While Mastodon promises to solve some of the problems of centralized social networking – and may inevitably create new ones in the process – the sudden popularity of the ActivityPub protocol led me to reflect about how I want to partake in that. I ended up connecting this blog to the Fediverse […]
#indieweb (1/2)
The Indieweb describes itself as “a people-focused alternative to the ‘corporate web’”. It’s a grassroots movement, with activists all around the globe working on open web solutions to maintain content ownership and control while enabling social interaction between individuals.
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Stumblizer
indieseek.xyz In the good old days, there was no full-text search for the web. It was all about directories; phonebook-like services (Yahoo being the most prolific, I assume) that categorized the web. Indieseek.xyz continues this tradition, with a strong Indieweb flavour. But the most fun feature of the catalog […]
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Oh, now this is a fun hypertext project! Nicky Case brings us Nutshell, “a tool to make ‘expandable, embeddable explanations’” – it’s essentially Ted Nelson’s StretchText brought to life. I love the quirkyness, the whimsical design and implementation and the […]
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Bye, bye algorithm axbom.com
Here's a comprehensive take on not using algorithmic social media that illustrates how technology non-use is far from Luddism or the lack of technical skills it is often trivialized to. -
Situated Software
shirky.com (via archive.org) Sometimes, an article from 18 years ago can still be of great relevance and inspiration. That’s what happened when I encountered Clay Shirky’s essay on “Situated software” (by way of an equally interesting personal project by Robin Sloan) today. […]
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Initially invented as minimalist solutions to circumvent the social media platforms' limitation of external links so-called "link in bio" platforms appear to be slowly evolving into complex tools to build a personal online presence.
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Chris Aldrich provides a thorough run-down of various traditions of Commonplace Books and Zettelkästen, a valuable collection on the history of such concepts. It is extended by a view on the recent emergence of “Digital Gardens”. In the end, he sketches out a vision that is very close […]
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Robin Rendle › Newsletters robinrendle.com
Robin Rendle explores his love for email newsletters vs. his preference for publishing on the web (accessibility warning: scrolljacking; try “Reader view” in your browser). The piece is really worth reading in its entirety, but two slides about half way summarize the key […]
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When I set out to create a Micropub endpoint as flexible as the Kirby CMS itself, this turned out to be a rather complex task. The result, however, opens up opportunities that frankly surprised myself. Once the initial setup is done, publishing content is more flexible than ever. -
I adapted the open source Selfauth server into a Kirby 3 plugin, allowing to log in to IndieAuth-enabled websites using one’s own domain. -
So much this:
Why are over 500 MB of files needed to write a web app that shows a few lists of things and makes some AJAX requests? (Yes I still call them that. I’ll call them XHR too, even though XML is way passé.)
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OpenMapTiles allows for efficient self-hosting of embeddable OSM maps without significant resource requirements and with reasonable effort for a web professional. -
Originally intended to showcase a privacy-centred implementation of emerging social web technologies - with the aim to present a solution not initially motivated by legal requirements, but as an example of privacy-aware interaction design - my “social backfeed” design process unveiled […]
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Do I Own My Domain If You Grade It? edsurge.com
I’d never heard of the Domain of One's Own initiative or similiar before. This is a fantastic, almost revolutionary idea, and actually makes one think whether setting up a personal website with a personal domain shouldn’t be part of media education early on, maybe somewhere during […]
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Spying on a website using Webmention and MF2 marcus-povey.co.uk
Marcus Povey describes why a website should not show webmentions with embedded images from the source site (as it could allow the publisher of the source site to track the audience of the cited site). This is not Webmention or Indieweb specific, but a general privacy risk: whenever loading […]
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Taking Control of Your Digital Identity dmlcentral.net
This is great: while I see (university) teachers and course instructors elsewhere requiring students to join Facebook groups or the like, Howard Rheingold makes the participants in his “social media course” acquire a domain and server space for a self-hosted Wordpress instance as the […]
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Still Blogging in 2017 tbray.org
An hommage to the web, its freedom and why it still is the superior medium for self-expression online, by Tim Bray:
The great danger is that the Web’s future is mall-like: No space really public, no storefronts but national brands’ […]
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Tantek Çelik comments on the successful crowdfunding of micro.blog:
This is a huge step forward for the creation of an alternative to Twitter, in numerous ways, some obvious, many more subtle.
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The Ikeaisation of the Web filmicweb.org
In this read-worthy flaming letter, Joscha Jaeger responds to a claim by Facebook’s director of design Jon Lax that “the web is dying” and highlights how this framing is that of a big corporation who merely sees the web as delivery platform for their business […]
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Solid solid.mit.edu
Solid is an exciting new project led by Prof. Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, taking place at MIT and the Qatar Computing Research Institute. The project aims to radically change the way Web applications work today, resulting in true data ownership as well as improved […]
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One week to go for IndieWebCamp Berlin! Join us: https://indieweb.org/2016/Berlin
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The fifth edition of IndieWebCamp Brighton saw a good two dozen enthusiasts gather for a weekend of debating, brainstorming and prototyping the social web of the future. Amongst a myriad of random inspirations, many of which for sure will find their way into projects of mine in the near future, I would like to summarize three main takeaways from this memorable weekend in Brighton [...]
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