@benwerd nice one! I’m currently working on video post-by-email. It almost worked here, next time should work flawlessly.

The nice thing about using email to post videos is that it’s asyncronous — I can send the email and then go do something else, instead of having to either wait for it to upload or do the “if I switch apps now will it stop uploading argh what do I do” dance.

Aral Balkan there’s been a lot of discussion recently about deletion of #indieweb content — some documented here: indiewebcamp.com/deleted and indiewebcamp.com/POSSE#Delete

E.G. if I’ve replied to one of your notes/tweets and stored a reply context so even if your copy goes down my content still makes sense, but you delete the original — should I delete it, devaluing my own content? Should I mark it as changed or deleted?

The #indieweb is a social network that works like the web

s/works like/is

Great work getting webmention set up and your content marked up with microformats!

At the moment of the method is built around a POSSE architecture. This works well for long form articles which can stand alone but address issues or ideas that are posted on an external website.

The evidence is against you here, as almost all known usage of webmention has been for short replies which don’t make sense without context.

But if that is all there is to webmentions it is just a nicer implementation of Pingback.

Pingback succeeded because it was simple. Webmention is even simpler, for good reason.

However the current workflow is awkward and i doubt it will catch on with the general public. Sophisticated Indieweb users can and will read an article on an external site and then return to their own to post a comment, but that king of behaviour is not intuitive.

I absolutely agree! I’m trying various different approaches to making this easier (and making web content more actionable in general), currently I’m using web action toolbelt to really quickly reply to content on other sites. There’s been a lot of discussion about this, and it’s something which everyone can work on as more people start implementing indieweb comments.

I make the comment on the external site and as part of making the comment I add my author url, that being the url of my own site. The external site then sends a webmention of the comment to my site. My own site could then scrapes my comment and saves a copy in my CMS. Otionall  I could republish the comment in my blog or activity feed at my discretion. Thus fully implementing PESOS.

We actually discussed this exact flow at IWCUK 2012, but no-one ever implemented it because, with browser extensions, there’s no need to log in to other people’s sites (complex to implement) and have those sites post to each other (security hole).

Thanks for bringing these issues up, it’s great to have new people join the discussion! I’ll start documenting your points on the Indiewebcamp wiki — it’s there and on the #indiewebcamp IRC room where most discussion takes place.

@jihaisse congratulations on getting #POSSE and #indiecomments working!

Glenn Jones yay! Looking forward to exchanging mentions :) #indieweb

@willnorris really? The timestamp I have stored matches the one on your site — maybe the relative time is being calculated for the wrong timezone! Nice job getting #indieweb comments working by the way! Any plans to accept them too?

@_aitor looking forward to reading it, I’m working on a comparison of the tangible outcomes of micro-interactions (like, favourite) across various different silos. Lots of work being done on #indieweb likes.