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On the Indieweb
Stephen Downes, Half an Hour, 2021/02/11

I think we have to return to what we think the Indieweb is. The original goals were ownership, control, do-it-yourself, and inter-connectivity. These have morphed into some sort of amalgam of code camps and self-authored software. But I think that if we revisit these in the spirit of social and community benefit, we can envision something more encompassing.

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Praxis and the Indieweb
Daniel Goldsmith, 2021/02/11

This is an excellent post analyzing the weaknesses of the Indieweb as it is currently constituted. You may have already seen my response. Daniel Goldsmith makes the point that the Indieweb is target-blind, exclusionary, and "has at its core a significant barrier to entry." I can't disagree. It instantiates a certain point of view of the world (the same one that informs existing social networks), it is complicated and difficult to follow, and it doesn't take into account the broader ideal of what an Indieweb should be.

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Talking out loud to yourself is a technology for thinking
Nana Ariel, Psyche, 2021/02/11

I don't talk to myself out loud, probably because my inner voice is loud enough for both of us. But like John Stuart Mill, I have found teaching to be an excellent way to learn something, especially if I have to work through something out loud. That's why giving talks has been so important to me over the years, and why I've recently starting making more (not always successful) videos (on reflection, you can see me struggle with the visual aspect of things in them). For me, at least, "It’s not thought that produces speech but, rather, speech is a creative process that in turn generates thought. Just as ‘appetite comes with eating’, Kleist argues, ‘ideas come with speaking’." Via Mike Taylor.

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