{"id":21629,"date":"2013-08-14T08:55:22","date_gmt":"2013-08-14T13:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=21629"},"modified":"2013-08-14T08:55:44","modified_gmt":"2013-08-14T13:55:44","slug":"the-indie-web-is-the-very-definition-of-a-fringe-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/08\/14\/the-indie-web-is-the-very-definition-of-a-fringe-project\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;Indie Web&#8221; is the very definition of a fringe project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Wired<\/em>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wiredenterprise\/2013\/08\/indie-web\/\" target=\"_blank\">Klint Finley<\/a> wants you to meet the indie hackers who want to jailbreak the internet (among other things):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One guy is wearing his Google Glass. Another showed up in an HTML5 t-shirt. And then there\u2019s the dude who looks like the Mad Hatter, decked out in a top hat with an enormous white flower tucked into the brim.<\/p>\n<p>At first, they look like any other gaggle of tech geeks. But then you notice that one of them is Ward Cunningham, the man who invented the wiki, the tech that underpins <em>Wikipedia<\/em>. And there\u2019s Kevin Marks, the former vice president of web services at British Telecom. Oh, and don\u2019t miss Brad Fitzpatrick, creator of the seminal blogging site <em>LiveJournal<\/em> and, more recently, a coder who works in the engine room of Google\u2019s online empire.<\/p>\n<p>Packed into a small conference room, this rag-tag band of software developers has an outsized digital pedigree, and they have a mission to match. They hope to jailbreak the internet.<\/p>\n<p>They call it the Indie Web movement, an effort to create a web that\u2019s not so dependent on tech giants like Facebook, Twitter, and, yes, Google \u2014 a web that belongs not to one individual or one company, but to everyone. \u201cI don\u2019t trust myself,\u201d says Fitzpatrick. \u201cAnd I don\u2019t trust companies.\u201d The movement grew out of an egalitarian online project launched by Fitzpatrick, before he made the move to Google. And over the past few years, it has roped in about 100 other coders from around the world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wired&#8216;s Klint Finley wants you to meet the indie hackers who want to jailbreak the internet (among other things): One guy is wearing his Google Glass. Another showed up in an HTML5 t-shirt. And then there\u2019s the dude who looks like the Mad Hatter, decked out in a top hat with an enormous white flower [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,15],"tags":[391,328,129,58,93,310],"class_list":["post-21629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-technology","tag-facebook","tag-google","tag-hack","tag-internet","tag-opensource","tag-twitter"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-5CR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21629"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21630,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21629\/revisions\/21630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}