Tag: #pubcon2025

Lets talk about the future of social media at PublicSpaces 2025

Shape our digital future - Publicspaces conference poster

I am very much looking forward to being at the PublicSpaces conference again, this time to talk at some depth about the future of social.

It is time to reinvent our social media landscape and the way we communicate online! What do we really need to be connected in this digital age? How can we shape a social media landscape where public values, such as privacy and accountability, are safeguarded? Where social interest and public values take precedence over commercial gain? And where communities themselves retain control over its design?

Its going to be a really powerful panel, not only pointing out the obvious state of social media but looking at the positive steps to move forward towards a social media environment which enables human flourishing.

#MakeSocialsSocialAgain

 

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If you are in the Netherlands or even in western Europe, join us and all the great sessions throughout the day.

Advisory position and status changes

A few things have happened recently…

You may have noticed a few changes to my blog and there are quite a few more to come. But theres more exciting news…

AMPLIFY EU logo

On top of the Fediforum advisory position which I blogged about last week. I am part of an EU project with lots of cross over between the Perceptive Radio, Living room of the future and Adaptive podcasting. I am now an advisor on the Amplify EU project.

AMPLIFY is a groundbreaking initiative uniting artists, technologists, and researchers from 8 European countries to drive the digital transformation of the Cultural and Creative Industries. By merging physical and digital (phygital) experiences and fostering collaboration, AMPLIFY is creating innovative ways to connect creators and audiences!

Ian Quote text “I appreciate that Mozilla runs the festival in the open. It’s transparency to the tenth degree. I really appreciate that they’re trying this stuff, seeing where it goes, and kind of always in this constant cycle of, “Let’s try this, see how it goes. Let’s build on it or decide if it’s not for us.” Feedback is quick and used well”

I mentioned the Mozilla Festival Call for Participation in my monthly newsletter. However I can confirm I am a space-wrangler for Unlearning Traditional Profit Models.

…alternative profit models that are sustainable, inclusive, and community-rooted, including financial models and evolving payment systems.

Really looking forward to seeing the proposals and sessions which come through about this. I urge you to take the #unlearning seriously and think models which support sustainable future businesses, communities and society as a whole. Would love to have people from Gary Stevenson to the admins of the small Mastodon instances like friend.camp? (which I believe charges a monthly fee?) or people actively using micropayments like interledger or lightening; apply for example.

What you waiting for?

Shaping our digital future - publicspaces conference flyer

Finally but not least, I’ll be talking at the most excellent PublicSpaces 2025 conference about the future of social. This year it is a 1 day conference however there is a special event on the day before hosted by the Waag.

Server farm in a acid cloud raining acid below on to the raw earth
Aware of the irony of generating a image to visually describe the effect of acid clouds using an AI image generator…

From the PublicSpaces Waag event… I really like the idea of an acid server farm cloud… Speaks volumes about the state of sustainability and the nature of the internet right now, if left to the big commercial players.

I look forward to more of these important conversations and actions at Thinking Digital in Gateshead/Newcastle tomorrow, publicspaces and of course Republica where I’ll be talking six feet under the server farm. Its unlikely I will be at SXSW London but who knows where I might pop up soon and doing what… I’m just getting started!