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It's always nice if you can provide real-time active tracking and posting on your own website, but is it really necessary? Is it always worthwhile? What value does it provide to you? to others? The...
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A Followers Page on My Personal Website using Webmention https://boffosocko.com/2019/02/20/creating-a-followers-page/ I've had a following page (aka blogroll on acid) where I list all the websites I'm...
View Article📅 RSVP to WordCamp Santa Clarita 2019 | Chris Aldrich
April 5-6, 2019, Santa Clarita, CA #wcscv Not only will I be attending the inaugural WordCamp Santa Clarita, but they’ve accepted my proposal, so …
View ArticleIndieWeb Book Club: Ruined By Design | Chris Aldrich
Some of us have thought about doing it before, but perhaps just jumping into the water and trying it out may be the best way to begin designing, …
View ArticleAn IndieWeb Podcast: Episode 14 A loose collective of developers and...
Running time: 1h 19m 57s | Download (37.5MB) | Subscribe by RSS | Huffduff Summary: Our first episode since January. David Shanske and Chris Aldrich …
View ArticleIndieWebCamp East 2020: Save the Date and Call for Volunteers
Hello IndieWeb friends and family! Save the Date After some back-and-forth, several of us have carved out some time over the weekend of November 14-15 …
View ArticleCrediting your own website when syndicating to Mastodon with WordPress plugins
I’ve been tinkering around with methods to automatically syndicate (POSSE) content from my personal website to Mastodon. I’ve been working at making …
View ArticleAutomating syndication of reply contexts in Twitter Cards using OGP metacrap...
A Metacrap Problem It’s metacrap–I know, I know–but I’ve been thinking about easy ways to use Open Graph Protocol meta data to add contextual Twitter …
View ArticleTumblr + microformats?
Playing around with Kevin Marks‘ changes to the base Tumblr theme which has added some microformats. It’s looking pretty good in most of the parsers …
View ArticleThe Logos, Ethos, and Pathos of IndieWeb
Editor’s note: This is another in a continuing series of essays about the IndieWeb. Where is the IndieWeb? One might consider the IndieWeb’s …
View Article👓 Why You Should Start A Blog In 2019 | Tedium | Chris Aldrich
The independent blog has been in decline for years. It doesn’t have to be that way. Here’s why you should start a blog in 2019—and host it yourself. A …
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👓 Getting Ready for Domain Camp | Domains of Our Own https://boffosocko.com/2019/06/05/getting-ready-for-domain-camp-domains-of-our-own/ Want to build your own website and own your own content? Maybe...
View Article👓 Signal v Noise exits Medium | Signal v. Noise | Chris Aldrich
Three years ago we embraced an exciting new publishing platform called Medium. It felt like a new start for a writing community, and we benefitted …
View Article👓 There’s One Encouraging Thought Buried In Zuckerberg’s 2019 Challenge |...
Every year Mark Zuckerberg sets a "challenge" for himself for that year, which as many people have noted, Facebook has turned into a big PR vehicle …
View ArticleReply to More thoughts about Micro.blog as an indie social network by Paul...
Brad Enslen is doing some great work over at Micro.blog, spreading the word about this innovative service. He published a post titled “The Case for …
View Article👓 Static Indieweb pt1: Syndicating Content | Max Böck | Chris Aldrich
How to automatically publish content from a static site on Twitter, using Eleventy and Netlify's lambda functions. A nice little article with some …
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Reminder: IndieWebCamp Austin (& streaming) is this Weekend 2/23-24 https://boffosocko.com/2019/02/22/reminder-indiewebcamp-austin-streaming-is-this-weekend-2-23-24/ Here's a quick reminder that...
View ArticleCiteULike is shutting down on March 30, 2019
The bookmarking service CiteULike is shutting down on March 30, 2019 after a 15 year run. While some may turn to yet-another-silo or walled garden I …
View ArticleA Sketch for an IndieWeb Bullet Journal | Chris Aldrich
Over the past several weeks I’ve been thinking more and more about productivity solutions, bullet journals, and to do lists. This morning I …
View ArticleA hashtag functionality hiding with the ActivityPub for WordPress Plugin |...
I discovered yesterday that when I added a # (or hash, pound sign, octothorpe, et al.) in front of any word on my site, it created a native version …
View ArticleFrom Following Posts and Blogrolls (Following Pages) with OPML to Microsub...
I’m still tinkering away at pathways for following people (and websites) on the open web (in my case within WordPress). I’m doing it with an eye …
View ArticleDomains 2019 Reflections from Afar | Chris Aldrich
My OPML Domains Project Not being able to attend Domains 2019 in person, I was bound and determined to attend as much of it as I could manage …
View ArticleImproving user experience with links, notifications, and Webmentions | Chris...
Back in December, I was thinking about html links and the functionality of sending notifications using webmentions. Within the IndieWeb, this is …
View ArticleDividing and Conquering the IndieWeb Related Content on My Website
Both for my own benefit as well as for that of others who may be following along, I realize that I’ve been tagging a lot of material on my site with …
View ArticleOn This Day functionality for WordPress | Chris Aldrich
Last night while catching up on some of my feeds and I ran across a new WordPress plugin for creating On This Day-type functionality from Alan Levine. …
View ArticleLurking, Twitter, The Commons, and Private Posts | Chris Aldrich
Yesterday I was catching up on chat logs and ran across a stub for lurking on the IndieWeb wiki. I cleaned up the formatting a bit and added some …
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This is awesome Grant! May have been a nice addition to add some links to the browser extensions (or maybe I missed them?) and make it more explicit that they're publicly available. Can't wait to try...
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Manton talks to Tantek and Aaron about some history of the early IndieWeb movement Chris Aldrich I'm a biomedical and electrical engineer with …
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The most broadly useful technology I’ve encountered in the Indieweb world is the ability to use your personal site as your login on other sites. The …
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