IndieWeb Challenge Day 7

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    "name": "IndieWeb Challenge Day 7",
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        "text": "For ages, I have wanted the navigation menu at the top of the page to remain visible even after you have scrolled down past the bottom of the screen, which pushes the menu up off the top of the screen. In principle, that's supposed to be much easier now that you can use CSS to position an element as <sticky>. But it proved trickier than I expected",
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IndieWeb Challenge Day 6

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    "published": "2019-12-06T11:15:00+01:00",
    "url": "https://www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/indieweb-challenge-day-6",
    "name": "IndieWeb Challenge Day 6",
    "content": {
        "text": "If one is sufficiently slapdash, fixing something on this site each day is more than doable. A couple of days ago I did some work to tidy up the display of Reviews. Deeply fancy logic (not) to check the name of an image file seemed to do what I wanted. I had forgotten, however, that while the name I gave the image file was constant, it respected the file format of the original image file. My logic was testing for only one file format.",
        "html": "<p>If one is sufficiently slapdash, fixing something on this site each day is more than doable. A couple of days ago I did some work to tidy up the display of Reviews. Deeply fancy logic (not) to check the name of an image file seemed to do what I wanted. I had forgotten, however, that while the name I gave the image file was constant, it respected the file format of the original image file. My logic was testing for only one file format.</p>"
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        "name": "Jeremy Cherfas",
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Notes from IndieWebCamp San Francisco 2019

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        "name": "Johannes Ernst",
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        "html": "<p>This is my second IndieWebCamp SF, and Nth IndieWebCamp in total (where N probably &gt; 4 ). Tantek is hosting at Mozilla San Francisco. I\u2019m counting about a dozen people so far. I\u2019ll keep adding during the day(s). Just hosted an excellent session, if I may say so, asking: what \u2026</p>",
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    "published": "2019-12-07 11:45-0800",
    "url": "https://gregorlove.com/2019/12/im-making-progress-on-indieauth/",
    "content": {
        "text": "I'm making progress on IndieAuth for ProcessWire and currently thinking about access token expiration. I am thinking about including a setting for token expiration time so people can set that (default: two weeks).\n\nOccasionally you may want to give an app non-expiring access, though. Below is a screenshot of the interface I've been working on for that. It's definitely an alpha version, but any feedback would be appreciated, especially on user-friendliness.",
        "html": "<p>I'm making progress on IndieAuth for ProcessWire and currently thinking about access token expiration. I am thinking about including a setting for token expiration time so people can set that (default: two weeks).</p>\n\n<p>Occasionally you may want to give an app non-expiring access, though. Below is a screenshot of the interface I've been working on for that. It's definitely an alpha version, but any feedback would be appreciated, especially on user-friendliness.</p>\n\n<p><img alt=\"screenshot of authorization form\" src=\"https://gregorlove.com/site/assets/files/5708/indieauth-processwire-authorization.png\" /></p>"
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    "author": {
        "type": "card",
        "name": "gRegor Morrill",
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    "type": "entry",
    "published": "2019-12-07 10:47-0800",
    "url": "http://tantek.com/2019/341/t1/indiewebcamp-sf",
    "content": {
        "text": "Kicking off @IndieWebCamp SF with introductions and a brief informal keynote by @adactio!\n\nLooking forward to inspiring demos and sessions!\n\nhttps://indieweb.org/2019/sf\n\nPer room livestream links on: https://indieweb.org/2019/SF/Schedule",
        "html": "Kicking off <a class=\"h-cassis-username\" href=\"https://twitter.com/IndieWebCamp\">@IndieWebCamp</a> SF with introductions and a brief informal keynote by <a class=\"h-cassis-username\" href=\"https://twitter.com/adactio\">@adactio</a>!<br /><br />Looking forward to inspiring demos and sessions!<br /><br /><a href=\"https://indieweb.org/2019/sf\">https://indieweb.org/2019/sf</a><br /><br />Per room livestream links on: <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/2019/SF/Schedule\">https://indieweb.org/2019/SF/Schedule</a>"
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        "name": "Tantek \u00c7elik",
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About Known

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    "published": "2019-12-07T18:15:17+00:00",
    "url": "https://werd.io/2019/about-known",
    "name": "About Known",
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        "text": "In 2013, my mother had a double lung transplant. The rules for recovery post-transplantation are that you can't have a bridge between you and the hospital; they don't want you to be stuck in traffic if you need emergency attention. So we rented an apartment in the Inner Sunset, where we all sat with Ma while she recovered. My Dad was there all the time as her primary carer, but nonetheless, sometimes I slept overnight on an air mattress.As her speech returned to her and her energy increased, she told me that she wished she had a place to speak to other people who had been through the same ordeal. But at the same time, she wasn't comfortable sharing that kind of personal information on a platform like Facebook.She was asleep a lot of the time. So in the evenings and weekends, I started to write that new platform for her. I gave it what I thought was a quirky but friendly name - idno - which spoke to identity and the id, but I also thought sounded friendly in a slightly foreign-to-everyone kind of way.At the same time, I became involved in the IndieWeb community through Tantek \u00c7elik and Kevin Marks. And I realized that this platform could easily be modified to work with the microformats standards at the root of that movement. I built decentralized replies and commenting into the platform. That summer, I flew to IndieWebCamp Portland, and demonstrated the community's first decentralized event RSVPs. There, I met Erin Richey, and we began to collaborate on designs for the platform.I had previously met Corey Ford, co-founder of Matter, and it turned out he was looking for startups as part of Matter's third cohort, which would begin in May 2014. Erin and I decided to collaborate (with the encouragement of Corey and Benjamin Evans, now the leader of AirBnb's anti-discrimination team) on turning Idno into a real startup. Here's the real pitch deck we used for our meeting (PDF link). The idea was to follow in WordPress's footsteps by creating a great centralized service as well as an open source, self-hosted platform for people that wanted it. For the business, the self-hosted platform would act as a marketing channel for the service; for the open source community, the business would fund development.We were accepted into the third cohort, and quickly incorporated so we could take investment. Erin in particular felt that Idno was a crappy name, and undertook her own research on a shortlist of new ones. Her process involved figuring out which names were easily understandable if you just heard the name, and which could be easily spelled, using a battery of Amazon Mechanical Turk workers. Known was the very clear winner.Everyone's favorite part of building a startup is choosing the logo. Here are a few I built that we rejected:I think I thought the \"kn-own\" wordplay was cleverer than it was.In the end, we went with this logo that Erin drew:\u00a0\u00a0\"It looks like the Circle K,\" my mother said. Still, we went with it, not least because the K in itself would work well as an icon.I've written a lot over the years about the Matter process: suffice to say that it changed the way I think about products and startups forever, as well as, in many ways, my entire life.While the open source community continued to grow, the startup itself didn't work as well as I had hoped, both as a business and as a high-functioning product team in its own right. Over the course of the five month program we chose to double down on individual websites over building communities, and then we decided to start with education as a go-to market. I don't think either of these things were the right decisions for a startup in retrospect, and as we presented at demo day on the stage of the Paley Center in New York, I could see disappointment written on a few faces. Here's that full pitch. If you read the initial pitch deck, you'll know that a lot changed - both for good and bad.Known was half-acquired by Medium in a way that saw a return for Matter. (Because of Known's social media syndication capabilities, Medium did not want to acquire the software, and did not legally acquire the corporation.) One important role of a founder, which I learned from Evan Prodromou, is to be a good steward of investor value. In this case, it was important to me to also be a good steward of community value, and the deal with Medium allowed the community to continue to exist. Erin became acting CEO of the corporation and continued to work on the project. Eventually, I left Medium and joined Matter as its west coast Director of Investments. The work I did there encompasses the proudest moments of my professional career.Fast forward to the end of the 2019, and Marcus Povey (a friend and frequent collaborator of mine, who also worked on Elgg) has picked up the community baton. Thanks to him, Known just released version 1.0. The community continues to grow. I just put together a draft roadmap for two further releases: one this summer, and one for the end of the year. These releases are free from any attempt to become a commercial entity or achieve sustainability; they're entirely designed to serve the community. They're all about strengthening the core platform, as well as increasing compatibility with the indieweb and the fediverse.For me, the collaborative group functionality is still something I think about, but it won't be the focus of Known going forward. I'm considering an entirely new, simpler group platform (third time's a charm). Known is about creating a single stream of social content, in a way that you control, with your design and domain name. Its journey hasn't been a straight line. But I'm excited to see what the next year holds for it.",
        "html": "<p>In 2013, my mother had a double lung transplant. The rules for recovery post-transplantation are that you can't have a bridge between you and the hospital; they don't want you to be stuck in traffic if you need emergency attention. So we rented an apartment in the Inner Sunset, where we all sat with Ma while she recovered. My Dad was there all the time as her primary carer, but nonetheless, sometimes I slept overnight on an air mattress.</p><p>As her speech returned to her and her energy increased, she told me that she wished she had a place to speak to other people who had been through the same ordeal. But at the same time, she wasn't comfortable sharing that kind of personal information on a platform like Facebook.</p><p>She was asleep a lot of the time. So in the evenings and weekends, I started to write that new platform for her. I gave it what I thought was a quirky but friendly name - <em>idno</em> - which spoke to identity and the id, but I also thought sounded friendly in a slightly foreign-to-everyone kind of way.</p><p>At the same time, I became involved in the <a href=\"https://indieweb.org\">IndieWeb</a> community through <a href=\"https://tantek.com\">Tantek \u00c7elik</a> and <a href=\"https://kevinmarks.com\">Kevin Marks</a>. And I realized that this platform could easily be modified to work with the <a href=\"http://microformats.org/\">microformats</a> standards at the root of that movement. I built decentralized replies and commenting into the platform. That summer, I flew to <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/2013\">IndieWebCamp Portland</a>, and demonstrated the community's first decentralized event RSVPs. There, I met <a href=\"https://twitter.com/erinjo\">Erin Richey</a>, and we began to collaborate on designs for the platform.</p><p>I had previously met <a href=\"https://twitter.com/coreyford\">Corey Ford</a>, co-founder of <a href=\"https://matter.vc\">Matter</a>, and it turned out he was looking for startups as part of Matter's third cohort, which would begin in May 2014. Erin and I decided to collaborate (with the encouragement of Corey and <a href=\"https://benjaminevans.com/\">Benjamin Evans</a>, now the leader of AirBnb's anti-discrimination team) on turning Idno into a real startup. <a href=\"https://benwerd.s3.amazonaws.com/Idno-pitch.pdf\">Here's the real pitch deck we used for our meeting (PDF link).</a> The idea was to follow in WordPress's footsteps by creating a great centralized service as well as an open source, self-hosted platform for people that wanted it. For the business, the self-hosted platform would act as a marketing channel for the service; for the open source community, the business would fund development.</p><p>We were accepted into the third cohort, and quickly incorporated so we could take investment. Erin in particular felt that Idno was a crappy name, and undertook her own research on a shortlist of new ones. Her process involved figuring out which names were easily understandable if you just heard the name, and which could be easily spelled, using a battery of <a href=\"https://www.mturk.com/\">Amazon Mechanical Turk</a> workers. <em>Known</em> was the very clear winner.</p><p>Everyone's favorite part of building a startup is choosing the logo. Here are a few I built that we rejected:</p><p style=\"text-align:center;\"><img src=\"https://werd.io/file/5debe62fb16ea11fc635d392\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" /></p><p style=\"text-align:center;\"><img src=\"https://werd.io/file/5debe642b16ea11fd13260f2\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"729\" /></p><p style=\"text-align:center;\"><img src=\"https://werd.io/file/5debe654b16ea11fcf6f2072\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"199\" /></p><p style=\"text-align:left;\">I think I thought the \"kn-<em>own</em>\" wordplay was cleverer than it was.</p><p style=\"text-align:left;\">In the end, we went with this logo that Erin drew:</p><p style=\"text-align:left;\">\u00a0</p><p style=\"text-align:center;\"><img src=\"https://werd.io/file/5debe6e6b16ea11fd13260f4/thumb.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"127\" /></p><p style=\"text-align:center;\">\u00a0</p><p style=\"text-align:left;\">\"It looks like the Circle K,\" my mother said. Still, we went with it, not least because the K in itself would work well as an icon.</p><p style=\"text-align:left;\">I've written a lot over the years about the Matter process: suffice to say that it changed the way I think about products and startups forever, as well as, in many ways, my entire life.</p><p style=\"text-align:left;\">While the open source community continued to grow, the startup itself didn't work as well as I had hoped, both as a business and as a high-functioning product team in its own right. Over the course of the five month program we chose to double down on individual websites over building communities, and then we decided to start with education as a go-to market. I don't think either of these things were the right decisions for a startup in retrospect, and as we presented at demo day on the stage of the Paley Center in New York, I could see disappointment written on a few faces. <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uz7jJwsaydE&amp;list=ULOATCILst-CA&amp;index=1095\">Here's that full pitch.</a> If you read the initial pitch deck, you'll know that a lot changed - both for good and bad.</p><p style=\"text-align:left;\">Known was half-acquired by Medium in a way that saw a return for Matter. (Because of Known's social media syndication capabilities, Medium did not want to acquire the software, and did not legally acquire the corporation.) One important role of a founder, which I learned from <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Prodromou\">Evan Prodromou</a>, is to be a good steward of investor value. In this case, it was important to me to also be a good steward of <em>community</em> value, and the deal with Medium allowed the community to continue to exist. Erin became acting CEO of the corporation and continued to work on the project. Eventually, I left Medium and joined Matter as its west coast Director of Investments. <a href=\"https://medium.com/matter-driven-narrative/meet-matter-seven-d07f02683108\">The work I did there encompasses the proudest moments of my professional career.</a></p><p style=\"text-align:left;\">Fast forward to the end of the 2019, and <a href=\"https://www.marcus-povey.co.uk/\">Marcus Povey</a> (a friend and frequent collaborator of mine, who also worked on Elgg) has picked up the community baton. Thanks to him, <a href=\"https://withknown.com/opensource\">Known just released version 1.0</a>. The community continues to grow. I just put together <a href=\"https://github.com/idno/known/projects/4\">a draft roadmap for two further releases</a>: one this summer, and one for the end of the year. These releases are free from any attempt to become a commercial entity or achieve sustainability; they're entirely designed to serve the community. They're all about strengthening the core platform, as well as increasing compatibility with the indieweb and the <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse\">fediverse</a>.</p><p style=\"text-align:left;\">For me, the collaborative group functionality is still something I think about, but it won't be the focus of Known going forward. I'm considering an entirely new, simpler group platform (third time's a charm). Known is about creating a single stream of social content, in a way that you control, with your design and domain name. Its journey hasn't been a straight line. But I'm excited to see what the next year holds for it.</p>"
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IndieWeb Challenge Day 7

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    "url": "https://www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/indieweb%20challenge%20day%207",
    "name": "IndieWeb Challenge Day 7",
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        "text": "For ages, I have wanted the navigation menu at the top of the page to remain visible even after you have scrolled down past the bottom of the screen, which pushes the menu up off the top of the screen. In principle, that's supposed to be much easier now that you can use CSS to position an element as <sticky>. But it proved trickier than I expected",
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IndieWeb Challenge Day 6

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    "published": "2019-12-06T11:15:00+01:00",
    "url": "https://www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/indieweb%20challenge%20day%206",
    "name": "IndieWeb Challenge Day 6",
    "content": {
        "text": "If one is sufficiently slapdash, fixing something on this site each day is more than doable. A couple of days ago I did some work to tidy up the display of Reviews. Deeply fancy logic (not) to check the name of an image file seemed to do what I wanted. I had forgotten, however, that while the name I gave the image file was constant, it respected the file format of the original image file. My logic was testing for only one file format.",
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    },
    "author": {
        "type": "card",
        "name": "Jeremy Cherfas",
        "url": "https://jeremycherfas.net",
        "photo": null
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    "post-type": "article",
    "_id": "6736167",
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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "Manton Reece",
        "url": "https://www.manton.org/",
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    "url": "https://www.manton.org/2019/12/05/usually-the-indieweb.html",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>Usually the IndieWeb Meetup in Austin is 1st Wednesday of the month. Next month, that\u2019s New Year\u2019s Day, so we\u2019re bumping it a week to January 8th, 6:30pm at Mozart\u2019s Coffee.</p>",
        "text": "Usually the IndieWeb Meetup in Austin is 1st Wednesday of the month. Next month, that\u2019s New Year\u2019s Day, so we\u2019re bumping it a week to January 8th, 6:30pm at Mozart\u2019s Coffee."
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    "published": "2019-12-05T14:53:49-06:00",
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A Medium dilemma

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    "type": "entry",
    "published": "2019-12-05T17:48:38+00:00",
    "url": "https://werd.io/2019/a-medium-dilemma",
    "name": "A Medium dilemma",
    "content": {
        "text": "I'm a fan and paid-up member of Medium, the long-form online publishing platform and reader network. I should declare that I'm not unbiased: I worked there in 2016 and know a few of the people who work on it, although the team and product have changed considerably over the last few years.A couple of years ago they began to reverse one of the most alarming trends on the internet - independent artists losing the ability to sustainably create their work - and allowed writers to get paid for their work. It's been a roaring success, and the site is now one of the top 100 in the world. More recently still, they've brought paying publications like the Bold Italic into the fold. Although this is reminscent of a failed strategy from a few years ago that ended up really hurting publications like The Establishment, in the context of the Partner Program and Medium Memberships it makes more sense.What Medium isn't is a generic blogging or publishing platform. It's narrowed its focus into being more like a magazine that everyone can contribute to (and I'm told that more changes are coming in the New Year). In doing so, it inevitably loses some of its early users - and it adds features like a paywall that may drive some casual readers away.Ironically, many of the people who complain about Medium are the same people who care about surveillance capitalism. Yet the site is the biggest, boldest experiment in non-surveillance social media on the internet: a business that makes money by asking for money, and has aligned itself with its community in doing so. No, you don't build a wholly self-owned digital identity like you do on the indieweb; no, it's not a place for billions of people to put their every waking thought for free. But in building a magazine that anyone can contribute to, Medium has opened the door to a more diverse community of writers sharing their lived experiences and getting paid for it as part of a business model that promotes value over blind engagement and doesn't need to profile you all over the web.To say that writers should make their work available for free is the height of privilege - and indeed, usually those voices are well-paid white men who make six figure salaries at technology companies. Our society is richer for having more points of view expressed, but not everyone has the time available to do free work. The net result of Medium's strategy is more writers making a living from their work, and therefore more diverse writers sharing their lived experiences. I'm all for that.Publishing on Medium does not preclude writing on a personal website that you control. You can do both. But just as there's nothing wrong with publishing a long-form piece in a newspaper or a traditional magazine, there's nothing wrong with publishing it on Medium.",
        "html": "<p>I'm a fan and paid-up member of <a href=\"https://medium.com\">Medium</a>, the long-form online publishing platform and reader network. I should declare that I'm not unbiased: I worked there in 2016 and know a few of the people who work on it, although the team and product have changed considerably over the last few years.</p><p>A couple of years ago they began to reverse one of the most alarming trends on the internet - independent artists losing the ability to sustainably create their work - and allowed writers to get paid for their work. It's been a roaring success, and the site is now one of the top 100 in the world. More recently still, <a href=\"https://thebolditalic.com/the-bold-italic-an-evolving-experiment-in-local-journalism-4f64a470240a?gi=dd60dd5aef5f\">they've brought paying publications like the Bold Italic into the fold</a>. Although this is reminscent of a failed strategy from a few years ago that ended up <a href=\"https://www.niemanlab.org/2017/10/stung-by-mediums-pivot-the-establishment-powers-up-for-a-membership-driven-future/\">really hurting publications like The Establishment</a>, in the context of the <a href=\"https://medium.com/creators\">Partner Program</a> and <a href=\"https://medium.com/membership\">Medium Memberships</a> it makes more sense.</p><p>What Medium isn't is a generic blogging or publishing platform. It's narrowed its focus into being more like a magazine that everyone can contribute to (and I'm told that more changes are coming in the New Year). In doing so, it inevitably loses some of its early users - and it adds features like a paywall that may drive some casual readers away.</p><p>Ironically, many of the people who complain about Medium are the same people who care about surveillance capitalism. Yet the site is the biggest, boldest experiment in non-surveillance social media on the internet: a business that makes money by asking for money, and has aligned itself with its community in doing so. No, you don't build a wholly self-owned digital identity like you do on the <a href=\"https://indieweb.org\">indieweb</a>; no, it's not a place for billions of people to put their every waking thought for free. But in building a magazine that anyone can contribute to, Medium has opened the door to a more diverse community of writers sharing their lived experiences <em>and getting paid for it</em> as part of a business model that promotes value over blind engagement and doesn't need to profile you all over the web.</p><p>To say that writers should make their work available for free is the height of privilege - and indeed, usually those voices are well-paid white men who make six figure salaries at technology companies. Our society is richer for having more points of view expressed, but not everyone has the time available to do free work. The net result of Medium's strategy is more writers making a living from their work, and therefore more diverse writers sharing their lived experiences. I'm all for that.</p><p>Publishing on Medium does not preclude writing on a personal website that you control. You can do both. But just as there's nothing wrong with publishing a long-form piece in a newspaper or a traditional magazine, there's nothing wrong with publishing it on Medium.</p>"
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How to Fix Social Media by Injecting A Chunk of the Blogosphere

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        "name": "Manton Reece",
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    "url": "https://www.manton.org/2019/12/05/we-are-still.html",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>We are still looking for sponsors for IndieWebCamp Austin. Do you work for a web-friendly company that might be interested? <a href=\"https://www.manton.org/2019/11/07/sponsoring-indiewebcamp-austin.html\">See this blog post</a> for details.</p>",
        "text": "We are still looking for sponsors for IndieWebCamp Austin. Do you work for a web-friendly company that might be interested? See this blog post for details."
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IndieWeb Challenge Day 5

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    "url": "https://www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/indieweb-challenge-day-5",
    "name": "IndieWeb Challenge Day 5",
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        "text": "A brief flurry of webmentions to a recent post reminded me that I needed to look again at how those things are presented. In building the new theme, I had discovered the <detail> and <summary> elements and used them to hide interactions as the default. I hope most people know that clicking on the triangle will expose something hidden. Ideally I would like to offer different visual presentation depending on whether either webmentions or comments exist. That is not going to happen for a while.",
        "html": "<p>A brief flurry of webmentions to a recent post reminded me that I needed to look again at how those things are presented. In building the new theme, I had discovered the <code>&lt;detail&gt;</code> and <code>&lt;summary&gt;</code> elements and used them to hide interactions as the default. I hope most people know that clicking on the triangle will expose something hidden. Ideally I would like to offer different visual presentation depending on whether either webmentions or comments exist. That is not going to happen for a while.</p>"
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        "text": "After seeing my Spotify Wrapped playlist for the year, and some of the usage stats, I think I'm definitely going to be writing an application to get that data out for myself and my own usages",
        "html": "<p>After seeing my Spotify Wrapped playlist for the year, and some of the usage stats, I think I'm definitely going to be writing an application to get that data out for myself and my own usages</p>"
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    "author": {
        "type": "card",
        "name": "Jamie Tanna",
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    "post-type": "note",
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        "name": "Manton Reece",
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    "url": "https://www.manton.org/2019/12/04/if-youre-coming.html",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>If you\u2019re coming to tonight\u2019s IndieWeb Meetup at 6:30pm, Mozart\u2019s Coffee also has a huge Christmas light show outside. It\u2019s cool! But it means more of a crowd, so plan on arriving a bit early.</p>",
        "text": "If you\u2019re coming to tonight\u2019s IndieWeb Meetup at 6:30pm, Mozart\u2019s Coffee also has a huge Christmas light show outside. It\u2019s cool! But it means more of a crowd, so plan on arriving a bit early."
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    "published": "2019-12-04T11:21:14-06:00",
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IndieWeb Challenge Day 4

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    "url": "https://www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/indieweb-challenge-day-4",
    "name": "IndieWeb Challenge Day 4",
    "content": {
        "text": "Not much to see today, unless you go spelunking into old posts. If you do, however, you will notice that some of the older Reviews now are not quite as messy as they were.",
        "html": "<p>Not much to see today, unless you go spelunking into old posts. If you do, however, you will notice that some of the older Reviews now are not quite as messy as they were.</p>"
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        "type": "card",
        "name": "Jeremy Cherfas",
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    "type": "entry",
    "published": "2019-12-03 15:56-0800",
    "url": "http://tantek.com/2019/337/t1/",
    "in-reply-to": [
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        "text": "So glad you can make it @andigalpern!\n\nNo Facebook event (recent experience shows they add zero* value).\n\nPlease share the official event/ticket URL https://2019.indieweb.org/sf with designers or others you\u2019d send a FB invite to. It has user-friendly Tito-based ticketing!\n\n*In practice we\u2019ve found that Facebook events RSVPs do not add any new people that would otherwise have made it, and those that only RSVP on Facebook in practice are nearly all no-shows which is demoralizing to everyone. As a result we have stopped wasting time with creating Facebook events, and linking people to a source of negative social media distractions.\n\nFor @IndieWebCamp events in particular we need more accurate numbers for estimating food needs etc. A proper ticketing system helps with that.",
        "html": "So glad you can make it <a class=\"h-cassis-username\" href=\"https://twitter.com/andigalpern\">@andigalpern</a>!<br /><br />No Facebook event (recent experience shows they add zero* value).<br /><br />Please share the official event/ticket URL <a href=\"https://2019.indieweb.org/sf\">https://2019.indieweb.org/sf</a> with designers or others you\u2019d send a FB invite to. It has user-friendly Tito-based ticketing!<br /><br />*In practice we\u2019ve found that Facebook events RSVPs do not add any new people that would otherwise have made it, and those that only RSVP on Facebook in practice are nearly all no-shows which is demoralizing to everyone. As a result we have stopped wasting time with creating Facebook events, and linking people to a source of negative social media distractions.<br /><br />For <a class=\"h-cassis-username\" href=\"https://twitter.com/IndieWebCamp\">@IndieWebCamp</a> events in particular we need more accurate numbers for estimating food needs etc. A proper ticketing system helps with that."
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    "author": {
        "type": "card",
        "name": "Tantek \u00c7elik",
        "url": "http://tantek.com/",
        "photo": "https://aperture-media.p3k.io/tantek.com/acfddd7d8b2c8cf8aa163651432cc1ec7eb8ec2f881942dca963d305eeaaa6b8.jpg"
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    "type": "entry",
    "published": "2019-12-03 10:48-0500",
    "rsvp": "yes",
    "url": "https://gregorlove.com/2019/12/im-attending-indiewebcamp-sf/",
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        "https://2019.indieweb.org/sf"
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    "content": {
        "text": "I\u2019m attending (remote)IndieWebCamp SF 2020!",
        "html": "<p>I\u2019m attending (remote)<a class=\"u-in-reply-to\" href=\"https://2019.indieweb.org/sf\">IndieWebCamp SF 2020</a>!</p>"
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    "author": {
        "type": "card",
        "name": "gRegor Morrill",
        "url": "https://gregorlove.com/",
        "photo": "https://gregorlove.com/site/assets/files/3473/profile-2016-med.jpg"
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    "post-type": "rsvp",
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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "Kh\u00fcrt Williams",
        "url": "https://islandinthenet.com/",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://islandinthenet.com/open-web/",
    "published": "2019-12-03T14:04:44-05:00",
    "content": {
        "html": "<a href=\"http://beardyguycreative.com/blog/2019/08/20/945/\">The Micro.blog experience and a few thoughts on the open web</a><em> (Beardy Guy Musings)</em>\n<blockquote>I write this and mull it over from the perspective of a creator and as a longer-term user of the \u201cold web\u201d. I have, at least, a basic grasp of the ideal (and importance of) the open web, ownership and access. I write it as someone frustrated with the nastiness of the business practices of the corporate entities that own the big social media as well as the lack of moderation on those sites making them potentially dangerous places. But even amongst the relatively tech fluent (and likely, financially affluent) community of tech/apple oriented users that I follow on Twitter, there is little impulse to move to alternatives such as Micro.blog or Mastodon. I\u2019ve seen evidence of an almost complete lack of interest.</blockquote>\n\n<p>As one of those \"old web\" guys who has been blogging for almost two decades, I understand this anguish over the open web. I've seen the rise and fall of alternative like app.net and despite <a href=\"https://islandinthenet.com/inessential-micro-blog-not-another-app-net/\">what others may think</a>, micro.blog's success isn't ensured. The lack of diversity, both cultural and economic, is perhaps why the \"relatively tech fluent (and likely, financially affluent) community of tech/apple oriented users\" ignore micro.blog. It's one of the reasons why, despite having backed the Kickstarter project, I chose to let my hosted micro.blog <a href=\"https://islandinthenet.com/2018-11-07-10-40-45/\">lapse</a> and use micro.blog more like Twitter.</p>\n<p>I've documented my issues in several blog posts.</p>\n<ul><li><a href=\"https://islandinthenet.com/community-norms/\">Community Norms?</a></li>\n<li><a href=\"https://islandinthenet.com/thoughts-on-micro-blog/\">Thoughts on micro.blog</a></li>\n<li><a href=\"https://islandinthenet.com/micro-blog-and-indieweb/\">Micro.blog and IndieWeb</a></li>\n<li><a href=\"https://islandinthenet.com/web-country-club/\">You Can't Start the Revolution from the Web Country Club</a></li>\n<li><a href=\"https://islandinthenet.com/going-full-indie/\">Going Full Indie</a><br />Others have voiced similar complaints.</li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"http://blog.bellebcooper.com/leaving-microblog.html\">Why I'm leaving Micro.blog</a></p>\n</li>\n<li><a href=\"https://islandinthenet.com/phoneboy-abandons-micro-blog/\">PhoneBoy abandons micro.blog</a></li>\n</ul><p>I prefer the approach advocated by the <a href=\"https://islandinthenet.com/indieweb-wordpress/\">IndieWeb</a> and have also written about the <a href=\"https://islandinthenet.com/blog-discovery/\">issue of discovery</a> for independent blogs who don't use social media.</p>",
        "text": "The Micro.blog experience and a few thoughts on the open web (Beardy Guy Musings)\nI write this and mull it over from the perspective of a creator and as a longer-term user of the \u201cold web\u201d. I have, at least, a basic grasp of the ideal (and importance of) the open web, ownership and access. I write it as someone frustrated with the nastiness of the business practices of the corporate entities that own the big social media as well as the lack of moderation on those sites making them potentially dangerous places. But even amongst the relatively tech fluent (and likely, financially affluent) community of tech/apple oriented users that I follow on Twitter, there is little impulse to move to alternatives such as Micro.blog or Mastodon. I\u2019ve seen evidence of an almost complete lack of interest.\n\nAs one of those \"old web\" guys who has been blogging for almost two decades, I understand this anguish over the open web. I've seen the rise and fall of alternative like app.net and despite what others may think, micro.blog's success isn't ensured. The lack of diversity, both cultural and economic, is perhaps why the \"relatively tech fluent (and likely, financially affluent) community of tech/apple oriented users\" ignore micro.blog. It's one of the reasons why, despite having backed the Kickstarter project, I chose to let my hosted micro.blog lapse and use micro.blog more like Twitter.\nI've documented my issues in several blog posts.\nCommunity Norms?\nThoughts on micro.blog\nMicro.blog and IndieWeb\nYou Can't Start the Revolution from the Web Country Club\nGoing Full Indie\nOthers have voiced similar complaints.\n\nWhy I'm leaving Micro.blog\n\nPhoneBoy abandons micro.blog\nI prefer the approach advocated by the IndieWeb and have also written about the issue of discovery for independent blogs who don't use social media."
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Self-hosted site outranking Medium Publication

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        "text": "Another reason folks should be part of the IndieWeb, not only owning your data but getting better SEO!\nhttps://indieweb.org/why",
        "html": "<p>Another reason folks should be part of the IndieWeb, not only owning your data but getting better SEO!\n<a href=\"https://indieweb.org/why\">https://indieweb.org/why</a></p>"
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    "author": {
        "type": "card",
        "name": "Jamie Tanna",
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