Day 2 of IndieWebCamp Utrecht – hack day! Possible projects for today:
Rosemary OrchardUtrecht is a lovely city too. Picturesque canals. Little independent shops and cafes. Trees and plants all over the place. Bikes everywhere.
Great first day at IndieWebCamp Utrecht!
I went to sessions on IW building blocks and WordPress; privacy and sharing of personal data; federated search; other projects like Solid and how they overlap; and discovering content. Lots of ideas and so many interesting people.
And today with immaculate timing an article about IndieWeb popped up in the New Yorker: www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/can-indie-social-media-save-us
#IndieWeb
It was a beautiful morning, cycling along the canal in Utrecht, for the first IndieWebCamp. In the offices of shoppagina.nl about a dozen people found each other for a day of discussions, demo’s and other sessions on matters of independent web activities. As organisers Frank and I aimed to not jus...
Artisanal versions of Twitter and Facebook hope to keep the good while jettisoning the bad.
Looking forward to day 1 of IndieWebCamp Utrecht!
#IndieWeb
Jeremy CherfasThis looks like a very useful work, by over 65 authors and a team of editors including Mor Rubinstein and Tim Davis: The State of Open Data A little over a decade has passed since open data became a real topic globally and in the EU. I had my first discussions about open data in the spring of 2008, ...
Setting off from the UK yesterday
Train from Rotterdam -> Utrecht after overnight ferry from the UK.
From Scheidam to Rotterdam I saw lots of wind turbines, canals, and bikes. Nice!
Social media in 2019 is a garbage fire. What started out as the most promising development in the history of the Web – the participation of users in the creation of content and online dialogue at scale – has turned into a swamp of sensation, lies, hate speech, harassment, and noise.
Boom! High five!
On the 4th May 2019, the Green Anti-Capitalist Front (GAF) held its second open assembly. Approximately seventy people attended, the majority for their first time. The assembly’s agenda was divided into two parts: the first focusing on clarifying the aims and principles of GAF, reflecting on past ...
Hi-fi & TV store Richer Sounds moves to employee ownership.
Looks like it’s an employee stock ownership plan rather than a co-op model so the headline about ‘handing over control’ seems a bit wrong? Not an expert, any coop gurus know the details?
www.theguardian.com/business/2019/may/14/richer-sounds-staff-julian-richer
#EmployeeOwnership
Calum RyanChuffed there's at least one of the @HWCLondon community at every IndieWebCamp this month. @voss in Düsseldorf, @loopdouble in Utrecht and last weekend I was in Berlin https://calumryan.com/blog/indiewebcamp-berlin-2019/
Calum RyanI don’t read the papers so I didn’t see it happen, but apparently the UN’s biodiversity report got buried in the UK press in favour of the *royal baby*.
Current global response insufficient;
‘Transformative changes’ needed to restore and protect nature;
Opposition from vested interests can be overcome for public good
Most comprehensive assessment of its kind;
1,000,000 species threatened with extinction
www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/blog/2019/05/nature-decline-unprecedented-report/
Jobs in repair, remanufacture and reuse should be part of any Green New Deal policy. They stimulate regional economies and help reduce the carbon emissions associated with the manufacture of new goods.
#GreenNewDeal
Now that #IndieWeb buillding blocks have reached a each generation originally proposed in the Generation model the community has begun to explore a broader conceptual models to explain our work. Innovation systems and system network agent theory provide an interesting model
I feel like Solid, ActivityPub with a generic server and C2S, and Indieweb, are all kind of chipping away at the same thing. You have all your data in one place (either self-hosted or someone-else-hosted) and you decide which apps you want to let interact with it.
A first attempt at a sketch of what’s going on with my Indieweb setup.
Hey prismo.xyz sends webmentions when you have an article submitted, nice!
Stumbled across this app Manifold: manifoldapp.org/
‘intuitive, collaborative, open-source platform for scholarly publishing’
Looks pretty good. I landed on this article from a web search and was genuinely intrigued what it was running on. It’s very nicely presented and has no ads or crap trying to get me to do something else on the platform. Feels nice!
Just needs federated annotations…
manifold.umn.edu/read/dark-deleuze/section/fba38040-7b5e-435c-b9ce-cebc2949d027#intro
Also an interesting talk on the harms and perceived harms of social media on children, and how these might be reduced. Things like cyber bullying; inability to perceive manipulated content; problem of ‘persuasive design’; exposure to harmful content; overuse and disconnection anxiety.
Is Fediverse a good space to mitigate these? Do any instances currently actually actively cater to children?
Interesting talk today discussing the importance of having human rights activists embedded in protocol organisations. Basically having someone who pushes for the consideration of impact on human rights when technical standards are being defined.
The talk was specifically on the IETF. They gave the example of data leakage in WebRTC revealing IP addresses and said an activist had raised this and it had gotten fixed. Anyone know details of that?
A new weblog has been started by Anna Powell-Smith, called Missing Numbers: Missing Numbers is a blog about the data that the government should collect and measure in the UK, but doesn’t. I expect that whatever she finds in missing data within the UK public sector, similar or matching examples can...
Nice article about Jessa Jones and other fixers and right to repair activists in the US.
#RightToRepair
