BlogFlockI've known about webmentions for years, as well as microformats; I've even included microformats in my markup for probably close to a decade at this point. But accepting and sending webmentions, while it seemed like a great idea, just never really made it to my priority list.
Until it…
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Governments may be large or small, and…
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