Members of the IndieWeb community are building tools to try to make moving your web presence off the corporate web easier, giving you more control over your digital identity. I like to think of the IndieWeb as a way of trying to regain the democratic ideals of early Web 2.0. IndieWeb wants us all to have a web presence that we own and control. We can still use tools like Twitter and Facebook to bring us together but we publish our content first on our own web sites and then decide where we want to share them. An example is this post. I’m writing it on http://cathieleblanc.com/blog. But I want others to see it. So after publishing it on my own site with my self-hosted installation of WordPress, I will put a link to it on Facebook and on Twitter for others to see. Facebook and Twitter serve as today’s interactive hotlist. Everything old is new again.
Category: IndieWeb
UI suggestions for watches
Adds support for responding to and interacting with other sites using the standards developed by the Indieweb Community
It would be nice if there were a way to distinguish between various watch types to differentiate between films, television, and internet based streaming media — perhaps with a data field and a toggle along with three appropriate icons for each of these rather than the single watch icon now (a generic “play” button).
Further, most of the current meta data fields are fairly solid for the most often used fields, but I often find that it would be nice to have fields for Season # and Episode # for television shows.
The last “big” piece that would be nice to have is a quickly usable ratings field of sorts so one could provide a rating 1-5, 1-10, or 1-100 rating field? Maybe it could be a simple numerical data field that calculates/displays a rough 5 star-based scale? h-review markup could also come into play here as well, though it would be nice to capture the raw data even if there is no UI display built for it.
An IndieWeb Podcast: Episode 5 “Indieweb Summit and More”
https://david.shanske.com/2018/05/13/an-indieweb-podcast-episode-5-indieweb-summit-and-more/
Running time: 1 h 18m 25s | Download (24.4 MB) | Subscribe by RSS
Summary: With the IndieWeb Summit coming up at the end of June in Portland, David Shanske and I discuss it, participation, and other parts of the IndieWeb community.
Huffduff this EpisodeShow Notes
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Do I know anyone interested in building #indieweb tech or federated services? I’m having trouble conceptualizing some things without having people to bounce ideas off of.
— David v3.0.3 (@davidlaietta) May 13, 2018
Related IndieWeb wiki pages
On the mission of the IndieWeb movement
What you see is what you get (WYSIWYG) is fine when you’re given all the functionality and control you need or want. It’s when you have additional needs and desires than the tools allow that WYSIWYG becomes a problem.
Social media WYSIWYG platforms like SnapChat, Twitter, Facebook/Instagram, et al. have become a problem as they’re not allowing us the control, flexibility, and privacy we would all like to have while they pursue their own agendas.
In these terms, the general mission of the IndieWeb movement is to be the proverbial simple text editor meant to give everyone increasingly easier, direct control over their own identity and communication on the open internet.
hat tip: Greg McVerry
Teaching ’em early to avoid the Wysiwyg pic.twitter.com/DPY3LNZHPh
— Greg McVerry (@jgmac1106) May 13, 2018
👓 Webmention Plugin for Craft CMS | GitHub
Webmention Plugin for Craft CMS
Surprisingly interesting reading here. The Craft CMS has some interesting UI and settings that aren’t included in the WordPress plugin for Webmention. I do like some of the thoughts and ideas that were included in it. The tail end also gives a little snapshot of its history and antecedents, which I find nice for future historians.
👓 2018/Düsseldorf/gdpr | IndieWeb
GDPR Basics was a session at IndieWebCamp Düsseldorf 2018.
Some interesting notes here from the recent IWC in Germany.
Reply to 50cent tweet about Instagram abuse
I’m leaving IG, I’m going back to Twitter. They take shit down off my page with out notifying me. #censorthesenuts pic.twitter.com/JFEeebpubq
— 50cent (@50cent) May 9, 2018
Why rely on yet another corporation that may do the same? Come join the #IndieWeb!
#silosgonnasilo #ownyourdata
#silosgonnasilo #ownyourdata
An Indieweb Podcast: Episode 4 “Webmentions and Privacy”
Running time: 1 h 16m 00s | Download (23.8 MB) | Subscribe by RSS
Summary: With the GDPR regulations coming into effect in Europe on May 25th, privacy seems to be on everyone’s mind. This week, we tackle what webmentions are, using them for backfeed, and the privacy implications.
Show Notes
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- The Indieweb privacy challenge (Webmentions, silo backfeeds, and the GDPR) by Sebastian Greger (n.b. the comments here are worthwhile as well)
- Webmention Specification
- Philosopher reference at the end of the episode: “I want the whole world.”
Related IndieWeb wiki pages
👓 Webmention for ProcessWire Update | gRegorLove
gRegor Morrill (gregorlove.com)Version 2.0.0 of the Webmention for ProcessWire module is released. Webmention is a web standard that enables conversations across the web, a powerful building block that is used for a growing federated network of comments, likes, reposts, and other rich interactions across the decentralized social ...
There’s been some recent revival of chat about fragmentions and the fragmentioner within the IndieWeb community which enable the ability to more easily highlight and annotate individual portions of a web page and target them directly via URL.
This caused me to take a look at where the conversations on webmentions went within the Hypothesis project. Unless they’re hiding offline or somewhere else, it would appear that they’ve stalled, though I have a feeling that it could be an interesting notification method for Hypothesis to indicate to a site that it’s been highlighted or annotated. Also given that the Webmention spec is a W3C recommendation as of January 2017 compared to its status in 2014 when the topic was last brought up on the GitHub repo.
As a result of the above, if they’re free, I’d love to extend an invitation to Dan Whaley (t), Jon Udell (t), Jeremy Dean (t), Nate Angell (t), or anyone else working on the Hypothes.is project to join us in Portland this June 26-27 for the annual IndieWebSummit / IndieWebCamp. I highly suspect there will be some heavy interest in the topics of open ways of annotating, highlighting, and notifying websites as well as UI/UX discussion around this area which we can all continue to expand and improve upon. And naturally there are sure to be a broad area of other topics at the summit that will be of interest in addition to these.
🔖 Notes on the future of the WithKnown Commercial Product
(1.0 is coming soon, but yes, I wouldn’t blame you for coming to this entirely correct conclusion. Returning to life.)
— Ben Werdmuller (@benwerd) May 8, 2018
There’s about to be a lot of deleted code. Convoy and commercial elements are going away. But the open source project will be properly revived.
— Ben Werdmuller (@benwerd) May 8, 2018
Reply to Anna Holmes’ post about using cheese as a bookmark
Dearest patrons, PLEASE stop using cheese as a bookmark. Please. We give away actual bookmarks for free. Or like use a receipt or something. Just not perishables. #librarylife
— Anna Holmes (@annaholmeswrit1) May 1, 2018
Move over chicken. I can already see someone in the IndieWeb community creating a Cheese post kind to begin cheesemarking content on the internet.
👓 Privacy | David Shanske
David Shanske (David Shanske)I admit to a certain amount of frustration on the subject of privacy lately. It seems, in all aspects of my life, both personal and professional, the new data privacy regulations that the EU rolls out May 25th are a theme in every discussion.
Some interesting thoughts on personal data and privacy. I can’t wait to talk to David about some of this in greater depth in our next podcast episode.
🎧 This Week in the IndieWeb Audio Edition • April 14th – 20th, 2018
Marty McGuire from martymcgui.reIndieWeb Leaders Summit planning, escaping social media maniplation, and printing out websites. It’s the audio edition for This Week in the IndieWeb for April 14th - 20th, 2018.
🎧 This Week in the IndieWeb Audio Edition • April 21st-27th, 2018
Marty McGuire from martymcgui.reReaders on the rise, APIs on the decline, and Reddit regrets. It’s the audio edition for This Week in the IndieWeb for April 21st - 27th, 2018.