Owen

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"Artist", photographer, researcher, writer. Principal Lecturer Emeritus in online media at Arcada UAS, Helsinki.

Nouns: Classicpress, CSS, cultural democracy, dividuality, theology, the commons.

Names: Bohm, Cupitt, Dennett, Illich, Leary, McLuhan, RAW

Verbs: scout, shout, sprout

My new book "Cultural Democracy Now" came out on December 30 from Routledge: timed neatly to ship directly to the bargain bin at the January sales.

Personalhttps://owenkelly.net
Podcastshttps://miaaw.net
Projecthttps://snowcastlevalley.org
Publicationshttps://dibdibdob.com
OwenMar 27
No Gods No MastersMar 27
OwenMar 27
Open Culture (Official)Mar 27

Emma Willard, the First Female Mapmaker in America, Creates Pioneering Maps of Time to Teach Students about Democracy (Circa 1851)

https://www.openculture.com/2025/08/emma-willard-the-first-female-mapmaker-in-america.html

Emma Willard, the First Female Mapmaker in America, Creates Pioneering Maps of Time to Teach Students about Democracy (Circa 1851)

We all know Marshall McLuhan’s pithy, endlessly quotable line “the medium is the message,” but rarely do we stop to ask which one comes first. The development of communication technologies may genuinely present us with a chicken or egg scenario.

Open Culture
OwenMar 19
Olivia Guest · Ολίβια ΓκεστMar 19

> John Stuart Mill said that his wife, Harriet Taylor Mill, “was the inspirer, and in part the author, of all that is best in my writings[. On Liberty] belongs as much to her as to me.” In his Autobiography, he says

> With regard to the thoughts [expressed in the book], it is difficult to identify any particular part or element as being more hers than all the rest. The whole mode of thinking of which the book was the expression, was emphatically hers.

https://dailynous.com/2026/03/19/on-liberty-now-officially-has-two-authors/

“On Liberty” Now Officially Has Two Authors - Daily Nous

An edition of On Liberty published this month is the first to officially name Harriet Taylor Mill as a co-author alongside John Stuart Mill. The new volume is edited by Piers Norris Turner (Ohio State), Jo Ellen Jacobs (Millikin), Helen McCabe (Nottingham), Lilly Osburg (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), Michael Schefczyk (KIT), and Christoph Schmidt-Petri (KIT), and is published

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OwenMar 17
millennial fulcrumMar 17
stay off of clouds one through eight, absolutely dreadful. nine is the one you want, trust me.
OwenMar 17
Show threadJake in the desertMar 17
@soundclamp exactly. 😂
OwenMar 17
Nicolas HoizeyMar 17

“The 49MB Web Page” by Shubham Bose

🔗 https://thatshubham.com/blog/news-audit

> Good UX is highly desired and once you get it right, it feels almost natural, intuitive. The current state of news UI assumes that the reader is an adversary to be trapped and monetized. Choosing between a profitable publication and a fast, accessible user experience is not an either-or decision. I guarantee you the engineers at these publications hate this as much as we do, but…

#UX #WebPerf

⚓️ https://nicolas-hoizey.com/links/2026/03/17/the-49mb-web-page/

OwenMar 17
Jonathan SchofieldMar 17

“If active distraction of readers of your own website was an Olympic Sport, news publications would top the charts every time.”

“To truly wrap your head around the phenomenon of a 49 MB web page, let’s quickly travel back a few decades. With this page load, you would be leaping ahead of the size of Windows 95. The OS that ran the world fits perfectly inside a single modern page load.”

https://thatshubham.com/blog/news-audit

The 49MB Web Page

A look at modern news websites. How programmatic ad-tech, huge payloads and hostile architecture destroyed the reading experience.

OwenMar 17
Show threadIrene (she/they, Sir/Mr.)Mar 17

@TheBreadmonkey imagine caring about Banksy's real identity, its like wanting to unmask Batman or Zorro

Bruh, only The Joker and Don Rafael Monterro want that, not even Commissioner Gordon cares enough to find out

OwenMar 9
Show threadinternetsdairyMar 9
@Nickiquote obviously we don't need books any more because we're all in the metaverse and its only refusenicks like you who are going to ever see this in a shop window, walking past with your "legs"
OwenMar 9
LM LittleMar 9

YES! "Saputjiji, pronounced Sa-put-yee-yee and meaning designated protector, is described as “a potent counter-strike against #billionaires, #genocide, #abuse and #colonial systems.” https://cabinradio.ca/282502/news/arts/tanya-tagaq-releases-new-album/

#musician #Arctic #Canada

Tanya Tagaq releases new album

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