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There were two movies released in 2015 with very similar names, one was called The Hallow and the other The Hollow. One movie was over shlocky completely saturated with unbelievable CGI and a horrendously incomprehensible plot, the other was an amazing English-Irish production about a family tormented by ecological monsters from ancient celtic lore seeking to ravage justice against interlopers.
The Hallow is the latter, Adam an English mycologist (fungi specialist) travels to an Irish province with his wife Clare and new-born baby Finn. In the movie Adam is hired by a logging company to study the forest trees and see if there are any fungal viruses or other type of diseases that may deem the forest unworthy for them to tear down.
Now in previous movies we normally see a conservationist who is sent out to study the forest for prevention of deforestation, I quite enjoyed the opposite effect where the protagonist works for a normally negatively seen company and in this movie at first you assume that the less than friendly reception Adam and his family receives from locals is due to his business interests and the company that hired him to survey the land.
As the movie moves on it is apparent that the townspeople have no care for the interests of Adam's company but it is not caused by their overwhelming concern for global warming, they are interested in what Adam may rouse from the depths of the elder Irish forest.
He is warned that in lies "the hallows", an old lore about primordial beings who derive in the woods, soon Adam and Clare find that they should have heeded the warning and left when they were given the chance.
The film creates a "home invasion" type atmosphere that turns into a chase into the interior of demented wood set to the backdrop of an isolated town ,with an unprepared English family attacked by elemental ecological goblins with no hope from neighbors who have turned their back on the tortured.
This film has a great combination of practical and computer effects set in an old Irish country side, it's remarkable how at times the scenes feel as if they are portrayed in the greenish hills of Ireland and in an instant teleport the audience into crooked woods filled with monstrous harbingers.
Directed by Corin Hardy who is in pre-production to Direct The Conjuring 2 spin off: The Nun, this film landed his spot to Direct the reboot of The Crow- a Crow reboot sounds like blasphemy to me as well but with his color scale in this movie and the eerie setting in this movie I am considering giving it a chance.
Staring Joseph Mawle (Game of Thrones, Merlin) as Adam and Bojana Novakovic (Drag Me To Hell, Devil), Hardy said he wrote the part of Adam specifically with Mawle in mind.
This movie has the inspiration and pace to entice die hard fans of The Thing and Alien with a semi-fantasy feel of Pan's Labyrinth, you may seek to tread carefully next stroll in the woods, one may not know what could be found in the blacker parts of The Hallow. I give the movie 4 1/2 Claws


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La Palma, Canary Islands
Facilitator: Maja Borkowska
Contact: email firstname.lastname@example.com
Enrollment: fill in this form
Languages: Spanish, English, Italian, Polish
Dates: every month,
we organize the dates with you
we organize the dates with you
(maximum 10 people at a time).
Integral Permaculture Action-Learning Internships
lasting 1 to 12 months start every month during the year,
with EU grant possibilities (PIC: 939655879)*
Note you need to be enrolled at least 1 month before your arrival on site (to have time for the preparation online)
*Grant-Funded internships are possible under the EVS (European Voluntary Service) & Erasmus+ programmes.
See here for more details & apply with the same form.
The Project
"8thLife" is an EcoVillage project started in 2011 which includes the permaculture site Finca Luna, which had been used as a permaculture action-learning farm from 2006.
It is part of a typical traditional agricultural settlement which suffered from rural de-population (as people increasingly moved to cities),
which we are slowly bringing back to life & toward full production (for all life, not just humans!).
We now have 2 of the 5 farms it was divided into, and 5 resident members.
Stefania Strega (who coordinates & teaches on the iPDC) and Jose Zamora
are amongst the permanent residents here.
Stefania has lived in the neighbourhood since 1999, renting a nearby farm from 2001.
After a lot of observation she brought the current site for the GaiaTasiri Association.
In 2014 we were able to buy another one of the nearby farms (all are parts of the original settlement) which included a house so now we have more space for visitors & can offer these courses with more comforts for guests.
We are in the North of the Island of La Palma, a bio-sphere reserve and one of the smallest & the greenest of the Canary Islands, known as La Isla Bonita for its great natural beauty & dramatic landscapes, still with most of its primary ecosystems intact & a population that's quite connected to the land.
We are located in a small village with cafe-bar, small food-shop, town-square (plaza)... and the bus-stop is at 10 mins. walk from the farm. There's a small town nearby (15 mins in bus) with all sorts of shops & a farmers' market every weekend.
La Palma has a very mild climate and winter is generally like late spring / summer in northern Europe.
Especially in Spring you can enjoy sunny days with mild temperatures and flowers all over the place, especially almond blossoms, that cover everything around us.
There's some fresh produce all-year round in the farm (fruits & vegetables, varying with the seasons), and you can harvest some of it during your internship, but expect it to be a supplement to your diet and not your main source of food (you can go shopping for whatever you need in the nearby town and farmers' market).
Weather - see eltiempo.es/canarias/lluvia for current rainfall
& eltiempo.es/canarias/temperatura for current temperatures
Internship Structure
Before arriving on site:
While on site you will:
If you want to hear from previous interns how this was like for them,
and what to take into account before coming,
have a look at these newsletters:
Examples of Design Projects
Below are some examples of the kind of design work we're doing on site
- these are just some, there are many others,
and they are all organized in our private online design portfolio,
to which you will have access once you enroll
in order to study the different design projects and choose which ones to work on.
This means that we have plenty of space & scope for some more intensive growing, which is ideal for someone who wants to design a whole garden from scratch, plant, maintain & harvest it.
Because with the online-learning & design time, we can do interesting team-work things like get the nursery plants before you arrive, so you have however many plants & varieties you decide waiting for you, as you will have worked out the preparation & growing times together with us & be well on the way to becoming an expert garden manager by the time you've completed your project.
Or you can simply take part in the day to day maintenance of the existing gardens, nursery work and / or building of the larger infrastructure work, which is ongoing.
Forest Gardening
We have 8 embryonic forest-gardens on site, and if you wish to focus on trees, soil conditioning, making & improving swales, paths, hedges, & in general learning how to be a food-forest designer, there is plenty still to design & plant in each of these sites.
Our vision is that each of these small forest gardens will eventually join up into a big edible forest, which will be the whole site, but this takes quite a few years to all grow, so building soil & planting more & more varieties is still a priority.
The idea is that each part will have it's own character, own peculiar art, cosy sitting-places, wide variety of food growing with least effort. All are future foraging-space for our chickens & other animals.
Hobbit Domes
One of the more adventurous (& controversial) projects that we started on site is an experiment in making small "hobbit-domes" with 90% waste materials.
This means finding creative ways of working with things like:
- plastic bales instead of straw-bales (in order to find good uses for the huge quantities of plastics which are currently causing havoc in landfills & the oceans)
- using cardboard as a building material (quite challenging also, but has great structural qualities, as well as being plentiful waste material from the banana industry here) - old car tyres, metal fencing, palets ... whatever is normally pollution & can become a valuable resource, with some imagination & skill.
Eventually the vision for the domes is that they be covered with a thin fire-proof, water-proof ferro-cement shell that will in turn be a support-structure for climbing plants - so the buildings can disappear totally in the landscape.
At the moment we have a 2 early prototypes at various stages of building, which you can help with or take on as your individual project, as you prefer.
Here is a short video we made in spanish about this (it's called Transforming Rubbish into Dreams & is presented as a crowd-funding project - which you are very welcome to use if you wish to fund your stay in a very original way)
Plant nursery
We currently have 3 plant nurseries: one for trees, one for seedlings and one for cuttings / bigger plants. Interns interested in this work usually take responsibility for one of them in turn, also contributing to design ideas for improving them if they wish.
As we love nurseries (most of our production is gifted to neighbours and friends at present, and we have exchanged all sorts of stuff for plants in the past) we're always open to making new or improved ones, like this rather 'wild design' one of our students came up with (yet to be built):
>>The old trial greenhouse and the guinea-pig multifunctional greenhouse design we made for a future larger greenhouse.
The idea is that the guinea-pigs live inside the greenhouse, providing plants with Co2, compost & heat, in exchange for being in a nice warm sheltered place, where we can see them every time we pass through the greenhouse on the way to the camping site or the house, as the new structure will act also as a corridor in a well-transited place.
Chicken house
A large-scale chicken-tractor project, that will eventually join up the 6 big half-moon terraces & gardens is still being designed.
It aims to provide enough chicken meat & eggs for a small community - & of course also all the great de-bugging & fertilizing services that these wonderful creatures offer.
The chicken house is part of a big chicken & pig tractor project which is slowly being completed. This is a great design for someone ambitious who wants to contribute to a major structure of the whole.
Chickens in one of the tractor system gardens.
Solar Showers
The solar shower started as basic bottles + black pipes structure (in the picture) that we built in our first months here, & it worked fine most of the time, but was a little cold in winter. It was re-designed in february 2015.
We could do with more showers, so there's scope for much creativity as there are lots of ways they can be designed, ... eg. as an integral part of a wood-heated sauna-spar complex that we are fantasizing about from time ... :)
Just this simple shower can be improved by building a compost-heated winter version & by adding a storage tank for hot water.
Compost Toilets
Again, we started with the very basic sawdust bucket-system which we still use in parts of the growing project as they work very well, but in 2015 a friend also built us a larger twin chamber composting toilet.
There's still lots of scope for improving the existing structures and for experimenting & building various toilets of different types here, if anyone has the enthusiasm to organize it.
Costs, Options & EnrollmentResidential costs depend on which course option you are doing,
whether you stay in a tent or in a single or double room,
and for how long you are staying.
In this form you can get an idea of prices for your first month,
and once you fill it we can give you a more specific quote.
Note that we are not a business, but work with a non-profit association,
so all income from guests or courses is a donation to the GaiaTasiri association
& is used only for creating the eco-village project.
You our see the latest news here, where you can also subscribe to the newsletters.
The Facebook Group for 8thLife is also a way of receiving news of the project, where you can also ask questions or take part in the discussions.
Compost Toilet & Solar Shower entrances. Light Live Building structures.
Traditional Canarian buildings use the plentiful vulcanic stone we have available here, a great building material.
So we have a lot of old stone walls to repair & some buildings to restore.
We have milk sheep which provide us with great compost for our trees & gardens, wool, meat & daily meditative walks ... as well as the milk, eventually, when we breed them (these are youngsters still)
Sheep & sheep-dog resting.
An old water tank provides many possibilities for water-culture ... lots of interesting designs are being thought of for this part.
The Flora Garden with some of the big chicken-house structure visible - still being built.
This will eventually be the centre of the big chicken-tractor system, & we'll be experimenting with green walls & other interesting things.
We live in front of a beautiful huge ocean view & get to see wonderful sunsets over the water every day.
The sheep are very soft & love coming up to you to be stroked, when they've filled their bellies with grass & you're lying down in the grass doing the hard sheperding duties ...
There's lots of 'green gym' work to do on a daily basis on a farm, which is good to keep you quite fit, like moving heavy building materials like clay & stones, carrying spring water up to the kitchen, big bags of compost or straw for mulching, sawdust for the compost toilets, etc.
Repairing the stone patio. There are many small but satisfying (because you can see a big improvement) jobs to do which are ideal projects for people who can't stay for several months, or like to do many small designs instead of one big one.
All well-finished infrastructure improvements we pay in Gaias, and you can trade Gaias for EcoVillage shares, if you wish.
In autumn 2012 we started a guinea-pig -breeding project, in a small way, to see if these 'little pigs' are fairly easy to keep ... & as tasty as they claim.
The camp-site is very basic & has a primitive but large open-air kitchen we use as cooking, eating & meeting space.
This is the design of our new kitchen cooker & oven being made.
Good designers are people who have developed a big range of skills which are acquired through require both study & practice.
Design is about being scientific & being creative, about thinking through all the details & also being daring about starting even when you're not quite sure how it will work out.
We love living with interesting people who have or want to develop these important skills, and, like us, wish to apply them to creating the infrastructures for a more sustainable society.
We fondly remember & are always grateful to all the wonderful people who have left their gifts of intelligence, love & creativity in this landscape.
This project was meant from the start as a place to be designed by many people, and we are love to see the results of that aim flourishing all around us each day.
Thank-you to all the people who made it happen, and to those who continue the good work.


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Right here you'll find a series of Old Testament worksheets which I have created. Each lesson includes elements of focused instruction to engage students in considering about the learning as effectively as reflecting on how the learning connects to their own lives and behavior. Character education programs are most efficient when teachers, parents and students cooperate with each other. Teachers can use a variety of examples of exactly where students would be known as upon to be truthful. In 1993 the playground at Seattle's Gatzert Elementary College, a higher-poverty school exactly where a third of the youngsters are homeless, resembled a battlefield at lunch recess. Every single song comes in several versions and involves free of charge worksheets to use in class.
Duty begins with small things" like taking care of your belongings, operating with a excellent attitude, resolving conflicts peacefully, and owning up to errors. Homeroom Teacher supplies character education worksheets from all of the key publishers in the nation. I cannot think about teaching in a school that does not have a hard-core commitment to character education, simply because I've observed what that education can mean to a child's emotional, moral, and intellectual improvement. Teaching your youngsters to talk civilly to each other and resolve differences with no arguing and fighting instills in them courtesy and respect. To infuse values and cultural awareness into the curriculum, the principal and college employees created Kindness is Contagious." The plan promotes kindness, which leads to students creating respect for themselves and other individuals. For some youngsters, college could be the only environment they receive this education.
For example, the Character Counts plan defines six teachable pillars of character": trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, fairness, caring and citizenship. Please really feel cost-free to download these sheets and print them to use with your class or loved ones, but please do not sell them or post them anywhere else on the internet. Related to the Chinese as a second/foreign language learner, students need to have to practice character writing from tracing, copying, repeating and so forth. Schools that teach character education report greater academic overall performance, improved attendance, decreased violence, fewer disciplinary problems, reduction in substance abuse, and significantly less vandalism. I thought I would speak a tiny about character education given that my class just performed their character education skit for the entire school last Friday.
By establishing a good college climate and fostering positive relationships with our students, we will see an boost in how our students react, respond, and refer to college activities. All through the process, students make use of specific character traits they are taught in our character education plan. The Character Education Partnership is an American primarily based non-profit organization committed to the teaching of moral education to youth. Students will recognize Gandhi as a non-violent protester and man of character through this lesson and reading his renowned quotes. By looking for methods to incorporate absolutes into each topic, teachers can show their students the significance of values in their lives. For the primary and intermediate level learners, these websites can aid produce worksheets with stroke orders like this in a few minutes.
By way of the character report card, core values turn into internalized as part of their education and component of their lives. Our teachers presented this data to their students during a Character Connection Class. This Language Arts song is appropriate for teaching writing to sophisticated elementary college (3rd grade, 4th grade, 5th grade, and 6th grade), middle college, high college, and home college students.


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- Nov 2019
onemanandhisblog.com onemanandhisblog.com
And guess what an effective barrier to infiltration — or wholesale infiltration, at least — can be? Money. Yes, membership models are about more than just revenue:None of the news organisations studied here began with a membership programme, but in the past year each of them has turned to membership as a way of deepening audience engagement in a 'safer' space and monetising the loyalty generated by their independent journalism and their civic activism in reference to attacks on democracy and media freedom.
to some extent, though not journalistically related, this is the model that is followed by some of the functionality of micro.blog.
One of the responses to both forms of platform capture is to create and police your own spaces.
The first is when you build businesses on platforms your don't own; and then they change the rules on you.
Here's a great example why Newspapers should embrace an IndieWeb perspective.
- Aug 2019
Michael Caulfield, an educator who has written extensively about misinformation, media literacy, and the importance of online "info-environmentalism,"19Michael Caulfield, "Info-Environmentalism: An Introduction," EDUCAUSEreview (Nov./Dec., 2017): 92-93, https://er.educause.edu/articles/2017/10/info-environmentalism-an-introduction. distilled concern with online annotation to a pressing social question:It's your [web] browser, and you're allowed to annotate anything you want with it. But the separate question is what should be encouraged by the design of our technology. People want to turn this into a legal debate, but it's not. It's a tools debate, and the main product of a builder of social tools is not the tool itself but the culture that it creates. So what sort of society do you want to create?
great quote here!
However, when groups of readers come together and collectively read and write annotation in response to a shared text, then annotation can - under curated circumstances - spark and sustain conversation.
I can't help but note that within the IndieWeb community, they're using a combination of online chat and wiki tools which to a great extent are a larger ongoing conversation. The conversation continues on a daily (almost hourly) basis and the substantive portions of that conversation are captured within the wiki for future reference. Interestingly, an internal chat bot, known as Loqi, allows one to actively make changes to the wiki from within the chat. In some sense, within this community there could be an analogy to which came first the chicken or the egg, but replacing those with conversation and annotation.
Comment, according to communications studies professor Joseph Reagle, Jr., is a genre of communication that is reactive, short, and asynchronous.4
- Jul 2019
Heather Staines1 month agoWould you consider metadata to be a form of annotation? Annotation for machines?Remi Kalir1 month agoYes, absolutely, metadata is a form of annotation. The MIT Press EKS volume "Metadata" is included in our Further Readings section. And the relationship between human-machine annotation, as well as automated annotation, is a topic we pick up in Chapter 7. Do you see additional opportunities for us to more explicitly discuss metadata as a form of annotation?
It's a great meta meta example, but the IndieWeb movement uses microformats to mark up portions of web pages with metadata that gives machines the idea of the semantics of a particular post. Thus, I could reply to this web page with a traditional social media "like" as a means of annotating it on my own website. The microformat "u-like-of" would be added to my page's metadata that allows the web page I'm replying to to read that like intent and potentially display it—though traditionally they're shown under the text in question.
jackjamieson.net jackjamieson.net
they do not avoid corporatesocial media altogether
better perhaps as:
they do not NECESSARILY avoid corporate social media...
Rather than avoidingcorporate social media, content from personal Web sites is syndicated to Facebook, Twitter, andother platforms, and then comments, likes, and other responses are retrieved back.
I've not really heard it stated directly or explicitly, but it's also a distinct possibility that the IndieWeb may eventually be enough of a competitive force such that corporate social media needs (or might want) to support the open protocols (microformats, Webmention, et al.) such that one needn't syndicate or require backfeed. Corporate social media may eventually be "open" enough such that some of the current bridging ideas are no longer needed.
www.jvt.me www.jvt.me
Having a website and/or blog is not about being a web developer, nor about being a celebrity of sorts, but is about being a citizen of the Web.
journals.sagepub.com journals.sagepub.com
In the absence of alternatives, activists would simply have to accept the negatives of CSM while trying to take advantage of them.
Brid.gy is a potential example of this.
However, the difference between critiquing ASM and CSM may well be that ASM administrators will listen to critical social media scholars to try to improve their systems, while Facebook, Google, and Twitter will likely only listen to major shareholders and advertising networks.
However, although their approaches are different, one thing ASM have in common is their emphasis on network and code pedagogies: that is, trying to help users become coders and technicians, "sociologists of software," to draw on Simondon (2010), who are far more able to shape ASM to meet their needs. Thus, developers of ASM do more than just make media systems; they teach others how to use them and modify them. As Matt Lee of GNU social argues,it is vitally important to me that anyone can set up a GNU social server on virtually any web hosting. I also want to make it as easy as possible to set up and install. To that end, I will personally help anyone who wants to get set up.
The federated rstat.us is open source because, as rstat.us developer David Wilkinson notes,It is important that rstat.us is, albeit not technically the case by law alone, controlled by the community and not by us . . . Basically we are pro-people vs being simply anti-corporate . . . We would rather build a simpler project that people can extend and use in a variety of ways without consulting us.
A social network that has the users' interests in mind would look completely different than today's Twitter and Facebook. It would be designed to help you with your social interactions, quickly and efficiently, not trying to make you spend maximum amount of minutes on the site. Facebook, and increasingly Twitter (as their owners have started demanding profits), are doing the opposite. They . . . steal your time, make you do pointless stuff, filter in advertising in your news feeds, delete pages and users organising protests etc, mine their "big data" to find the best ways to use our weaknesses for pointless click-bait . . .
This is a great quote which highlights the difference in the overall design ideas of social sites like Facebook and Twitter and the design of IndieWeb sites.
Another approach is to take seriously the affordances and limitations of CSM's interfaces and architectures and to see how activists and coders are reverse engineering (Gehl, 2014b) ideas from CSM to produce a new alternative media: ASM.
I'm hoping for some great insights below which could be used for IndieWeb related research and architecture.
If alternative media theory is correct in orienting us to production—the how of media, rather than the what—ASM, not CSM, offer a more fitting suite of tools for people to both make media and shape media distribution infrastructures.
I first briefly lay out alternative media theory as it existed prior to the dominance of Facebook, Google, and Twitter.
I've been thinking about it for a while but even if all social sites were interoperable, I suspect that a small handful of 2 or 3 would have the largest market share. This is as the result of some of the network theory and research found in Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means for Business, Science, and Everyday Life by Alberto-Llaszlo Barabasi
adanewmedia.org adanewmedia.org
The architecture of the platform where I published allowed authorial control of content but could not control context collapse or social interactions.
These are pieces which the IndieWeb should endeavor to experiment in and attempt to fix. Though I will admit that pieces of the IndieWeb layers on top of platforms like WordPress can help to mitigate some context collapse and aggregate social interactions better. (eg: reply context and POSSE)
Some content "jumped" platforms: eleven posts written for my blog were eventually cross-posted to new and traditional media platforms. It is impossible to track the ways posts became remixed and diffused through sites like Tumblr and Reddit, which are designed specifically for those purposes. But linkbacks from those posts and a general search reveals that it has happened often.
Here's an interesting research space in which having Webmention for the linkbacks would have been useful.
By the end of the course, my professor encouraged me to purchase my own domain. Her concern was for authorial control that would signal to readers that my content should be treated according to the media and academic logics where citations and attributions are normative. I used a pre-paid credit card to purchase my domain and the website followed me to graduate school.
A great story of the beginning of her Domain of One's Own.
There is a sense that one can cobble together a common public by overlapping various social media platforms and audiences. Many of my colleagues are doing a fine job of problematizing the intersections of private social media and the university. The larger project from which this essay is drawn is part of that emerging conversation.
I wonder here what role an IndieWeb-based version of academe looks like in which teachers all own their content on their own websites to make a more explicit appeal of work that they've done. Compare this with the concept that what they may be doing on Twitter isn't "work" and which isn't judged as such.
- economics
- Domain of One's Own
- media studies
- sociology
- IndieWeb
- attention economies
- corpus linguistics
- identity
- reply context
- education
- Webmention
- social media
- context collapse
- IndieWeb for Education
- Jun 2019
unicyclic.com unicyclic.com
the year of the indieweb directory
getdoingthings.com getdoingthings.com
I've worked on the web professionally for over a decade and I've never managed to put together a proper website that I've maintained and not just binned every five minutes. Yes, I've been making websites for over a decade and never managed to make one for myself.
It's like they say, "At the plumber's house, the pipes always leak."
davidyat.es davidyat.es
But could there be a social network that packages these technologies in a friendly, usable way for the non-tech-savvy? One that registers an actual domain name for each user and spins up a base site with all these integrations: micropub for posting, microsub for reading, with webactions and webmentions to glue it all together. I'm not sure. It probably wouldn't be free.
This does exist and it's called micro.blog which lets you register your domain and then provides all of the other moving pieces including hosting.
Posting updates.
and notifications (or @mentions).
In a nutshell, IndieWeb is about using the World Wide Web itself as a social network, through a set of open standards for communication and identification of content and people.
A great summary sentence of IndieWeb!
I have two different blogs: my personal blog on my main domain and my work blog on my subdomain.
Sounds like a multi-site IndieWeb case here.
Also posting this as a test of embedding and annotating sites via iframe.
kfitz.info kfitz.info
That is to say: if the problem has not been the centralized, corporatized control of the individual voice, the individual's data, but rather a deeper failure of sociality that precedes that control, then merely reclaiming ownership of our voices and our data isn't enough. If the goal is creating more authentic, more productive forms of online sociality, we need to rethink our platforms, the ways they function, and our relationships to them from the ground up. It's not just a matter of functionality, or privacy controls, or even of business models. It's a matter of governance.
Contravening that force is going to require something more than personal control, promoting something other than atomization.
I imagine that the first part of this project will focus on how it got to be this way, what got missed or ignored in some of the early warnings about what was happening online and how those warnings were swamped by the hype depicting the Internet as a space of radical democratization.
I love the brewing idea here. We definitely need this.
Some broad initial bibliography from the top of my head:
- The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power by Shoshona Zuboff (Public Affairs)
- Ruined by Design by Mike Monteiro
- Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest by Zeynep Tufekci (Yale)
Larry Sanger (co-founder of Wikipedia)
- How to decentralize social media—a brief sketch
- Proposing a "Declaration of Digital Independence", (WIRED 3/19)
- Version history for "Declaration of Digital Independence" I've seen via personal correspondence, should be publicly available soon:
- Declaration of Digital Independence
- FAQ about the project to decentralize social media
- Social Media Strike!
Some useful history/timelines: https://indieweb.org/timeline https://indieweb.org/history
The code quality of my site is only visible to me, what matters is the functionality. And I want this private post functionality.
ammienoot.com ammienoot.com
However there are going to be lots of scenarios where students are required to use institutional tech. In those cases I still think we need to more willing to delete by default, and not leave the burden on the students. It's a different mind-set – to purposefully throw away data – but I think it's becoming a fundamental privacy issue.
A big piece of the DoOO and IndieWeb philosophies is predicate on the student/teacher/other having their own domain name. Thus, even if they're dependent on institutional technology and/or platforms, they can usually easily export their data, move it to another host and/or platform, and then still have all the URLs live on for as long as they like. If they prefer, they can also have control over whether their content is published to the public, or unpublished/password protected so that only they or those they choose have access to it after-the-fact.
- May 2019
www.nature.com www.nature.com
Crowther offered everyone who shared at least a certain volume of data with his forest initiative the chance to be a co-author of a study that he and a colleague led. Published in Science in 2016, the paper used more than 770,000 data points from 44 countries to determine that forests with more tree species are more productive4.
I suspect a similar hypothesis holds for shared specs, code, and the broader idea of plurality within the IndieWeb. More interoperable systems makes the IndieWeb more productive.
- Apr 2019
www.eugenewei.com www.eugenewei.com
I think most social networks, if they've made this journey, need to make a return to utility to be truly durable.
This sounds to me like what the IndieWeb is doing. Utility for the site owner directly.
This is the classic cold start problem of social. The answer to the traditional chicken-and-egg question is actually answerable: what comes first is a single chicken, and then another chicken, and then another chicken, and so on. The harder version of the question is why the first chicken came and stayed when no other chickens were around, and why the others followed.
This gives me a hypothesis about why the chicken post came first within the IndieWeb.
/* Changes the font size on the titles of Kinds */section.response > header { font-size: 20px;}
I really like the Kinds plugin, but should look into some of these possibilities.
- Mar 2019
If you're looking for the pages on annotations, highlights, or replies/comments you'll find them here:
davidjohnmead.com davidjohnmead.com
On my blog it has context. You can see all the other eat/drink posts on thier own or mixed in with everything else. I can include links to the place where I bought it, who makes it, or related posts.Instagram's context is its a photo with an optional description. It doesn't matter what it's of. It won't contain links to anything.
- Feb 2019
larrysanger.org larrysanger.org
But how do we make it happen?
Larry, I caught your Twitter conversation with Aaron Parecki earlier about IndieWeb. I've added a lot of the open specs he referenced to my own WordPress website with a handful of plugins and would be happy to help you do the same if you like.
If nothing else, it'll give you some direct experience with how the decentralized nature of how these things work. I'm posting my reply to you own my own site and manually syndicating the reply (since you don't yet support webmention, one of the protocols) which will give at least some idea of how it all works.
If you're curious about how you could apply it to your own WordPress site, I've collected some research, articles and experiments specific to my experience here: https://boffosocko.com/research/indieweb/
tomcritchlow.com tomcritchlow.com
What am I missing about annotations for the web?
They're not as wide spread certainly, but several people within the IndieWeb have been experimenting with annotations, and Webmention in conjunction with text fragments called fragmentions. In particular, Kartik Prabhu probably has one of the best examples and his site is able to take webmentions to fragments and show them in the margins in his site (much like Medium does).
Professional blogging; whether that be funded by advertisers, subscribers, fans – is a big business. What are your thoughts on how Micro.blog helps or ignores people or businesses that may want to use the platform to share their content and earn a living from it?
scroll.blog scroll.blog
However, a healthy news ecosystem doesn't just require a thriving free press, it also needs a diversity of curators, newsletters and content discovery options that enable the weird and wonderful to surface. We want to use Nuzzel as a test kitchen to see what models works for curators as well as content creators. The simple goal is a sustainable open web where the goals of creators, curators and consumers are aligned around the best possible experience.
This sounds exciting to me and could dovetail with efforts of many with respect to IndieWeb for Journalism.
- Jan 2019
stream.jeremycherfas.net stream.jeremycherfas.net
Maintaining a website that you regard as your own does require maintenance. Like a garden, you may choose to let a few weeds flourish, for the wildlife, and you may also seek to encourage volunteers, for the aesthetics. A garden without wildlife is dull, a garden without aesthetics is pointless.
time.com time.com
Given that social media is practically a public utility, I think it is worth considering more aggressive strategies, including government subsidies. The government already subsidizes energy exploration, agriculture and other economic activities that the country considers to be a priority, and it is not crazy to imagine that civically responsible social media may be essential to the future of the country. The subsidies might come in the form of research funding, capital for startups, tax breaks and the like.
Subsidies for social strategies like IndieWeb could be an interesting way to go...
garciabuxton.com garciabuxton.com
Then I learned about the IndieWeb movement and Micro.blog, and I fell in love with the Internet as I once hoped it would be: a place where people could congregate, converse, and learn from one another with somewhat minimal rancor — and without an overtly overarching need to make a buck with their "content."
m.signalvnoise.com m.signalvnoise.com
With the new take, we're also trying to bring more of a classic SvN style back to the site. Not just big, marque pieces, but lots of smaller observations, quotes, links, and other posts as well.
I wonder if they might also support Webmentions for commenting along with possibly maintaining their own microblog as they move away from Twitter too.
One way to meet the many needs that most if not all publishers share would be to collaboratively develop their digital products. Specifically, they should build for interoperability. One publisher's CMS, another's content APIs, a third company's data offering — they might one day all work together to allow all ships to rise and to reclaim advertising and subscription revenue from the platforms. This might allow publishers to refocus on differentiating where it truly matters for the user: in the quality of their content.
Some of this is already a-foot within the IndieWeb community with new protocols like Webmention, Micropub, WebSub, and Microsub.
2019 is the year when publishers — whether big ones like Axios or the Los Angeles Times or tiny ones like mine or Judd Legum's Popular Information — move away from letting someone else call all the shots. Or, at least, they should.
There's already some work and movement in the IndieWeb with respect to journalism.
I've been working on a redesign of my site recently, using a more robust CMS, and the advantages of controlling the structure of the platform soup-to-nuts are obvious, even if it requires more upfront work.
But what if, in 2019, we take a step back and decide not to let the platform decide how to run the show?
The IndieWeb has already made some solid strides.
austinkleon.com austinkleon.com
I tried very hard in that book, when it came to social media, to be platform agnostic, to emphasize that social media sites come and go, and to always invest first and foremost in your own media. (Website, blog, mailing list, etc.)
- Dec 2018
austinkleon.com austinkleon.com
Newport is an academic — he makes his primary living teaching computer science at a university, so he already has a built-in network and a self-contained world with clear moves towards achievement.
This is one of the key reasons people look to social media--for the connections and the network they don't have via non-digital means. Most of the people I've seen with large blogs or well-traveled websites have simply done a much better job of connecting and interacting with their audience and personal networks. To a great extent this is because they've built up a large email list to send people content directly. Those people then read their material and comment on their blogs.
This is something the IndieWeb can help people work toward in a better fashion, particularly with better independent functioning feed readers.
www.twitterandteargas.org www.twitterandteargas.org
Two key constituencies for social movements are also early adopters: activists and journalists
Plurality, diversity, and tolerance were celebrated
IndieWeb principles
Without saying it directly, there's a very IndieWeb flavor to this piece.
Today's leading-edge content tools are integrated context, collaboration and insight machines. We're moving from unidirectional publishing of articles to organizing all our work and closing the feedback loop with our customers. I call this "full-stack publishing".
This sounds a little bit like what the IndieWeb is building for itself!
readwriterespond.com readwriterespond.com
I think it is one of those topics with a lot of conjecture John. Apologies if there are too many links.
Don't apologize for links. It's the web and links are important. In fact I might think that you could have a few additional links here! I would have seen it anyway, but I was a tad sad not to have seen a link to that massive pullquote/photo you made at the top of the post which would have sent me a webmention to boot. (Of course WordPress doesn't make it easy on this front either, so your best bet would have been an invisible <link> hidden in the text maybe?)
I've been in the habit of person-tagging people in posts to actively send them webmentions, but I also have worried about the extra "visual clutter" and cognitive load of the traditional presentation of links as mentioned by John. As a result, I'm now considering adding some CSS to my site so that these webmention links simply look like regular text. This way the notifications will be triggered, but without adding the seeming "cruft" visually or cognitively. Win-win? Thanks for the inspiration!
In your case here, you've kindly added enough context about what to expect about the included links that the reader can decide for themselves while still making your point. You should sleep easily on this point and continue linking to your heart's content.
johnjohnston.info johnjohnston.info
This seems like a cool potential way of doing all sorts of things in the IndieWeb space for WordPress. I'm curious what it looks like from other perspectives. I'll have to think this through a bit...
ohhelloana.blog ohhelloana.blog
This post has a lot of great things to think about for people either designing social media related websites, or even IndieWeb site designers who might want to take advantage of these things for themselves.
newclues.cluetrain.com newclues.cluetrain.com
Hackers got us into this and hackers will have to get us out.
blog.jonudell.net blog.jonudell.net
Where's my next dashboard? I imagine a next-gen reader that brings me the open web and my social circles in a way that helps me attend to and manage all the flow. There are apps for that, a nice example being FlowReader, which has been around since 2013. I try these things hopefully but so far none has stuck.
I'm currently hoping that the next wave of social readers based on Microsub and which also support Micropub will be a major part of the answer.
- Nov 2018
bryanalexander.org bryanalexander.org
indieweb movement.
www.billymeinke.com www.billymeinke.com
the technology platforms we rely on are changing and to leave things the way they are is to put our work at risk.
More ways to combat feed overwhelm Before IndieWebCamp, we had a discussion about Readers in a traditional Nürnberger restaurant. Here also, people came up with some ideas to deal with accruing unread-counts. One idea came from how Aperture deletes posts after 7 days. This actually prevents the overload. It would be nice if you can tell your reader that, for example your Twitter feed, is ephemeral and that the posts can be discarded if you did not read them in time. One other idea that came up was to keep track of the average time between posts of a certain feed. This way a Reader could boost posts when they are from a feed that is not regularly updated. These kind of posts are usually lost in piles of more posts from more frequently updates feeds. Yet a last idea was to tell your reader to leave out posts with certain words for a small period of time. This can come in handy when you haven't watched the newest episode of Game of Thrones yet, but want to stay connected to your feeds without spoilers.
Some good ideas here to deal with feeds.
Oh IndieWebCamp. You come with a few things you want to for your own website, then you do some completely other things, and after that you leave with an even longer list of things to do for your own website.
The story of us all...
- Oct 2018
wolfweb.unr.edu wolfweb.unr.edu
there is little power, there is correspondingly little sense of positive responsibility.
Can this be a response to trolls? When you have power of your domain.
educative process is carried on in a predominantly democratic or non-democratic way becomes, therefore, a question of transcendent importance not only for education itself but for its final effect upon all the interests and activities of a society
If we want a democratic society we need a democratic educational system. This requires in digital literacy folks to have their own domain.
each individual has something to contribute, whose value can be assessed only as enters into the final pooled intelligence
the collective feed
Even where democracies now exist, men's minds and feelings are still permeated with ideas about leadership imposed from above, ideas that developed in the long early history of mankind.
Make a parallel to the rise of commercial silos.
edtechfactotum.com edtechfactotum.com
Grant Potter
Seeing the commentary from Greg McVerry and Aaron Davis, it's probably worthwhile to point you to the IndieWeb for Education wiki page which has some useful resources, pointers, and references. As you have time, feel free to add yourself to the list along with any brainstorming ideas you might have for using some of this technology within your work realm. Many hands make light work. Welcome to the new revolution!
- Sep 2018
www.insidehighered.com www.insidehighered.com
The real internet is structured by myriad people with different aesthetics and different needs. Online course design decisions should reflect the instructor's individuality in the same way that everyone else's webpages do.
- Aug 2018
www.newyorker.com www.newyorker.com
He has no interest in the solution that liberals typically adopt to accommodate diversity: pluralism and multiculturalism.
Interesting to see an IndieWeb principle pop up here! How do other parts dovetail perhaps? What about other movements?
www.ardisson.org www.ardisson.org
You find them in a place that you curate yourself, not one "curated" for you by a massive corporate social network intent on forcing you to be every part of yourself to everyone, all at once. You should control how, when, and where to interact with your people.
web we lost
opencontent.org opencontent.org
When you can assume that all the materials you're using in and with your class are open educational resources, here's one way to remix the effective practices listed above with OER in order to provide you and your students with opportunities to spend your time and effort on work that makes the world a better place instead of wasting it on disposable assignments.
As I think of remix, reuse, redistribute and things like git and version control, I also can't help but think that being able to send and receive webmentions in the process of reusing and redistribution with referential links back to the originals will allow the original creator to at least be aware of the changes and their existence to potentially manually add them to the original project. (Manually because they may not (yet) know how to keep their content under source control or allow others to do so and send pull requests.)
blog.joinmastodon.org blog.joinmastodon.org
So that's already a huge advantage over other platforms due the basic design. And in my opinion it's got advantages over the other extreme, too, a pure peer-to-peer design, where everyone would have to fend for themselves, without the pooled resources.
Definitely something the IndieWeb may have to solve for.
clalliance.org clalliance.org
A world where one's primary identity is found through the social people-farms of existing social networks is a problematic one. Educators and parents are in the privileged position of being able to help create a better future, but we need to start modeling to future generations what that might look like.
This is exactly what I've been attempting to do with my own website. Naturally I use it selfishly for my own purposes, but I'm also using it to model potential behaviours for friends, family and colleagues.
I'm sometimes tempted to change the tagline on my website to "A digital canary in the coalmine".
- Jul 2018
alistapart.com alistapart.com
Marginalia#section5 With Webmention support, one could architect a site to allow inline marginalia and highlighting similar to Medium.com's relatively well-known functionality. With the clever use of URL fragments, which are well supported in major browsers, there are already examples of people who use Webmentions to display word-, sentence-, or paragraph-level marginalia on their sites. After all, aren't inline annotations just a more targeted version of comments?
Absolutely. This is what I'd love to have with Hypothesis.
As mentioned earlier, Webmentions allow notifications between web addresses. If both sites are set up to send and receive them, the system works like this: Alice has a website where she writes an article about her rocket engine hobby. Bob has his own website where he writes a reply to Alice's article. Within his reply, Bob includes the permalink URL of Alice's article. When Bob publishes his reply, his publishing software automatically notifies Alice's server that her post has been linked to by the URL of Bob's reply. Alice's publishing software verifies that Bob's post actually contains a link to her post and then (optionally) includes information about Bob's post on her site; for example, displaying it as a comment. A Webmention is simply an @mention that works from one website to another!
Webmention is a (now) standardized protocol that enables one website address (URL) to notify another website address that the former contains a reference to the latter. It also allows the latter to verify the authenticity of the reference and include its own corresponding reference in a reciprocal way.
www.economist.com www.economist.com
Previous efforts at decentralisation also foundered because the economics proved wanting, including those of the original internet. Historically, most protocols were developed by researchers and then maintained by non-profit organisations. But when the internet went mainstream and the money poured in, things got more complex. Commercial interests made finding consensus more difficult, and engineers preferred to join fast-growing internet companies building applications. Besides, incentives to adopt new protocols were lacking.
www.economist.com www.economist.com
The centralisation of the internet and the growing importance of data has given rise to what Frank Pasquale of the University of Maryland, in a recent paper published in American Affairs, calls a "Jeffersonian/Hamiltonian divide" among critics of big tech. One group stands in the tradition of Thomas Jefferson, one of America's founding fathers, who favoured smaller government and less concentration in business. Its members want to rein in the tech titans through tougher antitrust policies, including break-ups. The other group follows the thinking of Alexander Hamilton, another founding father, who supported strong central institutions, both in politics and in the economy. Its adherents argue that to reap the benefits of artificial intelligence (AI) and distribute them fairly, online giants should be treated as utilities.
Venture capitalists now talk about "kill zones", areas they will not invest in because one of the big players may squeeze the life out of startups or buy them up at a low price.
"We reject: kings, presidents and voting. We believe in: rough consensus and running code."
www.kickscondor.com www.kickscondor.com
I guess this brings us to the Indieweb where you can probably still call each other Netizens and bemoan the death of RSS. Even though it's been around since 2013, I see a spark of hope in this ragtag group of HTMLists. (Why isn't "ragtag" some kind of microformat for the homeless?)
I love this!
www.manton.org www.manton.org
Micro.blog is not an alternative silo: instead, it's what you build when you believe that the web itself is the great social network.
So true!!!
- Jun 2018
fogknife.com fogknife.com
I really need to hash out my domain situation! IndieWeb encourages its memership to claim a single domain and use it as their personal stamp for everything they do on the internet. I, though, have two domains: my long-held personal catch-all domain of jmac.org, and fogknife.com, which I use exclusively for blogging. My use of both predates my involvement with IndieWeb.
Don't fret too much over having multiple websites. As you continue on the answer to what you want to do with them will eventually emerge more organically than if you force it to. For some thoughts and inspiration, check out https://indieweb.org/multi-site_indieweb
A fullydeveloped version of the proposed intervention(new or modified)
A turnkey social reader turned LMS that can be applied to any #IndieWeb blogging environment (license up to vendors and partners) as well as openly licensed learning materials and assessment tools.
www.zylstra.org www.zylstra.org
The other two are where the open web is severely lacking: The seamless integration into one user interface of both reading and writing, making it very easy to respond to others that way, or add to the river of content.
As I read this I can't help thinking about my friend Aaron Davis (@mrkrndvs) a member of the IndieWeb, whose domain name is appropriately https://readwriterespond.com/
In broadest terms I would define being part of the IndieWeb as owning your own domain name and hosting some sort of website as a means of identifying yourself and attempting to communicate with others on the internet.
jgregorymcverry.com jgregorymcverry.com
life experiences that help them to define themselves
It is this that scares me. We are no longer just having students define themselves.. Well actually I believe we project many MEs and have many other MEs projected back onto us.
Yet they are no longer in control of how their life experiences get shared. A social algorithm determines what events they see from friends and what friends see of them.
Notification provide gratification while reinforcing specific funds of identity.
historically accumulated and culturallydeveloped bod[ies] of knowledge and skills essential for household or individual functioning andwell-being
What is the meme version of of historically accumulated. Clearly memes are deeply influenced by funds of knowledge as evident by Black Twitter yet they are more temporal and draw heavily on pop culture. At the same time having a deep meme game also signifies status in digital culture.
define themselves and tohelp them grow as human beings
I believe in a digital world we need to ensure students control the spaces where they are defining themselves.
ositive and negative experienceshave a key role to play in creating links between the classroom and home and in fostering thedevelopment of new identities
This what scares me. We have added silos as an intermediary in the positive and negative experiences students have.
An algorithm gets to decide which friends a friend shares communication. A hidden box controls what experience gets reinforced in youth culture.
Think about that. We have handed off the creation and curation of identities of children to corporations.
www.ncte.org www.ncte.org
Digital writing has come a long way in the past decade
Often the wrong way. We went from an open web where everyone controlled where they published to a homogenized world of corporate silos where alogrithims influence what we read and thus what we write.
Web 2.0 became the corporate web.
True critical digital literacies must begin by taking back control of your identity.
Just over twenty years ago, at the same time
Here is the thing the next decade of digital writing would be best served if it looked like the digital writing of yesterday.
Let's stick to html on domains students own.
- May 2018
www.boffosocko.com www.boffosocko.com
Just found this pencast from @chrisaldrich it is great.
Going to use this as a guide.
<div class="h-entry"> <a class="p-author h-card" href="http://mysite.example.org"> <img alt="" src="http://mysite.example.org/icon.jpg"/> Supercool Indiewebauthor</a>: RSVP <span class="p-rsvp">yes</span> to <a href="http://example.com/event" class="u-in-reply-to">IndieWeb Example Event</a> </div>
is the tag properly nested in this example?
- Apr 2018
www.sadlerjw.com www.sadlerjw.com
For instance, if someone replies to a post on Twitter, the reply gets sent back here as a comment. However if I reply here to that comment, it doesn't get sent back to Twitter.
This is an interesting problem. It also becomes an issue of having the comment reply on the WP site be able to have the Twitter responses to that come back to the original, potentially as a comment with a URL with a fragment.
There's a lot of overlap between Micro.blog and IndieWeb (webmentions being the most significant commonality), and IndieWeb isn't one monolithic thing.
micro.blog is a paid hosting service that can allow one to have an IndieWeb website, while at the same time is open enough that one can have their own separate site and connect with the micro.blog community using it primarily as a reader.
What micro.blog is to you is highly dependent on what tools you're already bringing to the table.
- Jan 2018
www.huffingtonpost.com www.huffingtonpost.com
we are ending the HuffPost contributor platform
Just another site-death...
Ben Walsh of the LA Times Data Desk has created a simple web interface at www.SaveMy.News that journalists can use to archive their stories to The Internet Archive and WebCite. One can log into the service via Twitter and later download a .csv file with a running list of all their works with links to the archived copies.
Perhaps a few too many: One of the biggest challenges we all face, in an era where everyone has a platform, is figuring out whom to listen to. Open platforms that once seemed radically democratizing now threaten, with the tsunami of false information we all face daily, to undermine democracy. When everyone has a megaphone, no one can be heard.
paul.kinlan.me paul.kinlan.me
small niche sites that only a handful of users might use can also be part of the same ecosystem.
Perhaps this is something that David Shanske could leverage for adding IndieWeb functionality within WordPress?
hackeducation.com hackeducation.com
shifting it to another company which then gets to control (and even monetize) the conversation.
As I've heard in the Indieweb chat: "Silos gonna silo."
write your own blog post on your own damn site
And isn't this what everyone should really be doing anyway so that they own their own work and words?
You know Goethe's (or hell, Disney's) story of The Sorceror's Apprentice? Look it up. It'll help. Because Mark Zuckerberg is both the the sorcerer and the apprentice. The difference with Zuck is that he doesn't have all the mastery that's in the sorcerer's job description. He can't control the spirits released by machines designed to violate personal privacy, produce echo chambers, and to rationalize both by pointing at how popular it all is with the billions who serve as human targets for messages (while saying as little as possible about the $billions that bad acting makes for the company).
This is something I worry about with the IndieWeb movement sometimes. What will be the ultimate effect of everyone having their own site instead of relying on social media? In some sense it may have a one-to-one map to personal people (presuming there aren't armies of bot-sites) interacting. The other big portion of the puzzle that I often leave out is the black box algorithms that social silos run which have a significant influence on their users. Foreseeably one wouldn't choose to run such a black box algorithm on their own site and by doing so they take a much more measured and human approach to what they consume and spread out, in part because I hope they'll take more ownership of their own site.
- Aug 2017
renem.net renem.net
I would like to see contributions for which I am really interested, which stimulate me to think, in which I can learn something.
benjamingrobertson.com benjamingrobertson.com
I want a human curated web experience. I don't want my experience curated by mysterious algorithms.
www.oreilly.com www.oreilly.com
Remember when the internet was going to usher in an age of peace and understanding because humans would be able to communicate with each other? It didn't happen.
What didn't happen? The age of peace and understanding, or the ability for humans to communicate with each other freely?
- Jul 2017
whatever.scalzi.com whatever.scalzi.com
the role of the blog is different than it was even just a couple of years ago. It's not the sole outpost of an online life, although it can be an anchor, holding it in place.
nearthespeedoflight.com nearthespeedoflight.com
If you want to respond, do so on your own website and tell me.
Often it's the mechanism by which the tell me is the most difficult. Fortunately Webmentions make this a bit easier, particularly if they're moderated so the original author can control what's on their website.
www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
Not since Lincoln
And if I highlight and annotate the copy on my site (http://boffosocko.com/2017/01/19/obamas-secret-to-surviving-the-white-house-years-books-the-new-york-times/), the question is: will it also appear on the original?
Yes, in fact it does!
- Jun 2017
hybridpedagogy.org hybridpedagogy.org
But the ability to work on indie projects is not available to all. The time and resources required to work indie are a sign of privilege, as is encouraging (and certainly expecting) all to work indie. As Anne Pasek writes, "all materials and practices … have a cost and thus a tollgate for participation." (And there are many, often intersecting, forms of privilege that contribute to that "toll" ― race, gender, orientation, cultural background, economic background, able-bodiedness, etc.) So while indie work is great, and I've done a lot of it myself, we need to be careful about the ways in which we encourage and characterize indie work, noting in particular what it costs and who may be left behind or left out.
This is all important and certainly true.
However, as someone who knows he's certainly privileged, I view my definition of indie as something that is also open for others to come behind me and use for free or have the ability to reuse and remix in a way that corporate interests or non-indie work wouldn't. In a large sense, to me this means that while I may be privileged (whether that be socio-economically or even the time-encumbered), I'm helping to lower the cost and the burden for the less privileged who may come behind me to be able to do more, go further, or go faster.
In some sense too, as described, indie has such a nebulous definition. Often when I see it in a technology related space I really read it as "Open Sourced".
daringfireball.net daringfireball.net
Content that isn't indexable by search engines is not part of the open web.
- May 2017
skippy.net skippy.net
my blog posts to be long-lived pieces of my consciousness: something I may want to refer back to, or remember in the future.
a commonplace book!
practicaltypography.com practicaltypography.com
You're giving up far more than design choice. Mr. Williams describes Medium's key benefit as rescuing writers from the "terrible distraction" of formatting chores. But consider the cost. Though he's baiting the hook with design, he's also asking you, the writer, to let him control how you offer your work to readers. Meaning, to get the full benefit of Medium's design, you have to let your story live on Medium, send all your readers to Medium, have your work permanently entangled with other stories on Medium, and so on—a significant concession.
You're definitely not owning your own data.
- Apr 2017
www.kevinmarks.com www.kevinmarks.com
In indieweb we have been saying 'build things that you want for yourself', but building things that you want for your friends or organisation is a useful step between generations.
david.shanske.com david.shanske.com
I'd recommend defining webmentions along with a link to the spec and W3C recommendation just after linkbacks/pingbacks as their more modern successor.
As some of your potential audience isn't webmention aware, you could/should add some additional definition for those who are unlikely to click through to see the real value they represent.
- Mar 2017
Here's an example of such a highlight/annotation.
- Feb 2017
www.newyorker.com www.newyorker.com
At any given moment, a field may be dominated by squabbles, but, in the end, the methodology prevails. Science moves forward, even as we remain stuck in place.
This also sounds like the reason why the Indieweb movement is so interesting and potentially useful.
- Aug 2016
www.stephenfry.com www.stephenfry.com
But first, what would motivate any young person today to pull the plug? Well maybe they should consider this for a moment. Who most wants you to stay on the grid? The advertisers. Your boss. Human Resources. The advertisers. Your parents (irony of ironies – once they distrusted it, now they need to tag you electronically, share your Facebook photos and message you to death). The advertisers. The government. Your local authority. Your school. Advertisers.
Going of the grid hurts "The man" in 70's parlance.
- Apr 2016
medium.com medium.com
APIs are building blocks of software by definitionCompared with SaaS, by nature, they are platforms that allow development on top of them.It brings back the nature of "building block" that open source has and SaaS lost.API's businesses focus on solving "smaller" problems but hard to crackFor that reason, there are higher chances that customers will trust an API provider for their core infrastructure."If this is the only thing those guys do, there's high chances they will do it better than myself".
This idea of APIs blending the best (business models) of open source and SaaS is intriguing.
People want to own their data and their namespace but they don't want to run servers to do it. What's the solution? Separate the elements. Treat your personal server as a BDS (Big Dumb Server), there to answer API calls and file requests. Move the admin interfaces up towards the client, and maintain them centrally the way apps are maintained. Eventually, move the presentation layer towards the client too, allowing readers power over how they consume the data on your server.
- Database:
- provided by host
- general purpose
- accessible by http or https API
- Database administration:
- Native app or Web interface making privileged API calls.
- GUI file browser for web server folders and files.
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- Pull pages (or other data) from multiple databases.
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I think that a major part of improving the issue of abuse and providing consent is building in notifications so that website owners will at least be aware that their site is being marked up, highlighted, annotated, and commented on in other locations or by other platforms. Then the site owner at least has the knowledge of what's happening and can then be potentially provided with information and tools to allow/disallow such interactions, particularly if they can block individual bad actors, but still support positive additions, thought, and communication. Ideally this blocking wouldn't occur site wide, which many may be tempted to do now as a knee-jerk reaction to recent events, but would be fine grained enough to filter out the worst offenders.
Toward the end of notifications to site owners, it would be great if any annotating activity would trigger trackbacks, pingbacks, or the relatively newer and better webmention protocol of the WW3C out of the http://IndieWebCamp.com movement. Then site owners would at least have notifications about what is happening on their site that might otherwise be invisible to them.
Perhaps there's a way to further implement filters or tools (a la Akismet on platforms like WordPress) that allow site users to mark materials as spam, abusive, or other so that they are then potentially moved from "public" facing to "private" so that the original highlighter can still see their notes, but that the platform isn't allowing the person's own website to act as a platform to give reach to bad actors.
Further some site owners might appreciate graded filters (G, PG, PG-13, R, X) so that users or even parents can filter what they're willing to see. Consider also annotations on narrative forms that might be posted as spoilers--how can these be guarded against? (Possibly with CSS and a spoiler tag?) Options can be built into the platform itself as well as allowing server-side options for truly hard cases.
My coding skills are rustier than I wish they were, but I'm available to help/consult if needed.
- Jan 2016
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Simple: We're in danger of losing what's made the Internet the most important medium in history – a decentralized platform where the people at the edges of the networks – that would be you and me – don't need permission to communicate, create and innovate.
Right on!
indiewebcamp.com indiewebcamp.com
Your articles and status messages can go to all services, not just one
When you post something on the web, it should belong to you, not a corporation.
Ownership of data/content. My annotations are mine.
- Dec 2015
twitter.com twitter.com
Hypothesis might make a fine alternative to Twitter.
- Is anyone using hypothesis in this way yet?
- What would be a good tag to distinguish "tweet" Notes?<br> (I guess it would be cute to use "tweet" as the tag.)
- When there's not a specific webpage involved, what would be the best URLs on which to attach such a Note?<br> (I suppose any page of your own on a social media site or blog would do. I also see that we can annotate pages on local servers.)
twitter.com twitter.com
#fedwiki #hypothesis #known #withknown #wikity #indieweb #delicious just twitter, #ohmy @judell @erinjo @joshu @holden @withknown @benward
- Nov 2015
adamcroom.com adamcroom.com
Seeking easier ways for people to publish on the Web and control their own data. http://sandstorm.io/ https://www.kuberdock.com/
bavatuesdays.com bavatuesdays.com
Reclaim Hosting, Known, and Brigham Young University are working on an interface for student domains that will provide easy cross-posting to several social media sites, and easy viewing of those posts among peers in groups. The students will still be able to install whatever other server software they need.
- Nov 2014
stream.withknown.com stream.withknown.com
What social networks does this work with? Right now, if you have a website on Known, you can use Bridgy to collect social interactions from Facebook and Twitter.
This is partly wrong. I know at least that @bnvk uses Bridgy together with Social Igniter.
Therefore the paragraph could also mention the #IndieWeb itself.


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- Of a purple color.
- noun A salt of purpuric acid.
- Of or pertaining to purpura; purpuric.
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- adjective Of or pertaining to purpura.
- noun (Chem.) A salt of purpuric acid.
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saltof purpuric acid.
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- verb color purple
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Among them may be mentioned a red purpurate of lead, a purple-red and a rose-coloured purpurate of mercury, a purple-red purpurate of silver, a dark red-brown purpurate of strontia, a crystalline red purpurate of cobalt, a scarlet purpurate of platinum, a yellow purpurate of zinc, and a green purpurate of baryta.
Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists
If a solution of picric acid be boiled with a strong solution of potassium cyanide, a deep red liquid is produced, owing to the formation of potassium iso-purpurate, which crystallises in small reddish-brown plates with a beetle-green lustre.
On adding barium chloride to either of the above salts, a vermilion-red precipitate was formed, consisting of barium iso-purpurate.
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METUCHEN — The students, parents and faculty of Campbell Elementary School in Metuchen joined together on Sunday, June 2, to raise $800 for the 12th Annual Michelle Offsie Memorial Walk to Cure Breast Cancer.
The Metuchen school district's team participated in the walk, held at the Community Campus (JCC/YMCA) on Oaktree Road in Edison, for the first time this year. Those who were unable to walk were encouraged to make a donation in honor of the team. The Campbell Elementary School team leaders were Susan Lass and Hope Serratelli.
Then-13-year-old Janna Zuckerman founded the walk to memorialize Michelle Offsie, a former Edison Township resident who died of breast cancer at a young age. Since then, the Metuchen/Edison community has come together to raise more than $1 million to help fund the breast cancer research, treatment and awareness programs of the City of Hope.
The $800 Campbell Elementary School raised came from the sale of $1 pink ribbons which were displayed on a prominent wall at the school as well as individual donations. A gift basket of high end beauty products was raffled off to the school staff as well.
Campbell Elementary School was the highest fundraiser in the district. As a result of their efforts, the City of Hope is donating a Google Chromebook computer to the school as a "thank you" for all of their support.
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It's that time of year, and I've decided to get into the spirit by watching all the Christmas horror in my collection. There are plenty of sequels and remakes to come, but I begin with 3 completely non-related films.
As fast as the slasher genre began to flood the market, filmmakers tried to bring something fresh to it, one way being to have us follow the killer around the entire time.
Christmas Evil does just that. While it's loaded with eerie holiday lights, pulsating horror music, blips of tension, and a body count, it seems it was just pigeonholed as a slasher for marketing purposes. It's really a character study of poor Harry, who saw his mother doing more than kissing Santa underneath the Christmas tree when he was young. As in all these classic 80s horror movies, we learn that exposure to sex makes you a crazed killer.
We watch Harry work at a toy store, have a strained relationship with his brother (who would decades later become Dale on The Walking Dead, minus the rockin' body), eat cereal, watch TV, and stalk little children to make sure they're being nice and not naughty.
Eventually, he slips into the old Santa suit, begins stealing presents from the homes of the bad boys and girls, and brings them to the needy children. Doesn't seem like such a bad guy, right? But then he's harassed by some parishioners outside a church, which really spoils his holiday (because all God-fearing people get the senseless urge to torment men in Santa suits right after midnight mass).
Harry drives around in his truck with a big Santa sleigh painted on the side, Harry breaks into houses and kills people violently, Harry makes the news. A lynch mob takes to the streets with torches—really. Harry is now a fugitive and scared out of his wits. Are we supposed to feel for anyone in this film?
The lynch mob catches up to Harry, he veers his truck sharply off a bridge, and then—does he die or does he fly? Why did they wait so long to bring in the comedy? This final scene is pure Christmas joy. Truly uplifting.
This is the "big budget" horror comedy flick of the bunch. The opening scene features James Caan, Fran Drescher, Rebecca Gayheart, and Chris Kattan getting massacred during a Christmas dinner! That alone makes this a must see movie.
Santa's Slay is a cross between a Christmas horror movie and a family Christmas special. It's loaded with campy Christmas references, jolly moments, boobs, and blood. We even learn in a classic holiday stop animation flashback scene why Santa is suddenly hell bent on murder.
Wrestler Goldberg is Santa, which would explain why I was oddly hot for St. Nick, especially when he takes off his coat and reveals bulging muscles. He even looks right into the camera and says "Who's your daddy?" Swoon. Also in the cast are veteran actor Robert Culp and the Bob & Doug McKenzie guy (not Rick Moranis…the other one).
Santa flies around in a one-bison open sleigh, visits a strip joint to enjoy the boobage and beat the bouncers (not the boobs—actual bouncers), kills a Jew with a Menorah, and slaughters and kills gentiles. Only Robert Culp, along with his grandson and his girlfriend, can stop Santa. It's fun for the whole family!
From the minute I began watching this movie and saw the "A Roast Beast Film" opening logo, I knew I was going to get an overload of awesome classic Christmas references. Two Front Teeth is a Christmas bonanza, ripe with holiday atmosphere given the old horror twist, with the warm Christmas glow used perfectly as eerie red Argento-style lighting.
This is low-budget campy horror at its best. The main character is a tabloid writer who hunts down stories of evil Christmas urban legends. The lead actor's performance and facial expressions seem inspired by Bruce Campbell and Jeffrey Combs, and even the frequent close-ups on his face and the overall tone of the film give off that Evil Dead II vibe.
The film starts off effectively creepy with some carefully orchestrated suspense and even some jump scares that totally got me! The tabloid writer's wife is at home cheating on him on Christmas night when she and her piece of man ass are attacked by ghoulish elf creatures in black leather. Tabloid hubby arrives on the scene and the film begins to show its true tone. He and his cheating whore are on the run—then on the hunt with a bad ass monster killer.
Two Front Teeth is packed with over-the-top splashing blood and horror, cheesy laughs, ninja nuns, and a battle to the death between Santa and the tooth fairy. The only thing missing is nudity—but who cares? It's Christmas after all, you perverts! Most importantly, there are flashbacks of Christmas past that are done in classic holiday cartoon style.
If you appreciate a low-budget movie that was made with complete dedication regardless of production limitations, you'll want to show this one at all your Christmas horror parties.
Here's my video of loads of Christmas horror flicks you can check out: