While there are lots of anecdotal stories about the #indieweb, lately I've found myself wanting to back them up with hard, quantifiable data. For some people, the underlying principles of ownership, control and reach resonate and make sense; others need further persuasion that the movement is gaining momentum.
I think this ...
May 30, 2014
Friday marked the end of my first full-time week at Known, the new startup I've founded with Erin Jo Richey. We're lucky enough to be part of Matter's third class of startups aiming to change media for good. (Its founding partners are KQED, PRX and the Knight Foundation: great people ...
May 27, 2014
In his excellent newsletter Things That Have Caught My Attention, Dan Hon writes:
So my thing is this: not an indie web, but a sustainable one. One that is kind of adjacent to the indie web, but that builds long-lasting, reliable services, not ones that disappear. This adjacency comes from the ...
May 7, 2014
PHP gets a lot of flak, deservedly. It's not necessarily always been the world's most elegant language, and because it's incredibly permissive, it makes it much easier to write code atrocities than many others. It's not the coolest language out there, but if you're picking languages for your project based ...
May 5, 2014
Over on Medium, Quinn Norton has a great history of May Day:
Today the vast majority of the world celebrates May Day as Labor Day, or International Workers’ Day. Americans won’t celebrate Labor Day, despite the fact that it all started here, in bombs and blood and hangman’s nooses. By the ...
May 1, 2014