@rk users & search engines can browse/index websites w/o reading a TOS. robots.txt is courtesy (Technorati ignored it)
@shawndrape with OAuth we traded
1 evil: user/pass (in)security
for 2: dev complexity & app keys with proprietary TOS
#indieweb on news.ycombinator.com home page
@benwerd: The IndieWeb as a minimum viable social web ecosystem:
http://werd.io/entry/51dca7e2bed7de945debf707/the-indieweb-as-a-minimum-viable-social-web-ecosystem
Your “Open API” with proprietary TOS is not open, it’s a bizdev hook.
You know what’s open? HTML over HTTP.
#indieweb
Did “memorandum” originally mean what we would today think of as a “blog post”?
“… a note, document or other communication that helps the memory by recording events or observations on a topic …”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memorandum
standards become public domain once incorporated into law. why not to begin with? e.g. @microformats @WHATWG. Re: https://www.eff.org/press/releases/publicresourceorg-prevails-free-speech-case-over-publishing-safety-standards
Previously, previously, previously:
* 2011-06-17: 10 Practices for Good Open Web Standards Development: tantek.com/2011/168/b1/practices-good-open-web-standards-development
* 2011-05-06: tantek.com/2011/126/t1/htmlwg-preferred-html5-licenses-mit-cc0-over-w3c
* 2010-10-08: What is the Open Web: tantek.com/2010/281/b1/what-is-the-open-web
* 2008-01-01: Open as possible means public domain plus a strong community: tantek.com/log/2008/01.html#d01t1946
* 2007-12-19: Making open standards as open as possible — required public domain licensing of all microformats wiki contributions: microformats.org/2007/12/29/making-open-standards-as-open-as-possible
Best part of @WIRED #superhero powers article:
wired.com/design/2013/06/superpowers
is the comments section.
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