With the current #openweb reboot going on there’s a lot of default thinking that is bad, and we do need to learn to judge between the good and bad paths if it’s to live up to its potential. Let’s start to give examples: * Promoting silos vs promoting networks – as our current thinking is…
What do you think of this mess?
People send me links – one look is all it takes
My initial thought on most academia is wank, most is poisoned by the last 40 years of the #deathcult It’s better to go back to radical basics and reboot something from outside the poisoned mainstream, we are doing this with #indymedia reboot. Most “activism” from this source is little more than a funding drain 99.999%…
Think the soil is a little dry past time for some compost, get your spades out.
Judge projects by the #4opens then by #PGA hallmarks. A good first step.
A complex counterintuitive subject. When Capitalism and “free-market” stop being the trust that glues society together. You are left with social data and who controls it. Open or closed becomes the choice we face. Open it’s a shared commons. Closed its something else. The closed path of the #encryptionists for the last 10 years. The…
Why openweb projects fail
I have been developing and using #opensource and #openweb projects for nearly 40 years. For the last 20 years at the coalface of development, this is my experience. Most #openweb projects are more than 99.9% unusable this is normal. A few come up to 5% usability; these are the “successful” ones. It’s very rare for…
Rich compost in technology
DRAFT of indymedia reboot UX
Modern poison
I think there is a deep modern poison in not seeing the world from wide ideological views. It leaves people dangerously pointless and thus breeds fascism. As the is poison in the rejection of open media as a solution to social issues. An example of this is the current thinking that communication is responsible for…
Living through a open/closed war in the indymedia years.
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…