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Jeremy Cherfas

Matt Mullenweg talking to James Altucher kinda sorta gets #indieweb

Not going to listen to the podcast; life is way too short for that. But a couple of quotes from My WordPress:

> “We’re trying to revitalize the independent web,” Matt Mullenweg said. He’s 33 now. “It’s not like these big sites are going anywhere. They’re fantastic. I use all of them, but you want balance. You need your own site that belongs to you… like your own home on the Internet.”

So, how about total indiewebness in the basic WordPress core and default theme?

> “Other sites provide space,” he said. “They provide distribution in exchange for owning all of your stuff. You can’t leave Facebook or Twitter and take all of your followers with you.”

> That’s why he recommends having your own website. It’s yours. Not Facebook’s. Not Business Insider’s or Huffington Post’s. It’s yours.

But no mention of which comes first? Does it even matter?

Jeremy Cherfas

Jeremy Cherfas

Agriculture in Africa–Telling Myths from Facts. Kudos to @mfbellemare and his coeditor and contributors.

Facts about African agriculture. Kudos to @mfbellemare and his coeditor and contributors.

Jeremy Cherfas

Jeremy Cherfas

Jeremy Cherfas

Jeremy Cherfas

I invented the web. Here are three things we need to change to save it

> I may have invented the web, but all of you have helped to create what it is today. All the blogs, posts, tweets, photos, videos, applications, web pages and more represent the contributions of millions of you around the world building our online community.

Tim Berners Lee

Jeremy Cherfas

Jeremy Cherfas

Cuisine and Empire, by Rachel Laudan reviewed by @jonathanpkatz at Flavors of Diaspora

Don't disagree with anything he says, and had not myself fully appreciated that there could have been more on sub-Saharan Africa. No doubt someone is already working on that.

Jeremy Cherfas