When it comes to the #fediverse I'm more active on #Lemmy than #Mastodon because it fits more how I want to discover content and engage with it, it's more similar to old forums than to Twitter.
I'm all for every admin deciding what's best to de-federate from their server, but I really dislike that people are trying to influence other servers through shaming them for not de federating from the same servers as them.
That's the whole point of the fediverse so that I can decide myself who I want to engage with and who not, if every server has de federated from the same list of other servers what's the point of the fediverse?
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"html": "<p>I deeply enjoy the Fediverse and being part of the Indieweb with my website. Just joined another webring today. \u263a\ufe0f</p><p>And this evening I put together a blog post about finally enjoying the internet again: <a href=\"https://blog.kovah.de/en/2023/enjoying-internet-again-with-fediverse-indieweb/\"><span>https://</span><span>blog.kovah.de/en/2023/enjoying</span><span>-internet-again-with-fediverse-indieweb/</span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/mastodon\">#<span>mastodon</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/pixelfed\">#<span>pixelfed</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/fediverse\">#<span>fediverse</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a></p>",
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Tonight I felt empty of tasks. Mainly cause I did what I wanted on my website and now I just have to enjoy life and post. So I took a break. Tomorrow I code. For now I dream of the #indieweb wishing people I know would jump in.
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"html": "<p>Is there a good, free RSS-to-Email service out there? Seems like services put that feature in a paid tier. </p><p>I\u2019d just like to allow friends and family subscribe to my website in a low-tech way.</p><p><a href=\"https://mastodon.online/tags/Indieweb\">#<span>Indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.online/tags/Email\">#<span>Email</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.online/tags/Rss\">#<span>Rss</span></a></p>",
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The second 32bit.cafe Community #codejam theme is "character", so you know I had to make a tamagotchi shrine. I'm definitely more than a little rusty when it comes to coding, but the shrine is looking so cute! I can't wait to share it. If you're 18+ and want to join in on the jam, check it out here: https://tilde.32bit.cafe/~hermit/community_jam_2/#yesterweb#indieweb folks, don't miss this!
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I now have Bridgy Fed (https://fed.brid.gy) set up on my website. It does all the heavy lifting so that websites can be a part of the Fediverse. While I was aware of Bridgy Fed I hadn’t quite understood it. A few minutes with Ryan’s docs and all became clear.
My content should now automatically federate to @barry@barryfrost.com. I’m still using my @barryf@mastodon.social account for reading my feed in Mastodon clients, but I intend to switch over.
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After 10+ years of building my personal website with Jekyll, I took the leap and wrote my own static site generator based on makesite.py. It's great to work in the Python ecosystem now. I never got the hang of proper Gem-management, so updating Jekyll was always a bit of a chore. I also updated the design, following the guidelines from https://brutalist-web.design/ by @davetron5000.
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Yesterday I polished the look of the Writing Slowly website by switching to Matt Langford’s Tiny theme, and adding some font and colour-scheme customisation of my own. So long as you’re not alergic to CSS, Micro.blog makes this very easy to do. Anyway, dear reader, I hope you like it. #WebDesign #Indieweb ... writingslowly.com
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"html": "<p>A key lesson from the <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a>: if you don\u2019t self-host, and this includes the Fediverse, you\u2019re content is at THEIR mercy.</p><p><a href=\"https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattnovak/2023/08/19/twitter-deletes-all-user-photos-and-links-from-2011-2014/?sh=75cbb02878fe\"><span>https://www.</span><span>forbes.com/sites/mattnovak/202</span><span>3/08/19/twitter-deletes-all-user-photos-and-links-from-2011-2014/?sh=75cbb02878fe</span></a></p>",
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You will be able to repost from other Betulae and compatible websites in 1.1. You can repost posts hosted by any version of Betula. However, post descriptions only from Betula 1.1+ will be fetched. Else, no description.
What websites other than Betula are compatible? Those that implement the needed microformats. For example, Quill implements it, so you can repost Aaron Parecki's bookmarks: https://aaronparecki.com/bookmarks
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"text": "A plethora of in-person planning, and t.co is no-go. It\u2019s your < 10min update on the #IndieWeb community!\nThis Week in the IndieWeb audio edition for August 12th - 18th, 2023.\nhttps://martymcgui.re/2023/08/20/this-week-in-the-indieweb-audio-edition--august-12th---18th-2023/",
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"html": "Show/Hide Transcript\n \n <p>A plethora of in-person planning, and t.co is no-go. It\u2019s the audio edition for <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/this-week/2023-08-18.html\">This Week in the IndieWeb for August 12th - 18th, 2023</a>.</p>\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<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<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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@forteller I also had problems with Mastodon sign-up, possibly due to my #SpamGourmet email address or my 72 character, high entropy password. Either way my mastodon.technology account never worked.
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"text": "@forteller I also had problems with Mastodon sign-up, possibly due to my #SpamGourmet email address or my 72 character, high entropy password. Either way my mastodon.technology account never worked. See: https://indieweb.social/@mcrocker/109332738993329060I've been happy with #indieWeb social, https://indieweb.social , since I moved there, but I used a #DDG email, https://duckduckgo.com/email, and a (high entropy) password Mastodon can handle, for my account login.Cc: @tchambers"
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#Tweet RT @soulcruzer: it's things like this that explain why you should have your own blog, run from your own domain, and syndicate it out to social media sites instead of using them natively. #indieweb
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"html": "<p><a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/Tweet\">#<span>Tweet</span></a> RT <span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://mastodon.social/@soulcruzer\">@<span>soulcruzer</span></a></span>: it's things like this that explain why you should have your own blog, run from your own domain, and syndicate it out to social media sites instead of using them natively. <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> </p><p>Twitter Deletes All User Photos And Links From 2\u2026 <a href=\"https://twitter.com/mndell/status/1693153510227919252\"><span>https://</span><span>twitter.com/mndell/status/1693</span><span>153510227919252</span></a></p>",
"text": "#Tweet RT @soulcruzer: it's things like this that explain why you should have your own blog, run from your own domain, and syndicate it out to social media sites instead of using them natively. #indieweb Twitter Deletes All User Photos And Links From 2\u2026 https://twitter.com/mndell/status/1693153510227919252"
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it's things like this that explain why you should have your own blog, run from your own domain, and syndicate it out to social media sites instead of using them natively. #indieweb
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"html": "<p>it's things like this that explain why you should have your own blog, run from your own domain, and syndicate it out to social media sites instead of using them natively. <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> </p><p>Twitter Deletes All User Photos And Links From 2011-2014 <a href=\"https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattnovak/2023/08/19/twitter-deletes-all-user-photos-and-links-from-2011-2014/\"><span>https://www.</span><span>forbes.com/sites/mattnovak/202</span><span>3/08/19/twitter-deletes-all-user-photos-and-links-from-2011-2014/</span></a></p>",
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"html": "<p>Starting off <span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://wrestling.social/@retrostrange\">@<span>retrostrange</span></a></span> Movie Night early with some Vincent Price infomercial magic <a href=\"https://live.retrostrange.com\"><span>https://</span><span>live.retrostrange.com</span><span></span></a> <a href=\"https://wrestling.social/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a> <a href=\"https://wrestling.social/tags/Streaming\">#<span>Streaming</span></a> <a href=\"https://wrestling.social/tags/Retro\">#<span>Retro</span></a></p>",
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I started what I hope will be a series of posts describing my experiences taking over maintenance and development of a custom Learning Management System (LMS). Hopefully by making it public and attracting a couple followers, I will be more likely to actually make it a series and not just another one-off attempt at "I'm really going to start blogging this time"
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"html": "<p>I started what I hope will be a series of posts describing my experiences taking over maintenance and development of a custom Learning Management System (LMS). Hopefully by making it public and attracting a couple followers, I will be more likely to actually make it a series and not just another one-off attempt at \"I'm really going to start blogging this time\"</p><p><a href=\"https://www.hazyblue.me/2023/maintaining-and-updating-a-custom-learning-management-system-introduction\"><span>https://www.</span><span>hazyblue.me/2023/maintaining-a</span><span>nd-updating-a-custom-learning-management-system-introduction</span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://scholar.social/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://scholar.social/tags/lms\">#<span>lms</span></a> <a href=\"https://scholar.social/tags/php\">#<span>php</span></a> <a href=\"https://scholar.social/tags/webdevelopment\">#<span>webdevelopment</span></a> <a href=\"https://scholar.social/tags/highered\">#<span>highered</span></a></p>",
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"html": "<p>I have spent the past couple of weeks fixated on implementing <a href=\"https://mastodon.online/tags/Webmentions\">#<span>Webmentions</span></a> on this website, and I have finally deployed the feature! (I think)</p><p><a href=\"https://orangegnome.com/posts/2482/webmentions-maybe\"><span>https://</span><span>orangegnome.com/posts/2482/web</span><span>mentions-maybe</span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://mastodon.online/tags/Django\">#<span>Django</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.online/tags/Indieweb\">#<span>Indieweb</span></a></p>",
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"text": "It\u2019s fun to think of the work I\u2019ve done in terms of Taylor Swift style eras. Hey, I might not have the musical talent, good looks, or legions of fans, but the work I\u2019ve done has required a series of overlapping re-inventions.So, why not. In roughly reverse-chronological order, here are my Taylor Swift eras; what are yours?Super-serious journalism supporter.Distinctive look: open button-down shirt\nDistinctive food: Austin-style breakfast taco\nDistinctive activity: karaokeI got into media through a lucky encounter with the founders of what became Latakoo, who attended a talk I gave about user-centered social network design at Harvard\u2019s Kennedy School in 2009. We collectively designed Latakoo to be an easy way for broadcast journalists to get their footage back to their newsrooms using commodity internet connections, in the video format the newsroom needed. It\u2019s the way organizations like NBC News send much of their recorded video today.I was the first CTO at The 19th, a non-profit newsroom reporting on gender, politics, and policy, and was an active participant in its Senior Leadership Team across all areas of organizational strategy. I\u2019ve also contracted with other non-profit newsrooms to provide tech leadership support.At Matter, I invested in media startups \u2014 but the cool thing about Matter\u2019s fund structure was that the LPs were all media organizations like PRX, KQED, the Knight Foundation, the New York Times, the Associated Press, McClatchy, Tamedia, CNHI, and, yes, tronc. I got to regularly meet with teams from those organizations and (as part of the Matter team) help them through innovation problems they were encountering using a design thinking led approach. I also got to participate in their own internal innovation processes, like giving feedback as part of the KQED Lab internal accelerator.Startup bro.Distinctive look: branded hoodie over a t-shirt that was also branded; socks were also often branded; third wave coffee mug also featured logo\nDistinctive food: kombucha on tap and espresso using the imported Italian machine\nDistinctive activity: offsitesI was the Head of Engineering at ForUsAll, which was my only foray into fintech. I was drawn to it because of its original mission to help increase access to retirement savings for more people. There was a lot of pressure to raise subsequent rounds of funding, and a major culture shift as the in-person company moved to a remote-first company during the pandemic. This allowed me to hire people I ordinarily never could have, in every US timezone.I was also a Senior Engineer at Medium on its publications team. It was my first experience working at a company that had, frankly, so much money, sometimes alongside people I\u2019d been following for years. I got to work alongside people who had previously built fundamental tools like Gmail as well as core pieces of web technology. The change in context meant I started off terrified: everyone was so completely on top of their respective games, and I had the biggest imposter syndrome of my life. It was also, for reasons I still don\u2019t completely understand, the most fashionably stylish team I\u2019d ever worked with.Open source utopian.Distinctive look: the jeans-tshirt-and-blazer look, because we were trying to look fancy and legitimate\nDistinctive food: pok\u00e9, for some reason\nDistinctive activity: long, long walks, sometimes to save money on transit faresI worked with Julien Genestoux on his Unlock Protocol: a way to help independent creators make money on their own terms without a middleman. Fully open source and decentralized, the protocol has taken advantage of various blockchains as they\u2019ve become available, allowing the protocol to become as fast and cost effective as possible. Julien and I are both open-web-first evangelists, and this attitude shows through in the project.With Erin Richey, I built Known: a kind of social news feed that you host yourself. Any number of people can publish to a Known feed (my site is a news feed of one, but some have had hundreds or thousands). We built an award-winning site with KQED and people around the world are still using it to power their websites. For a while, Known allowed you to directly syndicate your content to third-party websites, which saw us get coverage in Wired, among other places.With Dave Tosh, I built Elgg: an open source social networking platform that was used by the Canadian national government, Fortune 500 companies, and organizations like Greenpeace and Oxfam. It was, in retrospect, one of the first private social networks and social intranets. We built the first social network ever run at a university, and I\u2019m particularly proud of the social movements that used it. For example, the Spanish Movimiento 15-M anti-austerity movement used Elgg to organize. We also built the first open data definition for social networks, which helped inform the subsequent design of ActivityPub.Institutional web developer.Distinctive look: ironed shirt and trousers\nDistinctive food: university canteen food (I was kicked out of the Edinburgh MALTS canteen after hacking the menu)\nDistinctive activity: inventing acronyms for thingsI ran the web properties at Oxford University\u2019s Sa\u00efd Business School. The coolest thing about this job was getting to know the faculty and students; it wasn\u2019t long before they realized that I knew a lot more about startups and web tech than a random guy in an IT department probably should. I ended up meeting visiting dignitaries and participating in MBA round-tables. They were very kind to me, and in turn, I believe I pushed the IT department forward in its relationship to the web.And first, perhaps most improbably, I ran the web properties for what is now the St Leonard\u2019s Land Pool at the University of Edinburgh: an Olympic-sized swimming pool set up with underwater cameras to analyze and improve the strokes and techniques of elite athletes. I started being loaned out to the Edinburgh University Media and Learning Technology Service, which is where I met Dave and started cooking up Elgg.Proto-nerd.Distinctive look: baggy sweatshirt, jeans, oversized glasses, leather jacket for some reason\nDistinctive food: chips\nDistinctive activity: putting 486 computers togetherI helped build the first website for Daily Information, a local one-sheet newspaper for Oxford that included classified ads (it was possibly the first classified ad website in the world, pre-dating Craigslist) and reviews for local restaurants, movies, gigs, and theater. Before it became a website, I came on as its first BBS SysOp \u2014 my first ever job.I ran a hypertext magazine called Spire, which I built in Windows Help Format because its capabilities at the time outstripped HTML. (We did move to the web later on.) I got to interview celebrities-to-me like Roger Ebert and Nicholas Negroponte. Distribution was via BBS initially, and then we started to be carried on the cover CDs of more professional print computer magazines (something I achieved by faxing them all in turn with a proposal, which blows my mind now). I was 15.And I ran Rum and Monkey, a website that regularly got millions of pageviews a day and taught me all about social virality (this was 2002). I\u2019ve written extensively about that over here.",
"html": "<p>It\u2019s fun to think of the work I\u2019ve done in terms of <a href=\"https://www.lofficielusa.com/pop-culture/every-taylor-swift-album-era-style\">Taylor Swift style eras</a>. Hey, I might not have the musical talent, good looks, or legions of fans, but the work I\u2019ve done has required a series of overlapping re-inventions.</p><p>So, why not. In roughly reverse-chronological order, here are my Taylor Swift eras; what are yours?</p><p><strong>Super-serious journalism supporter.</strong></p><p><em><img style=\"float:right;\" src=\"https://werd.io/file/64df95971c7f4b8328022a02\" alt=\"Ben Werdmuller in his super-serious journalism era\" width=\"325\" height=\"434\" />Distinctive look: open button-down shirt</em><br /><em>Distinctive food: Austin-style breakfast taco</em><br /><em>Distinctive activity: karaoke</em></p><p>I got into media through a lucky encounter with the founders of what became <a href=\"https://latakoo.com\">Latakoo</a>, who attended a talk I gave about user-centered social network design at Harvard\u2019s Kennedy School in 2009. We collectively designed Latakoo to be an easy way for broadcast journalists to get their footage back to their newsrooms using commodity internet connections, in the video format the newsroom needed. It\u2019s the way organizations like NBC News send much of their recorded video today.</p><p>I was the first CTO at <a href=\"https://19thnews.org\">The 19th</a>, a non-profit newsroom reporting on gender, politics, and policy, and was an active participant in its Senior Leadership Team across all areas of organizational strategy. I\u2019ve also contracted with other non-profit newsrooms to provide tech leadership support.</p><p>At <a href=\"https://medium.com/matter-driven-narrative\">Matter</a>, I invested in media startups \u2014 but the cool thing about Matter\u2019s fund structure was that the LPs were all media organizations like PRX, KQED, the Knight Foundation, the New York Times, the Associated Press, McClatchy, Tamedia, CNHI, and, yes, <a href=\"https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/18/17476412/tronc-tribune-publishing-name-change-la-times-sale\">tronc</a>. I got to regularly meet with teams from those organizations and (as part of the Matter team) help them through innovation problems they were encountering using a design thinking led approach. I also got to participate in their own internal innovation processes, like giving feedback as part of the <a href=\"https://www.niemanlab.org/2016/10/kqed-is-encouraging-entrepreneurship-and-innovation-with-an-in-house-incubator/\">KQED Lab</a> internal accelerator.</p><p><strong>Startup bro.</strong></p><p><em><img style=\"float:right;\" src=\"https://werd.io/file/64df9649f4f92eb8b801eb22\" alt=\"Ben Werdmuller in his startup bro era\" width=\"325\" height=\"432\" />Distinctive look: branded hoodie over a t-shirt that was also branded; socks were also often branded; third wave coffee mug also featured logo</em><br /><em>Distinctive food: kombucha on tap and espresso using the imported Italian machine</em><br /><em>Distinctive activity: offsites</em></p><p>I was the Head of Engineering at <a href=\"https://forusall.com\">ForUsAll</a>, which was my only foray into fintech. I was drawn to it because of its original mission to help increase access to retirement savings for more people. There was a lot of pressure to raise subsequent rounds of funding, and a major culture shift as the in-person company moved to a remote-first company during the pandemic. This allowed me to hire people I ordinarily never could have, in every US timezone.</p><p>I was also a Senior Engineer at <a href=\"https://medium.com\">Medium</a> on its publications team. It was my first experience working at a company that had, frankly, so much money, sometimes alongside people I\u2019d been following for years. I got to work alongside people who had previously built fundamental tools like Gmail as well as core pieces of web technology. The change in context meant I started off <em>terrified</em>: everyone was so completely on top of their respective games, and I had the biggest imposter syndrome of my life. It was also, for reasons I still don\u2019t <em>completely</em> understand, the most fashionably stylish team I\u2019d ever worked with.</p><p><strong>Open source utopian.</strong></p><p><em><img style=\"float:right;\" src=\"https://werd.io/file/64df96fe33a8b0c25a0afb52\" alt=\"\" width=\"325\" height=\"216\" />Distinctive look: the jeans-tshirt-and-blazer look, because we were trying to look fancy and legitimate</em><br /><em>Distinctive food: pok\u00e9, for some reason</em><br /><em>Distinctive activity: long, long walks, sometimes to save money on transit fares</em></p><p>I worked with Julien Genestoux on his <a href=\"https://unlock-protocol.com\">Unlock Protocol</a>: a way to help independent creators make money on their own terms without a middleman. Fully open source and decentralized, the protocol has taken advantage of various blockchains as they\u2019ve become available, allowing the protocol to become as fast and cost effective as possible. Julien and I are both open-web-first evangelists, and this attitude shows through in the project.</p><p>With Erin Richey, I built <a href=\"https://withknown.com\">Known</a>: a kind of social news feed that you host yourself. Any number of people can publish to a Known feed (<a href=\"https://werd.io\">my site</a> is a news feed of one, but some have had hundreds or thousands). We built <a href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pressroom/9726/namle\">an award-winning site with KQED</a> and people around the world are still using it to power their websites. For a while, Known allowed you to directly syndicate your content to third-party websites, which saw us <a href=\"https://www.wired.com/2014/09/known/\">get coverage in Wired, among other places</a>.</p><p>With Dave Tosh, I built <a href=\"https://elgg.org\">Elgg</a>: an open source social networking platform that was used by the Canadian national government, Fortune 500 companies, and organizations like Greenpeace and Oxfam. It was, in retrospect, one of the first private social networks and social intranets. We built the first social network ever run at a university, and I\u2019m <em>particularly</em> proud of the social movements that used it. For example, the Spanish Movimiento 15-M anti-austerity movement used Elgg to organize. We also built the first open data definition for social networks, which helped inform the subsequent design of ActivityPub.</p><p><strong>Institutional web developer.</strong></p><p><em><img style=\"float:right;\" src=\"https://werd.io/file/64df978949817465170a2462\" alt=\"\" width=\"325\" height=\"433\" />Distinctive look: ironed shirt and trousers</em><br /><em>Distinctive food: university canteen food (I was kicked out of the Edinburgh MALTS canteen after hacking the menu)</em><br /><em>Distinctive activity: inventing acronyms for things</em></p><p>I ran the web properties at <a href=\"https://www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/\">Oxford University\u2019s Sa\u00efd Business School</a>. The coolest thing about this job was getting to know the faculty and students; it wasn\u2019t long before they realized that I knew a lot more about startups and web tech than a random guy in an IT department probably should. I ended up meeting visiting dignitaries and participating in MBA round-tables. They were very kind to me, and in turn, I believe I pushed the IT department forward in its relationship to the web.</p><p>And first, perhaps most improbably, I ran the web properties for what is now the <a href=\"https://www.ed.ac.uk/sport-exercise/swimming\">St Leonard\u2019s Land Pool</a> at the University of Edinburgh: an Olympic-sized swimming pool set up with underwater cameras to analyze and improve the strokes and techniques of elite athletes. I started being loaned out to the Edinburgh University <a href=\"https://www.ed.ac.uk/information-services/learning-technology\">Media and Learning Technology Service</a>, which is where I met Dave and started cooking up Elgg.</p><p><strong>Proto-nerd.</strong></p><p><em><img style=\"float:right;\" src=\"https://werd.io/file/64df983904f1a168ef0c5d22\" alt=\"\" width=\"325\" height=\"367\" />Distinctive look: baggy sweatshirt, jeans, oversized glasses, leather jacket for some reason</em><br /><em>Distinctive food: chips</em><br /><em>Distinctive activity: putting 486 computers together</em></p><p>I helped build the first website for <a href=\"https://dailyinfo.co.uk/\">Daily Information</a>, a local one-sheet newspaper for Oxford that included classified ads (it was possibly the first classified ad website in the world, pre-dating Craigslist) and reviews for local restaurants, movies, gigs, and theater. Before it became a website, I came on as <a href=\"https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/sysop-age-bbs\">its first BBS SysOp</a> \u2014 my first ever job.</p><p>I ran a hypertext magazine called Spire, which I built in Windows Help Format because its capabilities at the time outstripped HTML. (We did move to the web later on.) I got to interview celebrities-to-me like Roger Ebert and Nicholas Negroponte. Distribution was via BBS initially, and then we started to be carried on the cover CDs of more professional print computer magazines (something I achieved by <em>faxing them all in turn with a proposal</em>, which blows my mind now). I was 15.</p><p>And I ran Rum and Monkey, a website that regularly got millions of pageviews a day and taught me all about social virality (this was 2002). I\u2019ve written extensively about that <a href=\"https://words.werd.io/we-are-the-monkeys-of-rum-70f81d4a02df\">over here</a>.</p>"
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I can't wait to share it. If you're 18+ and want to join in on the jam, check it out here: https://tilde.32bit.cafe/~hermit/community_jam_2/ #yesterweb #indieweb folks, don't miss this! 
