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❤ Liked: I'm Online Now | benji

You may have noticed my homepage now features an image which sometimes has a basic border around it, and other times it has a blinking orange border around it. The orange border is meant to represent that I'm online now. By online now I mean that I am at my desk sitting at my computer. I'm never at my computer unless I am working on something, personal or professional, but it could also mean that I'm in a meeting or available for a chat. I've shown this to a few people before but since I had …

❤ Liked: The IndieWeb’s next stage?

I think two main groups of people are drawn to the IndieWeb: 1. technical people who want to control their web experience, and 2. people who admire the vision on the homepage: “The IndieWeb is a people-focused alternative to the “corporate web”.“ (And some are in both.) You can probably guess that I’m in the latter group 😉 Over its first decade-plus, the IndieWeb community has done a great job developing protocols and experimenting with a wide range of tools to accomplish many online activiti…

❤ Liked: A post on This day’s portion

I instinctively mistrust any service that offers to describe an image for you – to automatically generate alt text, for example. Firstly, this implies that describing images – and by extension, making your article understandable to people using AT – is a problem. More fundamentally, it’s impossible to just “describe” an image. All seeing involves interpreting and conveying something beyond the image – it’s not the same as summing a column in a spreadsheet.