@robinmujician Interesting — I’ve always considered a meme to be an idea transmitted between people, and memetics the study of how ideas travel between people. The argument being that uncommunicated thoughts aren’t very meaningful to anyone except the thinker, and the physical expressions of memes are creative works in their own right rather than memes — the meme being the idea that the creative work transmits.

Never really considered it as applying to behaviours but it makes a lot of sense, and is in the official definition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme

Great work getting webmentions working Ben, and nice cover photo! Where was it taken?

@kevinmarks awesome demos as always! Thanks for live posting! #indiewebcampsf

Testing POSSE of issue comments to Github

@sandeepshetty @pfefferle cweiske Something new to consider: Jeremy Keith added a webmention sending form to his journal entries to help people who’s websites don’t support webmention already. Being able to test and use webmention through a human visible, interactable form is a huge benefit of using HTTP form encoded data.

We can make this an even stronger case by encouraging success and error responses to be full HTML documents with helpful copy.

See also

• http://tantek.com/2013/258/t2/web-protocols-should-use-http-params-no-xml
• http://adactio.com/journal/6469/
• http://adactio.com/journal/6495/

cweiske @pfefferle demanding strictly ordered + laid out HTML makes things easier for consumers at the expense of publishers, which is a known anti-pattern. We should optimise for ease of publishing.

Also, many implementations are already parsing the target HTML for reply-contexts (e.g. Aaron Parecki (example), @jschweinsberg (example) and myself (example)), demonstrating that parsing HTML is not a significant barrier.

@benwerd okay, on hindsight it was a mistake. But I giggled every time they said “positronic brain”

@benwerd “barnabywalters, international man of mystery. What is his real name? The microformats parser just can’t tell!”

@benwerd using a comment reply note as the caption for a photo? Is this the #indieweb multi-content-type thingy you mentioned earlier?

Aaron Parecki good afternoon! Or, something like that… eternal sunlight is messing my internal clock up ;) Hope you’re all having a good time at #indiewebcamp

@sandeepshetty footnotes in a note?! Preposterous! :D