- History
- first the internet
- then web
- commerce
- platforms
- internal mental image of web presence didn’t change from the internet days
- personal website
- platforms point back there
- practiced denial of change
- out-of-step with the theory
- out-of-step with normal practices
- even “The Internet” has become a platform (IndieWeb, ActivityPub)
- out-of-step with my own practices
- compare to living on a land in a territory, to living as a subject in an environment
- different values, different modes of living
- personal websites as living on a land
- platform presence as subject in environment
- different modes of governance
- self-governing as required for both
- but different governance technologies apply:
- personal websites
- permanence, backlinks, “sediment”, foundation, structure
- platform
- fungibility, presence, ???
- practices of self-governance for platformized web life?