Micro.blog is a new platform for independent microblogs: blogs with short text, links, and photos that you control. It’s launching this week with a book called Indie Microblogging on Kickstarter.
Indie Microblogging covers setting up a new microblog with WordPress, cross-posting to Twitter, standards for microblogging, and more. If you back the project on Kickstarter, you’ll get early access to Micro.blog so you can reserve your username.
Micro.blog is a new kind of social network, built on RSS and the open web. It’s as easy to use as Twitter, but you can publish to your own web site. Micro.blog has favorites, replies, an iPhone app, and hosting at yourname.micro.blog or your own domain name.
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