I'm Working to Redefine Myself For Your Entertainment
For a very long time, I didn’t realize that the artist FloRida was not only from Flordia but the cover of his albums always had the state on the map. Who knew?
I’ve had a really good time working with other consulting people on my very young time into the space. I’m also gearing up to show some projects I have lined up as products for y’all that’ll pique some interest. October’s a crowded month of changes.
One project is related to my personal website. I’m tearing it down and rebuilding it up. The project’s codenamed Koype for good reason. I’ve spent a lot of time reading about social Web standards, what has worked and hasn’t and what I need to personally do for myself to get things working. I’m gearing up to refactor parts of it to share and make it simple for others to use. A (constantly-hosed) version will be up at my server. Don’t expect it to be immediately useful for a few days, though. I have some ideas for it listed out on its IndieWeb wiki page.
The Future
The future. It’s just like a final frontier. But I ain’t finna get into metaphysical or philosophy. Not today. I do want to think about what the Web will look like. We’re seeing a few things happen. The “titans” that we centralize our email, identity and core life tenants are proving the unreliability of our … reliance in them. Looking at Facebook and Twitter namely, I’m still wrestling how I’d personally convince people close to me to move away from things like them. I don’t know yet. Eh.
Aren’t You Entertained?
I realized that about 5 out of 7 of my (randomly sampled set of) Twitter followers either follows me because they found me funny or for the political commentary. Which is cool. But like I don’t want to be here for the sake of knowledge extraction. I’ve severely reduced my use of Twitter by blocking it (aggressively - like it doesn’t resolve on my home network) and eventually weening off it. I’ve substituted it with my use of Mastodon. I’m even getting more into video content (albeit SUPER home-quality) with the videos on my Peertube server.
I don’t know where there will go but I do have an objective. To prove that hyper-consolidation into closed networks won’t help us make the digital change (and offline since these places are indirectly funding offline anti-progress) we’d want to see in the world. But I don’t know exactly how I fit in that. Eh. It’ll be some times. Let’s see.