Aaron Parecki

I'm very pleased to announce that Oxford #indiewebcamp is officially happening on the 22nd and 23rd of September! Thanks to sponsorship from @haybrookIT and @WhiteOctober. More details here: https://polytechnic.co.uk/blog/2018/08/oxford-indiewebcamp-is-go

I agree with your sentiment but all I see looking at this map is that it was made in ArcGIS Online and it doesn’t have retina tiles. 😭

I am so sick of this. I had a huge ad agency ask me to speak at their “diversity” event about finance for women. I asked for a token honorarium and they said it was out of their budget but that I would get exposure. Guess what? My $$ advice for women is don’t work for exposure.

I've read about technologies under the umbrella of the "Indie Web" before but never really leaned into it. I'm categorically compelled by the idea now! It feels like an attempt at reclaiming some of what we've lost on the internet: https://indieweb.org/

"Dear @cwebber, I don't suppose you have opinions about how to implement a web of trust system for the fediverse???"

Heck yeah I have opinions, and here's how you do it: you combine it with a petnames system: https://chat.indieweb.org/social/2018-08-14#t1534216302328700

Great to see podcast apps picking this up again 🎉 Was our biggest success at Flattr in my opinion - that clients could discover Flattr-capability in the RSS and eg. auto-flattr episodes. We promoted and used rel-payment ourselves and I long ran a site listing supporters.

Hacked it together! Added a field for podcasters to add a "support this show URL" to their show. We'll automatically append <a rel="payment"> to every episode's description.

A bonus with the show-notes approach, is that — with or without app support, with or without real=payment standardization — it’s still a working link. Creators could use it *today*, before a single app supports it.

Simple, dumb, awesome HTML, succeeding like it always does…

Podcasters and CMS makers: Next version of Overcast looks for a link in every episode's show notes with .

If present, Overcast adds a nice green "$" button on the Now Playing screen that opens up that donation/Patreon/membership URL of your choice.

I asked a bunch of podcasters a few years ago if they'd participate in a shared-payment plan in Overcast.

The responses were universally tepid: podcasters don't want middlemen added to their revenue streams or the relationship they have with their listeners.

Hey, #indieweb / #mf2 - this would be a pretty big deal.