I've been quieter than normal recently.
Time to fix that.
This is a thread about the things that I am working on/thinking about, and how they relate back to the current state of the world.
It's going to be one of /those/ threads, probably, so please forgive me if it takes me a little while to respond to you if you jump in the replies. I'll get there, I promise.
But first, some music.
I'm thinking Blues, but I'm always thinking Blues. Let's see what I can find on the shelves.
Alright, I'm spinning a shockingly clean copy of The Original American Folk Blues festival (if you've never heard it, do yourself a favor), drinking a cup of coffee (Decaf! The Horror!) and thinking about the #internet, the #web, #gopher, #usenet, The American Media Oligopoly, #copyright, #DIYMedia and the #PublicDomain.
It's been stormy. My head is cloudy, my bones ache, and I'm honestly terrified to my core of the future.
So this should be fun!
Sometime between 10 years ago and 5 years ago, @Ethancdavenport suggested to me that it'd be really cool if we could get a bunch of little intranets connected to one another all over the country/planet, and rebuild the internet.
This was honestly probably in the wake of the first brush with SOPA/PIPA?
God that seems like it was ancient history.
And it was probably before that, and just came up again in the wake of SOPA/PIPA.
Either way, the idea struck a chord with me.
@Ethancdavenport :100:
We were in a pizza place when you suggested it.
I think I'd been talking about mesh-networking, and you were like "why do we even need the internet?"
@Ethancdavenport 💯
I'm real upset that that didn't emojofi.
Andrew (Television Executive)
Ethan 🌒
DJ Sundog