2011/11/28 Flick Harrison <[email protected]>: > Hey nettimers, > > I'm working on a mapping art project for a community centre here in > Vancouver, with my art group Something Collective ( > http://somethingcollective.ca ). Part of my mission in this project is to > re-localize teenagers - i.e. bring them into a geographical relationship to > their neighbours.
Interesting! > The part I'm planning on leading is the documentation / dissemination > portion. That is, as people participate I want to get them to share the > experiences and imagery with their social networks, but I can't bring myself > to advocate facebook, twitter, google+ etc. All my non-profit, artist and > activist circles use facebook to promote things, and I don't believe it's > ultimately healthy. > > Why? Well, facebook's algorithms don't necessarily have the community's best > interest at heart, let's put it that way. I'd love to see facebook get left > behind like friendster or myspace at the earliest opportunity, in favour of > some open-source alternative or, even better, meat-space encounters. People > on this list will have a plethora of their own qualms about corporate social > media. > > Despite that, though, I think reaching out through social networks will help > get more people involved. > > So I'm thinking of kicking in a Diaspora* element, possibly using D*'s > ability to integrate with facebook as a sort of weaning / luring process. > > Anyone have any thoughts or experiences with that? Is anyone here using > Diaspora? It is a good idea, we use diaspora for our Open Movie Project (chamba at diasp.org http://diasp.org/u/chamba). If it was my own decision I would have just gone with diaspora alone, but many in the community felt we should use twitter and facebook, so we send diaspora posts to twitter as well (we have created one aspect for posting to twitter so that diaspora posts does not have to be restricted to 140 characters, but if diaspora post is less than 140 character clicking on twitter button will post to both diaspora and twitter). And twitter is setup with send it automatically to facebook. So you can follow similar setup or drop twitter and send posts directly to facebook. > My I.D., which I've just set up, is [email protected] I'm sharing with you, my id is j4v4m4n at joindiaspora dot com We also have a local diaspora community - community at diaspune dot net PS: You may check out our project at http://chambaproject.in and if you are interested you can help us with concept art and story board Current drawings http://gallery.chambaproject.in/index.php/Concept-Art Praveen -- പ്രവീണ് അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില് You have to keep reminding your government that you don't get your rights from them; you give them permission to rule, only so long as they follow the rules: laws and constitution. # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected]
