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What’s the best way to give developers space? 14 Aug 2013 | 02:52 am
Like all my new posts and articles, this piece originally appeared on werd.io. Software developers are not technicians. Whereas technicians are employed to do practical work involving technical equip...
The IndieWeb as a minimum viable social web ecosystem 10 Jul 2013 | 10:08 am
I wrote a post as a submission for the W3C’s upcoming Workshop on Social Standards: The Future of Business. Although there have been significant advances in the field over the last five years, there ...
Introducing Herebe 10 Jul 2013 | 04:11 am
I wrote a short novel about Silicon Valley, startups, and, well, dragons. It’s a little different to the kind of thing I normally share here, but bear with me. From a review on Amazon UK: What happe...
What is idno? 3 Jul 2013 | 12:11 pm
I wrote a post over at werd.io about idno, the open source publishing tool I’ve been building: You may know that I co-founded Elgg, the open source social networking engine, which is used by the like...
Decentralized comments and the IndieWeb 2 Jul 2013 | 10:10 am
I just stumbled on this old thread by Marc Canter and Stephen Downes (emphasis mine): I think that so long as we leave content on other people’s sites (or in their in-boxes) we will have the dual pro...
Owning your data is cool – but having your own awesome site is cooler 8 Jun 2013 | 08:34 am
This post was originally published over on werd.io, my idno-powered site, where I’m hosting all of my new posts and social media updates. There’s been a lot of news stories lately about how technology...
werd.io and idno 1 Jun 2013 | 05:48 am
I’m posting over at werd.io, a site I’ve set up based on my idno software. I wrote a short technical introduction to the platform: idno is a personal attempt at building a publishing platform that adh...
Respectful software 25 May 2013 | 04:17 am
I’m using the term respectful software to describe software products and services that: Maintain your ownership and control over your data. Allow you to export anything you’ve entered or imported into...
HTTP signatures 6 May 2013 | 11:51 pm
It looks like I’m not the only person who likes the idea of signed HTTP requests as an authentication method. Joyent and Digital Bazaar have co-written an Internet draft for cryptographically signed H...
Mobile devices as keys to your personal cloud 1 May 2013 | 05:16 am
Jotting down some quick notes for something to consider: mobile devices as proxies that redirect content types to services as required, cacheing data on its way to / from the Internet. Some properties...
