The web is inherently decentralized, which has made it much easier for large companies to create large, centralized platforms. It’s a paradox and very thorny. I’m writing this on a centralized platform called Medium. Clap!
Category Archives: enviable stuff
Reading and commenting on blog posts, however, is an inherently social act carried out on a range of scales.
👍 love this: Flip the iceberg | Manton Reece
Online platforms and virtual worlds have become important spaces for youth development, socialization, and learning. Children and youth are growing up in a networked communication environment in…
Understand basic concepts of posting content on your site that's also copied elsewhere, replying to posts on others' sites from your own, and using online free tools to make this work seamlessly
This is really clear avoids all of the technical terms and gets to what I understand is the meat of the indieweb.
With help from @johnjohnston now it is just click/edit. Using a better web font too https://cogdog.github.io/bigify/
I had a bit of fun jumping in to I’ll Take That Text Extra Large: Bigify It – CogDogBlog learning a little more about github. As usual I seem to learn best by trying and fixing.
I'm probably an archetypal #indieweb end-user. Love geeky stuff but I'm not a programmer or a developer. Have used Known for a few years now, and I'm definitely signed up to the whole #indieweb philosophy. But goodness me, it's hard and silos are always there with their superficially attractive "com...
I like this, pretty much how I feel at the moment.
Liking: Reposts and quoting | Manton Reece
likes Reposts and quoting | Manton Reece
I very much agree that quoting from and adding something to a post is of great value, but some times I love something I don’t understand well enough to add value. That is why I’ve an enviable stuff category here.
What a brilliant post. If you read one thing about the web today, make it this one.
Beyond that, there is a kind of philosophical dilemma, not unlike the original dilemma of owning your own content in the first place. I am utterly dependent on the good offices of other people to maintain the services on which I now depend. Still, at least they're not evil mega-corporations.
Reading: Getting there | Jeremy Cherfas
Although I am really enjoying exploring the indieweb, this point about reliance is always on my mind. I am relying on so many technologies to be able to do this and we can alway fall back on the evil mega-corporations.
It might be because I am in a micro.blog bubble at the moment but it does seem that the indieweb stuff is getting slicker and easier to use. When I switched to sempress with a wing and a prayer it felt like an act of faith. It is beginning to feel like a great choice.