{"id":5833,"date":"2014-08-26T13:20:57","date_gmt":"2014-08-26T05:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/2014\/08\/26\/indie-web-stuff-inspired-by-this-post-from-dan-gilmor\/"},"modified":"2014-08-26T13:20:57","modified_gmt":"2014-08-26T05:20:57","slug":"indie-web-stuff-inspired-by-this-post-from-dan-gilmor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2014\/08\/26\/indie-web-stuff-inspired-by-this-post-from-dan-gilmor\/","title":{"rendered":"Indie Web stuff inspired by this post from Dan Gilmor"},"content":{"rendered":"

http:\/\/dangillmor.com\/2014\/04\/25\/indie-web-important\/<\/a>
\nWhy the Indie Web movement is important?
\nSuppose you could write in your personal blog and have a summary of your post show up on popular social-media sites like Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+ and Facebook \u2013 and then have responses on those sites show up as comments in your blog? You can, and if some talented programmers have their way you\u2019ll soon be able to do so easily. In fact, it\u2019s what I\u2019m doing right now with this post, which is also running at Slate Magazine<\/a>.
\nWhy would you or I want to do this? Simple: We\u2019re in danger of losing what\u2019s made the Internet the most important medium in history \u2013 a decentralized platform where the people at the edges of the networks \u2013 that would be you and me \u2013 don\u2019t need permission to communicate, create and innovate.
\nThis isn\u2019t a knock on social networks\u2019 legitimacy, or their considerable utility. But when we use centralized services like social media sites, however helpful and convenient they may be, we are handing over ultimate control to third parties that profit from our work, material that exists on their sites only as long as they allow.
\nEven if most people don\u2019t recognize what\u2019s at stake \u2013 yet \u2013 I\u2019m happy to say that a small but growing group of technologists does. And they\u2019ve created what they call the \u201cIndie Web\u201d movement to do something about it, in an extended online conversation and at periodic in-person meetings. The latter are IndieWebCamp<\/a>s, where they gather to hack together tools aimed at liberating us, to the extent possible, from centralized control \u2013 what the Web\u2019s key inventor, Tim Berners-Lee, has called \u201cre-decentralization\u201d of the Net<\/a>. In their early work they\u2019re taking advantage of the good things the social network \u201csilos,\u201d as they call them, can offer, while ensuring that the data we create, and as much of the conversation it engenders, lives in our own home-base sites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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