It might be a short one today, as I am currently writing this amid a fairly heavy tropical wave passing over us. Heavy rains, lots of thunder and lightning, a breaker tripping every few minutes, oh, and a UPS battery failure are making my morning a little more difficult than it normally is. It’ll pass, but in the meantime, I will try to get this written and out the door before the end of the day.
😱 It’s already September! I’m not entirely sure where the earlier part of the year went. A lot of things happened in the news, but many events also made for a busy period for me up until now. Spoiler: it doesn’t look like it’ll be any calmer, either!
I wanted to get back to some of the thinking I have been doing about governance and the open web. I mentioned a project last week from a team that decided to look into Fediverse governance and offer a guide to setting up and operating Social Web services by looking at the technology, moderation, legal risks and other topics important to good governance.
Good morning from a frighteningly quiet Caribbean in terms of hurricane activity. Looking at the previsions, that is about to change over the coming week or two as we head into the statistically peak hurricane activity period.
Here on the internet, there are no seasons, just waves and waves and never-ending waves of innovation, development, and more. For me, three interesting developments on the web merit a little discussion and sharing.
Unless you’ve not been reading, you’ll have noticed that I have been a bit down on “tech” lately. And it’s true: I do feel a sense of despair when I look at the tech industry from a macro perspective, or at least from the perspective of the numerous articles, blogs, and reports discussing the latest dreadful thing tech has enabled.
Last week was no different, with no less than Apple starting to show colours that it never used to.
We’re getting into the main activity of hurricane season, and things are starting to liven up. There is activity a little less than halfway between the islands and the Cabo Verde islands, which looks favourable to develop into something to watch out for over the next couple of days or so. This is a season I have not been looking forward to for several months.
My week has been filled with working on an upcoming project; although I am behind in what I promised to do, I’m sure I’ll catch up and work on finalising a couple of projects in my new role.