• Home
  • About
  • Webdancers
  • Contact

GregFalken.com

Thoughts on humanizing technology

  • Technology
  • At Home
  • Music and the Arts
  • Education
  • Notes
Escape From the Walled Garden

Escape From the Walled Garden

April 7, 2014 By Greg Falken 6 Comments

I’ve started a little experiment here on gregfalken.com, in an attempt to gain some independence from the Facebook and Twitter data silos. This work is inspired by the folks at IndieWebCamp.com, who are building tools that allow website owners to host their own data, while also sharing it on other social media networks. The goal, as stated on their website:

Your content is yours
When you post something on the web, it should belong to you, not a corporation. Too many companies have gone out of business and lost all of their users’ data. By joining the IndieWeb, your content stays yours and in your control.

You are better connected
Your articles and status messages can go to all services, not just one, allowing you to engage with everyone. Even replies and likes on other services can come back to your site so they’re all in one place.

You are in control
You can post anything you want, in any format you want, with no one monitoring you. In addition, you share simple readable links such as mywebsite.com/ideas. These links are permanent and will always work.

You’ll see that the top menu now has a “Notes” item. Posts in this category contain items that I would normally put on Facebook or Twitter. By posting them here, I can both maintain ownership of my content and better control what it looks like. I’m using the Social plugin by MailChimp, to publish these posts on Facebook and/or Twitter too.

Other IndieWeb enhancements to the site that aren’t visible include IndieAuth, Microformats, and Webmention (thanks to Andy Sylvester for the helpful Webmentions video). I’ll report more on these as I gain more experience with them.

I have kept the Notes posts separate from more fully formed posts like this one, by excluding them from the “Blog” page and the main RSS feed of the site. They also will not trigger an automatic email to people who have subscribed to my mailing list. They are meant to be an online collection of tidbits that I find of interest.

How my Notes posts appear on Twitter and Facebook is still something of a work in progress. If you see anything there that looks odd, please leave me a comment here. Speaking of comments, you can still leave them anonymously or you can sign in using your Twitter or Facebook account, thanks to the aforementioned Social plugin. Let me know how if you find this feature useful too.

Technology Tagged: IndieWeb, microformats, social media, webmention

Comments

  1. Greg Falken says

    April 18, 2014 at 1:15 pm

    Thanks for the link, Ryan. I’m curious to see if this reply ends up back on snarfed.org.

    Reply

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Your words are your own. Please keep them relevant and civil.

Stay in touch

Sign up to receive occasional email updates, including new blog posts.

As a web developer since 1995, I find my attention increasingly drawn to the intersection of computers, the Internet, communication and education. On this blog, I indulge my interest in these and several other topics. I hope you find them interesting too. Read More…

  • LinkedIn
  • RSS
  • Twitter
  • YouTube

Recent Posts

3 Words for 2021

January 1, 2021 by Greg Falken Leave a Comment

The message we should be hearing about masks: An aviation parable

October 24, 2020 by Greg Falken Leave a Comment

3 Words for 2020

January 1, 2020 by Greg Falken Leave a Comment

3 Words for 2019

January 1, 2019 by Greg Falken Leave a Comment

3 Words for 2018

January 1, 2018 by Greg Falken Leave a Comment

Latest Tweets

  • Interesting distinction. Is Mastodon a social network or social media?https://t.co/AXqiWw6m8L November 19, 2022 6:33 pm
  • Whatever instance you're on, throw a little coin their way to help with this massive influx of new users. I'm contr… https://t.co/zoHTKjimO6 November 19, 2022 12:55 am
  • This would be a good time to stop logging in to other sites using your Twitter credentials. On Twitter, check More… https://t.co/Jddzzk3xHc November 18, 2022 6:52 pm
  • More on Twitter

Search

Tag Cloud

3 Words Aardvark Americana audio bluetooth Chris Brogan Chrome computer contract Crazy Ivan education FCC flying Google google nexus home hyperlocal IndieWeb learning location mp3 music mvno net neutrality Network Sierra paleo politics posse primal programming Rebooting the News Richard Ziade Rick Foster Sharon Crost sim social media sonora Strawberry three words Tom Maguire Tuolumne twitter video WordPress writing

Return to top of page
Copyright © 2009–2023 · Website by Webdancers · Log in