The once and future IndieWeb

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Argues that owning your site is practical today: concrete tools like rel=me for identity, webmention for federated comments and RSVPs, and microformats2 for simple structured data replace heavy XML specs. Shows working demos — distributed comments and RSVPs between personal sites, a journalist who posts on his WordPress blog and syndicates out while aggregating 992 external interactions via Bridgy — and points to IndieWebCamp as the place to get these plugins and patterns working yourself.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 13:102008 AOL HOMESITES SHUTDOWN
3. 22:09SILOS FEDERATING? EPHEMERAL LIGHTNING
4. 38:07DISTRIBUTED INTERACTIONS!

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