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Oh, also, plugins can add arbitrary content to any user's profile. eg: http://werd.io/.well-known/webfinger?resource=acct:benwerd@werd.io

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Microformats parsing in should be fixed (along with outgoing markup). Feedback sought.

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Replied to a post on werd.io :

<a href="http://waterpigs.co.uk/notes/4QeMP9/" class="u-in-reply-to" rel="in-reply-to">@barnabywalters</a> (if that is your real name) can you try sending me another comment?

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<a href="https://willnorris.com/2013/06/testing-indieweb-comments">@willnorris</a> Nice to see your comments working!

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Remote participants at . Just ignore the guy in the bottom left ... http://werd.io/view/51c766acbed7decc2f27a221

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Improved post display in idno, and added p-author microformats to each entry in the process. Also, syndication links.

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<a href="https://twitter.com/aaronpk/status/348894725455114240">@aaronpk</a> It totally is the offset between us and UTC. Now to find the timezone-less timestamp ...

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Curious about why my photos on Flickr all look like they were posted 8 hours ago. Timestamps are all accurate ...

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Weird that geolocation yesterday was working fine, but today puts me about an hour's drive out of Portland.

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Surprising number of Raspberry Pis in the room, too. The Indieweb of Things?

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Really enjoying sitting in a room hacking on stuff, with other people hacking on stuff. Could get used to this.

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Actually, if our tests continue to fail, we may stop caring.

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We test because we care.

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Put a bird on it.

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Looking forward to fixing my buggy comments / likes / shares implementation.

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Chickens

Chickens

Chicken chicken chicken.

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How chickens work #indiewebcamp

I built an easy way to post chickens.

To post a chicken, or series of chickens, the user just clicks on the appropriate content icon:

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Note that the content icons are designed to be accessible both on a touch device and with a pointer.

The user is then asked exactly how many chickens they would like to post (with clear messaging: "CHICKEN CHICKEN CHICKEN?").

Once the user has made their chicken selection, a new chicken object is created. An Activity Streams "post" event is called. I've written my chicken plugin to define chicken content as having an Activity Streams object type of "note".

Twitter and Facebook plugins are listening for new "post" events with object type "note". When I post chickens, they're sent one! If I've linked idno with my Twitter and Facebook accounts, the content is sent to those plugins, and they are in turn responsible for sending the content to their respective sites.

My chickens are posted to Twitter and Facebook.

Finally, the default template on my feed defers to my chicken plugin every time someone visits on my site and wants to see my chicken content. (The template there displays chickens with some photographic help.) I've added an h-as-chicken microformat content type behind the scenes, so third-party clients can parse my pages for chicken content. And finally, the Activity Streams content is available to anyone who requests my pages with an Accept: application/json header.

It took 30-45 minutes to code, except for chicken photo search and download time. And here's what a post looks like.

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Content types

Content types

All important stuff.

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The tyranny of content types #indiewebcamp

I've been thinking this morning about content types and granular access permissions (which, it turns out, is ground the IndieWeb community has already tread).

Activity Streams is a data syndication format with very granular content types, which is awesome - unless those content types dictate the kinds of content you actually allow people to create with your software.

Why should a content type be strictly a note, or an article, or a place, image, video, application? One of the amazing things about the modern web is that we can combine content types to create experiences that are richer than the sum of their media parts.

At the simplest level, I want to be able to (eg) include a photo with a checkin. But why not construct a post that's a photo followed by some audio followed by some text followed by an interactive widget followed by a non-linear video with an interactive layer on top of it? One of the neat things about the is that you control your platform - and that should mean controlling the form of your content too.

Watch this space ...

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Hatching a plan for an obvious evolution. Should I hack it together today?

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Wet Portland

Wet Portland

They told me it liked to in , but I'd never seen any sign of it. Turns out it's not always sunny here!

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