Latest Event News

We're announcing our new speaker feeds page. We've found as many of the 118 speakers' websites and personal RSS feeds as possible.

This new page lets you download an OPML file (which can be imported into your RSS readers) for your own personal curated reading.

The feeds page is regularly updated to pull in the latest posts for your perusal.

From Our Archive

If you have been inspired by our speaker feeds, check out Sophie Koonin's love letter to the personal website.

Sophie encourages you to build a website, make it fun, make it pointless and make it yours. She reminisces about the sites from the late 90's and early 00's where people experimented with code to create a place just for themselves whether it was about family, music, or something completely random.

She highlights Neocities, which says:

It's time we took back our personalities from these sterilised, lifeless, monetised, data mined, monitored addiction machines and let our creativity flourish again.

Community News

In the spirit of feeds and the indie web, we wanted to highlight a few excellent resources, both for picking up new websites to read from, but also how you can create your own little stronghold in a corner of the web:

• PersonalSit.es showcases and includes RSS feed filters
• Bubbles has pulled in many personal feeds and lets you browse posts (sort of an RSS feeder, but not quite)
• Bear is a tiny blogging platform that lets focus on getting words online in a wonderfully clean way
• James' Coffee Blog has a good Make a Website page full of tips
• Matthias Ott publishes a superb series called Own Your Web, and Home Sweet Home #15 is a great place to start
• Ana Rodrigues' bookmarks page is treasure trove of great resources

Why make your own site? Sometimes it's to blog, sometimes it's to connect with your community, and sometimes it's just to show off what your dog loves.