About
This site is about silence.
Keep it to yourself and only speak when you are ready to act. Not before, not after. Learn to speak and provide a valid, useful opinion only when the time is right.
Hello there! I'm Anne-Laure Le Cunff, founder of Ness Labs and a PhD researcher at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London, where I study how different brains learn differently.
I created this public notebook / digital garden because I believe the only way to learn in public is to build in public.
This is a public notebook where I share some of my thoughts on networked thinking, creativity, metacognition, and collective intelligence. It uses bi-directional links, so you can see which pages refer to the one you are currently reading.
Many people are looking for alternatives to Twitter. Can the IndieWeb step up? How can we build better social media for people without technical knowledge?
You have finally reached the end of the internet!
There's nothing more to see, no more links to visit.
You've done it all.
This is the very last page on the very last server at the very far end of the internet.
You should now turn off your computer and go do something useful with the rest of your life.
Search My Site - Open source search engine and search as a service for personal and independent websites
searchmysite.net - the open source search engine and search as a service for user-submitted personal and independent websites.
The searchmysite.net search engine is a niche search, focussing on the "indieweb" or "small web" or "digital gardens", i.e. non-commercial content, primarily personal and independent websites.
If you want to research people's personal experiences of or deep-dives into certain topics, hobbies or interests, then you may find the searchmysite.net public search useful to avoid having to wade through all the marketing websites and blog spam that fill the big search engines
There is a growing discontent around the current state of the World Wide Web.
Web 1.0 felt like a place of freedom and creativity. Maybe I'm being romantic, for sure had to have its issues... But remember the whimsical sites in Geocities, the simplicity of email discussion lists or the anonymity of IRC?
Useful links that I've collected and wish to share or remember for the future. Everything from Internet culture, useful pieces of wisdom, other blogs, and more.
The hand has become increasingly less present in the web as we know it today. Most websites today are built from templates on website-building platforms, and the knowledge of how to make a website from scratch is relegated to a select few. It has only grown easier to learn how to make websites, but the perceived requirements and expectations for a website have become so convoluted and arcane that many avoid the subject.
In defense of unpolished personal websites | Ana Rodrigues
For a while now, I've been slowing working on a refactor of the codebase of this blog. At one point, I got caught in exciting world of performance and I wanted to make sure I had a super fast pageload. Currently, my CSS is added inline in the HTML and I found myself thinking "no one will be able to read this".
This is a set of three core commitments derived from the practical experiences of the Yesterweb staff after two years of community organization. They concentrate what we have learned and how we operate into a general template that can be applied to any community at a foundational level. We propose these commitments as the basis of unity for those individuals or groups who wish to move in the same direction, while allowing a diversity of focus, interests, and missions.
JUnited is all about supporting other bloggers (and their work) that I've come to appreciate. Some may know that I exist, while others... probably don't. My goal is to showcase 30 different bloggers1 throughout the month of June in this page.
Blog of the .Day: Explore the (indie) web, one blog at a time.
Every day, Blog of the .Day highlights a new blog. The blog is chosen at random and a new one should be deployed daily via Netlify. Joe Crawford became steward of this project in May
The web was established with the best of intentions. The basic idea was that if everyone could share their thoughts and ideas with the world, the best ones would be vetted and float to the top. The bad ones would be ignored and pushed to the bottom.