Charlie Owen (sonniesedge.net)Let’s say I wanna bring back webrings. How should I build it? First communities are gonna be #a11y, #PerfMatters, #CSSGrid, and #BoyBandWebmasters. (ICYMI: Webrings were curated communities with dope badges that you could explore with simple `< prev` and `next >` links.)— Tatiana Mac (@Tatiana...
Greg McVerry (quickthoughts.jgregorymcverry.com)Over the weekend I met with the CEO of BLUR Search Technologies . Jaime is also my brother-in-Law, and has sponsored IndieWebCamp NYC in 2018. We mainly gathered for Thanskgiving, the second Thanksgiving, and finally leftovers. As we all played clean the fridge we snuck away to scope out a possibl...
Brent Simmons has been reminiscing about blog search engines and writing down some ideas for how one could be made today. Something he wrote sparked a memory.Instead of having it crawl blogs, I’d have it download and index RSS feeds. This should be cheaper than crawling pages, and it ensures that it skips indexing page junk (navigation and so on).
I can dream about how I’d build one of these. (I’m not going to! This is way outside my expertise, and I have other things to do.)
One thing I wish we had that we used to have: blog-only search engines. You could go and search for a hash tag. Or for links to your blog or elsewhere. Or for keywords. Etc. It should have an API that returns RSS, so RSS reader users could set up persistent, updated searches. There used to be a bunch of these, and now there are none that I know of.
To clarify a bit, while I use and promote a lot of the WordPress IndieWeb plugins and often contribute documentation or small bug fixes, I didn’t write or maintain any of them. The bulk of the credit for all that hard work goes to fantastic developers like Matthias Pfefferle, David Shanske, Ryan Barrett, and many others.
WordPress can be used to start a blog, make a site for a club, or power a business, large or small. WordPress can also be used as a way to document your life, and save important things for later. You can bridge WordPress to other parts of the web that you use to store all of your data in one place, without having to worry about an app, hardware maker, or social media site going out of business and taking all of your content with it. I considered myself an interloper into the IndieWeb movement, until I realized that the movement — just like the technology that powers it — is decentralized. My habit of copying data created on other sites, as well as creating a website for my lifelogging, is part of what this community is about. Come learn about how you can use WordPress to power and amplify your voice online, and reclaim the web from the walled gardens for the user!
A month ago in a tweet related to my post about bringing people back to the open web, I casually proposed a resource that would score tools, services and other websites on their commitment to being a part of the open web. I'm back to flesh that idea out a little more. Crude mockup of a score badge
We measure the things we value, right? We all certain value openness, why not measure and promote it?
Make your tweets ephemeral and your Facebook impenetrable.
fluffy (beesbuzz.biz)A Seattle-based programmer/musician who makes games, comics, and bad decisions.
Jeffrey Zeldman (Twitter)☛ How did let our beautiful WWW turn into a garbage fire of lies, hate, and privacy violations? I have some thoughts.
— zeldman (@zeldman) April 11, 2019
“Nothing Fails Like Success” ... by @zeldman in today’s @AListApart.https://t.co/6AqhFGJccr pic.twitter.com/mlGMsCJlku
A family buys a house they can’t afford. They can’t make their monthly mortgage payments, so they borrow money from the Mob. Now they’re in debt to the bank and the Mob, live in fear of losing their home, and must do whatever their creditors tell them to do. Article Continues Below Share this:...
A family buys a house they can’t afford. They can’t make their monthly mortgage payments, so they borrow money from the Mob. Now they’re in debt to the bank and the Mob, live in fear of losing their home, and must do whatever their creditors tell them to do.
Jeff Noh