I’m launching a new side project today! Indie Map is a public IndieWeb social graph and dataset. It’s a complete crawl of 2300 of the most active IndieWeb sites, sliced and diced and rolled up in a few useful ways:

• Social graph API and interactive map.
• SQL queryable dataset and GUI analytics.
• Raw crawl data in WARC format: 2300 sites, 5.7M pages, 380GB HTML + mf2.

The IndieWeb‘s raison d’être is to do social networking on individual personal web sites instead of centralized silos. Some parts have been fairly straightforward to decentralize – publishing, reading, interacting – but others are more difficult. Social graph and data mining fall squarely in the latter camp, which is why the community hasn’t tackled them much so far. I hope this inspires us to do more!

Indie Map was announced at IndieWeb Summit 2017. Check out the slide deck and video (soon!) for more details. Also on IndieNews.

Excited to be at Indie Web Summit this weekend!

Data wants to be dirty.

French leave (n)

…the French custom of leaving a dinner or ball without saying goodbye to the host or hostess…the equivalent French expression is filer à l’Anglaise, literally “to escape in the style of the English.” 🤔

   – New Oxford American Dictionary

Making ice cream the old fashioned way…almost.

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