witchescauldronTalking about the #geekproblem in #openweb funding https://hamishcampbell.com/talking-about-the-geekproblem-in-openweb-funding/ None of this is new, I like meany people been banging this drum since the #indymedia days and writing about it for decades.
The #geekproblem might kill meany of us, mediating it matters https://hamishcampbell.com/the-geekproblem-might-kill-meany-of-us/ Don’t be this mess, please.
#OMN (Open Media Network)Do you remember when technology felt like a way forward?
Do you remember when tech felt like a way forward? That moment’s gone on the mainstream #closedweb path. What we’ve got now is something else entirely. Tools like Palantir and Project Maven aren’t about truth or insight. They’re excuse generators. Power does what it wants, then points to “the data” as cover. That’s the product. And the people building this? Still cosplaying as the good guys, well-paid servants of the #nastyfew, wrapped in the fading myth of being “freedom […]https://hamishcampbell.com/do-you-remember-when-technology-felt-like-a-way-forward/
Gates vs Bridges: the obscure politics of the #geekproblem https://hamishcampbell.com/gates-vs-bridges-the-obscure-politics-of-the-geekproblem/ We’re all carrying some of this mess, it’s fine – it’s compost.
Gates vs Bridges: the obscure politics of the #geekproblem
In the #geekproblem mindset, crossing a protocol flow is a gateway were in #openweb terms, it’s a bridge. That difference is not technical - it’s social - the difference between CONTROL and TRUST. A gate is something you lock, permission, authentication, enforcement were a bridge is something you cross, connection, flow, relationship. In the physical world, we don’t put gates on bridges as a default, but in software, we keep rebuilding them, and then wondering why things fragment. RSS […]https://hamishcampbell.com/gates-vs-bridges-the-obscure-politics-of-the-geekproblem/
hamish campbellIn the #geekproblem mindset, crossing a protocol flow is a gateway. In #OMN, it’s a bridge.
That’s the difference between CONTROL and TRUST. A gate is locked. A bridge lets things flow. In the real world, we don’t put gates on bridges.
Strange how that basic truth gets lost in code metaphors.
#RSS is a bridge.
Closed APIs are gates.
Let’s try and simplify the #OMN
The #OMN Framework: The Five Functions (#5F) The #OMN is simple flows, not platforms, it’s a way of thinking about media as flows of objects moving through a network. People shape the flow, you can find a more technical view to read after here. A human-scale, federated media infrastructure built on #FOSS practices and the #4opens: open data open source open process open standards It doesn’t start with features, apps, or ideology, it starts with flows. Imagine the network as: pipes […]
The Digital Commons: The Ground We Already Stand On
At #NOAW event I talked a lot about the digital commons so thought it might be useful to write a post grounding this. The digital commons are not a future vision, it’s something we already have. At its simplest, the digital commons are the widely used #4opens digital resources of software, knowledge, data, and culture created collectively, governed by communities, and made available for public (re)use. This is the native path of the #openweb it's been around for a long time, it might be […]https://hamishcampbell.com/the-digital-commons-the-ground-we-already-stand-on/
A Note on “Security” for the #FOSS Crew
We need to have a clearer, more grounded conversation about “security” and what it actually means in the context of the #openweb. There is a long history of thinking in #FOSS spaces that security is something we can solve purely technically: better encryption, better protocols, better architectures. But in everyday life and practice, people need to work from a much simpler starting point - We do not trust client–server security. We only meaningfully trust what can be verified through […]https://hamishcampbell.com/a-note-on-security-to-the-foss-crew/
The Tech “Empiricism” Problem
A recent essay on deadSimpleTech makes a point the #openweb community should hear: the biggest problem in technology is not only the tools, it’s also the culture behind them. For years the tech world has operated under a form of narrow “tech empiricism”: the belief that if something produces results quickly, then it must be working well. In this mindset, success is measured by novelty, speed of production, and the ability to create something new. The heroes of this culture are […]