While at IndieWebCamp New York City, I sat down with some of the participants to ask "Why did you involved with the IndieWeb?" My name is David Shanske. S-H-A-N-S-K-E. And my website, if you can spell that you can get to it, because it is david.shanske.com. I was listening to an interview of a member of the IndieWeb on a podcast and I said, "That mirrors what I believe, myself." And I found out there was an event in New York, and I went to it, and I showed up and immediately felt this was a place that I wanted to keep coming to. That would have been 2014. Do you have an particular projects that you're looking forward to working on or finishing up? Someday I'd like the core developers of WordPress to actually be interested in bringing some of these things in there. Right now the focus in WordPress seems to be in a different area. Their focus appears to be, right now, on block-level editing in their editor, which scares a lot of people because it's a major change. And more, I would say, not-necessarily-bloggy futures. There's been something of a tilt in the business area over the last few years because of all the people using WordPress for business. Great, well thank you so much! Anytime. --- Hello and welcome to This Week in the IndieWeb, audio edition, for the week of October 7th - 13th, 2017. 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. The next regularly scheduled Homebrew Website Club meetup is October 18th, with Nurnberg, Brighton, London, and Baltimore confirmed so far, as well as a virtual homebrew website club at Central European Time. 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 Registration is open for IndieWebCamp Berlin, which will take place November 4th and 5th at Contentful GmbH in Berlin, Germany. Learn more and register now at indieweb.org/2017/Berlin. Planning is in progress for IndieWebCamp Austin, scheduled to take place December 9th and 10th. Learn more and help out at indieweb.org/2017/Austin. All IndieWeb events follow the IndieWeb Code of Conduct, which can be found at indieweb.org/coc. And, 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. A couple of IndieWeb-related events are also coming up. IndieWeb community member Jeremy Keith of adactio.com will be giving a talk on the "Building Blocks of the IndieWeb" at the View Source Conference in London on October 27th. And IndieWeb community member Calum Ryan, of calumryan.com will be giving a talk Introducing the IndieWeb Movement at MozFest London on October 28th. --- Here is a brief summary of posts collected this week by IndieNews, a XXX community-curated list of articles relevant to the IndieWeb. You can XXX read more, or submit posts of your own, at news.indieweb.org. Sebastiaan Andeweg, at seblog.nl, published a post titled "Thinking about bookmarks and likes on the IndieWeb". In it, he discusses the different personal reasons one might want to bookmark or like a post online, the sometimes-conflicting social cues that can be inferred from likes and bookmarks in social media, and his thoughts on how he hopes resolve some of these conflicts on his personal site. Chris Aldrich, at boffosocko.com, published a post titled "Using Facepiles in Comments for WordPress with Webmentions and Semantic Linkbacks". In it, he explains a recent update to the Webmention plugin for WordPress, which now allows webmentions that represent likes from other sites to collapse into a single section of avatars, also known as a "facepile". Chris Aldrich also shared a link to a video of a recent talk titled "The Decentralized Social Web" by IndieWeb community member Keith J. Grant from the Connect.Tech conference in Atlanta this past month. In it, Grant describes IndieWeb technologies and gives live demos of features like micropub and webmention. --- And now, a selection of this week's updates from the IndieWeb wiki at indieweb.org. # New Community Members A new user page was created for Danielle McKlean, at 00dani.me. Danielle describes herself as "a trans lesbian, passionately intersectional feminist, and adorable pony". She is adding IndieWeb features to her website, which runs on a custom open source Haskell backend named lebd. A new user page was created for Scott Mathson, at scottmathson.com. Scott describes himself as "a web guy, optimizer, project manager, designer, & developer in Missoula, Montana." He is working on adding microformats to his website and reading about the IndieWeb. 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 "Mumble" page was updated with info about a running instance of the voice chat service set up by Sven Knebel at voice.sknebel.net. A web interface is available, so it should be possible to participate without installing additional software. This server will likely be used for an upcoming Virtual Homebrew Website Club, so if you're a regular participant, be on the lookout. The "notifications" page was updated with a link to a post by Jeremy Keith at adactio.com also titled "Notifications". In it, Keith describes his practice of disabling all notifications when installing new apps on his phone. He discusses a trend he has noticed whereby some apps increasingly disrupt normal usage with prompts to enable notifications, showing a lack of respect for user choice. The "design" page was updated with a link to a post by Paul Lewis at theguardian.com titled "'Our minds can be hijacked': the tech insiders who fear a smartphone dystopia". In it, Lewis details discussions with designers and developers from many apps and platforms who are concerned that the design patterns used to drive so-called "engagement" are increasingly making users' lives worse by creating addiction, anxiety, and constant distraction. # Services and Organizations The "bookmark" page has been updated with some documentation and screenshots of Pocket, a bookmarking silo that is now built into the Firefox browser. The documentation includes a walkthrough of the integrated features, as well as some details about how it handles duplication, sharing, and more. The "iOS" page was updated with a link to a post by Felix Krause at krausefx.com titled "iOS Privacy: steal.password - Easily get the user's Apple ID password, just by asking". In it, the author shows that it is simple to construct an iOS application that prompts the user to enter their Apple ID credentials with a dialog that looks identical to the "real" iTunes store prompts from the operating system. The "AIM" page was updated with info about the upcoming silo death of AOL Instant Messenger, scheduled to shut down on December 15th of this year. Links were added to the page to methods for exporting your buddy lists, as well as any chat logs that may be stored on the service. The "smart speaker" page was updated with links to articles from Business Insider and Android Police about a recent issue with the Google Home Mini smart speaker. Google has pushed out a software update to disable the touch-to-listen functionality on these devices after a design flaw in the touch sensors led to the units continuously sending audio to Google's servers. The "silo-quits" page was updated with a link to a post by Jonathan McAloon at telegraph.co.uk titled "Why do celebrities like Lena Dunham leave Twitter?" The post serves as a "Who's Who?" of celebrities that have famously abandoned their Twitter accounts, typically after facing abuse and death threats from other users of the microblogging silo. --- 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. Find out more at 100.aaronparecki.com Learn more about the IndieWeb at indieweb.org, and join the discussion via Slack, IRC, or the web at chat.indieweb.org.