Adrian McEwen @[email protected]
Founder of @MCQN_Ltd. Creator of @Bubblino. Co-founder of @DoESLiverpool. Author @aBookOfThings. Ex-CTO of @GNLteam. Ramblings on #IoT, urbanism and Liverpool
For some scrolling text over the sound of morse code, I wasn't expecting this recreation of the Titanic's comms to be so haunting (and harrowing) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxRN2nP_9dA
The storage for the PPE ear defenders at the entrance to our CNC room is amusing me more than it strictly should...
This week's what-accounts-for-blogging-atm: bike routing; mid-life-not-crisis; inter-org-networking (not that type); and the #civic #internet - http://www.mcqn.net/mcfilter/archives/links/interesting_things_on_the_internet_june_25th_2018.html
Watching https://mako.cc/copyrighteous/libreplanet-2018-keynote (which is a great talk all round) from @mako I discovered that the name for that all-open-as-long-as-it-flows-through-our-gatekeeping practice I dislike in the #openmanufacturing world is "strategic openness"
Trying to get back into writing things here. What's on my mind? Trying to work out how I can fund spending the summer porting Signal messaging protocol to Arduino for a more secure Internet of Things
Taking the opportunity of provisioning a new laptop to actually move my Mastodon tab to somewhere where I might check it from time to time. It'd be nice to slowly migrate over here from Twitter...
I'm helping to wrangel the decentralisation space at mozfest this year - blog post here http://maboa.it/decentralise-now/ - Check out all the space here https://mozillafestival.org/spaces - please propose a session and/or come along! October 27-29, London.
Anyone know how I find someone and follow them from the Tusky Android app? (or alternatively of a better Android app to use that has that feature?) Had to wait till I got to my laptop to be able to follow @cubicgarden tonight, which isn't ideal :-)
Turns out proposing things for a party manifesto for #GE2017 is easier than I thought! Well, it is when the party is as clued-up on digital as @somethingnew See my proposal at https://votebot.openpolitics.org.uk/proposals/537 (and the manifesto itself at https://openpolitics.org.uk/manifesto)
Wondering (more expansively) over here (rather than Twitter) whether @somethingnew has the "specific regulations" (searching for that is the easiest way to find it) for privacy and data in its manifesto? And apologies, @Floppy, for not submitting a pull request to add it (although I'll try to find time later to do so) http://idlewords.com/talks/notes_from_an_emergency.htm
iamdanw :
agnieszka l. on Twitter:
Technologies change, but the core questions endure. These from 1982 (Reinecke’s Electronic Illusions). Important we keep asking them.
I'm talking about DoES Liverpool (and making in general I expect) over at Chester Devs next Weds. https://www.meetup.com/NorthWalesTech/events/238387320/ @rossjones fancy a trip to Chester? :-)
Serious journalism
Mastodon, Twitter and publics
Long ago, I wrote about the theory of social sites, with the then-young Twitter as the exemplar. As Mastodon, GnuSocial and other federated sites have caught some attention recently, I thought I'd revisit these theories.
We now have 5 potential candidates wanting to stand for @somethingnew Crikey.
First semi-professional blog post, shame about the editing though 😞 http://www.bcs.org/content/conBlogPost/2669
This morning @Alastair and @matt have joined the opencollective, helping to keep this instance running!
Running the server currently costs $30 a month, and every donation helps keep that up for the long term.
Support your local server now, at https://opencollective.com/mastodon-me-uk
@amcewen Maly.io is partly community funded - https://www.patreon.com/KindlyFire
Are any of the other instances (beyond http://mastodon.me.uk) set up as cooperatives or similar paid-for-by-the-members? That feels like a much more sustainable model than "rely on the spare time and kindness of geeks".
Yay, thanks @amcewen, our first contributor on the opencollective 😀
