From “It’s not you, it’s meme” by Richard Stevens. See also: “Analogjam”.
Ben Werdmüller posted something that’s apparently going around, “I’m making 50 pieces of art. Do you want one?” and I quite liked the sentiment, that is that to participate you must independently web-publish something indicating your interest.
Which led me to indiewebify.me, a collection of tools and protocols for cataloging and connecting the “indie web” (13 years ago when I started blogging we just called it “the web”). Despite thinking a lot about how to help get my friends out of the prison that is Facebook and try and recreate the idyllic time that was web 1.0, I hesitated to participate in this little indiewebart experiment simply because I’m quite unsure I should take on a single additional commitment. But after scanning indiewebify.me I became rather unsure I should take on such a technical endeavor, and I’m a web developer.
So. I will probably ping Ben via a “webmention” I initiate from the command line. And if you request it via your own independent web-based publication of some sort, I will send you some art by the end of 2014. Sadly I won’t get webmentions working on my server in time. But you know how to find me.
Is My Laptop Ruining My Life? by Adam Buxton (NSFW).
Maciej Cegłowski on content and social.
Both of the above from the dConstruct conference 2013 archive.