Yet another reason why HTML+microformats2 is the way forward for feeds on the web:

“Most people don’t know what HTML is and yet are able to consume pages without caring much.”

/by Julien Genestoux (source)

This evening’s project: catching up on a bit of #taproot dev. #todo:

• remove lines — whitespace FTW
• get rid of crappy AJAX+backbone for calling new note UI into notes page, replace it with iframe+postMessage

I hadn’t checked my mentions for a few days, then I get this from Laurent Eschenauer and find that I’ve had pingbacks from some other people too! All of whom have chosen to mention me on their own domain. I am honoured. This stuff works :) #indieweb

Doing another demo of my #indieweb posting UI, this time for an animated #gif!

Update: here's the gif:

#watching/#listening to Aral Balkan’s “The High Cost of Free” (slides and audio) #indieweb #ownyourcontent #bookmark

Indiewebifying my #digpen lanyard: http://photos.waterpigs.co.uk/p/t4

And the compliment of that #universallaw: the simpler the text-publishing service, the more interesting uses it’s users will put it to, provided it paves their cow paths (e.g. Twitter with RTs, #hashtags and @-replies).

Give users constraints and simplicity, see what they do, then solidify that functionality — or, from an #indieweb point of view, give yourself constraints, then pave your solitary cowpaths.

Cool to see Steven Downes has picked up on some #indieweb writings and has been POSSEing for ages. And I now have my own author URL on his site! That is a fascinating approach.

Anil Dash talks about browsers removing the ability to run arbitrary extensions — personally I am more bothered about websites banning their users for creating those extensions #indieweb #ownyourcontent

Booked ticket for digpensw — so if anyone wants to talk #microformats, #indieweb or #webactions on the day, come and say hello!

The single greatest thing about the social web is how it has forced people to overcome their technophobias in order to connect with other humans.

/by Chris Messina (source)

Those last two notes posted using latest Web Action Hero Toolbelt, now with select-to-quote UI #webactions #indieweb #quoting

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvcaqSwMVBE

If content is important to you, keep it close. If your content is important to others, keep it close and well backed up.

by Drew McLellan (source) #indieweb

That excellent post of Tantek Çelik’s, like all well–hyperlinked documents, lead me to a whole raft of great #indieweb resources I hadn’t come across before:

• @brianoberkirch, his post on portable social building blocks and his other PSN posts, all of which make good reading
• The @microformats wiki page on portable social networks
• Tantek Çelik’s Creating Building Block for Independents presentation, and the associated wiki

(In other news: I need to make a “dump tabs into new note dialog” browser #extension)

“I am not a number, I am my domain name” — Tantek Çelik eloquently summarises #indieweb thinking in On Silos vs an Open Social Web #bookmark

I really can't stress just how brilliant the identengine.com API is. Solves so many problems, implements so many standards, but more importantly: it is truly, truly webby. Forming a graph of a persons profiles by following rel links, then accumulating all that info is a vital building block. Great work Glenn Jones! #indieweb #web

Made some updates to my note autolinking flow — instead of lots of unstable regexes, only one runs now (courtesy of cassis) and the rest manipulate the XML–compatible HTML which results. Much more robust, much more extendable #indieweb #php #dev #meta

This evening’s #indieweb project: quoting UIs. Why they suck or for some reason do not exist, research into existing ones (found a nice github example) and silo equivalents.