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It's time for media companies to help build the web. My first post for the International News Media Association: http://www.inma.org/blogs/media-leaders/post.cfm/why-media-companies-should-support-a-decentralised-...

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Demoing my beautiful new site theme!

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Does anyone know if there's any beer or hamburgers in this town?

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http://www.andy-j-miller.com/ being held up as an example of a great personal website. It's beautiful. Inspiringly organic.

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For clarity: I won't tolerate or work with, in any capacity, anyone I know to be a misogynist or bigot. And I'll warn others.

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I need more

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Just came across Open Signal: a new kind of community media center. Looks really impressive. https://www.opensignalpdx.org/

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Too many projects think "if we build it they will come". It's not about building cool tech. It's about making something people need.

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This cat posts what she eats on her very own website. https://indiewebcat.com/ate

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This is a big list of decentralized web technology. I wish Urbit wasn't listed, but otherwise: cool! https://decentralize.tech/

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Super-fun to see a Known to Mastodon integration demoed at Summit. Really proud of this open source community.

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Not quite true that some content types won't work on @Medium. Embedmaker lets you embed your own site: https://embedmaker.com/

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Four years ago, I came to this event to demo something called Idno.

Four years later, Known is such a great community. I'm really proud to be back.

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Extremely cool. Here's the entire social graph of independent websites as queryable data. http://www.indiemap.org/

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What's out there? @schnarfed built a web crawler in 15 lines of code and found 706K social connections between independent sites.

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New to me: Common Crawl does a regular public crawl of the web and makes the data available to everyone. https://commoncrawl.org/

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Worth saying: if you're helping people own their own content and monetize on their own terms, we should talk.

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"There isn't a good funnel I can push people into." @anomalily making a very good case for much easier, friendlier resources.

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