While at the 2017 IndieWeb Summit, I sat down with some of the participants to ask "Why did you involved with IndieWeb?" My name's Tom Brown and my website is herestomwiththeweather.com. Sort of like Tantek said in the keynote yesterday, the purpose is so that you're in control of your website and also that we have a public space that is in control by the public. What is the next things you're hoping to work on for your website? Just baby steps. Um. Just starting to use micropub and adding, like, geolocation stuff to my posts and using Quill to as a micropub client. Uh, get that going. What was the most recent thing that you did on your website? Those- sending webmentions with Travis CI. After a successful deploy, it runs a ruby rake task to send out the webmentions. Well thank you so much. Alright, thanks. --- Hello and welcome to This Week in the IndieWeb, audio edition, for the week of August 19th - 25th, 2017. https://indieweb.org/this-week/2017-08-25.html This Week in the IndieWeb is a weekly digest of activities of the IndieWeb community at indieweb.org. It contains recent and upcoming events, posts from IndieNews, and a summary of wiki edits. This Week in the IndieWeb is sent out Fridays at 2pm Pacific time, with this audio edition appearing the following day. You can find the web edition of This Week in the IndieWeb, including all links and an archive of all past editions at indieweb.org/this-week --- Events Homebrew Website Club is a bi-weekly meetup of people passionate about or interested in creating, improving, building, and designing their own website. Most meetings take place every other Wednesday, from 6:30pm to 7:30pm. Homebrew Website Club met on August 23rd, with meetups in Brighton, London, Baltimore, Frederick, and San Francisco, as well as a virtual Homebrew Website Club at Central European time. You can find photos and links to notes from the meetups in the newsletter. The next regularly scheduled Homebrew Website Club meeting will be September 6th, with Brighton, Baltimore, and San Francisco, as well as a Virtual Homebrew Website Club at Central European Time, confirmed so far. If you're an organizer, please remember to update the wiki with information about your venue, times, and how to RSVP. And remember you can always find info about the next upcoming Homebrew Website Club meetups at indieweb.org/next-hwc Interested in starting a Homebrew Website Club in your city? It can be as simple as grabbing a friend and heading to your favorite coffee shop, bar, living room, or any other meeting place. You can find plenty of information about Homebrew Website Club, including tips for how to organize your own, at indieweb.org/hwc A reminder that there will be an IndieWebCamp tent and events at the upcoming Campfire Journalism Festival in Dortmund, Germand on September 8th and 9th. Check the newsletter for details on how to attend. All IndieWeb events are volunteer-run, so if you are interested in helping organize, getting the word out, finding sponsors, and more let us know in the chat at chat.indieweb.org. --- Here is a brief summary of posts collected this week by IndieNews, a community-curated list of articles relevant to the IndieWeb. You can read more, or submit posts of your own, at news.indieweb.org. Sebastiaan Andeweg, at seblog.nl, published a post titled "Adding Micropub to your IRC bot". In it, he describes how to extend the TikTokBot chat bot for IRC and Slack to add support for creating posts on your own site. The post includes configuration details for recognizing requests to like, bookmark, or RSVP to posts, and how to give the bot the ability to post to your site via Micropub. --- And now, a selection of this week's updates from the IndieWeb wiki at indieweb.org. New Community Members One new user page was added to the wiki this week. Please welcome Mayel de Borniol (ma-yael de bvoRniol), whose website is at deborniol.com. Mayel is currently working on social.coop, a Mastodon instance focused on cooperative and transparent operations, CloudVault, a provider of private cloud servers, and Ora.Network, a digital skill sharing network. If you haven't already, now is a good time to create your own user page. It's a great way to introduce yourself to the IndieWeb community, and to collect the things that you are working on, or want to work on, for your personal website. For more details, visit indieweb.org/wikifying. Community and Concepts The "Getting Started" page was updated with a new "Articles and Videos" section, containing a selection of pieces aimed at bringing beginners up to speed on what the IndieWeb community is all about. The "accessibility" page was updated with a link to a Twitter thread by Ellen Murray. In it, she details the information she looks for about events and venues when planning whether to attend. Important tips include making accessibility information readily available from event pages, and including specifics far beyond describing a venue as "accessible". Services and Organizations A new page was created for "Reading.am", a silo with bookmark functionality for indicating what you are reading (or listening to) right now. The service is finding traction in the IndieWeb community due in part to providing several ways to feed posts back to your own site, as well as web-friendly tools such as bookmarklets and browser extensions for posting. A new page was created for "clap" - a feature introduced by the Medium article-hosting silo that allows users to show support for a post by clicking a clap button as many times as they want. Medium plans to use this variant of the more-common "like" to determine which articles to promote and how much to pay writers on their platform. The "like" page was updated with a screenshot of this new feature. The "Medium" page was updated with a link to a post by Manton Reece at manton.org titled "Medium stumbling forward". In it, Reece points out the risk that authors on the platform face if and when the article-hosting silo does shut down. Specifically, authors who are posting their content on medium.com, rather than their own domain, will have a harder time re-engaging readers on a new domain or service should the URLs for those articles stop working. The "SMS" page was updated with a link to a piece by Nathaniel Popper in the New York Times titled "Identity Thieves Hijack Cellphone Accounts to Go After Virtual Currency." The piece details how hackers are exploiting the widespread use of text messaging as a password recovery mechanism. By tricking cell phone carriers into giving them control of another subscriber's cell phone number, they can reset passwords and gain access to social silos, online Bitcoin markets, and more. The "Instagram" page was updated with a link to a piece by Alexis Madrigal in the Atlantic titled "'Link in Bio' Keeps Instagram Nice". The piece credits Instagram's continued engagement and growth to its minimalist interaction choices, including preventing users from linking out to the web from their posts. IndieWeb Development The "tools" page has been updated with a link to "Gimme a Token" - a tool that helps obtain access tokens for posting to Micropub servers that support the IndieAuth web sign-in protocol. The tool, available at gimme-a-token.5eb.nl, should be a time saver for developers who are working on Micropub clients that want to tackle core functionality before adding auth support. The "OAuth" page has been updated with a link to "OAuth 2.0 Simplified", a book coming in September from the IndieWeb community's own Aaron Parecki. You can sign up to be notified when the book is available for purchase at oauth2simplified.com. That's going to do it for this week. Thank you for listening! This English version of This Week in the IndieWeb, audio edition was read and produced by Marty McGuire. If you have suggestions for improving this audio edition of the newsletter, please feel free to contact Marty in the IndieWeb chat This Week in the IndieWeb and the IndieNews services are provided by Aaron Parecki. Music for this episode included the tracks Day 85 - Suit, Day 48 - Glitch, Day 49 - Floating, Day 9, and Day 11 of Aaron Parecki's 100 Days of Music Project. 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