Apple Annie’s Weblog · Bookmarks #3
In this third set of bookmarks, I share a set of links that sent me down a rabbit hole about finding what the indie web means to me and spawned a blog post.
Has the IndieWeb become discourse again? - Marty McGuire
martymcgui.reI recently read Has the IndieWeb Become Irrelevant from starbreaker.org. The post does a great job linking to and summarizing a spate of posts that I will call “people being mad at the IndieWeb”, while also being one of these posts. These posts accuse “the IndieWeb” of being elitist, exclusionary, overengineered, complicit, and unnecessary, among many other things. There are some common threads I noticed among these posts: None of them mention micro.
After xoxo
There was a particularly strong thread that ran through most of my conversations at XOXO this year. It was braided from questions (pleas?) like the following:
Has the IndieWeb Become Irrelevant?
No, it was always irrelevant if you had your own domain and site. Everything else is optional.
My IndieWeb Journey: Building, Sharing, and Owning Your Online Presence.
Transcription of my talk for the OpenUK meet-up. Sharing my journey from being a creative teenager building websites in the early 2000s to becoming involved with IndieWeb through the London Homebrew Website Club.