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# 05:53 tantek and the retweets continue apparently. any new folks here from the WIRED article?
# 05:56 hadleybeeman I've been meaning to post it. The non-technical world could do with a read of it.
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# 06:13 hadleybeeman Hey Tantek (and Bay Area #indiewebcamp-ers): I'm in SF next week. Let me know if there is anything useful going on?
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# 11:54 bnvk Just spent some time doing damage control on the mostly hideous comments of that Wired post!
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# 12:05 bnvk is IndieAuth borked for anyone else? I keep getting a Ruby error "RelParser::InsecureRedirectError at /auth/start" which ever 3rd party service I try to connect with
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# 12:16 bnvk It's really fascinating how haters come out of the woodwork and start complaining that apples are oranges!
# 12:16 cweiske kind of funny that someone builds a google reader replacement that only works with google sign in and on google app engine
# 12:16 neuro` bnvk: haters and morons are the reason why I don't read comments anymore.
# 12:17 neuro` I think I'll close them as soon as I implement Web mention: if you want to comment, do it from your place.
# 12:17 barnabywalters bnvk: which IA auth providers were you trying? github just worked fine for me
# 12:18 barnabywalters bnvk: yeah, and getting thoroughly confused (“they got $200,000 and they still haven’t built anything”)
# 12:18 bnvk Yah... Web Mentions are the most exciting thing to combat spam & trolls I'm aware of
# 12:18 bnvk barnabywalters: I tried Twitter and Github
# 12:18 barnabywalters bnvk: hm, weird. from the exception it sounds like there’s a https -> http redirect going on somewhere
# 12:19 neuro` bnvk: unfortunately, I already built a spam machine using Web mention :(
# 12:19 bnvk barnabywalters: all my links are HTTPS
# 12:20 neuro` barnabywalters: I wanted to POC a theory I had about Webmention.
# 12:22 cweiske but you could actually send the author of the mention a mail, asking for verification
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# 12:30 bnvk barnabywalters: it was a different error when I used Twitter
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# 13:43 Jihaisse neuro`: it's seems unatural to me to not be able to comment directly from the website
# 13:47 neuro` Jihaisse: I understand, but to be honnest, I'm more than sick with all the legit looking spam comments I get everyday
# 13:47 neuro` Just because some SEO companies have noticed that I didn't want to break the Web going nofollow.
# 13:49 Jihaisse but it's a mess for now to write a webmention (with wordpress)
# 13:52 barnabywalters Jihaisse: cool, let me know if you want to try setting it up. adding action markup to your own site is super-easy, setting up your browser to actually use the markup is slightly more tricky
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# 14:19 pfefferle Jihaisse let me know if you have some ideas to improve the webmention wordpress plugin
# 14:20 hidgw I noticed that <link rel="me"/> support is mentioned in a pretty recent commit to IndieAuth. How long until such a thing is likely to be supported on the IWC site?
# 14:20 hidgw Procrastinating on modifying my homepage, I am
# 14:26 barnabywalters hidgw: if it’s in the indieauth repo it should be actively supported on indieauth.com too
# 14:27 hidgw barnabywalters: I have suddenly lost any reason to procrastinate on this… :)
# 14:28 tommorris has fun and games with SiloAuth, brought to you by Facebook®.
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# 14:47 hidgw I just realized I might have signed into the IWC site back when it supported OpenID. If I make IndieAuth work, will I get back into my old account after signing in with the same domain?
# 14:48 tantek hidgw - so few people signed in with openid back in the day that aaronpk just does manual merges (I think)
# 14:48 tantek or maybe we just redirected our old user pages to the new ones
# 14:48 tantek the openid login for mediawiki was a very odd flow - didn't make much sense
# 14:48 hidgw tantek: Thanks. I'll see what happens when I get the proper links set up.
# 14:49 hidgw There are a lot of things about mediawiki that don't make much sense, I've found
# 14:49 hidgw The Vector skin appears not to even show MediaWiki:Loginprompt any more
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# 15:43 aaronpk bnvk: there's still a caching bug with indieauth.com, but if you click the second github link on your login page it should work
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# 15:44 bnvk aaronpk: hrm, i'm pretty sure I tried both
# 15:44 aaronpk bnvk: it looks like you logged in successfully a couple hours ago?
# 15:44 bnvk yah, I manually changed the redirect URL in query string and pasted it in the browser :)
# 15:45 bnvk yah, that github link is what the error was screenshotted from
# 15:49 bnvk yah, I was a bit stumped, glad i'm not the only one :)
# 15:49 bnvk if it's at all helpful- the one odd thing is the step 1 (select provider) shows my Icelandic #
# 15:49 bnvk but my site doesn't have that number listed in the sources
# 15:50 aaronpk if you hit re-scan it will go fetch your home page again
# 15:52 aaronpk oh yea you have to enter explicitly https:// if your site redirects
# 15:53 aaronpk weird, it's like it's not finding the links on the remote site
# 16:04 aaronpk cweiske: just pushed up the changes from a couple days ago, so yes i believe so
# 16:08 bnvk yes in the query string then pressing enter
# 16:09 aaronpk bnvk: you have to also enter https in the login box for it to work, did you do that too?
# 16:09 bnvk does the same as when I enter brennannovak.com
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# 16:14 aaronpk apparently there is a smaller scope now, so I will change it
# 16:14 aaronpk but yes what barnabywalters said. it's already public
# 16:15 barnabywalters I have spoken to people who are put off by apps listing the permissions they demand
# 16:15 aaronpk because i'm not providing a scope parameter right now
# 16:16 barnabywalters aaronpk: it’s more of a “wall of things” problem — twitter’s asking for all this stuff, I can’t be bothered to read through it and decide whether or not I’m actually in danger
# 16:16 aaronpk i've seen various different approaches to that problem
# 16:17 aaronpk bnvk: i have to get back to work. but I think if you type https://brennannovak.com into the login box, then press re-scan (or choose the second github link) it will work
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# 16:50 aaronpk really want to post my trip itinerary for iwcUK as a private message on my site for people to see
# 16:52 aaronpk right now everyone on that page is listed as an attendee
# 16:53 aaronpk which is great for an event, but I can imagine pretty quickly wanting to use it for access control that is not just event based, primary a "group"
# 16:53 barnabywalters I hate the term “group” when applied to this sort of access control use case
# 16:53 aaronpk i know, terminology is tricky, but this is a good use case
# 16:54 aaronpk i also don't like managing groups in my facebook or g+ account
# 16:55 aaronpk interestingly, in both of these examples, I'm basically delegating the management of the group to a third party
# 16:55 barnabywalters aaronpk: I don’t see how letting a URL be used for non-event based auth is a problem
# 16:55 aaronpk not a problem, just need a way to list people under something other than "attendees"
# 16:56 barnabywalters just say “any h-cards with urls and/or urls with XFN” found at this URL are in the group
# 16:56 aaronpk hm, you think the "attendee" semantic is unnecessary?
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# 16:56 Loqi benwerd: tantek left you a message 2 days, 1 hour ago: let's for sure do an indiewebcampsf dinner monday night. adactio (Jeremy Keith) will also be in town.
# 16:57 benwerd whoa, and that's what happens when I don't log in all weekend
# 16:57 Loqi benwerd: tantek left you a message 1 day ago: with this 2nd burst of wired coverage we should definitely do dinner tomorrow!
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# 16:57 benwerd hey, right on time. tantek, still up for dinner tonight?
# 16:58 benwerd barnabywalters: thanks for writing that up! makes sense.
# 16:58 tantek can do - maybe on the later side - what's the word from kevinmarks or shanley?
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# 17:04 benwerd I'm up for anything, anyhoo - so if it works, cool. Might come in and work from SF a little later regardless
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# 17:08 tantek I'm thinking around 20:30 if we can find some place convenient to downtownish, maybe near Embarcadero or Montgomery stations.
# 17:13 tantek benwerd - have any spots you've been wanting to try thereabouts?
# 17:13 tantek could also do a cafe in north beach - like the old beat poets.
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# 17:14 benwerd tantek - Depends what we're after! north beach is also good (& I really like that neighborhood), although I only really know Vesuvio offhand.
# 17:15 benwerd I haven't explored down there enough, and tend to gravitate to Local Edition in the center ;)
# 17:18 benwerd 8:30 is actually a really great time, too. I've got some stuff that I need to shovel away first.
# 17:20 tantek shall we do IndieWebCampSF drinkup at Local Edition 20:30 then?
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# 17:20 tantek going to try to get Jeremy Keith to stop by as well
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# 17:30 rknLA benwerd, tantek: may i invite myself along?
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# 17:31 benwerd rknLA: I think the idea is that it's a drinkup! No need to invite yourself
# 17:35 rknLA I wasn't sure if Local Edition also served food, and it still sorta sounded like a dinner, so i figured asking couldn't hurt
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# 18:23 tantek benwerd - great - shall we start a wiki page?
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# 18:35 rknLA josephg: fwiw, i am also planning to eat dinner at some point this evening. ;)
# 18:35 josephg I'm keen - I actually have an idea that I need to run past a few people to make sure I'm not nuts
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# 18:49 rknLA i will probably be heading to the soma streatfood park thingy beforehand to grab a bite if anyone is interested in joining
# 18:50 RedType jeu o, pme tje mew irc people
# 18:50 RedType hey i'm one of the new irc people
# 18:51 RedType my right hand was misaligned
# 18:51 bret welcome :) How did you make your way here?
# 18:51 RedType ive been following the iwc site and stuff for a while
# 18:51 aaronpk it still surprises me that bars can not serve food
# 18:51 aaronpk i do kind of like that law in oregon, everything has food
# 18:52 bret Sweet RedType what do you think so far?
# 18:52 RedType bret: it's good things
# 18:52 bret anything particularly interesting you?
# 18:53 RedType ui/ux stuff, some of the authentication stuff
# 18:53 RedType decentralized secure web auth with the capability for anonymity
# 18:54 RedType actually owncloud is what got my attention
# 18:54 bret Decentralized yes, I'm not sure if anyone has done much with anonymity
# 18:54 bret aaronpk: has been working on decentralized privacy though
# 18:54 RedType yeah it's not a necessary thing. it's just stuff that got me interested
# 18:54 bret own cloud is way cool, I want to check that out eventually
# 18:55 RedType i kind of sketched out what would be needed for something like that, then someone did it
# 18:56 bret The primary focus for most people recently seems to be replacing what Silos provide to them
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# 18:57 RedType i have my own short name
# 18:58 RedType i actually am thinking of using a url scheme for my personal stuff in the form of domain.tld/verb/noun/subnoun/#pagelocation
# 19:00 RedType anyways i am going to grab lunch but i might go the drinkup if that's a thing
# 19:00 bret yeah! beyond that whole list, the best way to get involved is to meet up with folkd
# 19:00 bret (although I won't be there, I'm in portland)
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# 19:09 tantek is a fan of the "bars have food" law in Portland.
# 19:10 bret We need to implement IndieRSVPs on that events page
# 19:12 bret i need to start to remember doing that
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# 19:13 aaronpk " links to websites where the Tweet was embedded" whoa
# 19:14 tantek aaronpk, that's basically like showing pingbacks/mentions right?
# 19:14 aaronpk espn.com linked to this tweet, so the tweet shows the link from espn.com
# 19:15 tantek so I wonder if this is whitelisted or does everyone who embed a tweet get to show up on the tweet permalink
# 19:16 aaronpk seems like it would be a ton of work to whitelist that
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# 19:16 aaronpk their examples are sites that also have twitter accounts, maybe it's limited to domains that map to a twitter account
# 19:16 tantek aaronpk - or they just use their existing TwitterCards whitelist :/
# 19:18 aaronpk tantek: normally i'd agree, but since they have infinite scrolling on the reply list it make ssense to have the headlines above
# 19:18 bret aaronpk: also, you totally link to a silo instead of your primary identity on the web on your business profile :p
# 19:22 tantek so how is twitter notified of the embedding? does it require someone to view the article that embeds the tweet and thus execute the Twitter embed JS?
# 19:22 aaronpk especially cause the first thing you're going to do when embeddeing a tweet is go look at it yourself
# 19:23 tantek so … what would happen if the IndieWebCamp IRC logs used the Twitter embed JS for blockquoted tweets?
# 19:25 tantek Do the articles themselves have to use TwitterCards?
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# 19:26 aaronpk also not sure how long it will take before it's picked up. I know the twitter cards themselves have a short delay before the tweet permalink shows the card
# 19:26 aaronpk my guess is twitter card is required which is where it gets the page title from
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# 19:33 aaronpk interestingly the techcrunch story does not appear on that tweet yet
# 19:38 tantek aaronpk - indeed - especially since that tweet of mine was a "reply" on Twitter
# 19:38 aaronpk oh interesting point, i should have tested with an original
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# 19:54 aaronpk oh hey look at the nice xfn links on iamshane.com
# 19:54 aaronpk in other words, I answered my own question with the INTERNET
# 19:55 aaronpk shaners: that's awesome. you should put your name somewhere on farmhouse.la tho!
# 19:55 shaners i think everyone should come to it, and then the day after we can do actual indiewebCAMP in my backyard.
# 19:56 shaners aaronpk: part of the reason for that was to make it not about me.
# 19:57 rknLA everyone should go to farmhouse. it's one of the best things i've ever been to.
# 19:59 RedType i'm going to reconfigure irssi to use a better nick
# 19:59 rknLA shaners: you're welcome, and thank _you_ for putting it all together
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# 20:02 shaners would people be into doing an IndieWebCamp::Hollywood on 2013-11-03?
# 20:02 aaronpk shaners: awesome. i'm going to try to go to that too then!
# 20:03 rknLA shaners: i'd be into that. might want to figure out borrowing a tent or something for while i'm down there.
# 20:03 shaners camping is welcome. there'll likely be leftover food and drinks from Farmhouse Conf 5. I'll have 4 VIP portapots and 150 wooden folding chairs. no projector. but there is a 110 ten year old avocado tree. and a barn.
# 20:05 tantek aaronpk, speaking of ISO dates - am I the only one that experiences cognitive dissonance on tweet permalinks when they say things like "15 Aug 13" and I think, August 13th?
# 20:06 tantek shaners - like any barcamp, I'd suggest getting a co-organizer or a few and collectively driving details like that.
# 20:07 shaners i'm taking a straw poll right now of attendees. who would STAY for monday? are most people weekend only.
# 20:07 aaronpk shaners: I would probably not stay for monday. If I go I'd likely be going to Redlands on Monday with Davy
# 20:07 tantek shaners - maybe create a draft wiki page gauge attendee interest
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# 20:08 tantek and then co-organizers adactio and aral drove it to become two days
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# 20:13 rknLA i'm not sure if i would stay for monday either. depends if i would have to take vacation time to do it :\
# 20:13 aaronpk is setting things in motion to be able to go to LA that weekend
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# 20:31 aaronpk whoa, do you think they're able to block some of the replies now?
# 20:34 tantek aaronpk - I don't know - I wish I'd used a separate tab
# 20:35 neuro` shaners: using a CNAME when pointing to an external resource is the less crappy way to ensure consistency in your resources URLs
# 20:36 neuro` (I backport the conversation here because it's indie web related)
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# 20:37 shaners right. my S3 urls were never meant to be permanent. it's on The List to be done. :/
# 20:39 bret shaners: IWC at the farmhouse sounds way cool but I get super busy in november with school
# 20:39 neuro` That's the reason why I advice people who want to use service like Feedburner to use a CNAME / redirect from their domain name like feed.mydomain.com -> feeds.feedburner.com/mysite (it's already on the wiki tantek, no need to mention :))
# 20:39 shaners bret: maybe you could take a short whirlwind get away for a 3 day weekend?
# 20:40 tantek neuro` - if it's already on the wiki, why not link to it instead of repeating it? ;)
# 20:40 tantek Sparverius - you can always check indiewebcamp.com/events :)
# 20:41 neuro` tantek: speaking about it, do you know when you're free during your Paris trip?
# 20:42 bret shaners: maybe, I will have to see how my budget and TA schedule looks. I will def remote in and see what I can do to make it
# 20:43 bret are there any non proprietary ways to do realtime video on the web?
# 20:46 shaners aaronpk: i left you on the page (copy/pasted from 2013/IWCUK) to save you some typing, since you already said you'd likely be coming.
# 20:49 tantek vrypan - how much of your distributed query system have you implemented on vrypan.net?
# 20:51 vrypan tantek, unfortunately, zero. I had written some code (WP plugin) that could be a start, but it's been many years since, I don't even know where the code is.
# 20:55 bret Sounds like a neat idea, maybe it could become the basis of some kind of distributed consumption tool
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# 21:00 vrypan bret - If it was used, I could search indiewebcamp.com for, say, "rss" and get answers from sites that are related to indieweb and have written something about RSS. Much more relevant for me than googling "rss".
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# 21:08 barnabywalters at some point I’m going to make script which creates new blekko slashtags from URLs with XFN or h-cards in
# 21:09 barnabywalters otherwise, a combination of opensearch and microformats could be used to search many sites at once and accumulate the results
# 21:09 vrypan barnabywalters: that would be cool. But blekko is sitll centralised. And it has little knowledge of what my site thinks is important.
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# 21:11 vrypan Google is trying to do it too, by relating sites and +1s to your social network.
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# 21:37 tantek aaronpk - hmm - isn't blogspot a silo? should we be allowing *.blogspot.com sign-ins for indieauth for indiewebcamp.com?
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# 22:42 vrypan permashortcitations are a bit cryptic for the uninitiated. Have you tried alternative forms?
# 22:43 vrypan For example it looks like .example.me/123 is not auto linked by twitter (and it's easier for someone to get the hint and copy-paste to the browser)
# 22:48 aaronpk vrypan: look at my tweets, I always include a full URL (aaron.pk/xxxxx)
# 22:50 vrypan aaronpk: yes, but yours are auto-linked by twitter (t.co)
# 22:53 aaronpk but my short URLs are still visible in the tweet text, just not in the href attribute
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# 23:02 aaronpk tantek and I use an algorithm so that there is no database backing it
# 23:02 vrypan aaronpk: yes, I've read about it, I like the idea.
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# 23:18 shaners rknLA: i use the same enshortening algorithm using NewBase60
# 23:19 rknLA do you run analytics on the endpoints that do the shortlink processing, or just let it run free?
# 23:20 rknLA analytics as in, how many people have clicked through your shortlink
# 23:21 rknLA hmm. in explaining, i think i am answering my own question,
# 23:21 rknLA basically i was wondering about link tracking,
# 23:21 rknLA but you could just shortlink with a tracking parameter?
# 23:31 Loqi shaners meant to say: tantek: is your site's content CC?
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# 23:49 tantek shaners - nicely done with your reply tweets.
# 23:49 tantek no my site content is by default all rights reserved
# 23:49 Loqi tantek meant to say: though I put my slide decks into PD via CC0
# 23:50 tantek I think. Hmm. maybe they're CC-by and I just ask for people to link/attribute tantek.com
# 23:50 shaners tantek: i certainly don't care if you CC your site content or not. I was just surprised.
# 23:50 tantek shaners - enough of it is "personal" in nature that doesn't quite feel right to CC.
# 23:50 tantek I try to explicitly CC (by or 0) the professional / how-to stuff.
# 23:51 tantek all the stuff others might actually find useful :)
# 23:51 shaners i'm always surprised by what others find useful of mine
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# 23:52 tantek funny thing about anil's question, despite its negative framing, I think he has no idea that there is a whole legion of indieweb "apps" (as he put it) that are slowing growing stronger, richer, and will inevitably eclipse all of the closed "apps" (silos UIs).
# 23:53 shaners tantek: while i agree with you, there's no proof that we'll eclipse all of those silos yet. ;)
# 23:53 tantek also funny that he got not one by *two* reply tweets saying no idea what he's talking about.
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# 23:53 tantek shaners - we're going to eclipse them because they're actually quite slow to innovate.
# 23:53 tantek and we can pick and choose the best UI ideas from them, and ignore their mistakes
# 23:54 tantek I have no doubt that at least 2+ indieweb projects will eclipse Twitter UI functionality by IndieWebCamp 2014
# 23:54 npdoty I've been responding to Anil as well, but I think the most interesting thing about the question is the framing of "apps"
# 23:54 shaners i'm not surprised that people don't know what he's talking about. we have yet to do much outreach/marketing/branding
# 23:54 npdoty what's most advantageous about indieweb projects is that they're generally interoperable rather than self-contained, like the Web
# 23:54 tantek npdoty - yeah - did you ask him? what does he mean by "app"?
# 23:55 tantek shaners - it's ok people don't know what he's talking about - his question was poorly worded in the first place.
# 23:55 npdoty while I had doubts about the question, I tried to respond positively, by suggesting email, IRC, personal blogs, etc.
# 23:56 npdoty also, in his follow up he specifically asked for non-commercial applications
# 23:56 tantek shaners - so as far as outreach/marketing/branding - the greatest hack of all is just getting people like Anil to user our language, to user our brand.
# 23:57 npdoty ... and while that's generally an interesting question, I think indieweb doesn't mean non-profit
# 23:57 tantek we don't need him or any other "pundit" to do or say anything else. the indieweb meme takes care of itself.
# 23:59 tantek It's the question that drives us. It's the question that brought you here. You know the question, just as I did. What is the IndieWeb?