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If you've already got a personal site it is extremely easy to get started. I set up my site with the most basic features in about 10 minutes and it would have been quicker if I didn't want to take a Photoshop break in the middle of it all to make a new picture for my new social profile.
With indieweb we are trying a different approach by working through our own wishlists, reusing common components, and making sure we interoperate along the way. This gives us a composable set of tools that do plug together - the toolkit Anil both is and isn't asking for.
but I suspect the hardest part is the client app for readers, which works in a way analogous to an RSS reader or email client, but would have to support a new format and would be optimized for clean reading and subsequent discovery, rather than the three-pane model which has dominated those apps for the last decade or two
I have an announcement: I miss the personal website and the personal blog. So that's where I'll make my announcement: http://www.adamduvander.com/me/im-spending-more-time-with-my-family/
No matter how many permalinks you have, it won’t be as permanent as the little bits we put together without a Content Management System.
So, 12 years ago, I invented Pingback. Sorry. Pingback uses XMLRPC because that was the cool thing at the time and because I was young and foolish and had a peanut for a brain. Ian Hickson took my vague spec and kicked it in the arse to make it a proper spec, and it got adopted really quickly. Back then, when the world was young, everything got adopted really quickly; there was so much new ground to be broken that coming up with a reasonable way to do something (permalinks, RSS autodiscovery, pingbacks) meant that it got picked up by everybody.
brands should build their own communities and leverage other social sites
Sorry, no comments here. I'd much rather you wrote your own blog post or sent me an email instead. Comments are never going to happen. Stop trying to make comments happen.
If we had the cloud technologies of today when the blogosphere started, we'd never have needed the silos.
aaronpk: I just had a crazy idea to create an IRC server emulator that is actually a micropub client and indieweb reader
I admit I kind of miss when it was just hand-editing HTML pages uploaded via FTP to make websites.