Ben Werdmüller (Ben Werdmüller)I believe in the independent web - which was born thirty years ago today - more than any other technology. Earlier today, I shared an update with collaborators, advisors, and investors in Known. Here's what's up: Recently, I filed paperwork to officially dissolve Known, Inc, the Delaware C-Corporati...
I wish I could do this with @withKnown - A New Way to Publish Your Blog Posts Simultaneously as Twitter Threads : https://t.co/FfTWMS0WIE
— Ricardo rmdes@mstdn.social (@rMdes_) October 15, 2020
Evgeny Kuznetsov (DIMV)Visitors of this blog might have noticed I’ve moved it from Known to Hugo recently. Doing it without losing IndieWeb features was quite a hassle, I admit, so I felt the need to document the process. Hopefully, my experience will be of use to someone, and even if not, bragging is half of the fun ab...
Many common content management systems support Webmention either out of the box or with plugins including: our friend WordPress, Drupal, WithKnown, Grav, and many others.
(Ownership of your Open Pedagogy Anyone? Who needs invasive corporate social media to interact online now?)
Jeannie McGeehan (Modern Retro Me)For the longest time I had felt that WordPress was just way too robust and clunky for my wants/need/desires for blogging. Other solutions were either not mobile-friendly or not as cost-effective as my hosting account. Finally decided to give @withknown a try. Took a bit to get it all set up, but once I did it seems to have what I really need. I wanted something that was between Blogger and Twitter but that also incorporated Indieweb technologies like webmentions. Something I could post my recipes and long-form posts but could also easily post quick micro-posts on-the-go should the mood strike me. Known combined with the Indigenous mobile app gives me all of that and more. Really looking forward to posting more.
Ben Werdmüller (benwerd.s3.amazonaws.com)Idno is a group publishing platform that you own. We take the best of personal publishing and apply it to collective storytelling.
Ben Werdmüller (Ben Werdmüller)In 2013, my mother had a double lung transplant. The rules for recovery post-transplantation are that you can't have a bridge between you and the hospital; they don't want you to be stuck in traffic if you need emergency attention. So we rented an apartment in the Inner Sunset, where we all sat with...
John Evdemon (Loosely Coupled Thinking)I love Known - it's an elegant blogging tool that supports most Indieweb standards right out of the box. The biggest challenge I've had with Known is getting it upgraded. I host my blog with Reclaim - a great little hosting service with excellent customer support.
Todd Conaway (Teaching and Learning on the Open Web)We should make some agreements about our focus.
- Are we continuting with various tools and sharing them on this site?
- Should we focus more on building out our own domains and share that process?
- Both? Other?
- Where shall we go?
If you’re thinking about doing something like WithKnown (aka Known, the CMS your post is on), and interested in the WordPress portion, you might consider doing a full/partial Domain of One’s Own program through Reclaim Hosting or even rolling your own. Even if you go small with just a few classes, you might consider adapting the Homebrew Website Club model at your site where you invite students to tinker around, help each other out, and then show off or demonstrate their work. The related IndieWeb wiki and online chat are free to join and can provide a wealth of information and help for students (and educators!) working at owning their own domains.
Incidentally, if you’re unaware, WordPress now has a suite of plugins that will allow it to have a lot of the site-to-site communication capabilities that Known does. I’ve not done it before, but I’m fairly certain you could run it on a multiuser installation of WordPress much the same way you’re using http://janevangalen.com/cms/.
Another interesting option would be to have students try out accounts on micro.blog which are relatively inexpensive, though I suspect if you touched base with Manton Reece and explained what you were doing, he might offer free or significantly reduced hosting for a reasonable period of time. I know he’s given away a year of free hosting to attendees of IndieWebCamps who are starting out with their own domains. If he did then you might be able to use some institutional funds to purchase domains for students to get them started.
I’m happy to spitball ideas in these areas if you’re interested. I’m glad to see others experimenting around with the ideas around DoOO and IndieWeb for Education!
By the way, good on you for opening up your planning process for teaching and learning on the open web. It certainly sets a useful example for others who are exploring and following in your footsteps.
Jim Groom from bavatuesdays
Tomorrow at 12 PM Eastern/ 9 AM Pacific I’ll be be hosting a Connected Courses discussion that will explore the IndieWeb movement as a people-centered response to the corporate web. How do core IndieWeb principles such as owning your content, remaining better connected, and redefining control online intersect with the values of connected learning? Take a bit of time tomorrow and join myself, Mikhail Gershovich, Ben Werdmuller, Erin Jo Richey, and Simon Thomson to find out more.
[Withknown is] the posterchild of the IndieWeb.
— Jim Groom
I’ll agree that it is pretty darn awesome!
Some slight rephrasings from Ben in the video that I thought were spot on:
IndieWeb: allowing people to connect online without caring about what platforms or services they’re using.
IndieWeb puts the learner first. The LMS, which primarily serves an administrative function, should not be the center of the process.
Ben Werdmüller (Ben Werdmüller)I've been blogging - albeit not consistently on the same site - since 1998. That's a long time in internet years, and in human years, and over time I've conditioned out any self-editing impulse I might have. I write, hit publish, and share. Done. Because I'm fairly prolific, friends and colleagues o...
Johan Bové (Twitter)Seems like "going Indieweb" has given my online presence a huge boost by checking out the search results looking up myself;
— Johan Bové (@johanbove) November 18, 2019
Johan Bové (Johan's Known)Interesting experiment Chris. Too bad that the spam-bots found this site so fast. Especially for that reason I'm keeping the public comments on my own instance closed. What are you using for keeping webmentions to your site spam-free?
cc: Chris Aldrich
