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19 Mar 07:28

#indieweb

Tantek Çelik, March 18, 2013


This is where it changes. Here's Tantek Ç elik on an open, social web: "The answer is not to not 'only [be] relevant to geeks', but rather, reframe it as a positive, and be relevant to yourself. That is, design, architect, create, and build for yourself first, others second. If you’ re not willing to run your design/code on your own site, for your primary identity on the web, day-in and day-out, why should anyone else? If you started something that way but no longer embrace it as such, start over. Go Selfdogfood or go home." See also Ben Werdmuller: "I like the POSSE: (Publish Own Site, Syndicate Everywhere) approach very much – by publishing to something I directly control and then pushing out to sites like Twitter, Facebook and Google+." This is what I do (of course Google+ won't allow me to send my content in, but that's the new Google). #indieweb [Link] [Comment]
19 Mar 07:27

Chopped up or Cloned: You Choose

files/images/silos.png Barnaby Walters, March 18, 2013

The argument in a nutshell for a distributed independent web (or 'indieweb'). "The only things all these services [Facebook,  Twitter and the like] really provide is basic web hosting with some sort of social layer. Making a good social layer is difficult, but web hosting has become extremely easy and cheap." See also Lessons Diaspora Taught Me from the same author (longtime readers will know I contributed to Diaspora when it was getting started). #indieweb [Link] [Comment]