How I manage posting #indieweb likes from various devices and platforms to my website.

As part of trying to implement a website-first POSSE workflow, I wanted to start with posting Likes to my website and sending out webmentions from them. That is a lot of what I used to tweet out. Why should a record of what I like be stored elsewhere? It took me a little while to figure out what I wanted this system to look like, but once I landed on it and verified it could work with a couple…

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Possibilities with OpenMentions and Author Buzz

In this post, I will try to make the case that Author Buzz UK is a suitable host for the distributed directory of conversations started on OpenMentions.com. What is OpenMentions? OpenMentions is a project to create a distributed directory of conversations on the IndieWeb. OpenMentions is something I started but fully hope that the community takes ownership of. What makes OpenMentions different…

New Project: Open Mentions

I’ve been playing around with Webmentions in an attempt to understand them. While I was doing that, it occurred to me that Webmentions could be used to build a distributed directory. This is why I added Matt’s Marvellous Minecraft Manual to Matrix Dreams. Having started that, I reaslised that a root site to aid initial discovery of topic directories should exist too. So I made one. I called it…

How to send a Webmention in comments?

I’ve had Webmentions enabled on this site for some time now. Sending a Webmention is pretty straightforward thanks to plugins like Webmention for WordPress and Semantic-Linkbacks. The question is how to send Webmentions in comments when someone replies to one of my posts? 🤔

I reached out to Chris Aldrich on Twitter, and he pointed me to a few resources in response. I did some testing between…

This post was contributed by guest author James Richman. James writes about marketing, digital design, entrepreneurship, and technology. He has gained most of his experience from running a variety of his own businesses for more than a decade.   On January 12, 2016, the W3C (the World Wide Web Consortium) released its first public working…

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