Category Archives: Society & economy

Picking the open source candidate

Feb 6th – @ 3pm

My buddy whurley is at it again, but this time considering which candidate(s) is the most compatible or supportive of open source — in other words, among the many options, which could be considered the “open source candidate”?
Just as I voted for Obama yesterday, I voted for Obama today. I’m not sure why, except that [...]

By Chris Messina | Also posted in Open source | Comments (14)

Ruminating on DiSo and the public domain

Dec 13th – @ 1am

There’s been some great pickup of the DiSo Project since Anne blogged about it on GigaOM.
I’m not really a fan of early over-hype, but fortunately the reaction so far has been polarized, which is a good thing. It tells me that people care about this idea enough to sign up, and it also means [...]

By Chris Messina | Also posted in Citizen-centric Web, Digital Identity, Ideas, Open source, Social justice, Technology, The Web Arts | Comments (9)

The inside-out social network

Dec 10th – @ 12pm

Anne Zelenka of Web Worker Daily and GigaOM fame wrote me to ask what I meant by “building a social network with its skin inside out” when I was describing DiSo, the project that Steve Ivy and I (and now Will Norris) are working on.
Since understanding this change that I envision is crucial to the [...]

By Chris Messina | Also posted in Citizen-centric Web, Digital Identity, Ideas, Life online, Personal, Philosophy, Technology, The Web Arts, Web building | Comments (16)