Where do I see the IndieWeb in 2030?
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Blogposts tagged as “Indieweb”
Subscribe to this blog via … ActivityPub
: “I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about how I can make it easier for people to follow this blog. …”
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Twenty-nine years of promises and give me more
: “Today this blog turns seventeen years old, the first post being Welcome to the Journal posted at 12:23pm on Saturday 9th August 2008 (I never did finish that art project I wrote about in that first…”
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Personal websites from Hastings & St Leonards-on-Sea (UK)
Sunset at Hastings beach. Photograph by the author.
: “Now that I’m settled in I wanted to try to start exploring personal (IndieWeb) websites from people here in Hastings & St Leonards in the UK. …”
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Signs of a growing distrust of US web platforms
: “Over the past few weeks I’ve noticed several people from the US who run personal websites making or pondering decisions about whether they should move their websites onto a non-US server. And…”
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The British Weird RSS Starter Pack
: “One of the interesting things that social media platform Bluesky is doing is Starter Packs - lists that can be created by users to recommend other users — usually based around interest/occupation…”
Bluesky, eXit, & vague thoughts about self-hosting
The “Folk Horror and folklore” starter pack
: “The mass exodus from Twitter/X to Bluesky over the past weekend — #eXit as some have tagged it — has dramatically increased the number of followers I have there from about four hundred to over a…”
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NSFW on the IndieWeb
Michelangelo, David, marble, 1501–04 (Galleria dell’Accademia, Florence)
: “This post is a follow-up to my post from last year September life-drawing: not safe for whose work? and I draw upon a lot of the concepts I laid out there. It’s a little longer and rantier than I…”
About my studio
My living area/home office/studio - photograph by the author
: “I’ve rented a couple of actual artist’s studios in my time. The first was when I was living in the Earlsdon area of Coventry around 1992–1994 - it was a spare room above a gallery in a converted…”
Complex images can paint a thousand words
: “This post is part of the IndieWeb Carnival, a monthly blog carnival where one person decides on a broad theme that others should blog about. I haven’t done one of these before, but the topic for…”
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A final word on blogs before we return to our regularly scheduled programming
Devil’s Dyke, Sussex - photograph by the author
: “In a post a few days ago I was writing about the importance of outgoing links as an integral — perhaps the integral — part of the web, and how social media sites seem to disfavour them because…”
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Think global, act localhost
View towards the Hope Valley, Derbyshire - photograph by the author
: “Links from one page to another are so fundamental to the web that without them it simply would not exist. HyperText — the H and the T in HTML — is defined by the W3C as text which contains links…”
About the web in 2024
: “A day may come, as Aragorn might have said, when I finally get back to blogging about my artistic practice — the entire raison d’être of this blog — but it is not this day. …”
My plans for 2024
Life-drawing from March 2023 by the author
: “I deliberately skipped the archetypal “round-up of 2023” blog post, I’m not entirely sure why. …”