Analogue / Offline Small Web

[arevakhach]

This past year, my appreciation of physical artifacts grew stronger than ever! Some examples include: the ‘bookshelves’ topic, the ‘pen & paper notes’ topic & my blog post about VHS tapes. Additionally, the ‘Importance of Inconvenience’ topic is a great conversation closer to the heart of the matter.

But this thread is for…

• Promotion and curation of physical fragments of the small web.

  • Examples here include: physical zines (like Melon’s Guide to Homepage Web Craft), the ‘Internet Phone Book’ project, or even more traditional books (like ‘ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web’).

• Reconciling this cherishment of / desire for, “material manifestations” of a primarily digital hobby (e.g. web-weaving), digital culture (e.g. personal web).

• Discussion and/or brainstorming of potential ideas, approaches and strategies, for the creation, and development, of analogue, slow web artifacts.

  • As an example: the ‘turn your blog into a book’ topic.

I’m even curious to hear from those of you who don’t agree with the concept! “Does this not perhaps abandon a fundamental aspect of the small web?”

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[arevakhach]

Quick Caveat: That ActivityPub book I linked doesn’t currently have a physical release (sorry!). But if, like me, you’d appreciate one… The author, Evan Prodromou, made a post for the express purpose of gauging interest:

Print Version of ActivityPub Book

Additionally, later this year (in September?), Tim Berners-Lee is set to release:

This is For Everyone by Tim Berners-Lee

Which I’m curious to read how “on the money” or “out-of-touch” (or both!) Mr. ‘Inventor of the World Wide Web’ will be. At the very least, the title gives off my kind of Personal Web-vibes.

[fLaMEd]

I’ll definitely be picking up “This Is For Everyone” when it becomes available

[nosycat]

I contribute to a (digital) zine, and turned my gamedev blog into a couple of e-books. It’s not like the original posts are going anywhere. This way the best of them have yet another way to survive, and maybe reach new audiences too.

More recently, I picked up a fountain pen for the first time in decades, and started a paper journal in addition to my digital one. Still trying to figure out what writing should go where. But it’s part of the fun!

[eladnarra]

I kind of like the idea of turning some of my eventual website pages into zines. But I feel like that mostly works for finished things; pages that are edited over time don’t lend themselves as well to a physical version, imo. Unless the changeability is what you’re looking for!