A personal site, or a blog, is more than just a collection of writing. It’s a kind of place - something that feels like home among the streams. Home is a very strong mental model.
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This is like the Gashlycrumb Tinies but for websites:
It’s been interesting to see how websites die — from domain parking pages to timeouts to blank pages to outdated TLS cipher errors, there are a multitude of different ways.
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Speaking of hosting your own reading list, Maggie recently attended an indie web pop-up on personal libraries, which prompted these interesting thoughts on decentralised book clubs—ad hoc reading groups:
Taking a book-first, rather than a group-first approach would enable reading groups who don’t have to compromise on their book choices. They could gather only once or twice to discuss the book, then go their seperate ways. No long-term committment to organising and maintaining a bookclub required.
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Goodreads lost my entire account last week. Nine years as a user, some 600 books and 250 carefully written reviews all deleted and unrecoverable. Their support has not been helpful. In 35 years of being online I’ve never encountered a company with such callous disregard for their users’ data.
Ouch! Lesson learned:
My plan now is to host my own blog-like collection of all my reading notes like Tom does.
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@seaotta is it a length of post thing (longer than a tweet) or only posts with titles?
or does neither matter as long as they’re on your own website (like this reply)?
or do you mean top level posts (not replies) on your own site?
#indieweb thoughts
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Announcing the initial release of micropub, a CLI for interacting with Micropub servers.
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Here’s another great post about the IndieWeb Personal Libraries pop-up, from Maggie Appleton who facilitated a session on reading groups.
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Blogging isn’t dead. In fact, the opposite is true. We’re about to enter a golden age of personal blogs.
Make it easy for people to find you. Buy a domain name and use it to create your own website, even if it’s very simple at first. Your website is your resume, your business card, your store, your directory, and your personal magazine. It’s the one place online that you completely own and control – your Online Home.
Good advice. Also:
Don’t write on Medium.
Look, I get it. Writing on Medium is an easy way to pick up readers and increases your chances of going viral. But the costs exceed the benefits. Medium is terrible for SEO. You don’t own your content and the platform makes it difficult to turn one-time readers into loyal ones.
The more you can use platforms you own, the better. Rather than writing on Medium, do the work to build a personal blog. That way, you can have a central place to point people to.
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"text": "The Ultimate Guide to Writing Online - David Perell\n\n\n\n\n Blogging isn\u2019t dead. In fact, the opposite is true. We\u2019re about to enter a golden age of personal blogs.\n \n Make it easy for people to find you. Buy a domain name and use it to create your own website, even if it\u2019s very simple at first. Your website is your resume, your business card, your store, your directory, and your personal magazine. It\u2019s the one place online that you completely own and control \u2013 your Online Home.\n\n\nGood advice. Also:\n\n\n Don\u2019t write on Medium.\n \n Look, I get it. Writing on Medium is an easy way to pick up readers and increases your chances of going viral. But the costs exceed the benefits. Medium is terrible for SEO. You don\u2019t own your content and the platform makes it difficult to turn one-time readers into loyal ones.\n \n The more you can use platforms you own, the better. Rather than writing on Medium, do the work to build a personal blog. That way, you can have a central place to point people to.",
"html": "<h3>\n<a class=\"p-name u-bookmark-of\" href=\"https://perell.com/essay/the-ultimate-guide-to-writing-online/\">\nThe Ultimate Guide to Writing Online - David Perell\n</a>\n</h3>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>Blogging isn\u2019t dead. In fact, the opposite is true. We\u2019re about to enter a golden age of personal blogs.</p>\n \n <p>Make it easy for people to find you. Buy a domain name and use it to create your own website, even if it\u2019s very simple at first. Your website is your resume, your business card, your store, your directory, and your personal magazine. It\u2019s the one place online that you completely own and control \u2013 your Online Home.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>Good advice. Also:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>Don\u2019t write on Medium.</p>\n \n <p>Look, I get it. Writing on Medium is an easy way to pick up readers and increases your chances of going viral. But the costs exceed the benefits. Medium is terrible for SEO. You don\u2019t own your content and the platform makes it difficult to turn one-time readers into loyal ones.</p>\n \n <p>The more you can use platforms you own, the better. Rather than writing on Medium, do the work to build a personal blog. That way, you can have a central place to point people to.</p>\n</blockquote>"
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"html": "<p><a href=\"https://events.indieweb.org/2022/02/personal-libraries-pop-up-session-Wax8N17zQuY0\">Yesterday\u2019s IndieWeb session</a> gave me a lot to think about, and a couple specific next things to work on:</p>\n<ul><li>Micro.blog should be able to easily publish your book lists in different public formats. It now can. When you set a bookshelf to a page on your blog, Micro.blog will also create JSON Feed and OPML files with it. For example, here\u2019s my <a href=\"https://www.manton.org/want-to-read/\">Want to read</a> page as <a href=\"https://www.manton.org/want-to-read/index.json\">index.json</a> and <a href=\"https://www.manton.org/want-to-read/index.opml\">index.opml</a>.</li>\n<li>Micro.blog and Epilogue should move to using an API for managing books that could be supported in other platforms. <a href=\"https://github.com/indieweb/micropub-extensions/issues/46\">I\u2019ve now proposed</a> a way to extend Micropub to cover this.</li>\n</ul><p>I\u2019ve also submitted <a href=\"https://www.manton.org/2022/02/19/epilogue-preview.html\">Epilogue 1.2</a> to Apple for review, with Micropub posting support and a few bug fixes. After it\u2019s out, I\u2019ll try to get a release for Android ready too.</p>\n<p><i>Also posted to <a href=\"https://news.indieweb.org/en\" class=\"u-syndication\">IndieNews</a>.</i></p>",
"text": "Yesterday\u2019s IndieWeb session gave me a lot to think about, and a couple specific next things to work on:\nMicro.blog should be able to easily publish your book lists in different public formats. It now can. When you set a bookshelf to a page on your blog, Micro.blog will also create JSON Feed and OPML files with it. For example, here\u2019s my Want to read page as index.json and index.opml.\nMicro.blog and Epilogue should move to using an API for managing books that could be supported in other platforms. I\u2019ve now proposed a way to extend Micropub to cover this.\nI\u2019ve also submitted Epilogue 1.2 to Apple for review, with Micropub posting support and a few bug fixes. After it\u2019s out, I\u2019ll try to get a release for Android ready too.\nAlso posted to IndieNews."
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Great write-up by @ton of yesterday’s IndieWeb Personal Libraries pop-up session. I thought the sessions were a good start, and it helped me prioritize what to work on. Now we need to continue the discussion in blog posts and the IndieWeb wiki with some more next steps.
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"html": "<p><a href=\"https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2022/02/indieweb-peronal-libraries-popup-session/\">Great write-up</a> by <a href=\"https://micro.blog/ton\">@ton</a> of yesterday\u2019s IndieWeb Personal Libraries pop-up session. I thought the sessions were a good start, and it helped me prioritize what to work on. Now we need to continue the discussion in blog posts and the IndieWeb wiki with some more next steps.</p>",
"text": "Great write-up by @ton of yesterday\u2019s IndieWeb Personal Libraries pop-up session. I thought the sessions were a good start, and it helped me prioritize what to work on. Now we need to continue the discussion in blog posts and the IndieWeb wiki with some more next steps."
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Great write-up by @ton of yesterday’s IndieWeb Personal Libraries pop-up session. I thought the sessions were a good start, and it helped me prioritize what to work on. Now we need to continue the discussion in blog posts and the IndieWeb wiki with some more next steps.
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"html": "<p><a href=\"https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2022/02/indieweb-peronal-libraries-popup-session/\">Great write-up</a> by <a href=\"https://micro.blog/ton\">@ton</a> of yesterday\u2019s IndieWeb Personal Libraries pop-up session. I thought the sessions were a good start, and it helped me prioritize what to work on. Now we need to continue the discussion in blog posts and the IndieWeb wiki with some more next steps.</p>",
"text": "Great write-up by @ton of yesterday\u2019s IndieWeb Personal Libraries pop-up session. I thought the sessions were a good start, and it helped me prioritize what to work on. Now we need to continue the discussion in blog posts and the IndieWeb wiki with some more next steps."
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"text": "About to start the #IndieWebCamp pop up session on Personal Libraries. #DistributedLibraries https://events.indieweb.org/2022/02/personal-libraries-pop-up-session-Wax8N17zQuY0",
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"html": "<p>I\u2019ve been improving the profile screen in the new Epilogue to support adding external blogs via Micropub. You will still manage your bookshelves with Micro.blog, but the posts can go to another blog.</p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a screencast video that shows off most of the UI for searching for books, adding books to a shelf, and configuring an external blog. In this case it uses the IndieAuth and Micropub plugins for WordPress.</p>\n<p></p>",
"text": "I\u2019ve been improving the profile screen in the new Epilogue to support adding external blogs via Micropub. You will still manage your bookshelves with Micro.blog, but the posts can go to another blog.\nHere\u2019s a screencast video that shows off most of the UI for searching for books, adding books to a shelf, and configuring an external blog. In this case it uses the IndieAuth and Micropub plugins for WordPress."
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@Weegee This short section should give you all the necessary bits: https://indieweb.org/2022/Pop-ups/Personal_Libraries#Resources
It is BarCamp-style so bring some ideas.
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A (very) belated follow up to Getting Started with Microformats 2, covering the basics of consuming and using microformats 2 data.
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