What can we learn from the battle over metadata? The closed side were only looking to strengthen their silo by centralizing power in the name of privacy and security. This with mostly no understanding of the problem on a personal level, it was the right thing to do – total control was what they needed.…
Should we use tech or social to verify a news source/flow.
Looking at the indymedia reboot It’s verified by the crowd/community as you will have text, photos etc from the event from different views with some of them by known actors. The event happened. A single post from a unknown source needs verification. Its journalism 🙂 from a grassroots prospective based on community and trust in…
DRAFT – contemporary look and feel
The “newswire” used to be open publishing we now add a switch trust/moderate to this wire. The UK indymedia site did something similar latter in its life. Its up to the “editorial collective” to flip this switch for site/accounts/tags etc The central “fetures column” is newswire articals promoted to a feature. These are written by…
Q&A what is a fashernista in the hashtag way.
Q. I’ve read a lot of your stuff but I’m hoping you’ll clarify something. What’s a “fashernista”? A. A large part of society who do what’s fashionable. Not what’s right/wrong/best. In the era of the #deathcult of neo-liberalism this has always been the wrong path to take. It’s a simple idea. men-make-their-own-history-but… #fashernista is a…
The encryptionsists – the last 10 years.
Security theater you should ask who we are hiding from. The sad and bad outcome of just about everything is only our friends – our enemies, the state and the #dotcons can almost always look behind the curtain. The rare exception of this is p2p encryption, never client server. Though the issue that makes most…
Folksonomy and categories – bottom up/top down – open/closed
How do we federate metadata flows folksonomy and categories – bottom up/top down – open/closed Each has advantages and disadvantages. Can we be creative and bridge this divide The OMN and indymedia reboot are both grassroots bottom up projects, so we obviously start with a folksonomy. Recognising the is some use for categories a draft…
4opens review of NHSX track and trace app
WHAT DO PEOPLE THINK ABOUT THIS? The app is from NHSX with contributions from Apple and Google obvs and Pivotal Labs and Uni of Oxford. All source code for front and backend on Github and open source. https://github.com/nhsx/covid19-app-system-public https://github.com/nhsx/covid-19-app-android-ag-public https://github.com/nhsx/covid-19-app-ios-ag-public What is the actual polatics behind this? #4opens review. Think it duse 2 opens as…
On outreach of OMN and indymedia reboot
Q. I’m not interested in doing that, as I don’t know what it is you are actually proposing. Apart from using hashtags and talking about #deathcult I don’t actually understand your plan? What I haven’t heard is a practical way of hosting and distributing alt media. Visionontv turned into a mess, just as Indymedia did.…
#4opens reviews – Discord
https://discord.com The #4opens: Are a simple way to judge the value of a “alt/grassroots” tech project. Open data – is the basic part of a project https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_data with out this open they cannot work. * hard to say am assuming you can download your chats? but your contacts ect? Say ½ a open Open source…