plausible Grund der mich noch daraun gehindert hat ihn zu l\u00f6schen, ist mein Beruf. Mittlerweile bin ich aber der \u00dcberzeugung, dass daf\u00fcr auch ein ... nennen wir es mal \"Test-Account\" ... ausreicht.\n\n\n\nGl\u00fccklicherweise geh\u00f6re ich zu einer Generation die auch ganz gut ohne facebook auskommt, weshalb ich das \"Privileg\" habe, meinen Account zu l\u00f6schen.\n\n\n\nAlso dann: Ciao facebook!\n\n\n\n\nWer mich erreichen, mir folgen, mit mir diskutieren, oder einfach nur \"hallo\" sagen will, ist (bzw. \"war schon immer\") hier auf notiz.blog am besten aufgehoben. Mein Blog hat RSS, ATOM, JSON, Microformats(2), Schema.org und ActivityStream Feeds, er unterst\u00fctzt Kommentare, Salmons, Webmentions und Pingbacks, ihr k\u00f6nnt mir auf Mastodon, Friendi.ca, GNU.social, STATUS.net, Diaspora (WIP) ((@)pfefferle@notiz.blog), Micro.blog (\u00fcber irgend einen der oben erw\u00e4hnten Feeds) oder \u00fcber Telegram folgen (@notizblog).\n\n\n\nAu\u00dferdem bin ich weiterhin \u00fcber Twitter, GitHub und diverse Slack Channels (IndieWeb, WordPress, ...) zu erreichen.\n\n\n\nAls n\u00e4chstes w\u00fcrde ich \u00fcbrigens auch gerne auf Whatsapp verzichten... Also bitte nur noch Telegram verwenden!",
        "html": "<p>In den letzten 4...5 Jahren hab ich immer wieder mit dem Gedanken gespielt meinen facebook Account zu l\u00f6schen. Mein Account hatte wirklich wenig pers\u00f6nliches und ich habe ihn fast ausschlie\u00dflich dazu benutzt, meine Blogposts zu teilen. Der einzig plausible Grund der mich noch daraun gehindert hat ihn zu l\u00f6schen, ist mein Beruf. Mittlerweile bin ich aber der \u00dcberzeugung, dass daf\u00fcr auch ein ... nennen wir es mal \"Test-Account\" ... ausreicht.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gl\u00fccklicherweise geh\u00f6re ich zu einer Generation die auch ganz gut ohne facebook auskommt, weshalb ich das \"<a href=\"https://medium.com/@ginahelfrich/deleting-facebook-is-a-privilege-you-should-do-it-anyway-fb299396fd70\">Privileg</a>\" habe, meinen Account zu l\u00f6schen.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also dann: Ciao facebook!<br /></p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wer mich erreichen, mir folgen, mit mir diskutieren, oder einfach nur \"hallo\" sagen will, ist (bzw. \"war schon immer\") hier auf <strong>notiz.blog</strong> am besten aufgehoben. Mein Blog hat RSS, ATOM, JSON, Microformats(2), Schema.org und ActivityStream Feeds, er unterst\u00fctzt Kommentare, Salmons, Webmentions und Pingbacks, ihr k\u00f6nnt mir auf Mastodon, Friendi.ca, GNU.social, STATUS.net, Diaspora (<a href=\"https://github.com/pfefferle/wordpress-diaspora\"><abbr title=\"work in progress\">WIP</abbr></a>) (<code>(@)pfefferle@notiz.blog</code>), Micro.blog (\u00fcber irgend einen der oben erw\u00e4hnten Feeds) oder \u00fcber Telegram folgen (<code><a href=\"https://t.me/notizblog\">@notizblog</a></code>).</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Au\u00dferdem bin ich weiterhin \u00fcber <a href=\"https://twitter.com/pfefferle\">Twitter</a>, <a href=\"https://github.com/pfefferle\">GitHub</a> und diverse Slack Channels (IndieWeb, WordPress, ...) zu erreichen.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Als n\u00e4chstes w\u00fcrde ich \u00fcbrigens auch gerne auf Whatsapp verzichten... Also bitte nur noch <a href=\"https://t.me/pfefferle\">Telegram</a> verwenden!<br /></p>"
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Tantek Çelik tantek.com

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    "type": "entry",
    "published": "2018-11-20 23:03-0800",
    "url": "http://tantek.com/2018/324/t1/five-years-homebrew-website-club",
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        "text": "Five years ago Homebrew Website Club (HWC) met for the first time: http://tantek.com/2013/332/b1/homebrew-website-club-newsletter\n\nSince then:\n* HWC has grown, meets in many cities^1\n* Path (noted in linked post) shutdown^2\n\nNext HWC meeting 2018-11-28^3\nJoin us, share, inspire, be inspired \u00a0\n\n^1. https://indieweb.org/Homebrew_Website_Club#Regular_Meetings\n^2. https://indieweb.org/Path\n^3. https://indieweb.org/next-hwc",
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Indie WYSIWYG: How I Fixed My Instagram Problem

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    "summary": "I talk about what-you-see-is-what-you-get posting system for my #indieweb site and how it improved my post quality.",
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gRegor Morrill gregorlove.com

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    "type": "entry",
    "published": "2018-11-20 15:31-0800",
    "url": "https://gregorlove.com/2018/11/another-year-is-wrapping-up/",
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        "https://twitter.com/gRegorLove/status/1065028111694102528"
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        "text": "Another year is wrapping up (how?!), so time for my #indieweb #newwwyear resolutions for my website.\n\nBy 2019-01-01 I would like to:\n\nUpdate my archive pages to cover more post types, not just articles\n\tAdd back the next/previous article navigation. I lost those as part of updates to the footer\n\nAs a stretch goal, I would like to work on my channels more. I would like to set up one to feed into my micro.blog that excludes replies to non-micro.blog posts. I would like to start treating micro.blog as my primary, external social network instead of Twitter.\n\nPreviously: 2017, 2016, 2015",
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        "name": "gRegor Morrill",
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Eddie Hinkle eddiehinkle.com

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    "type": "entry",
    "published": "2018-11-19T19:39:20-05:00",
    "url": "https://eddiehinkle.com/2018/11/19/17/note/",
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    "syndication": [
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    "content": {
        "text": "Thinking through planning the IndieWebCamp Online event. Right now, it looks like we might be scheduling it for the weekend of March 9 and 10, 2019. Anyone who is thinking about participating have any huge conflicts with that weekend? If so, let me know!",
        "html": "Thinking through planning the <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/IndieWebCamps\">IndieWebCamp</a> Online event. Right now, it looks like we might be scheduling it for the weekend of March 9 and 10, 2019. Anyone who is thinking about participating have any huge conflicts with that weekend? If so, let me know!"
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        "name": "Eddie Hinkle",
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XOXO: Yes, you do belong here

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    "type": "entry",
    "published": "2018-11-18 21:38-0800",
    "url": "https://gregorlove.com/2018/11/xoxo-yes-you-do-belong-here/",
    "name": "XOXO: Yes, you do belong here",
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        "text": "In September I attended XOXO Festival for the first time. I\u2019ve heard great things about the festival over the years. I almost attended in 2016 but I couldn\u2019t quite make it work and decided I would go the following year. Then they announced they were going on hiatus, so there would be no XOXO 2017. I was really glad to hear they were coming back this year, so I was determined to attend.\n\nXOXO bills itself as an \u201cexperimental festival for independent artists and creators who work on the internet.\u201d The organizers are intentional about having a diverse and inclusive event, both speakers and attendees. Potential attendees fill out a brief survey about themselves and something they have recently created that they are proud of. This allows the organizers to invite a more diverse group of attendees instead of just having first-come, first-serve ticket sales. They also subsidized 20% of the attendees this year, which meant 400 free tickets.\n\nHere\u2019s a good little intro video with some footage from this year:\n\n\n\nSo what was my XOXO experience like?\n\nI was struck by how friendly everyone was. There was a large pavilion outside the venue with standing tables and a many people would readily walk up to you and introduce themselves. There was very little \u201cwhere do you work?\u201d in the conversations and a lot of \u201cwhat are you excited/passionate about?\u201d It felt like a gathering of soon-to-be friends and not a schmoozy networking event.\n\nThe opening keynote Thursday night by Cameron Esposito was funny and powerful. One of the best lines included in that video above was \u201cart dismantles power, otherwise it is propaganda.\u201d You should check out her stand-up special, Rape Jokes, which deals with her experience of sexual assault. It\u2019s free to watch on her site and she\u2019s collecting donations for RAINN. As of this writing, over $80k has been raised.\n\nIn the weeks prior to the festival, attendees were invited to join the XOXO Slack group chat. There are a bunch of different topical channels in there to help you connect with each other. Friday at the festival was largely reserved for social meetups. The Slack channels organized over 30 meetups around Portland. It ended up being a great way to ease into the festival by meeting people and exploring Portland.\n\nI attended the #indieweb/#mastodon meetup in the morning and the #mcelroy meetup in the afternoon. If you\u2019re not familiar with the McElroy brothers, they\u2019re best known for their hilarious advice podcast: My Brother, My Brother and Me. They have a segment within that show, \u201cMunch Squad,\u201d where they read fast food companies\u2019 earnest, actual press releases for their new food abominations. It seemed only appropriate that if we were going to have an XOXO #mcelroy meetup, it should be somewhere like Taco Bell. So that\u2019s what we did. We had some good, good (bad) food and lots of laughs. I kid you not, my total came to $6.69 (hashtag nice, hashtag blessed). For two people there, it was their first time ever eating Taco Bell, so it was a treat to introduce them to it.\n\nI might have bought munchsquad dot club after that meetup.\n\nFriday night the festival portion started, aka the Paradox of Choice. The main auditorium had Film and Animation. Another room had Art+Code. There was also the Arcade room and the Tabletop room. I went to Art+Code first and saw Jenn Schiffer\u2019s introduction, including some attendee\u2019s retro websites. I also saw Baratunde Thurston\u2019s talk about racialized news headlines and his quiz web app, Living While Black. Try it out and see if you can tell which headlines are real or fake.\n\nI decided to bop around to some of the other things going on at the same time, thinking that anything I missed in Art+Code would be recorded and posted online later. Unfortunately I was mistaken. I wish I had stayed in Art+Code longer, but oh well. I was glad to catch the Bill Wurtz segment of Film and Animation. If you\u2019re not familiar with him, start with \u201cand the day goes on.\u201d\n\nOn Saturday the conference portion started. These were the main speakers and there was only one track, so no worries about missing anything. They were also recorded and many are now posted. Check out some of my favorites:\n\nDemi Adejuyigbe\n\tOpen Mike Eagle\n\tJean Grae\n\tNatalie Wynn (ContraPoints)\nThere\u2019s several more posted on the XOXO YouTube.\n\nA recurring theme from both attendees and speakers was experiencing impostor syndrome. Some attendees even made an XOXO Bingo game where the free spot was \u201chave impostor syndrome.\u201d There was a recurring encouragement, though: yes, you do belong here.\n\nThe Slack chat was an interesting component throughout the event. I was impressed that organizers and volunteers were on it regularly to answer questions and respond to feedback. Day-to-day, improvements were made based on feedback, like adding more lighting to the picnic tables outside at night. The organizers were very receptive to feedback and criticism; it was a transparent process since all the attendees could see it. It was also great to connect with other attendees through it. I used it to meet up with people for meals and even at the airport on my way home.\n\nI went in to XOXO with pretty high expectations and was not disappointed. It\u2019s a fantastic community. I highly recommend it if you\u2019re involved in anything creative online. Hopefully I will see you there in 2019!\n\nCheck out some other attendee\u2019s blog posts:\n\n\u201cLook After Each Other(tm)\u201d by Doug Hanke\n\n\t\u201cXOXO\u201d by Jess Driscoll\n\n\t\u201cDear XOXO\u201d by Georgie\n\n\t\u201cXOXO 2018\u201d by Kanane\n\n\t\u201cWhat XOXO 2018 taught me about running events\u201d by Brandon Johnson\n\n\t\u201cXOXO 2018 Monday Thoughts\u201d by Brook Shelley\n\n\t\u201cXOXO and the Shimmering \u201dDistortion Field\u201d by Julia Skott",
        "html": "<p>In September I attended <a href=\"https://2018.xoxofest.com/\">XOXO Festival</a> for the first time. I\u2019ve heard great things about the festival over the years. I almost attended in 2016 but I couldn\u2019t quite make it work and decided I would go the following year. Then they announced they were going on hiatus, so there would be no XOXO 2017. I was really glad to hear they were coming back this year, so I was determined to attend.</p>\n\n<p>XOXO bills itself as an \u201cexperimental festival for independent artists and creators who work on the internet.\u201d The organizers are intentional about having a diverse and inclusive event, both speakers and attendees. Potential attendees fill out a brief survey about themselves and something they have recently created that they are proud of. This allows the organizers to invite a more diverse group of attendees instead of just having first-come, first-serve ticket sales. They also subsidized 20% of the attendees this year, which meant 400 free tickets.</p>\n\n<p>Here\u2019s a good little intro video with some footage from this year:</p>\n\n\n\n<p>So what was my XOXO experience like?</p>\n\n<p>I was struck by how friendly everyone was. There was a large pavilion outside the venue with standing tables and a many people would readily walk up to you and introduce themselves. There was very little \u201cwhere do you work?\u201d in the conversations and a lot of \u201cwhat are you excited/passionate about?\u201d It felt like a gathering of soon-to-be friends and not a schmoozy networking event.</p>\n\n<p>The opening keynote Thursday night by <a class=\"h-card\" href=\"https://www.cameronesposito.com/\">Cameron Esposito</a> was funny and powerful. One of the best lines included in that video above was \u201cart dismantles power, otherwise it is propaganda.\u201d You should check out her stand-up special, Rape Jokes, which deals with her experience of sexual assault. It\u2019s free to watch on her site and she\u2019s collecting donations for <a href=\"https://www.rainn.org\"><abbr title=\"Rape, Abuse &amp; Incest National Network\">RAINN</abbr></a>. As of this writing, over $80k has been raised.</p>\n\n<p>In the weeks prior to the festival, attendees were invited to join the XOXO Slack group chat. There are a bunch of different topical channels in there to help you connect with each other. Friday at the festival was largely reserved for social meetups. The Slack channels organized over 30 meetups around Portland. It ended up being a great way to ease into the festival by meeting people and exploring Portland.</p>\n\n<p>I attended the #indieweb/#mastodon meetup in the morning and the #mcelroy meetup in the afternoon. If you\u2019re not familiar with the McElroy brothers, they\u2019re best known for their hilarious advice podcast: <a href=\"https://www.maximumfun.org/shows/my-brother-my-brother-and-me\">My Brother, My Brother and Me</a>. They have a segment within that show, \u201cMunch Squad,\u201d where they read fast food companies\u2019 earnest, actual press releases for their new food abominations. It seemed only appropriate that if we were going to have an XOXO #mcelroy meetup, it should be somewhere like Taco Bell. So that\u2019s what we did. We had some good, good (bad) food and lots of laughs. I kid you not, my total came to $6.69 (hashtag nice, hashtag blessed). For two people there, it was their first time ever eating Taco Bell, so it was a treat to introduce them to it.</p>\n\n<p><i>I might have bought <a href=\"http://munchsquad.club\">munchsquad dot club</a> after that meetup.</i></p>\n\n<p>Friday night the festival portion started, aka the Paradox of Choice. The main auditorium had Film and Animation. Another room had Art+Code. There was also the Arcade room and the Tabletop room. I went to Art+Code first and saw <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvaWAkqlJPE\">Jenn Schiffer\u2019s introduction</a>, including some attendee\u2019s retro websites. I also saw Baratunde Thurston\u2019s talk about racialized news headlines and his quiz web app, <a href=\"https://livingwhileblack.glitch.me/\">Living While Black</a>. Try it out and see if you can tell which headlines are real or fake.</p>\n\n<p>I decided to bop around to some of the other things going on at the same time, thinking that anything I missed in Art+Code would be recorded and posted online later. Unfortunately I was mistaken. I wish I had stayed in Art+Code longer, but oh well. I was glad to catch the Bill Wurtz segment of Film and Animation. If you\u2019re not familiar with him, start with \u201c<a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHZr6P1csiY\">and the day goes on</a>.\u201d</p>\n\n<p>On Saturday the conference portion started. These were the main speakers and there was only one track, so no worries about missing anything. They were also recorded and many are now posted. Check out some of my favorites:</p>\n\n<ul><li><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G39U1Z1d7qI\">Demi Adejuyigbe</a></li>\n\t<li><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrrLT5l8DvU\">Open Mike Eagle</a></li>\n\t<li><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrSm3HyHbqQ\">Jean Grae</a></li>\n\t<li><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ix9jxid2YU\">Natalie Wynn (ContraPoints)</a></li>\n</ul><p>There\u2019s several more posted on the <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/user/xoxofest\">XOXO YouTube</a>.</p>\n\n<p>A recurring theme from both attendees and speakers was experiencing <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor_syndrome\">impostor syndrome</a>. Some attendees even made an XOXO Bingo game where the free spot was \u201chave impostor syndrome.\u201d There was a recurring encouragement, though: yes, you do belong here.</p>\n\n<p>The Slack chat was an interesting component throughout the event. I was impressed that organizers and volunteers were on it regularly to answer questions and respond to feedback. Day-to-day, improvements were made based on feedback, like adding more lighting to the picnic tables outside at night. The organizers were very receptive to feedback and criticism; it was a transparent process since all the attendees could see it. It was also great to connect with other attendees through it. I used it to meet up with people for meals and even at the airport on my way home.</p>\n\n<p>I went in to XOXO with pretty high expectations and was not disappointed. It\u2019s a fantastic community. I highly recommend it if you\u2019re involved in anything creative online. Hopefully I will see you there in 2019!</p>\n\n<p>Check out some other attendee\u2019s blog posts:</p>\n\n<ul><li class=\"h-cite\">\u201c<a class=\"p-name u-url\" href=\"https://www.doug-hanke.com/blog/2018/9/10/xoxo-2018\">Look After Each Other(tm)</a>\u201d by <a class=\"u-author h-card\" href=\"https://www.doug-hanke.com/\">Doug Hanke</a>\n</li>\n\t<li class=\"h-cite\">\u201c<a class=\"p-name u-url\" href=\"https://jessdriscoll.github.io/blog/2018/09/09/xoxo\">XOXO</a>\u201d by <a class=\"u-author h-card\" href=\"http://jessdriscoll.com/\">Jess Driscoll</a>\n</li>\n\t<li class=\"h-cite\">\u201c<a class=\"p-name u-url\" href=\"https://hey.georgie.nu/xoxo/\">Dear XOXO</a>\u201d by <a class=\"u-author h-card\" href=\"https://hey.georgie.nu/\">Georgie</a>\n</li>\n\t<li class=\"h-cite\">\u201c<a class=\"p-name u-url\" href=\"http://www.spideyj.com/xoxo-2018/\">XOXO 2018</a>\u201d by <a class=\"u-author h-card\" href=\"http://www.spideyj.com\">Kanane</a>\n</li>\n\t<li class=\"h-cite\">\u201c<a class=\"p-name u-url\" href=\"http://brandon.mn/posts/2018-10-01-xoxo/\">What XOXO 2018 taught me about running events</a>\u201d by <a class=\"u-author h-card\" href=\"http://brandon.mn\">Brandon Johnson</a>\n</li>\n\t<li class=\"h-cite\">\u201c<a class=\"p-name u-url\" href=\"https://www.brookshelley.com/blog/2018/09/10/xoxo-thoughts.html\">XOXO 2018 Monday Thoughts</a>\u201d by <a class=\"u-author h-card\" href=\"https://www.brookshelley.com\">Brook Shelley</a>\n</li>\n\t<li class=\"h-cite\">\u201c<a class=\"p-name u-url\" href=\"https://www.juliaskott.com/blog/2018/9/28/xoxo-and-the-distortion-field\">XOXO and the Shimmering \u201dDistortion Field</a>\u201d by <a class=\"u-author h-card\" href=\"https://www.juliaskott.com\">Julia Skott</a>\n</li>\n</ul>"
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