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Articles about the IndieWeb (in reverse chronological order)
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2024
- 2024-01-27
Ben Werdmüller: The indieweb is for everyone (archived)
2023
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2022
- 2022-12-26
fluffy: What is the IndieWeb? - 2022-12-03 : The ethics of syndicating comments using WebMentions
- 2022-11-29 Ben Werdmüller: The fediverse and the indieweb
- 2022-11-27
Rosalina Saige: moving to the fediverse and indieweb - 2022-11-14 indiebookclub version 0.1.0 launched
- 2022-11-12 : IndieWebifying my Website Part 1 - Microformats and Webmentions
- 2022-10-31 : What IndieBlocks Does, and Why
- 2022-07-22 : Indiewebify me! And don't forget my webmentions!
- 2022-06-16 : Indiewebify me! And don't forget my webmentions!
- 2022-06-14 : De-Mystifying IndieWeb on a WordPress Site
- 2022-06-05
Ryan Barrett: Bridgy stats update - 2022-05-16 : Indieweb and webmentions for my static site
2021
- 2021-11-16
capjamesg: I love my website - 2021-06-05 Ryan Barrett: Bridgy stats update
- 2021-03-14
Murray: One Year in the IndieWeb
2020
- 2020-08-27
Ana Rodrigues: Autonomy Online: A Case For The IndieWeb (archived)
- 2020-06-27 Ryan Barrett: Bridgy stats update
2019
- 2019-10-20 : The IndieWeb Movement: Owning Your Data and Being the Change You Want to See in the Web (archived)
- 2019-05-18 : Can “Indie” Social Media Save Us? (The New Yorker) (archived)
- 2019-04-17 Ben Werdmüller: Fixing the financial dilemma at the heart of our broken tech industry (archived)
- 2019-04-17 : Why I’m supporting the IndieWeb (and you should too) (archived)
- 2019-04-11 : Nothing Fails Like Success (archived)
- 2019-03-24 : An Alternative to the Corporate Web (archived)
2018
- 2018-12-14 Ana Rodrigues: Blogging and me (archived)
- 2018-11-25 : Everything Old is New Again: Adventures in the IndieWeb (archived)
- 2018-07-19
Chris Aldrich writing for A List Apart: Webmentions: Enabling Better Communication on the Internet (archived) - 2018-05-15 : Why We Need the #IndieWeb: A Short History (archived)
- 2018-05-02
Sebastian Greger: The Indieweb privacy challenge (Webmentions, silo backfeeds, and the GDPR) (archived) - 2018-05-02 : IndieWeb Overview
- 2018-04-24 : Surveillance Capitalism and IndieWeb (archived)
- 2018-04-20
Aaron Parecki: An IndieWeb reader: My new home on the internet (archived) - 2018-03-27 : ¿Qué es la IndieWeb? (archived)
- 2018-03-25 : Content Silos
- 2018-03-22 : About this website
- 2018-03-21 : The Missing Building Blocks of the Web (Medium)
- 2018-03-14
eli_oat: A Year with the IndieWeb - 2018-03-12 Aaron Parecki: Building an IndieWeb Reader
- 2018-02-21 Ben Werdmüller: Indie websites can set you free from the constraints of social media (GoDaddy)
- 2018-02-06 : To PESOS or to POSSE? (archived)
- 2018-01-24 : The IndieWeb outside of Facebook is full of opportunities (GoDaddy)
- 2018-01-16 : Hoja de ruta para danirod.es en 2018: abrazar la web abierta (archived)
- 2018-01-13
Aaron Davis: Reclaiming My Bookmarks (archived) - 2018-01-11 Ryan Barrett: 1 Million Webmentions (archived)
- 2018-01-02 Ryan Barrett: Bridgy Stats Update 3 (archived)
2017
- 2017-12-15 Chris Aldrich: Threaded Replies and Comments with Webmentions in WordPress
- 2017-11-09 : Medium is only an edge server of your POSSE CDN, your own blog is the origin (archived)
- 2017-10-28
Peter Molnar: Content, bloat, privacy, archives (archived) - 2017-10-27
Amy Guy: The Presentation of Self on a Decentralised Web (Ph.D. Thesis) (archived)
- 2017-10-26 : My #IndieWeb Reflections (archived)
- 2017-10-24
Frank Meeuwsen: Een eigen huis op het IndieWeb - 2017-09-24 : Taking back control over my content (archived)
- 2017-09-17 : The "Indie" Fallacy (archived)
- 2017-09-10 : Decentralized Web Pt 3: Join the IndieWeb (archived)
- 2017-08-01 : Humanizing the Web (archived)
- 2017-07-28 Chris Aldrich: An Introduction to the IndieWeb (archived)
- 2017-07-27 : So long Disqus, hello Webmention (archived)
- 2017-07-16 : Implementing Webmentions (archived)
- 2017-06-30 : Why we should all care about Open Web (archived)
- 2017-06-24 Chris Aldrich: I’m apparently the king of the microformat rel="me": More important however is the reason why I hold the title! (archived)
- 2017-06-22 : Reflections on Two Years of #Indieweb (archived)
- 2017-06-20 : The Open Web
- 2017-06-17 : IndieWebifying my website: part 1, the why & how (archived)
- 2017-06-13 : The IndieWeb Movement Will Help People Control Their Own Web Presence? (archived)
- 2017-06-09 Chris Aldrich: Feed reader revolution: it’s time to embrace open & disrupt social media (archived)
- 2017-05-30 : Introducing AltPlatform & our manifesto for the Open Web (archived)
- 2017-05-24 : IndieWebWhaaaat?! A Visual Round-Up.
- 2017-05-05 : Going Indie. Step 2: Reclaiming Content
- 2017-04-05 Chris Aldrich: Mastodon.Social isn’t as Federated or as Decentralized as the Indie Web (archived)
- 2017-03-19 : Doing my part to fix the internet
- 2017-01-25 : It's more than just the words - an independent restatement of some of the indieweb principles by the co-founder of Perch
- 2017-01-08 : Let’s Make 2017 The Year of the Indie Web
2016
- 2016-11-21
- 2016-11-20 : Fix the internet by writing good stuff and being nice to people
- 2016-11-03
Wm Salt Hale: IndieWeb: Make your social media posts open first (archived) - 2016-07-19
David Shanske: Lessons Learned from IndiewebCamp and WordCamp
- 2016-06-29
Dan Gillmor &
Kevin Marks in Fast Company: How To Break Open The Web - 2016-06-28
Jeremy Keith: <A> (article summary of opening keynote from the inaugural HTML Special held before CSS Day 2016 in Amsterdam) - 2016-06-22 : Reboot the World
- 2016-06-09 : Building the First Amendment Into the Web and Other Hopes for the Internet’s Future
- 2016-05-21 : IndieWebCamp and #ownyourdata #ownyouridentity
- 2016-05-20
Colin Devroe: Owning my words and photos and audio bits
- 2016-05-19 Jeremy Keith: Owning my words
- 2016-05-12
Shane Becker: Dark Matter and the #IndieWeb (archived) - 2016-04-23 : Bridging the Gap Between Your Blog and Social Media
- 2016-04-17 : Silos, Webmentions and the Challenge of Owning Your Own Content
- 2016-03-15 : Closed silo challenges to an open web
- 2016-02-18 : Remember WordPress' Pingbacks? The W3C wants us to use them across the whole web
- 2016-02-11 : Embracing the IndieWeb
- 2016-01-31
Calum Ryan: Taking part in the IndieWeb: Introducing the principles of IndieWeb and how you can take part through IndieWebCamps and Homebrew Website Clubs - 2016-01-29 : Micropub and the Quiet IndieWebCamp Revolution
- 2016-01-20 : Anywhere but Medium js;dr
- 2016-01-19 : Should You Quit Blogging? (Own your data)
2015
- 2015-12-21 : Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2015: Indie Ed-Tech (archived)
- 2015-11-11 : Marking up Drupal's blog posts for the IndieWeb
- 2015-10-18 : Har Facebook låst in oss för gott? (Swedish post)
- 2015-10-02 Calum Ryan: Slides from indieweb talk are up re: 2015-10-01 "The IndieWeb" presentation given @CodeHarbour (slides, need video/notes).
- 2015-09-18
Pelle Wessman: Den oberoende sociala webben 2015 (Swedish post) - 2015-09-18
- 2015-08-16 : Indiewebify yourself
- 2015-08-12
Tantek Çelik: An Alphabet of IndieWeb Building Blocks: Article to Z - 2015-08-03 : How IndieWeb Makes Comments (a little) Better
- 2015-07-17 : Why we all need to make the Internet fun again
- 2015-07-14 : IndieWebCamp Brighton 2015
- 2015-07-12 : IndieWebCamp 2015
- 2015-05-11 : Living the Indie Web
- 2015-05-10 : IndieWebCamp in Düsseldorf
- 2015-05-10 : IndieWeb
- 2015-05-09 : Why I write on my own site first
- 2015-04-29 : Reclaim Your Domain (With Known)
- 2015-03-29
Matthias Pfefferle: Rise of the IndieWeb (German) - 2015-01-22 : Indieweb
- 2015-01-16 Kevin Marks: We Like IndieWeb Software
2014
- 2014-11-24 : 10 Years
- 2014-11-20 : A New Service Will Help You Wrest Your Online Identity From Google (IndieHosters)
- 2014-10-21 Jeremy Keith: Indie web building blocks
- 2014-10-18 Ben Werdmüller: Webmention: an introduction for developers
- 2014-10-09 : The Indie Web
- 2014-09-24 : The Indie Web is the new Zines
- 2014-09-17 : Out in the Open: A Blogging Tool That Lets You Actually Own What You Post on Facebook (Known)
- 2014-09-11 : IndieWeb advocates launch Known so bloggers can be social and still control their content
- 2014-09-04 : Indie Web: wees eigenaar van jouw data (Dutch) "Indie Web: Be the owner of your data"
- 2014-09-03 : Don't like Facebook owning and controlling your content? Use tools that support the open Web
- 2014-08-22 : The New Editors of the Internet
- 2014-07-23 : The Indie Web – friend or foe?
- 2014-07-17 : You don't need to develop for the Worst Case Scenario
- 2014-07-07 : Screw Digital Sharecropping. I’m Getting a Posse.
- 2014-07-03 : IndieWeb and Respect Network: Two roads to decentralizing the network
- 2014-07-02 : I am a Citizen of the IndieWeb! :D (archived)
- 2014-06-26 : IndieWeb ho! A brief intro to a little movement with big ideas
- 2014-06-12 : The web idealists have a point: content can't truly blossom in walled gardens
- 2014-06-02 Peter Molnar: Indieweb – decentralize the web while centralizing ourselves
- 2014-04-25 : Welcome to the Indie Web Movement
- 2014-03-26 : The Indieweb. or: how I learnt to stop worrying and love the blog
- 2014-03-25 : The IndieWeb, Revolution, and Other Reasons You Should Learn to Code
- 2014-02-14 : Homebrew Website Club Newsletter Volume 2 Issue 3 - Portland Edition
- 2014-01-31 : IndieWeb; Join us! - Independent but together.
- 2014-01-26 : Stopping Writing For Other Web Sites
- 2014-01-16 : Online Homesteading
2013
- 2013-11-04 : The Power to Create
- 2013-12-12 Kevin Marks: Kevin Marks on the web that will win from #leweb
- 2013-11-04 : The Power to Create
- 2013-09-26 : The IndieWeb community has it nailed: #selfdogfood
- 2013-09-16 : Webmentions and the REAL Social Web
- 2013-08-29 : The US government is taking your Facebook data. But it doesn't stop there
- 2013-08-21 : Beware of geeks bearing gifts
- 2013-08-21 : Indie Web resources: Silos vs. an open Web
- 2013-08-18 : The Internet: We’re Doing It Wrong
- 2013-08-14 : Meet the Hackers Who Want to Jailbreak the Internet
- 2013-08-13 : Is coding a blogging engine still worth the effort in 2013? and other thoughts about content publishing tools
- 2013-08-09 : Lavabit and Silent Circle shut
- 2013-08-08 : PRISM Break! How This Developer Created His Own Cloud
- 2013-08-08 : JSON-LD is an Unneeded Spec
- 2013-08-06 : On owning your own data
- 2013-08-05 : Implementing "Prism Break"
- 2013-07-31 : Why I Left Medium
- 2013-07-08 Matthias Pfefferle: Die Renaissance des Pingbacks (german)
- 2013-06-28 : Indiewebcamp 2013 Roundup
- 2013-06-25 : Are social media silos holding back business results? (archived)
- 2013-06-18 Matthias Pfefferle: The Rise of the IndieWeb (german)
- 2013-05-16 : What's next Google? Dropping SMTP support?
- 2013-05-14 : No More Sharecropping!
- 2013-04-19 Tantek Çelik: The First Federated #Indieweb Comment Thread
- 2013-03-31 Aaron Parecki: This is what email would have looked like if it were invented in the Web 2.0 era
- 2013-03-28 Aaron Parecki: An Open Challenge to App.net
- 2013-03-14 Tantek Çelik: On Silos vs an Open Social Web #indieweb
2012
- 2012-12-21 : Instagram
- 2012-12-18 : Rebuilding the Web We Lost (archived)
- 2012-12-13 : The Web We Lost (archived)
- 2012-10-26 Ryan Barrett: A critical look at decentralization
- 2012-10-22 Aaron Parecki: Creating Content on the Indie Web (English, French translation)
- 2012-07-25 Ryan Barrett: Why I have my own web site
- 2012-07-11 : Movimientos hacia una web independiente (Spanish)
- 2012-03-29 : Chopped up or Cloned: You Choose (English, French translation)
- 2012-01-24 : Put Your Taproot Into the Independent Web
- 2012-01-20 : The Future of Social Networking
2011
- 2011-12-27 : 12 tech leaders’ resolutions for 2012 (archived) "I worry about the independent web..."
- 2011-09-25 : It's the end of the web as we know it (archived)
- 2011-07-30 : Homesteading on the indie web (archived)
- 2011-07-11 : Own Your Identity (archived)
- 2011-07-08 : The Indie Web: Who owns your identity? (archived)
- 2011-05-24 : Sir Tim Berners Lee claims Twitter is for “extreme” opinions (archived)
Lee outlined a future in which all social networks communicate with each other, ending today’s isolation on one platform.
2010
- 2010-10-21 : IDENTITY AND THE INDEPENDENT WEB
- 2010-11-07 : No More Sharecropping!
- 2010-11-09 : We Need a Twitter API Clone Ruby Gem
2009
2007
- 2007-07-23 : Syndication needs to get social
2002
- 2002-11-13 Zeldman on the Independent Web
(Q.) How do you persuade people to fall in love? (A.) You don’t have to. The independent web takes care of itself because it fulfills basic human desires. The desire to connect. The desire to produce. The desire to enjoy content not mediated by corporations that can’t afford to produce anything less than a blockbuster. On the non-commercial web, an audience of 10,000 souls (or even a thousand) is meaningful.
- 2002-03-10 Independents Day: What happened in the past couple of years? / Chronology / SXSW_02:
On Sunday, 10 March 2002, INDEPENDENTS DAY presented three panels at the South by Southwest Interactive Festival (SXSW)
[Tantek's first SXSW and attendance of these panels was one of his earliest sources of IndieWeb inspiration. He started blogging that August.] - ...
2001
- 2001-05-17 Independents Day Manifesto (launched)
1997
- 1997-02-01 : The Indie Web Manifesto (English) (archived)
- 1997-02-01 : Manifeste du Web indépendant (French) (archived)
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Previous to the web
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See Also
- Press kit
- History
- Timeline
- Posts about the IndieWeb (español)
- Own your data
- Events
- Today's chat logs
- Recent wiki changes
- Tagboards: #indieweb, #indiewebcamp, #indieauth, #ownyourdata
- Google News Search: "indieweb" OR "The Indie Web"
- Posts
- Reading list: organized by subject matter
- Silo quits
- Elsewhere: for IndieWeb and IndieWebCamp related news, communities, content on other sites
- 2018-08-15 NYTimes: Opinion: A FREE PRESS NEEDS YOU - regarding local / independent news publications, seems similar to needing healthy independent website publishing as well.
If you haven’t already, please subscribe to your local papers. Praise them when you think they’ve done a good job and criticize them when you think they could do better. We’re all in this together.
- https://twitter.com/jkphl/status/1051935836202299393
- "Although not mentioned by name: The @indiewebcamp Nuremberg 2016 / 2017 made it to one of the most important German newspapers. ;) Will you join us for the 3rd one in town next weekend? https://nuernberg.digital/festival/programm/2018/indiewebcamp-nuernberg-2018-41/ #nuedigital +@nueww" @jkphl October 15, 2018
- 2018-11-09 For the love of the blog
- 2019-01-06 Static Indieweb pt1: Syndicating Content
- 2017-06-13 The IndieWeb Movement Will Help People Control Their Own Web Presence?