Scripting News: Friday, September 8, 2023
Friday, September 8, 2023 First notes from the BKC 25 reuninon # My first thoughts on coming home, not well organized. # I'm back home after an incredible couple of days at the Berkman 25 year reunion. # I was there 20 years ago. # We were on a roll toward inventing social media. We had learned a lot and were practicing it, and if we had continued, there's at least a chance there would be an open alternative to Facebook and Twitter now instead of all the trouble caused by their dominance. # It probably wouldn't have needed much if any money, btw. # I believe investors would have wanted to invest on our terms in open source development at a university in 2003, but I didn't have the idea developed at the time enough to propose it. # Very independently of my Berkman experience in 2014 I was thinking all about how an academic institution should welcome people back every few years to contribute to an ongoing open source...