ByDan Knauss
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Amber Wilson wants us to help grow the IndieWeb with Webmentions:
“With webmentions, each person owns their own data and each person can communicate with others. Webmentions are basically a way to display on your personal site ways that others have interacted with your content.”
Radiopaper is like a ring of threaded and publicly aggregated full-text Webmentions created via email — you email people you want to have a semi/private conversation with, and the conversation is published publicly. It’s like if IndieWeb News let you unfold nested webmentions from posts replying to an original, parent post in their list.
This mention of “Webmentions” by Drew McLellan caught my attention. Webmention is a W3C Recommendation and similar in concept to Pingbacks. (It also seems adapted to deal with some of Pingback’s weaknesses.) I’ll admit not hearing about Webmentions until I read Drew’s post. There’s at least one WordPress plugin you can install to try out…
The percentage of sponsored contributors has steadily increased to almost 20% now.
