In web application development, there are 3 groups you can empower, and it’s important to understand which group you are empowering. 1) the users2) the producers3) the geeks who develop/admin Most #geekproblem coding is about the 3ed grouping taking all the power to decide. This, tiny, “elite” know what is good for the rest “passive”…
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…
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…
What did you do in the #dotcons during the climatechoas breakdown
Q. So are you gonna say what you’ve done? I don’t think posting on fb has any affect on the dotcons? The opposite in fact A. Yep it dose, am doing a stepaway project, a group of us run 5 #openweb servers with a search engine, social network, video hosting, and tools development site/openweb organizing. …
Indymedia
We are a wide affinity group working to reboot the global indymedia network using modern federated protocols such as #activertypub. This reboot will be based on the OMN project code.What is the OMN (Open Media Network): The project is to shift power to the producers and consumers of media. It’s about good UI and simple empowering…
You wont find much “truth” in the #dotcons
You can use a #openweb search engine like http://openworlds.info that will remove the “personalisation/manipulation” of the #dotcons and add alternative views to your search. Ps. We need programers and sys admins for the #OMN project to make these tools work better. https://unite.openworlds.info/explore/organizations
A message for my #dotcons frends
When people deny the history of reposabilerty then they deny reality and join the “post truth world” of Trump and Boris. The majority of my #failbook friends are both sad and bad on this subject as they don’t remember the times they argued that the #dotcons were not evil and cat memes were the right…