hello I'm a technologist, writer, and musician, mostly producing personal projects. This is my home on the web. Find more in my blog, vlog, and log. Now in Toronto, Canada 🇨🇦 . connection Strolling conversations with people I meet along the way thick skin, open heart If it was guaranteed to feel good, I wouldn't be open to whatever happens. visual family cosmos one surname is not "where you're from". introducing Occasion Shifting from "I should take less space" to "I'd like to connect regularly with people who want more".
Blogroll – Manu
I believe we should all blog more and connect more with strangers. There's not much I can do as an individual. I can offer to be your first reader, …
Disquiet – Listening to culture. Playing with audio. Sounding out technology. Composing in code.
At the end of each week, I usually collate a lightly edited collection of recent comments I’ve made on social media, which I think of as my public scratch pad. I tag on what books I may have finished reading. Knowing I’ll revisit my social media posts, I’ve found, serves as a positive and mellowing influence on my online activity. I mostly hang out on Mastodon (at post.lurk.org/@disquiet), and I’m also trying out a few others. And I generally take weekends off social media.
Embracing the Atmosphere
The Local Connection Crisis: New Data on What Communities Need
The Shape of What You Meant
You’ve probably been there, looking for someone, not just anyone, but someone who gets it. Maybe you’re building something new and don’t want to do it alone. Maybe your idea doesn’t even have a name yet, but you know it needs others to take shape. You’ve got places to post, share, search, and shout. Too many, really. But despite the flood of tools, you’re still stuck trying to meet someone who actually gets what you're doing. It’s not that the people you’re looking for don’t exist. They do. I...
A space to converse and connect.
An X/Twitter Spaces alternative for Bluesky and the open web. Creating good vibes in the friendly skies.
Creative Pulse
We put together meetups & events for commercial creatives & freelancers in Vancouver. Network & meet with other talented creatives at our casual events.
Teon (@teonbrooks.com)
🛠️ building @gothamdataclinic.org 🎒 @passports.social (pre-alpha, be gentle) 🥾 avid traveler #buencamino 📍 Brooklyn #bkcb1 👨🏾💻 RC S1'23 W1'24 🌈 he/him/Dr. 🌹 👨🏾🔬 cognitive scientist 🧪🧠 🗣️ speaks: 🇺🇲 | 🇫🇷 | 🇧🇷 https://teonbrooks.com
Mackinac - Your bridge to the Social Web
Connect with people across the Fediverse and Atmosphere — seamlessly.
Get Together: How to Build a Community with Your People
A practical and heartfelt guide to cultivating a community, online or IRL.Although communities feel magical, they don’t come together by magic. Get Together is a practical and heartfelt guide to cultivating a community. Whether starting a run crew, connecting with fans online, or sparking a movement of K–12 teachers, the secret to getting people together is this: build your community with people, not for them.In Get Together, Bailey Richardson, Kevin Huynh, and Kai Elmer Sotto of People & Company share true stories of everyday people who have created thriving communities, both in person and online. They provide clear steps to untangle the challenge of getting passionate people together, helping individuals and organizations navigate the intricacies of leading a community, including: - How to rally the first people - How to get people talking - How to attract new, authentic folks - How to develop leaders and expand globally.The People & Company team reminds us that we each hold the potential to spark a community. Get Together shows readers that if we join forces—as company and customers, artist and fans, organizer and advocates—we’ll do more together than we ever could alone.
Alexander Obenauer
Exploring new and renewed ideas for how personal computing and the interfaces we think with can better serve people’s lives – expanding opportunity, agency, curiosity, and creativity.
AT friends #4 & #5: @gabboman.at.app.wafrn.net and @djara.dev of Wafrn - Jake Simonds's Blog
informal chats with people building cool stuff in the open social world
[Draft] Follow anyone — Open Indie
I just wanna keep track of people I care for and find interesting. The type of feed(s) available for subscription (blog, micro-blog, chat...
📣 I've started working on an Atmosphere alternative to Facebook Pages, targeted at local, non tech savvy communities. It's called @gravita.social - the force that unites us.
Gravita — Give your community a home on the open web
gravita.socialWhy and how I'm embracing open social blogging (and less traditional social media). I've been working on this post for ages, rewriting etc because things keep changing/improving! Have decided to just post it as is. 😁 #Atmosphere
Embracing open social blogging in the Atmosphere (and less traditional social media)
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