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