Open Indie

Today I participated as a speaker in the Company Models for Impact session at Oslo Innovation Week.

Ten walking-minutes from where I live in Oslo, Norway, there's a large pool that opened at the start of this year.

In my early 20s I was under the all too common delusion that Great Men were to thank for most of society's innovations.

I'm writing this mostly for the sake of my own mental accounting, so I can look back at this years from now and gauge whether my assumptions or position has since changed.

The multi-polar Social Web of my dreams has been beautifully exemplified in two recent articles.

A decade ago I embarked on a journey to Rashidieh, a mixed but primarily Palestinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon.

Back in June I wrote about an exciting confluence of digital auth tech: Social sign-in for indies The focal point of Weird Netizens was the convergence of OIDC, Rauthy and FedCM as open identity technologies.

Mark Zuckerberg has proclaimed that Open Source AI Is the Path Forward.

A year ago in Feed Overload I wrote: 99% of all microblog (and chat) content is ephemeral by design, meant for a specific moment in time.

It's been a year since I wrote about Weird web pages as a prospective catalyst for the reclamation of my digital identity.