Untangling the IndieWeb: davidyat.es
@dy Great blog post on the core pieces of the IndieWeb. I do think Micro.blog is exactly what you describe in the closing paragraph. (With the exception that we don't register domain names for people yet, but encourage people to map existing domain names to Micro.blog-hosted blogs.)
@manton I think the other main thing missing from micro.blog is the ability to follow/microsub to users who don't have micro.blog accounts. But it's certainly the closest thing.
@dy I added following other blogs (that don't have Micro.blog accounts) recently, with some limitations. Here's the blog post that describes how it works.