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NZ Music Month Interview on Deep INsessioNZ

Discussing the.SocialMusic.Network with the SSSD Every year in May, my longtime amigo and fellow culture jammer, the SSSD, hypes up NZ Music Month on the Deep INsessioNZ radio show, rolling out kiwi music themed shows throughout the month. This May, one of those was an interview with yours

Lesson from Bridge Seat Co-op #5: Competing Digital Cages or Cooperative Digital Cafes?

Understanding fediverse servers as a form of hospitality

Time to Stop Hunting the Replicants, Decker

One of the actions recommended by the KeepAndroidOpen.org campaign is to "provide feedback directly to Google using their Android developer verification requirements survey". They provide a link to that survey, and I'd been meaning to make use of it for a while. Then on Tuesday

Lessons from Bridge Seat Co-op #4: Into the Woods We Go

How to help your community explore the fediverse with you

Lesson from Bridge Seat Co-op #3: In Defence of Servers

Why pure peer-to-peer networks aren't always better than federated ones

Happy December Solstice

The best plaid plans of mice and me. Seasons greetings to anyone who happens to read this. Hope you all have a fantastic break over the solstice period, whether you're entering the depths of winter or, like us, sweating through the early summer. As for me, in a

Crowdsourcing or Outsourcing: Who Benefits?

As promised, here's another one from the archives, originally posted in November 2015 on the original version of this blog (on CoActivate), and then republished on The Daily Blog. This one explores the differences between the 'crowdsourcing' of genuine digital commons (Wikipedia, couchsurfing platforms, etc), and

A Four Paragraph Update

Because I'm a long-former, and what some people consider blog length is my idea of a quick memo. It's been almost a third of a year since I got Ghost installed here, and posted my 95 theses on leaving SS (SubStack). During most of that time

Lesson from Bridge Seat Co-op #2: A Bridge Too Far

Lessons from Bridge Seat Cooperative (2023-2025) 1. Introducing the Bridge Seat Cooperative 2. A Bridge Too Far (this one) 3. In Defence of Servers 4. Into the Woods We Go 5. Competing Digital Cages or Cooperative Digital Cafes? This piece was originally published on the abandoned Bridge Seat and Disintermedia

Ghosting SubStack

Why I finally decided to leave, and where I'm going next

Farcebook: One Thing To Rule Them All

The challenges of developing a privacy-enhancing everything app.

Resting Comfortably

Combining chronic emergency conditions and a nasty illness, not a great plan.