Adrian McEwen @amcewen
@cubicgarden hmm, will have to give that a go instead then :-)
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.
@Floppy are you freelancing now, or looking for new jobs, or...?
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.
@Floppy @somethingnew Return to your constituencies and prepare for Government!
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
@andypiper hehe. Don't worry, once @Floppy's mastodon.me.uk collective ramps up it'll be able to hire you as part of our Twitter-talent acquisition programme :-D
@Danhon everyone who doesn't study history is yada yada... Although at least now when I'm arguing for more distributed/decentralized approaches I can refer to something /some/ of the people I'm ranting at^h^h talking to might have used ;-)
Ooh, @galooph, I like the add-on (/other) services as adjuncts idea. Definitely feels like a good idea for there to be instances (companies? collectives? /things/?) with various other things bundled in. As a way round the minimum-payment-worth-setting-up problem at least, but also in the cross-promotion or enough to then sustain the maintainer...