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• from: Caroline Busta (chapter)

  Channel is super interesting. business modelsI still have hope for something in that general structure to work. We sold a bundled subscription to New Models, Joshua Citarella, and Interdependence, a podcast by Matt Dreyer and Holly Herndon. It was one NFT, and it was an unlimited subscription to the podcast content for this NFT. The NFT was a token that unlocks a private RSS. co-publishingI think there is something promising in being able to co-publish with other entities and not be dependent on Patreon or any of these larger platforms. There’s been a proliferation of different platforms since we first started thinking about Channel. It doesn't need to be dependent on a large platform, but the problem is that they often don’t help with discovery. In theory, they could. So if there’s some way to reconcile those two things, you have a really interesting podcast publishing model on your hands.

• from: Clusterduck (chapter)

  58:02 It would be beautiful to foster collaboration between engineers and people. co-publishingI think that art, humanities and culture should happen before designing that technology. But this is not happening. And we see it, you see at Google all the people that were fired. They tried to integrate academies with the construction of neural networks, but they had to fire them in the end because they were not optimal for the market. It’s a very complex situation and we need to map it to understand what we can do, and maybe we are critical because it’s the only thing that we can do. I would like to be an artist who collaborates with a physicist, and with a lot of funding to understand, for example, memes through big data. But that’s not happening. I don’t know, maybe I would not be critical of technology if I had a place like CERN for artists.

• from: Gijs de Heij (chapter)

  Gijs 1:20:56 That’s a difficult question. One thing I’m thinking about is, once again, ambivalence, and it’s a conversation that I had with Sepp Eckenhaussen from INC. communityLooking at initiatives like OSP, Hackers & Designers, and Pre-Post Print, I recognise they are communities of designers and programmers who experiment with tools but don’t necessarily have the desire to create singular tools. There’s a certain desire to develop individual experiments that do not go towards a single solution, but foster these universes or fediverses of tools more than seeing one solution for everything. What’s tricky is that there are different desires — those experimental practices also answer to a desire for experimentation. co-publishingThis is not always applicable or relevant, but it would be very interesting to think about how the two needs can be combined, supporting both the individual experiment, yet being able to communicate in a way that supports something larger, a more stable tool or development, or that it creates a knowledge and a network of both users and creators of the tools for publishing, and one that is more engaged with the materiality of the technology that we’re dealing with. For me, both Pre-Post Print and paged.js are very interesting examples. Paged.js is a plug-in used by many in experimental workflows, but this tool is also nourished by those individual experiments, specifically through plugins or by maturing this tool that tries to generate and facilitate needs for generating or creating complex printed or page objects from a browser, while not necessarily wanting to fix the full pipeline, meaning that paged.js can be used in combination with WordPress as well as with a handwritten HTML file.

• from: Gijs de Heij (chapter)

  Carolina 1:25:15 co-publishingInteresting that you’re saying is that this type of experiment in publishing creates publics that are much more participatory in the process of publishing itself and in that way, is a mode of publishing that engages everyone in the process in a different way, beyond the passive reader, which I find a good take. I would like to also say thank you very much for your generosity and for sharing your thoughts and reflections on these processes, we will continue working on Etherport, which is going very well, we have new labels for everything. We’ll keep in touch with you about how this develops.

• from: Irene de Craen (chapter)

  Irene 15:34 I’m very much aware that my position is still that of a Western white academic, and to me this means I have to constantly challenge the way I think. co-publishingGlissant talks about how every exchange with another, changes the self. That is why it is important to talk to people so that I practice listening, which is a decolonial practice. You know, shut up for once and listen to what people have to say. Currently, I’m working with Ghiwa Sayegh from Kohl Journal, which is a Lebanese open-access publication by anarchist feminists focused on the MENA region. It’s fantastic because I’m learning a lot from how they are approaching the editing process.

• from: Irene de Craen (chapter)

  Well, this just grabs my imagination: there is so much going on in that situation. I wanted to find a person from there to write about Tuvalu. You can imagine when a country is that small, it’s quite hard to find someone who is both willing to write and has at least some experience doing so. Certain activist groups are working in that part of the world on climate change, and I started writing to all of them because I had one name at some point, and he didn’t respond anymore. I also reached out to those organizations via Facebook Messenger, and at some point, I got an email from the same person that didn’t reply to me earlier. He said: “You must really want me to write because you’ve now emailed me through three different organizations” — it turned out he worked for all of them, and these are all very small organizations, so he was getting all the emails! So, co-publishingI guess one method is spamming the hell out of people (although it was completely unintentional to be this annoying!). Nowadays though, since the network has grown, it’s also through referrals. And there’s the open call, although open calls are also very flawed, but I’m still using them.

• from: Yancey Strickler (chapter)

  communityMaybe that’s the difference between community and fandom. Fandom is probably the more dominant model online which we mistake for community. You and I both might be fans of the same things for similar reasons. We are not in community with each other but our fandom makes us co-aligned in some ways. co-publishingWith Metalabel I’ve always found it important to make a distinction to say that this model of releasing work like a label is not to say that you are collaborating, necessarily, but as to say you are co-releasing.