How blogrolls work in Jottit

Blogrolls used to be everywhere. In the early web, your sidebar had a list of blogs you read. A simple way to say "these people…

How Do You Fund the Open Web?

When I started building the original Jottit back in 2007, I was a CS student with no kids and no mortgage to worry about. Almost…

Starting IndieAuth

Today I'm beginning work on IndieAuth endpoints for Jottit. The goal is to let people publish to their Jottit sites from any Micropub client, whether…

True Ownership

The core idea of the original Jottit that we built in 2007 was frictionless publishing. You could build your own site just by clicking a…

An email from Aaron

Here's how Jottit originally got started. In April 2007, Aaron Swartz sent me an email asking what I was up to. I told him I…