We have enough social media platforms, and they are all broken. Content moderation is bust at even moderate scale, and algorithmic amplification is broken at any scale. We need a reboot. We need to double down on the ideas of Web 1.0, and the tools that make carving out your own place on the internet possible. Not more platforms luring…
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Dwayne Harris (dwayne.xyz)I added support for Webmentions to the site!
Webmentions is a protocol for websites (mostly blog type sites) to automatically notify each other of responses or mentions to each other. It’s not a service (but there are services that work with it), but something that can be implemented in blogging s…
A couple of years ago I started building an IndieWeb website. Then I got painfully busy at work, stopped improving it, and basically ran out of free time to even post to it.
Fast forward a couple of years, and I’ve got a new job that’s somewhat more manageable, and during the holiday break I’m tryin…
Wednesday it was 18 years ago that I first posted in this space. The pace of writing has varied over the years, obviously intensively at the start, and in the past 3 years I have been blogging much more frequently again (with a correlated drop off in my Facebook activity to 0), more than at the star…
I’ve been using Obsidian a little over 100 days now. So, with over three months of daily use it’s good to review the experience. I will do this in some detail, and it will span several blogposts. To explain both the evolution over time, as well as how I currently work with Obsidian in practice i…
I have been using the webmention.io dashboard to check my webmentions. This is all I needed in a webmention reader. I’d check my webmentions every now and again because it was uncommon that I would receive one. When I did receive a webmention, I’d add writing a response to my mental to-do list a…
There’s a website from 2001 for making zines with your friends that, at this point, only exists in my head, if it ever existed honestly, but I wish it were in the world, because in this age of WhatsApp and Slack and whatever, we need it. There are ideas at the bottom of this post.
I am presently sitting with nothing else to do. I enjoy writing so here I am again, back for another (short) blog post.
I added a colophon to my site earlier today. My colophon replaced my privacy page. I originally wrote the privacy page so that users of this site could learn about my thoughts on p…
Long-time readers will know that I’m a big fan of RSS feeds. An RSS reader has been essential to my web experience since I first came online, and I’ve doggedly stuck to using them even as the web has centralised onto a few platforms and much digital ink spilt about the “death of RSS”. Luckil…
Cory Doctorow (pluralistic.net)https://i1.wp.com/craphound.com/images/30Aug2020.jpg?w=840&ssl=1 https://i1.wp.com/craphound.com/images/30Aug2020.jpg?w=840&ssl=1 Today’s links We don’t know why you don’t want to have public sex: But it’s probably not because of Arabian babblers. Big Tech welcomes (some) regulation: Monkey’s paw ju…
When you subscribe to multiple feeds covering the same topic, it’s often the case to see duplicates or near-duplicates in your feed. Usually, it becomes immediately obvious when you read your feeds within a folder. Consider the following case with two feeds from Ars Technica posting the same story…
Ben Werdmüller (werd.io)Firefox matters. The other major browsers are all subject to a larger corporation’s business interests: Safari is built in the context of the App Store, Chrome must support Google’s ad targeting business, and Edge fills a gap in the Windows ecosystem. But Firefox is here to fight for the users: it s…
If you’re running WordPress and use the wonderful IndieAuth plugin to issue tokens for all of your IndieWeb services, here’s how you can automatically invalidate—destroy, in fact—these tokens.
Why? Some applications will automatically log you out after an hour or so, and request you again au…
Ben Werdmüller (werd.io)It’s impossible to ignore.
Federal agents dressed in military gear have been bundling protesters into unmarked vehicles (allegedly rented from Enterprise) in Portland, with additional reports from Chicago and San Diego. The White House has announced that they’ll be rolling these troops out nationwi…
Neil Mather (doubleloop.net)I’m reading through Future Histories at the moment. The chapter linking the work of Frantz Fanon to the ideas of digital self-determination is very interesting and I am getting my head around some of the ideas. Solid and personal data pods get a namecheck, which is pretty much IndieWeb just unde…
In the past 2.5 weeks I have focused some time on building better notes. Better notes, as in second order notes: processed from raw notes taken during the day. Below are some experiences from that note taking. My intention
This in order to build a better thinking aid, by having an easy accessible co…
Two Pearl Jam fans, Jason Kerepesi and Paul Ghiglieri, started a podcast last month for the super fan that digs into the minutia of all …
Nieuwsbrieven zijn hot en ik ben er op meerdere geabonneerd via de hippe nieuwsbrief app ‘Stoop‘. De ‘OPEN’ nieuwsbrief van Frank Meeuwsen is er een die ik met veel plezier lees.
Frank weet voor mij de juiste balans te vinden tussen tech nieuws, productiviteit tips, lees tips en het ‘open …
Jason Yavorska (metaluna.io)I would like, if you may, to take you on a strange journey. Recently I’ve been playing around with my personal domain and website at metaluna.io, and in doing so came across a group of people who are trying to turn the web into something a little more privately owned, personal, and weird.
Before I d…
‘Hee, vuurwerk daar. Zie je dat?’ Ik wijs Ton vanuit onze woonkamer op de vuurpijlen die in de verte te zien, richting de binnenstad. Ton en ik wonen op dat moment in Twekkelerveld, in een bovenwoning met dunne muren. ‘s Ochtends om zes uur worden we vaak gewekt door de wekker van de
I’m a big fan of the whole IndieWeb movement. You own your content. Always. I believe we have a better future ahead of us when we start publishing our content independent of the big “news” outlets again like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. If you’ve never looked into it, I’d start here.
In…
Yesterday I participated in, or more accurately listened in on, a IndieWeb conversation on wikis and their relationship to blogs (session notes).
I didn’t feel like saying much so kept quiet, other than at the start during a (too long) intro round where I described how I’ve looked at and used wi…
Chris Aldrich (boffosocko.com)What is a Webmention?
Webmention is a relatively recent web standard (or W3C recommendation) that allows notifications when one website mentions a URL on another website. Think of it like @mentions on social platforms, but instead of just working within a particular website from one account to anoth…
This one’s all about text and typography!
