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Terence Eden’s Blog

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While attending IndieWebCamp in Brighton a few weeks ago, a bunch of us were talking about blogging. What is post? What should it contain? What's optional? Someone (probably Jeremy Keith said: A blog post doesn't need a title. In a literal sense, he was wrong. The HTML specification makes it clear that the <title> element is mandatory. All documents have title. But, in a practical sense, he was right. This blog post has an empty <h1> element - the document might be semantically invalid,…

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Caboom! Comment Anywhere, Bring Onto Own Media

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In the IndieWeb movement there's a concept of "POSSE" - Publish Once, Simultaneously Syndicate Elsewhere. You should publish your words, pictures, songs, reviews on your own site. And then you can choose to share them out to where your audience is. Perhaps that's posting the link on Facebook, or a copy of a photo on Instagram, or sharing the episode on YouTube. There's no shame in meeting your audience where they are - but the canonical version should be somewhere you control. But what about …

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