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Evan Prodromou is talking about long-form text<\/a> in the social web in Ottawa on Friday. The very important role WordPress is playing to pull the twitter-like world into the actual web instead of their limited idea of the web. Sounds like harmony to me. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

It’s actually more than long-form-text that WordPress is supporting via ActivityPub, they’re covering all the basic features of HTML that WordPress supports. This is the web pulling the twitter-like world back to the web, instead of the other way, removing features from the web.<\/p>\n

I call this textcasting<\/a>. Same idea. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Evan Prodromou is talking about long-form text in the social web in Ottawa on Friday. The very important role WordPress is playing to pull the twitter-like world into the actual web instead of their limited idea of the web. 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