Image artwork from the cover of Ruined by Design featuring a red filtered view of the atomic mushroom cloud explosion on a small ocean island

IndieWeb Book Club: Ruined By Design

Some of us have thought about doing it before, but perhaps just jumping into the water and trying it out may be the best way to begin designing, testing, and building a true online IndieWeb Book Club.

Ruined By Design

Title and author on a white background at the top with a red filtered view of an atomic mushroom cloud explosion on the Bikini atoll in the Pacific Ocean

Earlier this week I saw a notice about an upcoming local event for Mike Monteiro‘s new book Ruined by Design: How Designers Destroyed the World, and What We Can Do to Fix It (Mule Books, March 2019, ISBN: 978-1090532084). Given the IndieWeb’s focus on design which is built into several of their principles, I thought this looked like a good choice for kicking off such an IndieWeb Book Club.

Here’s the description of the book from the publisher:

The world is working exactly as designed. The combustion engine which is destroying our planet’s atmosphere and rapidly making it inhospitable is working exactly as we designed it. Guns, which lead to so much death, work exactly as they’re designed to work. And every time we “improve” their design, they get better at killing. Facebook’s privacy settings, which have outed gay teens to their conservative parents, are working exactly as designed. Their “real names” initiative, which makes it easier for stalkers to re-find their victims, is working exactly as designed. Twitter’s toxicity and lack of civil discourse is working exactly as it’s designed to work.The world is working exactly as designed. And it’s not working very well. Which means we need to do a better job of designing it. Design is a craft with an amazing amount of power. The power to choose. The power to influence. As designers, we need to see ourselves as gatekeepers of what we are bringing into the world, and what we choose not to bring into the world. Design is a craft with responsibility. The responsibility to help create a better world for all. Design is also a craft with a lot of blood on its hands. Every cigarette ad is on us. Every gun is on us. Every ballot that a voter cannot understand is on us. Every time social network’s interface allows a stalker to find their victim, that’s on us. The monsters we unleash into the world will carry your name. This book will make you see that design is a political act. What we choose to design is a political act. Who we choose to work for is a political act. Who we choose to work with is a political act. And, most importantly, the people we’ve excluded from these decisions is the biggest (and stupidest) political act we’ve made as a society.If you’re a designer, this book might make you angry. It should make you angry. But it will also give you the tools you need to make better decisions. You will learn how to evaluate the potential benefits and harm of what you’re working on. You’ll learn how to present your concerns. You’ll learn the importance of building and working with diverse teams who can approach problems from multiple points-of-view. You’ll learn how to make a case using data and good storytelling. You’ll learn to say NO in a way that’ll make people listen. But mostly, this book will fill you with the confidence to do the job the way you always wanted to be able to do it. This book will help you understand your responsibilities.

I suspect that this book will be of particular interest to those in the IndieWeb, A Domain of One’s Own, the EdTech space (and OER), and really just about anyone.

How to participate

I’m open to other potential guidelines and thoughts since this is incredibly experimental at best, but I thought I’d lay out the following broad ideas for how we can generally run the book club and everyone can keep track of the pieces online. Feel free to add your thoughts as responses to this post or add them to the IndieWeb wiki’s page https://indieweb.org/IndieWeb_Book_Club.

  • Buy the book or get a copy from your local bookstore
  • Read it along with the group
  • Post your progress, thoughts, replies/comments, highlights, annotations, reactions, quotes, related bookmarks, podcast or microcast episodes, etc. about the book on your own website on your own domain. If your site doesn’t support any of these natively, just do your best and post simple notes that you can share. In the end, this is about the content and the discussion first and the technology second, but feel free to let it encourage you to improve your own site for doing these things along the way.
    • Folks can also post on other websites and platforms if they must, but that sort of defeats some of the purpose of the Indie idea, right?
  • Syndicate your thoughts to indieweb.xyz to the stub indieweb.xyz/en/bookclub/ as the primary location for keeping track of our conversation. Directions for doing this can be found at https://indieweb.xyz/howto/en.
  • Optionally syndicate them to other services like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, etc.
  • Optionally mention this original post, and my website will also aggregate the comments via webmention to the comment section below.
  • At regular intervals, check in on the conversations linked on indieweb.xyz/en/bookclub/ and post your replies and reactions about them on your own site.

If your site doesn’t support sending/receiving webmentions (a special type of open web notifications), take a look at Aaron Parecki’s post Sending your first Webmention and keep in mind that you can manually force webmentions with services like Telegraph or Mention-Tech. 

I’ll also try to keep track of entries I’m aware about on my own site as read or bookmark posts which I’ll tag with (ostensibly for IndieWeb Book Club Mike Monteiro), which we can also use on other social silos for keeping track of the conversation there.

Perhaps as we move along, I’ll look into creating a planet for the club as well as aggregating OPML files of those who create custom feeds for their posts. If I do this it will only be to supplement the aggregation of posts at the stub on indieweb.xyz which should serve as the primary hub for the club’s conversation.

If you haven’t run across it yet you can also use gRegor Morrill‘s IndieBookClub.biz tool in the process. 

If you don’t already have your own website or domain to participate, feel free to join in on other portions of social media, but perhaps consider jumping into the IndieWeb chat to ask about how to get started to better own your online identity and content. 

If you need help putting together your own site, there are many of us out here who can help get you started. I might also recommend using micro.blog which is an inexpensive and simple way to have your own website. I know that Manton Reece has already purchased a copy of the book himself. I hope that he and the rest of the micro.blog community will participate  along with us.

If you feel technically challenged, please ping me about your content and participation, and I’m happy to help aggregate your posts to the indieweb.xyz hub on your behalf. Ideally a panoply of people participating on a variety of technical levels and platforms will help us create a better book club (and a better web) for the future.

Of course, if you feel the itch to build pieces of infrastructure into your own website for improved participation, dive right in. Feel free to document what you’re doing both your own website and the IndieWeb wiki so others can take advantage of what you’ve come up with. Also feel free to join in on upcoming Homebrew Website Clubs (either local or virtual) or IndieWebCamps to continue brainstorming and iterating in those spaces as well.

Kickoff and Timeline

I’m syndicating this post to IndieNews for inclusion into next week’s IndieWeb newsletter which will serve as a kickoff notice. That will give folks time to acquire a copy of the book and start reading it. Of course this doesn’t mean that you couldn’t start today.

Share and repost this article with anyone you think might enjoy participating in the meanwhile.

I’ll start reading and take a stab at laying out a rough schedule. If you’re interested in participating, do let me know; we can try to mold the pace to those who actively want to participate.

I’ve already acquired a copy of the book and look forward to reading it along with you.

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I'm a biomedical and electrical engineer with interests in information theory, complexity, evolution, genetics, signal processing, IndieWeb, theoretical mathematics, and big history. I'm also a talent manager-producer-publisher in the entertainment industry with expertise in representation, distribution, finance, production, content delivery, and new media.

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  5. Annotated Ruined by Design: How Designers Destroyed the World, and What We Can Do to Fix It by Mike Monteiro (Mule Books, March 2019, ISBN: 978-1090532084)

    Highlights, Quotes, Annotations, & Marginalia

    But if you want to wade into the murky waters of the tech industry; if you’re wanting to think more deeply about the power and ethical responsibility you have in this industry; if you’re perplexed but not in despair; if you’re ready to think about the direct impact our work has on the individuals and families exposed to the experiences and products you help create; if you’re ready to turn off the faucet; rip the plug out of the sink, and put your mop to use—this book is for you.

    2:45 pm

    The world is on its way to ruin and it’s happening by design.

    2:44pm

    The goal of this book is to help you do the right thing in environments designed to make it easier to do the wrong thing.

    2:45 pm

    We’re going to learn how being a designer is being a gatekeeper. We’re about to become humankind’s last line of defense against monsters.

    2:46 pm

    I intend to show you that design is a political act. What we choose to design and more importantly, what we choose not to design, and even more importantly, who we exclude from the design process—these are all political acts. Knowing this and ignoring it is also a political act, albeit a cowardly one. Understanding the power in our labor and how we choose to use it defines the type of people we are.

    2:48 pm

    Speaking of Victor Papanek, this book wouldn’t exist if I hadn’t read Design for the Real World as a young designer.

    2:49 pm

    In the words of the great Margaret Mead:

    Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.

    2:55 pm
    Always a great quote and it reminds me of The West Wing (1999, Warner Bros.)

    For years, the libertarian con artists of Silicon Valley have been telling us they want to change the world. But when the people at the top tell you they want to change the world, it’s generally because they’ve figured out how to profit even more from those below them.

    2:56 pm

    Our labor is what makes us special, and what gives us power. When we turn that labor into a force for making the world better for the largest number of people possible instead of using it to make a few people even richer than they already are? Then, and only then, we may be actually able to change the world. Then we get to go home and live ordinary lives.

    2:57 pm

    Most professions worth their while, and capable of inflicting harm, have ethical codes of some sort. It’s a sign of maturity and responsibility, and there’s a price paid for not following it, which may include losing your license to practice.

    3:00 pm

    The internet is a harassment and abuse factory in part because designers implemented things they shouldn’t.

    3:02 pm

    About a year ago, I decided to write a code of ethics. It’s open-sourced. Take it. Make it better. Treat it like a living document:
    A designer is first and foremost a human being.

    3:06 pm
    These were part of a Medium post from 2017 entitled Dear Design Student.

    When you do work that depends on a need for income disparity or class distinctions to succeed, you are failing at your job as a human being, and therefore as a designer.

    3:07 pm

    A designer is responsible for the work they put into the world.

    3:08 pm

    When we ignorantly produce work that harms others because we didn’t consider the full ramifications of that work, we are doubly guilty.

    3:09 pm

    A designer values impact over form.

    3:10 pm

    A designer owes the people who hire them not just their labor, but their counsel.

    3:11 pm

    A designer uses their expertise in the service of others without being a servant. Saying no is a design skill. Asking why is a design skill. Rolling your eyes and staying quiet is not. Asking ourselves why we are making something is an infinitely better question than asking ourselves whether we can make it.

    3:13 pm

    A designer welcomes criticism.

    3:13 pm

    A designer strives to know their audience.

    3:14 pm

    What about empathy? Empathy is a pretty word for exclusion.

    3:15 pm

    A designer does not believe in edge cases.

    3:16 pm

    A designer is part of a professional community.

    3:17 pm

    A designer seeks to build their professional community, not divide it

    3:19 pm

    A designer welcomes a diverse and competitive field.

    3:19 pm

    A designer takes time for self-reflection.

    3:44 pm

    No one wakes up one day designing to throw their ethics out the window

    3:45 pm

    We are not hired hands, we are not pixelpushers, we are not order-takers. We are gatekeepers.

    3:46 pm

    On November 6, 2016, Donald Trump received 2.9 million fewer votes than Hillary Clinton. The Electoral College—originally designed by elite white men to entice agrarian, slave-owning states to join the union—handed the election to the candidate with fewer votes, who also happened to be a white supremacist. It was designed to work that way.

    3:52 pm

    The world isn’t broken. It’s working exactly as it was designed to work. And we’re the ones who designed it. Which means we fucked up.

    3:53 pm

    There are two words every designer needs to feel comfortable saying: “no” and “why.” These words are the foundation of what we do. They’re the foundation of our ethical framework. If we cannot ask “why,” we lose the ability to judge whether the work we’re doing is ethical. If we cannot say “no,” we lose the ability to stand and fight. We lose the ability to help shape the thing we’re responsible for.

    3:54 pm

    Sure, everyone remembers Frankenstein’s monster, but they call it by his maker’s name.

    3:55 pm

    Excessive speed gets products through that gate before anyone notices what they are and how foul they smell.

    3:56 pm

    We need to measure more than profit. We need to slow down and measure what our work is doing out there in the world.

    3:59 pm

    People don’t see the things they’re rewarded for as problems to fix.

    4:01 pm

    A good algorithm is the equivalent of breaking up with someone over a text message and then turning your phone off. It’s cowardly. Good leaders should aspire to have their fingerprints all over hard decisions.

    4:05 pm

    When you hire me as a designer, I do not work for you. I may practice my craft at your service, but you haven’t earned the right to shape how I practice that craft.

    4:08 pm

    Those of us who grew up designing things online need to realize the repercussions of the work we do. We’re no longer pushing pixels around a screen. We’re building complex systems that touch people’s lives, destroy their personal relationships, broadcast words of both support and hate, and undeniably mess with their mental health. When we do our jobs well, we improve people’s lives. When we don’t, people die.

    4:12 pm
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  6. 📖 15% into reading Ruined by Design: How Designers Destroyed the World, and What We Can Do to Fix It by Mike Monteiro
    Read Chapters: The Ethics of Design, How Designers Destroyed the World, and Moving Fast and Breaking Things
    I was very reticent about this book at first, but it is way more essential than I initially thought! I knew I was going to know almost all of the examples, and I’ve generally been right on that account so far, but he’s going beyond the problems with potential solutions. I was worried it was going to be something that I would appreciate and heartily recommend to others without getting much out of it myself, but it reads quickly and easily and there’s a lot here that I want to come back and ponder about further.
    Despite the fact that I don’t feel like a professional web designer by trade, what he’s talking about here are standards of human care and interaction that anyone who makes anything should be thinking about on a daily basis. Whether you’re building or creating things for others or even making your own daily life, at heart, you’re designing something.
    If Chuck Chugumlung hasn’t come across this book yet with respect to his Design X Pasadena group, I’ll recommend it heartily to him.
    I also find myself thinking a lot about how people are building and designing technologies in the edtech space. May of the researchers, professors, and instructional designers I know are immersed in some of the ethics and morals behind using these technologies. Generally I hear them talking about what they “wish” they had as tools, but often they seem to be stuck with things they don’t really want and are then attempting to figure out ways around these technologies after-the-fact so that they can use them in an ethical manner. They really need to stand up, refuse to use what they’re given, and demand better design from the start. Even if they’re incapable of building their own tools, they’re slowly, but surely going to loose the war if they don’t move upstream to where the actual decisions are being made. Fortunately some of the work I see in the OER space is being done at the grass roots where people have more choice and say in the design, but I worry that if they’re not careful, those tools will be siloed off with bad design choices by for-profit companies as well.

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  7. Sigh. I would love to participate in a book club but … I suspect the subject matter of the books that the IndieWeb community, which I think is mostly technologists, would not be of much interest to me.

    Cool idea though.

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    1. Khürt, while on first blush this seems like a somewhat more technical book on design (my first impression too), it’s definitely written for a much broader audience. I’d say it’s more about morality and being a human being whether you’re designing websites or even designing your own life.

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  10. Replied to a tweet by Dr. Dean (Twitter)

    Love hearing @acroom invoke Jane Jacobs in terms of why we should care about design. Urban theory, history of New York, are great analogs for tensions in technology, teaching, and learning. #OLCInnnovate pic.twitter.com/taXxvqBg0e— (((Dr. Dean))) (@dr_jdean) April 3, 2019

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    I’ve just started reading Mike Monteiro’s book Ruined by Design which puts a fine point on caring about design.

    https://boffosocko.com/2019/05/04/indieweb-book-club-ruined-by-design/

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  11. As I’m thinking about bookclubs and Hypothes.is, I sort of wish that Ruined by Design was either online or in .pdf format so that I could use a Hypothes.is group to highlight/annotate my copy with their tool for my bookclub. I’m curious if there are any non-academic bookclubs using it in the wild?
    Obviously it’s great for reading native digital content, material in the public domain, or Creative Commons content, but how could one work on participatory annotations for more restricted copyright material? Is there a Hypothes.is plugin for the Kindle, Kindle apps, or other e-readers that may work with copyright material?

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  13. Using Indieweb.xyz to form an ad-hoc book club.

    This is cool—and now I’m trying to think of ways I can improve Indieweb.xyz for a purpose like this. One thing that comes to mind is possibly offering a few moderation tools for you. I think with a sub like this, it would be nice for you to have a “pinned post” or something at the top of /en/bookclub so that you can advertise the current selection for the club and some links to how to vote for the next selection—things like that. (This post would just be a syndicated post from your blog, Chris.)

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    1. Thanks Kicks Condor! I did contemplate creating a more specific stub name for the particular book, but suspected that starting out with something simpler maybe a bit easier and more user friendly. New functionality would be cool, but don’t kill yourself as proving the basics are a good first step.

      I was listening to a podcast the other day that talked about services like Ning that offered a lot of additional administrative functionality for groups (like this) versus some of the other social silos which generally haven’t given power to administrators to tamp down on bad actors. This is an area which may be fruitful for the IndieWeb to experiment within. I know that having a solid (private) group experience is something that is keeping a large number of people tied to Facebook and that if there were other places to go, many would jump ship.

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  14. IndieWeb Book Club: Ruined By Design (BoffoSocko)

    I’ve been wanting to read Mike Monteiro’s Ruined By Design, so I’m happy that @chrisaldrich suggested this book for an IndieWeb Book Club.
    My first impression (based on the publisher’s blurb and Chris’s description) is that Monteiro’s book shares a lot of concerns with my research, namely how we can design systems that reflect our values. The blurb lists examples of designs working as intended, and in the process making the world worse:

    The combustion engine which is destroying our planet’s atmosphere and rapidly making it inhospitable is working exactly as we designed it. Guns, which lead to so much death, work exactly as they’re designed to work. And every time we “improve” their design, they get better at killing. Facebook’s privacy settings, which have outed gay teens to their conservative parents, are working exactly as designed. Their “real names” initiative, which makes it easier for stalkers to re-find their victims, is working exactly as designed. Twitter’s toxicity and lack of civil discourse is working exactly as it’s designed to work.

    The world is working exactly as designed. And it’s not working very well. Which means we need to do a better job of designing it. Design is a craft with an amazing amount of power. The power to choose. The power to influence. As designers, we need to see ourselves as gatekeepers of what we are bringing into the world, and what we choose not to bring into the world. Design is a craft with responsibility. The responsibility to help create a better world for all.

    I strongly agree with the claims of responsibility made in this passage. When we make things, we are responsible for carefully considering their potential consequences. And if we make things with negative effects we failed to foresee, we should respond to those effects with diligence and purpose.

    I feel some apprehension about how this book might present designers’ “amazing amount of power.”  I think designers work within a profound network of constraints, and I’m curious how this will be addressed. That said, I’ll reserve judgement until I’ve read the book, and I’m looking forward to seeing what others have to say.

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  16. RSVPed Attending Mike Monteiro: “Let’s Destroy Silicon Valley”

    ABOUT THE TALK
    For the past couple of decades, the tech companies of Silicon Valley (and beyond) have run unchecked, causing havoc, destroying civil discourse, democracy, ruining personal relationships, running marketplaces of harassment and abuse, all to line their pockets. The very worst part is that they did it with our labor.
    This isn’t a talk, this is a union meeting.
    ABOUT THE SPEAKER
    Mike Monteiro is a designer and co-founder of Mule Design in San Francisco. He’s been talking about design responsibility and ethics since before you were ready to listen. He’s written three books, including the just-released Ruined by Design.
    A small number of books will be available for sale, which Mike will be able to sign after the talk. Otherwise, buy the book on Amazon. But really, just buy it and read it beforehand. It will help make the world better.
    Follow him on Twitter, despite his feelings about Twitter: @monteiro

    This was the event that touched off my idea to read Ruined by Design and start an IndieWeb Book club to discuss it.

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  17. Acquired: Ruined by Design by Mike Monteiro

    As part of the Indieweb Book Club for Ruined by Design by Mike Monteiro I just acquired a paperback copy of this book.

    Just did a fast skim page through: I expect I’ll agree with some of Monteiro’s basic premises about design, I also noticed that the author paints with a pretty broad brush. (That’s not always bad, since I do the same thing.) As part of that he makes some assertions like religions are designed to hate each other and that “cultural appropriation” is universally accepted as being a Bad Thing. I understand that these are not the main thrust of his arguments but his misuse of them undermines his argument and his authority – at least with this reader. The first rule of debate is to examine the other person’s “givens”. If the “givens” are faulty then that weakens their whole argument.

    I won’t get into nit picking on these, because that would take me off topic.

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  19. Listened to How Is Lead Still A Problem? from On the Media | WNYC Studios

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    Once in a while, in this space, we offer you an episode of another podcast that we think is pretty aligned with our goals here at On the Media. This week, we’re offering you the first episode of a new podcast from WNYC Studios, called The Stakes. The angle is: we built the society we’ve got. And maybe it’s time to build a new one.
    You can and should subscribe to The Stakes wherever you get your podcasts (we are). But in the meantime, here’s their first episode all about the pervasive problem of lead paint stillpoisoning children. The ancient Greeks knew lead is poisonous. Ben Franklin wrote about its dangers. So how did it end up being all around us? And how is it still a problem?

    I knew lead paint was a huge problem, but didn’t know about some of the early history about why. It’s painful that this is still such a problem in current society. It’s deplorable that corporations can get away with exploiting society with externalities like this.
    On the Media is one of the few podcasts that I don’t mind when they sneak other episodes of material into their feed because they have such a solid editorial voice of what does or doesn’t appear in their feed.
    The general idea behind The Stakes is very solid. Their general premise makes me think they should potentially interview Mike Monteiro whose book Ruined by Designed I’ve recently begun reading. 
    Another interesting episode idea for the show with this theme could cover surveillance capitalism and digital redlining potentially with interviews with academics/researchers like Chris Gilliard, Cathy O’Neil, and Tressie McMillan Cottom.

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  22. Episode 14: A loose collective of developers and techno-utopians

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    Summary: Our first episode since January. David Shanske and Chris Aldrich get caught up on some recent IndieWebCamps, an article about IndieWeb in The New Yorker, changes within WordPress, and upcoming events.
    Recorded: May 19, 2019
    Shownotes
    6 camps later…
    Austin
    Online
    New Haven
    Berlin
    Düsseldorf
    Utrecht
    National Duckpin Bowling Congress
    Duck Tours
    Streaming rigs for remote participation at IndieWeb Camps
    Ad hoc sessions (🎧 00:11:28)
    Can “Indie” Social Media Save Us? (The New Yorker) by Cal Newport (🎧 00:13:50)
    Swarm Account deletions and posting limits
    New Checkin icon within the Post Kinds Plugin: example https://david.shanske.com/kind/checkin/
    Weather now has microformats mark up in WordPress
    Fatwigoo problems with icons
    IndieWeb Bingo
    Webmention Project
    Project of updating Matthias Pfefferle‘s Webmention and Semantic Linkbacks plugins (🎧 00:26:10)

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    Parse This
    Ekby Jarpen
    SteelCase Executive Tanker Desk

    Readers & Yarns
    Readers & Yarns update (🎧 00:40:50)
    X-Ray
    Indigenous Replacement: Final Indigenous Log: The Future of the App
    Post Kinds Plugin
    Post Kinds and new exclude functionality (🎧 00:48:15)

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    titleless posts
    On this day

    David’s list of 24 IndieWebCamps he’s attended
    Looking back at past IndieWebCamp sessions and wiki pages for interesting ideas and new itches
    Date and time stamps on webmentions
    Call for tickets in WordPress
    Subscribing to h-cards with WebSub
    Is Mastodon IndieWeb?
    Fixing IndieAuth
    Improving scoping, particularly for multi-user sites
    Coming up within the community
    IndieWeb Book Club
    IndieWeb Book Club is coming up featuring Mike Monteiro’s book Ruined by Design(🎧 01:13:04)

    More details: https://boffosocko.com/2019/05/04/indieweb-book-club-ruined-by-design/

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    IndieWeb Summit 2019
    9th annual IndieWeb Summit (Portland) is coming up in June. RSVP now.
    Questions?
    Feel free to send us your questions or topic suggestions for upcoming episodes. (Use the comments below or your own site using Webmention). 
    Perhaps a future episode on Micro.blog?

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  23. Summary: Our first episode since January. David Shanske and Chris Aldrich get caught up on some recent IndieWebCamps, an article about IndieWeb in The New Yorker, changes within WordPress, and upcoming events.
    Recorded: May 19, 2019
    Shownotes
    6 camps later…
    Austin
    Online
    New Haven
    Berlin
    Düsseldorf
    Utrecht
    National Duckpin Bowling Congress
    Duck Tours
    Streaming rigs for remote participation at IndieWeb Camps
    Ad hoc sessions (🎧 00:11:28)
    Can “Indie” Social Media Save Us? (The New Yorker) by Cal Newport (🎧 00:13:50)
    Swarm Account deletions and posting limits
    New Checkin icon within the Post Kinds Plugin: example https://david.shanske.com/kind/checkin/
    Weather now has microformats mark up in WordPress
    Fatwigoo problems with icons
    IndieWeb Bingo
    Webmention Project
    Project of updating Matthias Pfefferle‘s Webmention and Semantic Linkbacks plugins (🎧 00:26:10)

    https://github.com/pfefferle/wordpress-webmention
    https://github.com/pfefferle/wordpress-semantic-linkbacks
    Parse This
    Ekby Jarpen
    SteelCase Executive Tanker Desk

    Readers & Yarns
    Readers & Yarns update (🎧 00:40:50)
    X-Ray
    Indigenous Replacement: Final Indigenous Log: The Future of the App
    Post Kinds Plugin
    Post Kinds and new exclude functionality (🎧 00:48:15)

    widgets
    titleless posts
    On this day

    David’s list of 24 IndieWebCamps he’s attended
    Looking back at past IndieWebCamp sessions and wiki pages for interesting ideas and new itches
    Date and time stamps on webmentions
    Call for tickets in WordPress
    Subscribing to h-cards with WebSub
    Is Mastodon IndieWeb?
    Fixing IndieAuth
    Improving scoping, particularly for multi-user sites
    Coming up within the community
    IndieWeb Book Club
    IndieWeb Book Club is coming up featuring Mike Monteiro’s book Ruined by Design(🎧 01:13:04)

    More details: https://boffosocko.com/2019/05/04/indieweb-book-club-ruined-by-design/

    https://indieweb.xyz/en/bookclub

    IndieWeb Summit 2019
    9th annual IndieWeb Summit (Portland) is coming up in June. RSVP now.
    Questions?
    Feel free to send us your questions or topic suggestions for upcoming episodes. (Use the comments below or your own site using Webmention).
    Perhaps a future episode on Micro.blog?

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