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Seems like every time I turn around more and more people are going back to old school methods. #IndieWeb #netpositiveblog Happy #newwwyear

👓 Chris Aldrich’s Year In Pocket

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See how much I read in Pocket this year!
According to Pocket's account I read 766,000 words or the equivalent of about 10 books. My most saved topics were current events, science, technology, health, and education. The most popular things I apparently saved this year: The 100 best nonfiction books of all time: the full list by Robert McCrum • theguardian.com Is Your Child…

👓 Instagram’s Christmas Crackdown | The Atlantic

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No meme account is safe—not even @God.
There are so many reasons here for these folks to join the IndieWeb. A solid, popular feed reader would solve many of these problems. “We are our own BuzzFeed,” said Declan Mortimer, a 16-year-old who ran the @ComedySlam account, with more than 11 million followers. Kaamil Lakhani and Jonathan Foley, who work together on @SocietyFeelings,…

👓 Displaying Webmentions with Posts | Amit Gawande

Bookmarked Displaying Webmentions with Posts by Amit GawandeAmit Gawande (amitgawande.com)
I have been using Blot, a simple blogging platform with no interface, for quite some time now for running my blog. I am not alone when I say this, but am mighty impressed with how simple it is to post things on blot and maintain the overall site. They are just some files in Dropbox - that’s about ...
A nice little tutorial for using Webmention.io with content management systems like Blot.​​​​​​​​​​

📖 Read Chapter 1: A Networked Public pages 3-27 of Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest by Zeynep Tufekci

📖 Read Chapter 1: A Networked Public pages 3-27 of Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest by Zeynep Tufekci Chapter 1 was pretty solid. This almost seems to me like it would make a good book for an IndieWeb book club. Highlights, Quotes, Annotations, & Marginalia A national public sphere…

👓 Warbler Description | sawv

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I like community websites where people gather for online discussions. That's why I launched my message board Toledo Talk in January 2003, and it continues today. Warbler is a message board where all thread starter posts and comments are Webmentions. A Webmention is a cross-site communication idea, e...
Some interesting thoughts here on community applications and the idea of discovery from an IndieWeb perspective. Kicks Condor and Brad Enslen may appreciate having yet another person who is actively thinking about and working on these particular problems.

👓 about | href.cool

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This directory is somewhat inspired by the old, failed link collections like the original Yahoo! and DMOZ. They were terrible—you couldn’t find anything, but what you did find was often unexpected. My ‘archivist’/‘forager’ tendencies want to do this.
I ran into this website courtesy of Brad Enslen and thought it was a cool looking little directory. I should have known better, but it appears it's a new experiment by our friend Kicks Condor. I love nothing more than seeing where the discussions between Brad, Kicks and others (along with their experiments) end up…

👓 Newsrooms take the comments sections back from platforms | Nieman Journalism Lab

Read Newsrooms take the comments sections back from platforms by Marie K. ShanahanMarie K. Shanahan (Nieman Lab)
"Local news organizations should become a driving force for better online public discourse, because Facebook and Twitter aren’t cutting it."
I wonder in an age of caustic social media why newspapers don't build their own (open and IndieWeb-flavored) social media platforms into their products as a benefit to not only their readers but for the communities they service? This could help not only their bottom line, allow them to add a useful service to their…

👓 The power to publish as an individual | DaveNet

Read The power to publish as an individual by Dave Winer (scripting.com via DaveNet)
Weblogs: A new source of News
An awesome "old" and prescient post about blogging and journalism. It's interesting to look at this through the modern lens of social media and IndieWeb. Of course this article was written at a time when IndieWeb was the only thing that existed. Highlights, Quotes, Annotations, & Marginalia media organizations would do well to incorporate them…

👓 The year you actually start to like your CMS | Nieman Journalism Lab | Eric Ulken

Read The year you actually start to like your CMS by Eric UlkenEric Ulken (Nieman Lab)
"If we do it right, users benefit from a feedback loop that helps make our work more valuable and relevant to them. And no journalist ever again has to wear their clunky CMS as a badge of honor."
Without saying it directly, there's a very IndieWeb flavor to this piece. I'd love to see more journalists and technologists who are working in journalism contributing to improving the web.  The Nieman Lab’s collection of Predictions for Journalism in 2019 also has some other IndieWeb-centric articles for those who might be interested. Eric Ulken, product director…

👓 We Should Replace Facebook With Personal Websites | Motherboard

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Personal websites and email can replace most of what people like about Facebook—namely the urge to post about their lives online.
There's a lot of talk about leaving Facebook again in the last day or two, but very little on where to go other than a few people talking about Twitter or other toxic social media that will just end up starting the same cycle of pain and frustration again. This is at least a start,…

👓 the register | Danny O’Brien’s Oblomovka

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It’s about two in the morning on Thursday, I’m scrabbling around for things to put into NTK, and I get an e-mail from the Register’s Andrew Orlowski. He sounds deliriously happy. He’s uncovered an apparently hidden link to a wiki set up for some s00p3r s33krit confab that Tim O’Reilly’s organising. The descriptions and notes fit completely into Orlowski’s view of particular segment of the West Coast tech scene. Mainly, that it looks like some weird Californian cult.
This post has some interesting thoughts about the differences between public, private, and secret and how they're being carried out online. Highlights, Quotes, Annotations, & Marginalia The problem here is one (ironically) of register. In the real world, we have conversations in public, in private, and in secret. All three are quite separate. The public…

Reply to Aaron Davis about links

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I think it is one of those topics with a lot of conjecture John. Apologies if there are too many links.  ❧

Don't apologize for links. It's the web and links are important. In fact I might think that you could have a few additional links here! I would have seen it anyway, but I was a tad sad not to have seen a link to that massive pullquote/photo you made at the top of the post…

👓 I’ve now removed the titles in the RSS feed from posts in the micro category using the_title_rss | John Johnston

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I’ve now removed the titles in the RSS feed from posts in the micro category using the_title_rss. So I’ve reenabled adding of titles through wp_insert_post_data. If this works this post will have a title in my dashboard, but all get through to micro.blog
This seems like a cool potential way of doing all sorts of things in the IndieWeb space for WordPress. I'm curious what it looks like from other perspectives. I'll have to think this through a bit... In the end though, it still feels too much like individuals trying to solve problems that should be better…

👓 Overthinking Instagram | Oh Hello Ana

Read Overthinking Instagram by Ana Ana (Oh Hello Ana - Blog)
I very rarely share online if something isn’t going well in my life. I’ve always treated my social media the same way most of us do: we only share the good bits. I thought I was doing that but nowadays, I look back at some photos of what looks like an excellent time of my life but now I know ver...
This post has a lot of great things to think about for people either designing social media related websites, or even IndieWeb site designers who might want to take advantage of these things for themselves. I don't see these issues being written or talked about enough in the community, so I'm glad that designers and…