Aaron Parecki

"IndieWeb is about returning the web to what it was before—a bunch of home-brew websites."

"Not just second or third world scenarios without robust communications infrastructure, but anyone tethering through AT&T in San Francisco."

"I’m not sure if my Twitter account will still exist ten years from now. But I’m pretty certain that my website will still be around."

"Developers lack strong standards and end up reinventing the wheel with every new embed. At Embedly, we started off trying to standardize embedding across providers and in our next act with Medium, we hope to lead the discussion on creating better standards and tools for everyone."

"The Indieweb movement encourages us to reclaim our data and how it’s replicated. What we post on our own sites is reflected into the silos (e.g. Facebook and Twitter); comments and "likes" there are reflected back into our own sites. IndieWeb people are also contributing to the W3C Social Web group."

"I hope this site encourages you to go out and rent web space of your own. Saying what you want is the most important thing in the world and the web lets any one who wants to shout it out loud and proud do so, for a small fee. Please build a web site of your own and get your message out to the world."