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While at the 2017 IndieWeb Summit, 

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I sat down with some of the 
participants to ask: 

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"Why did you involved with the 
IndieWeb?" 

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I talked with 12 IndieWeb community 
members whom you've heard here over 

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the past 12 weeks. 

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This weekend on September 30th and 
October 1st, 

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I'll be attending IndieWebCamp NYC, 

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where I plan to do another series of 
interviews. 

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If you're attending, I'd love to 
interview you! 

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If you've enjoyed these interviews 
so far I'd love your feedback. 

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The quickest way to reach me is to 
join the IndieWeb chat and 

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mention me by my nickname schmarty. 

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You can join the chat via IRC, 
Slack, or even the web. 

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Instructions are available at 
indieweb.org/discuss 

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Hello and welcome to This Week in 
the IndieWeb audio edition 

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for the week of September 23rd 
- 29th 2017. 

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This Week in the IndieWeb is a 
weekly digest of 

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activities of the IndieWeb community 
at indieweb.org 

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It contains recent and upcoming 
events, 

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posts from IndieNews, and a summary 
of wiki edits. 

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This Week in the IndieWeb is sent 
out Fridays at 2pm Pacific time 

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with this audio edition appearing 
the following day. 

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You can find the web edition of This 
Week in the IndieWeb, including 

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all links and an archive of all past 
editions at indieweb.org/this-week 

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Events 

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Homebrew Website Club is a biweekly 
meetup of people passionate about 

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or interested in creating, 
improving, building, and designing 

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their own website. 

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Most meetings take place every other 
Wednesday from 6:30pm to 7:30pm. 

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The next regularly scheduled 
Homebrew Website Club meeting is 

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October 4th, with Nurnberg, 
Brighton, London, Baltimore, 

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Frederick, San Francisco, 
and Portland confirmed so far 

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as well as a Virtual Homebrew 
Website Club at Central European 

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Time. 

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If you're an organizer, please 
remember to update the wiki with 

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information about your venue, times, 
and how to RSVP 

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And remember you can always find 
info about the next upcoming 

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Homebrew Website Club meetups at 
indieweb.org/next-hwc 

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Interested in starting a Homebrew 
Website Club in your city? 

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It can be as simple as grabbing a 
friend and heading to 

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your favorite coffee shop, bar, 
living room, or any other meeting 

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place. 

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You can find plenty of information 
about Homebrew Website Club 

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including tips for how to organize 
your own at indieweb.org/hwc 

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This weekend there are two 
IndieWebCamps taking place. 

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IndieWebCamp Istanbul is happening 
on September 30th at Koç 

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University's KWORKS. 

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You can find notes, photos, and 
videos from the event at 

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indieweb.org/2017/Istanbul 

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IndieWebCamp NYC is happening on 
September 30th and October 1st at 

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Dalberg Global Development Advisors 
in New York City. 

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You can find notes, photos, and 
videos, as well as 

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join the livestream at 
indieweb.org/2017/NYC 

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Registration is open for 
IndieWebCamp Berlin which will take 

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place 

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November 4th at Contentful GmbH in 
Berlin Germany. 

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Learn more and register now at 
indieweb.org/2017/Berlin 

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And finally, dates have been 
announced for IndieWebCamp Austin 

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scheduled to take place December 
9th and 10th. 

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Planning is in progress, including 
finding a venue. Learn more and help 

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out at indieweb.org/2017/Austin 

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All IndieWeb events follow the 
IndieWeb Code of Conduct which can 

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be 

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found at indieweb.org/coc And all 
IndieWeb events are volunteer run so 

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if 

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you are interested in helping 
organize, getting the word out, 

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finding sponsors and more let us 
know in the chat at 

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chat.indieweb.org 

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Here is a brief summary of posts 
collected this week by IndieNews, a 

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community curated list of articles 
relevant to the IndieWeb. 

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You can read more or submit posts of 
your own at news.indieweb.org 

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Keith J Grant posted two new release 
announcements at omnibear.com 

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Omnibear is a browser extension for 
creating posts on your site with 

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micropub. It allows you to create 
reposts, likes, or replies to any 

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page. 

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The latest release has been 
confirmed working in Chrome, 

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Firefox, and Vivaldi. 

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You can find it on the Chrome Web 
Store and the Firefox Add on store. 

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Aaron Parecki at aaronparecki.com 
published a post titled "Multi Photo 

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Support in OwnYourGram". In it he 
announces that the 

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OwnYourGram service now allows you 
to correctly import Instagram posts 

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containing multiple photos to your 
own site via micropub. 

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Parecki noted some issues with 
modeling Instagram posts with a mix 

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of 

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photos and videos in a way that 
existing 

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Micropub servers are likely to 
support 

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And now a selection of this week's 
updates from the 

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IndieWeb wiki at indieweb.org 

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New Community Members 

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A new user page was created for 
Xavier Roy at xavierroy.com 

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Roy lives in Chennai India and 
writes technical documentation 

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for Genesys Telecom Labs. 

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If you haven't already, now is a 
good time to create your own user 

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page 

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It's a great way to introduce 
yourself to the IndieWeb community 

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and to 

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collect the things that you are 
working on or 

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want to work on for your personal 
website. 

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For more details visit 
indieweb.org/wikifying 

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Community and Concepts 

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A new page was created for 
/site-homepage 

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an ongoing project to improve the 
indieweb.org landing page to make it 

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more responsive, accessible, and 
useful to more generations. 

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Interested community members should 
give it a look and 

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add their suggestions. 

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The /SMS page was updated with info, 
screenshots, and links to several 

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articles about the risks of using 
SMS messages as an 

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account recovery method. 

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While SMS can be useful as a two 
factor authentication method 

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many services group these features 
together, making accounts 

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vulnerable to hijacking. 

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The /like page was updated with a 
link to a post by 

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Esther Kustanowitz on groknation.com 
titled "Be Kind Connect and Create 

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Miracles Make Your Social Media 
'Likes' Matter. 

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In it Kustanowitz encourages readers 
to think of social media 

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reactions such as likes and reposts 
as more than shallow interactions 

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but 

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as a way of spreading kindness and 
letting others know that someone 

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is aware of them. 

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The /webactions page was updated 
with an example of how to create a 

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"follow" button that works across 
sites. The page was also updated 

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with discussion about some of the 
drawbacks of implemenations, 

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including the potential to leak 
personal information. 

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Services and Organizations 

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The /on_this_day page was updated 
with an example from Wikipedia which 

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lists articles for historical events 
that happened on or around the 

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current day. This contrasts with 
services like Timehop which 

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resurface personal social media 
posts for individuals. 

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The /tweetstorm page was updated 
with a link to a post by Chris 

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Coyier on 

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Twitter which asks "Are typeset blog 
posts too hard for you to read? 

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Here's a script to turn them into a 
tweetstorm" 

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The script can be run on long form 
posts to rearrange the content 

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as though it were sent as a series 
of tweets. 

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The /YouTube page was updated with a 
link to a post on The Verge titled 

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"Google pulls YouTube off the Amazon 
Echo Show" 

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The Echo Show is the current 
generation of Amazon's always-on 

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voice 

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assistant device and includes a 
screen for visual content. 

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Google is currently preventing these 
devices from accessing videos on 

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YouTube, claiming that it violates 
their terms of service. 

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IndieWeb Development 

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The /collection page was updated 
with a link from 

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Grant Richmond at grant.codes to a 
post on his site containing 

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a collection of photos. Grant has 
been working on a micropub client to 

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create multiphoto posts, and this 
example post shows it 

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working on his site. 

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The /Lambda page was updated with a 
link to a project on GitHub called 

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"iam-indieauth" 

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The code is intended to be installed 
on Amazon's Lambda 

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compute service and configured as an 
authorization endpoint 

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for use with IndieAuth. 

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That's going to do it for this week. 
Thank you for listening! 

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This English version of This Week in 
the IndieWeb audio edition was 

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read and produced by Marty McGuire. 
If you have suggestions for 

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improving this audio edition of the 
newsletter please feel free to 

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contact Marty in the IndieWeb chat. 

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This Week in the IndieWeb and the 
IndieNews services are provided by 

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Aaron Parecki. 

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Music for this episode included the 
tracks Day 85 Suit, Day 48 Glitch, 

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Day 49 Floating, Day 9, and Day 11 
of Aaron Parecki's 

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100 Days of Music Project.Find out 
more at 100.aaronparecki.com 

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Learn more about the IndieWeb at 
indieweb.org and join the discussion 

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via Slack, IRC, or the web at 
chat.indieweb.org