Over the past several years I’ve written a broad number of pieces about the IndieWeb. I find that many people are now actively searching for, reading, and implementing various versions of what I’ve done, particularly on the WordPress Platform.
Because of some discussions at IndieWebCamp Baltimore, work I’m doing on my related book, interactions with Aaron Davis and Khürt Williams, and even Michael Bishop’s forthcoming IndieWeb WordPress platform/resource, I’ve decided that it’s time to conglomerate a handful of these articles into a single page or collection to make finding and reading them in some sort of order a bit easier.
In many cases, people searching relevant pages on the IndieWeb wiki will hopefully find many of these articles and pieces also linked there or with short snippets of documentation as well. For those implementing things on their own websites, I heartily recommend the wiki as a first resource to see how others have done things and for examples of user interface and interaction.
Caveat emptor: Just because I’ve done something in a particular way is a poor excuse to replicate it, and even then I’m always iterating, so your mileage may vary. If you have questions, feel free to ask me or others in the IndieWeb chat.
Introductory Articles
- An Introduction to the IndieWeb (07/28/17)
- Defining the IndieWeb (06/15/18)
- Non-technical IndieWeb: Fun, Creativity, Community, and “Content” (12/20/2020)
- The Logos, Ethos, and Pathos of IndieWeb (5/9/22)
- Setting up WordPress for IndieWeb use (video tutorial/walkthrough)
- A pencast overview (with audio and recorded visual diagrams) of IndieWeb technologies
- A New Way to “Know and Master Your Social Media Flow” (4/11/17)
- How many social media related accounts can one person have on the web?! (10/17/16)
- Feed reader revolution (6/9/17)
- Webmentions: Enabling Better Communication on the Internet [Published in A List Apart](7/19/18)
- Micropub (Article coming soon)
- RSS Feeds on BoffoSocko.com (12/18/16) – differentiating feeds and limiting posts for email subscribers
- The Story of My Domain (05/13/18)
- Buzzfeed implements the IndieWeb concept of backfeed to limit filter bubbles (2/20/17) – Some thoughts on comments sections and backfeed
- IndieWeb Syndication Sketchnotes: POSSE >> PESOS >> PASTA >> PESETAS >> POOSNOW (A sketchnote about syndication) (8/21/21)
Presentations
- The Web is my Social Network at WordCamp Riverside 2018 (slides)
- Micropub and WordPress: Custom Posting Applications at WordCamp Santa Clarita 2019 (slides) (2019-04-06)
- WordPress and IndieWeb: Creating Your Dialtone on the Internet at WordCamp Riverside 2019 (slides) (2019-11-09)
- A Twitter of Our Own at the OERxDomains 2021 conference for the Association for Learning Technology and Reclaim Hosting (slides) (2021-04-22)
An IndieWeb Podcast
Beginning in early 2018, David Shanske and I began recording episodes of a podcast focusing on various IndieWeb concepts. The series can be found here.
Plugin specific articles
- Post Kinds Plugin for WordPress (8/11/17)
- Using Facepiles in Comments for WordPress with Webmentions and Semantic Linkbacks (10/6/17)
- Threaded Replies and Comments with Webmentions in WordPress (12/15/17)
- Browser Bookmarklets and Mobile Sharing with Post Kinds Plugin for WordPress (1/10/17)
- Using IFTTT to syndicate (PESOS) content from social services to WordPress using Micropub (01/21/20)
Occasional WordPress Plugin Suite articles
- Reads, Listens, Watches, and Editable Webmention Types and Avatars in the IndieWeb WordPress Suite (05/31/18)
Replies with introductory content
- POSSE and PESOS on the IndieWeb (11/19/17)
- Setting up IndieWeb replies in WordPress (9/17/17)
Particular Post Kinds and Pages
Pages
- Social Media Accounts and Links
- Mentions Page
- Following Page
- Supporting Page
- Favorite Things
- Ask me anything
Reading
- Webmention + Books = BookMention (6/6/16)
- A New Reading Post-type for Bookmarking and Reading Workflow (8/22/16)
- Owning my Online Reading Status Updates (11/20/16) – a PESOS-based method involving Reading.am and IFTTT
- PressForward as an IndieWeb WordPress-based RSS Feed Reader & Pocket/Instapaper Replacement (12/31/16)
- Early notes on PressForward for read posts (12/17/16)
- Transitioning from Pocket to PressForward (2/26/2017)
- a note on reading UI
- An update to read posts for physical books (12/11/17)
- Thoughts on linkblogs, bookmarks, reads, likes, favorites, follows, and related links (3/10/2018)
Marginalia, notes, highlights, fragmentions
- BoffoSocko.com Now Supports Fragmentions! (7/21/15)
- Hypothes.is and the IndieWeb (6/17/16) – Explorations with annotations and marginalia
- Notes, Highlights, and Marginalia: From E-books to Online (10/24/16)
- Some thoughts on fragmentions (1/5/17)
- Un-Annotated by Audrey Watters (Hack Education) (5/10/17) – an example of highlights and marginalia on an exterior post with PressForward, Hypothesis, and my site.
- Reply to Annotating Web Audio by Jon Udell (1/7/18)
- Fragmentions for Better Highlighting and Direct References on the Web (1/23/18)
- Some thoughts on highlights and marginalia with examples (6/21/18)
- An Outline for Using Hypothesis for Owning your Annotations and Highlights (6/23/18)
- A reply to Ian O’Byrne on annotations (7/6/18)
- Differentiating online variations of the Commonplace Book: Digital Gardens, Wikis, Zettlekasten, Waste Books, Florilegia, and Second Brains (7/3/21)
- Creating Internal Backlinks for MediaWiki for Digital Gardeners (6/1/21)
Blogroll Experiments
- The beginnings of a blogroll (6/26/17)
- A Following Page (aka some significant updates to my Blogroll) (11/10/17)
- OPML files for categories within WordPress’s Links Manager (11/13/17)
Silo related
Twitter related
- @Mentions from Twitter to My Website (4/15/17) – An outline of how I used Indieweb technology to let Twitter users send @mentions to me on my own website.
- Two alternatives to #WomenBoycottTwitter that don’t rely on women’s silencing by Zoe Stavri (Another Angry Woman) – reverse gamifying Twitter
- How to Own & Display Your Twitter Archive on Your Website in Under 10 Minutes (12/5/16)
- Reply to Creating an Archive of a Set of Tweets by Aaron Davis (12/12/17)
- Adding Simple Twitter Response Buttons to WordPress Posts (12/24/17)
- Threaded conversations between WordPress and Twitter (07/02/18)
Other silos
- Instagram Single Photo Bookmarklet (8/28/16)
- Mastodon.Social isn’t as Federated or as Decentralized as the Indie Web (4/5/17)
- Bye-bye, Google+ — but what next? by John Carlos Baez (Google+) (4/19/17) – thoughts on Mastodon, micro.blog, and IndieWeb
- Title-less Status Updates for Micro.blog (5/4/17)
- The Facebook Algorithm Mom Problem(7/11/17)
- Enabling two way communication with WordPress and GitHub for Issues (3/3/18)
- Crediting your own website when syndicating to Mastodon with WordPress plugins (12/18/20)
Miscellaneous experiments / Posts with Resources
- Today is My Third IndieWeb Anniversary (4/25/17)- a synopsis of changes I’ve made in the past year
- Comment on Supporting Digital Identities in School by Christina Smith (Read Write Respond) (1/5/18)
- Give your web presence a more personal identity (10/26/16) – Photos on WordPress with Gravatar
- I’m apparently the king of the microformat rel=”me” (6/24/17)
- Reply to doesn’t link back by Khürt Williams (Island in the Net) (12/3/17) – practical notes on rel=”me”
- IndieWeb and Education (3/29/17)
- Person tagging experiment (12/09/17)
- Reply to Annotating Web Audio by Jon Udell (1/7/18)
- RSVP to an event (11/30/17)
- Reply to Aggregating the Decentralized Social Web by Jason Green (þoht-hord) (11/30/17) – philosophy on social web and networks
- Practical thoughts on h-cards (11/23/17)
- Blue Sky ideas for adding IndieWeb technology to podcatchers and podcasting (including Micropub for Listen Posts) (9/11/18)
- I’ll agree: Passive Tracking > Active Tracking (1/14/19)
- Updates to the Boffo Socko Newsletter (4/8/21)
- A note taking problem and a proposed solution (8/29/20)
Journalism
- The IndieWeb and Journalism (1/13/17) – Some thoughts about how journalists could improve their online presences with IndieWeb principles along with a mini-case study of a site that is employing some of these ideas.
- A journalism wiki stub for IndieWeb (7/6/17)
- Creating an archive of my online writing, from 2002-2017 by Richard MacManus (richardmacmanus.com) (7/12/17)
- IndieWeb Journalism in the Wild (John Naughton example)
Handwriting
Pen and paper publishing to your website? PaperWebsite is on to something. (11/23/21)
Handwriting my Website with a Digital Amanuensis (12/20/21)
Other Miscellaneous
- IndieWeb Summit 2018 Recap (07/07/2018)
- IndieWeb Inspirational Cards (12-01-20)
- IndieWeb Readlists: Tools and Brainstorming (3/26/22)
A user considers by Jeremy Cherfas (jeremycherfas.net) There’s a strain of thought going around that the IndieWeb is deliberately exclusionary. I don’t know why, and…
silo-quits << 2018-07-20 Maggie Haberman quitting using Twitter as dialog: [https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/20/sunday-review/maggie-haberman-twitter-donald-trump.html Maggie Haberman: Why I Needed to Pull Back From Twitter] <blockquote>After nearly nine years and 187,000 tweets, I have used Twitter enough to know that it no longer works well for me. I will re-engage eventually, but in a different way.</blockquote>
WordPress is open source CMS software used by many on the Indieweb as well as a blog hosting service.
WordPress is open source CMS software used by many on the Indieweb as well as a blog hosting service.
You just got a mention during the questions and answers 🙂
Thanks for this, Chris. I read all of your posts but there are many in this that I have missed. Great resource!
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