I should've thought of this the other day, but I've just added sharing actions to public versions of my reader such as unicyclic.com/indieweb. This Planet turned into a bigger project than I thought it would be, it now subscribes to 243 blogs from members of the indieweb community.
Also since indieweb is all about supporting microformats I've preferenced subscribing to h-feeds and h-entry's where available, instead of any xml feeds that may be linked to.
A couple of days ago I set up an indieweb planet, which subscribes to all the feeds I could find from domains that have been registered for IRC at indiewebcamp.com.
Not all home pages displayed users feeds though, which meant looking at how I was doing feed discovery. Another issue I've been thinking about is preferencing microformats on a page over any linked to RSS versions. I realised I can solve that at the same time by just returning all discovered feeds and let the user decide what they want to subscribe to:
Of course if there's only one feed found, it can be subscribed to automatically. (Thanks Kartik Prabhu for the demo!)
The indie web, it’s these thousands of websites delivering millions of pages, built up with passion, opinions and information by Net users assuming their rights as citizens. The indie web is a new type of link between people, it’s a free and open space of shared knowledge where vanity has no place.
While commercial websites display more and more aggressive messages, target and track their users, the indie web respects the individuals, their intelligence and their privacy; it’s an open forum for thoughts and debate. While purely commercial websites turn into information and entertainment magazines, while tycoons of media, telecom, computing and military agencies fight for the control of the Internet, the indie web offers a free vision of the world, bypasses the economic censorship of news, its confusion with advertising and infommercial, its reduction to a dazing and manipulating entertainment.
Yet the existence of an independent and goodwill-based web is endangered: threatened by the never-ending technology race which makes the websites more difficult and expensive to set up, by the overwhelming commercial advertising pressure, and soon by dissymetric networks, Network Computers, proprietary networks, broadcasting, all aiming at the transformation of the citizen into a basic consumer. The computer press, so greedy for advertising coming from companies who make their profit out of the great wealth of the free indie web, is only fascinated by the technical and economical challenges of the Internet and has deliberately decided to pass over its cultural dimension in the silence: magazines announce shortly the death of pioneer websites and basically never write more than a couple of lines about independent initiatives in comparison with the full-feature articles about any soap vendors new sites. According to them, creating one’s own site is a pathetic and secondary initiative compared to all the opportunities offered by online commerce.
We invite the users to realize the essential role they play on the Internet: when they start their own website, when they send comments, criticisms or warm letters to the webmasters, when they exchange tips and hints in the newsgroups or by e-mail, they provide an independent and free source of information that others would like to sell and control. Education, information, culture and debate can only come from users, independent webmasters, academic or associative organizations.
Hmmm I called the last post Reply Contexts without reading this page properly, and the two things aren't that related! What I added there was really just a posting UI for webactions. The posts that get created don't actually show any context, which is ok, I might look at adding that later.
Anyway this post is about using the same work I did for webactions to provide in-line actions while reading. It turned out to be quite simple to use the same posting UI changes, and allow the reader to provide the details. This means each reader item has like, share and reply buttons. Clicking any of these allows a user to create a new post, and then scrolls back to where they were reading when they're done.
(You need to be logged in to see these actions, because they require permission to create posts, but you can create an account here to try it.)
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Sharing on Planet #indieweb
Also since indieweb is all about supporting microformats I've preferenced subscribing to h-feeds and h-entry's where available, instead of any xml feeds that may be linked to.
feed discovery #indieweb
Not all home pages displayed users feeds though, which meant looking at how I was doing feed discovery. Another issue I've been thinking about is preferencing microformats on a page over any linked to RSS versions. I realised I can solve that at the same time by just returning all discovered feeds and let the user decide what they want to subscribe to:
Of course if there's only one feed found, it can be subscribed to automatically. (Thanks Kartik Prabhu for the demo!)
The Indie Web Manifesto
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The indie web, it’s these thousands of websites delivering millions of pages, built up with passion, opinions and information by Net users assuming their rights as citizens. The indie web is a new type of link between people, it’s a free and open space of shared knowledge where vanity has no place.
While commercial websites display more and more aggressive messages, target and track their users, the indie web respects the individuals, their intelligence and their privacy; it’s an open forum for thoughts and debate. While purely commercial websites turn into information and entertainment magazines, while tycoons of media, telecom, computing and military agencies fight for the control of the Internet, the indie web offers a free vision of the world, bypasses the economic censorship of news, its confusion with advertising and infommercial, its reduction to a dazing and manipulating entertainment.
Yet the existence of an independent and goodwill-based web is endangered: threatened by the never-ending technology race which makes the websites more difficult and expensive to set up, by the overwhelming commercial advertising pressure, and soon by dissymetric networks, Network Computers, proprietary networks, broadcasting, all aiming at the transformation of the citizen into a basic consumer. The computer press, so greedy for advertising coming from companies who make their profit out of the great wealth of the free indie web, is only fascinated by the technical and economical challenges of the Internet and has deliberately decided to pass over its cultural dimension in the silence: magazines announce shortly the death of pioneer websites and basically never write more than a couple of lines about independent initiatives in comparison with the full-feature articles about any soap vendors new sites. According to them, creating one’s own site is a pathetic and secondary initiative compared to all the opportunities offered by online commerce.
We invite the users to realize the essential role they play on the Internet: when they start their own website, when they send comments, criticisms or warm letters to the webmasters, when they exchange tips and hints in the newsgroups or by e-mail, they provide an independent and free source of information that others would like to sell and control. Education, information, culture and debate can only come from users, independent webmasters, academic or associative organizations.
Inline webactions for readers
Anyway this post is about using the same work I did for webactions to provide in-line actions while reading. It turned out to be quite simple to use the same posting UI changes, and allow the reader to provide the details. This means each reader item has like, share and reply buttons. Clicking any of these allows a user to create a new post, and then scrolls back to where they were reading when they're done.
(You need to be logged in to see these actions, because they require permission to create posts, but you can create an account here to try it.)
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