Indie Microblogging by Manton Reece

Manton Reece is the creator of Micro.blog, his book Indie Microblogging is three things:

1. A history: It picks up where The Weblog Handbook has left off. Manton continues to write a history of blogging and how it changed with the arrival of Tumblr, Twitter, and Facebook. Driven by experiences with failed and dying platforms, the IndieWeb movement designs protocols to build an open Web as an antithesis to today’s siloed social media giants.
2. An IndieWeb design documentation: Manton outlines how these experiences have shaped the design of Micro.blog. These are generic ideas that can be repurposed for your own implementations. As an example, the way Micro.blog displays content of varying lengths in the timeline and posts with or without titles, these ideas can be transferred into a custom solution to post content from a personal website to social media.
3. A handbook for IndieWeb building blocks: Much of Indie Microblogging describes how Micro.blog works and where it sits within the IndieWeb ecosystem. But it’s not only a book about Mirco.blog. It describes the building blocks of an open, interoperable Web that fosters sharing and communication between people using self-hosted platforms and content syndication. It’s a handbook for building blogging software today and the protocols it should support.

IndieWeb Microblogging embodies the very values of the open web: Sharing ideas and knowledge for everyone to build upon and to build a better, Independent, open and more connected Web.