Upon2020 (archive)
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IndieWeb, POSSE, conversational patterns and this blog
Tantek finally made me implement on this blog one of the core ideas behind IndieWeb, which is “Publish On Your Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere“: instead of posting our writings to other people’s sites, we post it to our own site, from where it can propagate to other places like Twitter, Facebook and the like. In…
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The “family intranet” — or not
I talked a bit at the last Homebrew club meeting about setting up various web applications on our home server for use by the family. So far, we’re now using: Owncloud for family notes and a family calendar, which automagically shows up on various PCs, tablets and phones by means of Caldav. Shaarli for bookmarking…
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“Your Lack of Privacy Is Someone Else’s Wealth”
Great quote from Jaron Lanier. It just about sums it up. Perhaps “… and/or Power” could be added. But then it’s less catchy. This is a great insight. Why do we instinctively feel uncomfortable with invasions of privacy? We often take that as a given, without thinking through what exactly it is that makes us…
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Thank you, IndieWeb guys
One thing I do value is the respect of my peers. Thank you, Indie Web guys. It rarely happens that techies agree with anybody on anything. (I know, I am one.) It is even more rare that they listen to you. This evening, I actually got spontaneous applause after some impromptu remarks, which indeed did…
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Tantek’s notes of what I just said at Homebrew Website Club
Tantek’s very fast transcribing to IRC. Log is here