I realised today that there's a lot of overlap between "Rebooting the Blogosphere" and "Regrowing a Living Culture". The Coffee Mornings that I'm doing at the moment have that latter tag line and the question is coming up for me of how to regrow living culture online as well as off. As a very bare…
I was just introduced to this use of the word 'palaver' to mean (in Africa) a way of bringing together a local community to creating social links and sometimes for conflict resolution. The notable characteristic of it being a meeting where everyone has a voice but is not obliged to tie their contribution up neatly…
Just saw an invitation to an Open Space “How do we protect and strengthen democracy in Europe?” My mind went immediately to how to protect democracy from those who will use elected office to make sure that democracy isn’t available any more. It’s not a simple thing. And that’s what makes it a good question…
Another Coffee Morning today. So much in it. I'd love to write a report, but it's all still whirring around in my head. The first woman to become Archbish of Canterblobs, recurrent references to Bob Dylan, yin and yang and the serenity prayer, substack isn't just problematic because of politics and them hassling you to…
I’m not using it much, but a small step this week was resurrecting my presence on mastodon. I’m here now – @lloyddavis@mastodon.social – this blog also has ActivityPub enabled so all posts are full-text published at the seemingly tortologous @perfectpath.co.uk@perfectpath.co.uk – I still don’t fully understand how it works, I’ve just flipped a switch, so…
I’ll be thinking about this “Rebooting the Blogosphere” idea for a while. Interesting that the provocation for this thinking is FB “exile” – it reminds me of the energy that gets released whenever a platform goes down or otherwise goes awry – the energy of “I’ve got to find an outlet for these impulses in…
Stephanie Booth has written a really useful three-part series on "Rebooting The Blogosphere" (activities | interaction | integration) – check it out. I identify with a lot of the reflections and ways of thinking about writing in public that Steph's pulled together. I also feel the enormity of it as a project – we've strayed so…
I’d done a day’s work before breakfast this morning. Thanks Geena! I have to apologise for the LinkedIn-esque final remarks, after a lifetime of thought-leadership and lessons-learned reviews, I just can’t help myself. Investigations continue, I may have to remove this post later subject to legal action by the accused and her lawyer.
I have recurring frustration with the state of the web. I still have a utopian dream and attachment to people using open tools rather than the (semi-)closed platforms to publish their work and knowledge and thinking. On one level, this is a purely selfish desire. I would rather have one place to go to see…
First morning with the heating on (min temperatures overnight are around 7 or 8ºC). It feels like magic. I think it's the memory of when we first moved to a house with central heating (on November 5th 1975). It felt like real luxury, not to wake up under blankets in a cold room, having to…