Bringing people together with the web

At Homebrew Website Club this evening we had a conversation about how to encourage people to make things together using the web. This could mean writing a blog post with someone, responding to someone’s blog post to continue a conversation, contributing to a wiki, creating a list of links, and more. There are so many ways to create with others on the web.My recent blog post about categories was inspired by a discussion with Thomas about work he was doing on his site. Thomas then wrote a blog post in response to mine, and several people reached out with their ideas. I was delighted to see how much discussion and inquiry can come from a single blog post.The discussion this evening got me thinking more broadly about times when websites have brought me closer with people.On the weekend of IndieWebCamp Düsseldorf this year, a few people did my “What HTML element are you?” quiz. It was a joy to see people compare results and to hear the extent to which each person’s results resonated. It…