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The Indieweb is based on owning your own domain name and owning and managing your own web server. As Goldsmith notes, none of these is free, and in fact, they create a significant barrier to participation. "If a movement has at its core a significant barrier to entry, then it is always exclusionary. While we've already seen that the movement has barriers at ability and personality, it is also true that, as of 2021, there is a significant barrier in terms of monetary resources."

This is an interesting point of view which reminds me of the Solid-discussion we had. Solid allows the user to control her data and to have an overview of personal data. It also allows seamless integration of many information types and as such it can be used to streamline information at companies and institutions. So Solid could just as well be used to connect seamlessly many types of information about you and me. Maybe we could still consult that information in readable-but-not-writable form, but it would be of even bigger interest to surveillance professionals from states and private companies who probably would have to means to get this information in a readable and writable form.

Hi @Garziano I do not believe a word they say. It is always a trap. Please point me to the contrary if it is there Recommend https://web.hypothes.is/ annotations or any other way of pointing to relevant passages I wish I had been told, or read where it is stated that MetaCAugs meeting are about discussing links shared here

It's another of those moments when people to whom the Internet is still a distinctive and beloved medium fret that it's about to be violently changed into all everything they were glad it wasn't when it began

Les Traceurs is a game that allows you to collaboratively produce the Story of an event (be it a meeting, a conference, a workshop, a festival, a web-festival, etc...), almost live, and to disseminate it to the relevant federations and communities across the Internets.

Collaboration can seem inefficient, risky, low value, political even.... It is a skill that needs to be practiced and is worth it. (Just don't apply collaboration to EVERY situation)

It seems Silicon Valley has value. Moral and political values. They made a Google doc about it.

I find myself recommending this article in multiple situations and settings. It is on almost every syllabus I create regardless of the stated intent of the course. It is an excellent entry point into systems thinking and a cribsheet that anyone hoping to improve organizations and systems ought to have handy

This is stuff for helping journalists to start up projects, however it is useful for other industries as well as it also contains tools for developing business plans and rapid prototyping. Have a look maybe.

the big augmentationist map

I wouldn't call it a map just yet... That would imply some sense was made of it/on it... its a bucket of ideas, somewhere in there is a coherent set of affordances.. that if put together in a functioning tool, could be useful.

Wiki.js is a Javascript-based wiki you can run on your computer or (better) in the cloud. It is open source and based on Node. It uses any of a number of database engines and runs on most platforms. There are modules available that allow you to run analytics, use social authentication, and choose the content editor you wish to use, and sync and backup your content to a number of storage services.

The only problem is, as Edward O. Wilson so succinctly put it, "we have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology." So how do we overcome our Paleolithic emotions (like fear, jealousy, and greed) and our medieval institutions (US health care, anyone?) to deploy our godlike technologies?

connected to its Social Marketplace, a groundbreaking step that merges the physical and digital world with its own social blockchain technology titled Village Protocol.

Dapper Labs believes that it can help streamline the process of creating, operating, and participating in DAOs, whether it's for individual creators or established companies that see a future in decentralizing and embracing a Web3 world.

critical minds about blockchain and blockchain apps

We're doomed, AI takes over, and it's not Musk or Hawking who say it.