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DisCOs looks really interesting:
‘DisCOs are a P2P/Commons, cooperative and Feminist Economic alternative to Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (or DAOs).’
‘…a set of organisational tools and practices for groups of people who want to work together in a cooperative, commons-oriented, and feminist economic form.’
This is a great retrospective, thanks! I enjoyed reading it and your notes. (Lol’ed at linkslut).
I’m kind of OK with the sentiment of the p.14 quote from Rebecca Blood – hypertexting helping me find my voice – although yeah it is worded a little like something from a Victorian self-help guide. But I have found blogging and wiki-ing sort of does the things she says. Though I think I would perhaps just describe it as learning, rather than self-growth. The blog/wiki combo is both helping me think more about what I learn *and* learn more about what I think, I’m really digging it.
“h0p3 has a home page entry point that is carefully curated and groomed, but which is several layers up from a complete chaos of link dumps, raw drafts and random introspections […] These layers run a spectrum of accessibility—there is always a learning curve before you hit the bottom. You start with a doorway before entering a maze.”
I’ve noticed my own wiki/commonplace book thingy slowly taking that rough form recently, too, I wonder if it’s a common pattern? I’ve just started making the doorframe.
‘Digital Commons is a commercial’ –
NO
‘…hosted institutional repository platform owned’ –
NO
‘…by RELX Group.’
GO AWAY
We need to do more to ensure open government data is used for purposes with social value. Data sets related to society are digital public assets that should be contribute to common wealth.
It has been misused in the past as a means to legitimate the privatisation of public services.
I need a few read throughs of this report to take it all in… but it has a lot of good food for thought.
Industrial Action
youtube-dl -f ‘bestaudio[ext=m4a]’ https://invidio.us/watch?v=ZOgwP9wROrY
just sayin’
Providing free and fast broadband to all households and businesses is great. I’m not so sure about one state-owned organisation running the entire network though. I wonder if state assistance to local, publicly-owned local initiatives might be better.
Groups like B4RN (Broadband for the Rural North) have done a great job setting up local, rural broadband, building community in the process.
https://tribunemag.co.uk/2019/11/internet-for-all/
https://b4rn.org.uk/
It is a pernicious system of rent extraction, the domain registration system. I feel like after 16.5 years you should be entitled to true ownership, not subject to the whims of the entities that were privy to the original land grab.
Our non-profit has an org domain name, so we’ll have to evaluate the options. As you say, we have to decide whether we can let it go, even if we wanted to, as someone else might pick it up and leech off our reputation.