What distinguished television from film as a medium, from its very early days, was live broadcasting. As time went on, and more and more TV shows were prerecorded, this was kind of forgotten. But until VHS came along and allowed audiences to timeshift both films and TV shows, television still retained that live event quality; be there or you missed it.
Please note: this piece is satire, intended to be laughed at or ignored, not taken seriously. It was definitely written by an actual human and not an AI. Seriously.
Despite having a bunch of archived pieces that need updating, I managed to miss posting to the #Disintermedia blog last week. So I popped in this bonus piece, a tongue-in-cheek short story that I call 'You people think you have good security on your websites, don't you. Don't you?'
It's another old favourite from the original CoActivate version of the blog, encouraging activists and other community groups to stay in control of our mailing lists, instead of outsourcing it to for-profit companies that may well use it to #DataFarm our members and supporters.
Everything I publish there, like here, will always be free to access, under a CC license. Taking out a subscription is a way of buying me a coffee. If enough people buy me a coffee in a year, I can pay my rent in coffee ; )
Just republished one of my pieces from the original #Disintermedia blog on CoActivate.org, which made a case against political blocks in software and networks;
I'm aware this is a contentious one, but it's something I feel strongly about. I'm open to discussion it and even changing my mind, but you're going to need some very rigorous arguments and an ability to maintain a respectful dialogue.
Trolls from either side of the aisle will be ignored.
@dragestil
> I am the only free software advocate in Australia
I sure hope not. The software freedom advocacy org NZOSS is being transformed into, needs to build relationships with similar organisation around the Asia-Pacific. I'm hoping Oz has at least one.
That was me with #Disintermedia for about a decade. Seems to me that the worm is turning. NZOSS wanting a new name that reflects software freedom rather than Open Source is a good example, but there are many.
I just republished an old favourite from the dead CoActivate version of the #Disintermedia blog. The hardy annual about about why sending HTML as email is a bad idea:
Now that I've got 3 proper pieces posted (not including the intro) in under a month, I feel confident to turn on the thing that allows paid subscribers (hint, hint!).
When I haven't got anything new to write about, I can update and republish something from the years of writing on the original version of the blog, which can currently only be read on archive.org:
Last night I published my first proper piece on the Disintermedia blog (ie about something other than housekeeping). This one is my thoughts on the future of public media in Aotearoa: