Microblogging by Paul Robert Lloyd (paulrobertlloyd.com) I stopped using Facebook because I didn’t trust the people behind Facebook. I had grown weary of the sly and underhand tactics used to grow their network and was unwilling to remain part of it. But if I’m honest, I couldn’t trust myself either. Visiting Facebook would elicit behaviour you could only describe as stalking; trawling through the feeds of my friends, seeking out people I vaguely knew. I had better things to do with my ...

webmention cupcakes webmention cupcakes with tantek in the background at Homebrew Website Club SF

Celebrating 1 million webmentions at Homebrew Website Club!

🔖 Bookmarked https://twitter.com/fredwilson/status/953970978656153602 Fred Wilson on Twitter: “you have to blog on your own domain. medium, facebook, linkedin, huffpo will do what are in their interests, not yours. i have been doing it every day for 15 years this year. feels great to own my archive, my brand, my content, myself.”

🔖 USGS Earthquake Hazards Program · M 4.4 - 2km SE of Berkeley, CA: i felt my first earthquake. while i was up late last night working on my website. a magnitude 4.4 earthquake. its origin was 2km SE of Berkeley, CA (37.855, -122.257) at 2018-01-04 10:39:37.730 UTC. this is was also an excuse to work more on my website, adding bookmarks and locations to posts, and experimenting with marking up an h-event in the text of a post.

Just pushed some updates to IndieNews! Notes like this one, (posts with no name) will now be displayed better, hopefully encouraging people to post more short stuff instead of just blog posts. There is also a calendar view for posts, similar to the calendar on https://indieweb.org/2017-12-indieweb-challenge Thanks to @sknebel for the idea! I also fixed an issue where the content and name of posts was not being truncated, which caused a minor IRC flood this morning due to a ...