Looking for some interesting material to put in your feed reader? Try out Phil Gifford‘s ooh.directory or Ray‘s Blogroll directories. Lots of topics and personal websites to follow. #FeedReaderFriday
Tag: directories
Let’s see what you think about this big pile of colorful squares.
A quirky new social media platform.
Much like Gemmer.io it looks like you can only like a limited number of others on the service, which is an interesting limitation.
Kicks Condor (Kicks Condor)A new (but old-school) forum that’s my current hangout with other web directory nerds.
The final heartbeats of our beloved www.
Alexis Lloyd (Twitter)Anyone who thinks the open web is dead should check out https://t.co/n6iAcNgJDW’s best links of the 2010s https://href.cool/2010s/
— Alexis Lloyd (@alexislloyd) December 4, 2019
For quite a while Kicks Condor (@kickscondor) has been doing some cool experimentation on the web including directories, syndication/aggregation hubs, and even their blog (click on the FILE_ID.DIZ link at the top of the homepage for an overview). Viva la #IndieWeb!
Malcolm Blaney (unicyclic.com)This is going to be a long one, so the short version is summed up in this screenshot:
That's from the top of this page: unicyclic.com/indieweb, which is a feed combined from different sources, commonly referred to as a planet. Up until now I've been adding new feeds to that page as people join th...
This may be the first time I’ve heard this, though it’s possible that Kicks Condor or Bran Enslen has mentioned something along these lines:
the year of the indieweb directory ❧
📑 Where Discover Doesn’t Help | Jean MacDonald
We are not filtering out topics like F1. There just are not any posts to add. For a lively community on that topic or other specialized topics, you probably need to find a forum or follow hashtags on Twitter. ❧
This is also a potential space that Webmention-based aggregation services like IndieWeb news, or the multi-topic Indieweb.xyz directory could help people aggregate content for easier discovery and community building.
Jon Kuperman (GitHub)Hey @fjoshuajr @lipis @hugmanrique @aletaschner
All of you submitted awesome ideas for what the list should look like! PRs were coming in so fast yesterday it kind of got lost in the shuffle so I was hoping to move the conversation into a single thread.
My thinking was:
- Make it a Markdown table
- Maybe a separate table for each letter of the alphabet?
- Add at least a field for what subjects the person talks about
How does that sound? Should we do something different? Hope you don't mind but I'm gonna close the other issues in favor of discussing it all in here!
Thanks!
I’ve seen a few somewhat similar directory projects like this that might have some useful ux/ui/design ideas:
- https://personalsit.es/ with repo at: https://github.com/andybelldesign/personalsit.es
- https://nownownow.com/
For additional metadata, one could run a microformats parser on the homepages of these sites and return social media presences in other locations using XFN’s rel="me" set up. Something like this is done by Jeremy Keith on his Huffduffer.com service where one signs up and inputs one’s website. His service then doesn’t need to ask for Twitter, Facebook, or Github handles explicitly. Instead it relies on the service going to the homepage listed and pulling out the rel="me" values and doing it automatically on their behalf. Since many web platforms have this microformat value it can make the data acquisition easier and less manual in many cases.
- Example: Jeremy’s profile (see the “Elsewhere” section and compare it to his personal website.)
- Details about some of the implementation:
- https://adactio.com/journal/1533
- Relevant section from book Microformats Made Simple
- https://indieweb.org/rel-me
- http://microformats.org/wiki/rel-me
👓 Collecting note takers | Andy Bell
Andy Bell (Andy Bell)I think I might collect links to sites of folks who are posting notes on their personal sites on GitHub. It’d be great if y’all could send me some links so I can start it off with a nice healthy list!
🔖 Personal sites are awesome
Personal sites are awesome, so this site was built so we can all discover each others. All the links are by folks that want to share their site with the world.
If you want your site to appear on here, go ahead and submit it on GitHub, or drop me an email.
I just ran across this interesting version of a directory which is being built based on a GitHub repo and deployed to https://personalsit.es/.
It’s built by Andy Bell who has been building his own website and is at least IndieWeb aware. I’ve added the example to the IndieWeb wiki page for directories. While interesting and useful, like some of the other directories I’ve seen floating around, there is a small hurdle that one needs to be able to fork a GitHub repo, edit it, and send a PR to be included, though I do like that he has an email option to bring the technical hurdle down. The other benefit is that it allows people to modify or delete their data as well. I do like the decentralized nature of of it, but I wonder about scale and search-ability.
I can’t help but wonder about building a similar directory site that aggregates its data by Webmention and uses the h-cards from websites to automatically update itself. Naturally having an OPML file(s) (think various versions that are sortable using tags/categories) or some other exportable and/or subscribe-able ability for feed readers would be highly useful.
In addition to resources like chat-names, Indie Map‘s list, as well as some planets, OPML resources like my own IndieWeb list, and the IndieWeb web ring, this could be another interesting directory creation method for IndieWeb-specific websites.