Hi friends, what have you all been learning?

Many years ago (as captured in my 2017 Thread), I was trying to work out not just what everyone in my fascinating networks of friends, peers and collaborators were doing, but what knowledge they’d gathered.

When you know people over years and decades, it’s easy to lose track of what everyone has learned, what they are interested in, and what unexpected collaborations might exist as a result.

I’m often approached as someone who ‘probably knows someone who does that‘ and wanted to work out how to do that better, and to get out of the way far faster.

I wondered how to better encourage serendipity: part of this was to hold salon-like evenings on M/S Hans to bring dozens of people together in-person and see what just happened. The energy from those events got me thinking about tools that could support everyone in those quite random settings, without creating yet another social network or yet another thing that got in the way more than it helped.

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Let’s connect on our skills and interests and have fun

The same challenge applies to most networking events, socials, and conferences—there’s a plethora of ‘conference apps’ that are every bit as awful as you’d imagine (Whova, Hopin, Brella et al). But how to connect communities who have ideas, collaboration and work to do together? You might remember someone who you met at an event, half-remember their organisation, might want make an introduction and you can’t quite pull the thread, and everyone’s overwhelmed with social media connections.

For example, in work settings, the usual solution is LinkedIn. However, the usual problem with LinkedIn is that it’s LinkedIn: optimised for broadcasting and monetisation not belonging, and your data is theirs the moment you post it. Most people I know who use LinkedIn to connect after a business event just use its messaging function to get to an email address and then stop using it for that. So, there’s a signal!

To start, how about we do less? (but with more fun)

cl8 is a really small thing: a directory.

I grew up in a village of about 700 people – after a while you’d kind of just know everyone’s phone number, and have a sense of what they did. And, if you rewind a few decades, the person who would definitely know that was…the local telephone operator. One of the last telephone operators was a family friend (thank you Margie Knox), and she knew everyone, everything (and more) about everyone, including how they all connected with each other.

So, can we reboot this in the 2026?

Why not just use something that already exists?

Nothing I’ve found so far quite fills this gap in this way.

I’m sure many have tried and failed (and we may too, but have more fun trying). One pattern I’m sure of though: small things can survive if they stay the right shape.

Looking at alternatives, they tend to fall into three categories: SaaS products that will likely eventually enshittify (Orbit, Luma, and Common Room already did); self-hosted tools that require a lot more faff than the challenge warrants (it needs to be as easy as possible); or shared documents (e.g. Airtable) that go stale because that’s just what happens: the utility or enthusiasm atrophies and, let’s face it, they’re just so desperately dull.

None of them seem to hold the shape of a human network, run by individuals, with communities of overlapping and transitory interests, where skills might cluster and gaps are plentiful. And, of course, all of them involve handing your member data to a platform with rights that seek to keep them, rather than keeping users in control.

I wanted something lightweight enough to actually run myself, curated enough to stay useful, and honest about what it is: more of a social directory rather than a social network. Yes, also looking back to where a lot of social networks began (looking at you, Well), and re-asking if the incentives to ‘keep growing’ were the wrong solutions, and for the wrong reasons (looking at you, FB, Tw*t, Ning, and the rest of you).

On words

cl8 is a compression of “constellation” or “constellate” (as a verb), the name I use for communities of practice, and the (astronomical) language that threads through a lot of my projects.

A constellation isn’t a random scatter of points, it’s more like a pattern that becomes legible when you can work out how to read it. The points were always there: a constellation is what happens when you impose meaning on proximity and cl8 is, perhaps, a type of social telescope. The people were already in the room, more or less: the tool just makes connections visible. Less stuff, more fun.

What it does

You sign in with Google or a verified email, fill in your name, a short bio, and tag yourself with your skills and interests. Ideally not job titles, but rather the things you’d say to someone when meeting them at one of my salon evenings on the boat.

It’s a searchable, private directory where your profile is visible only to other authenticated members of that cl8 instance. Access is granted by whoever runs that community: human curation is part of the design.

It can run on your own server, your community controls the membership, and your data is yours. I’ve built it for my dgen network constellation (you can sign up at d.cl8.io and as its curator it may take me a little while to manually approve you). The first instance is also running for IB1 (Icebreaker One), which is exactly the point: one tool, many communities, each owning their own. You can sign up for that one at ib1.org/constellation.

And yes, you’ll hopefully find some things in all of this that surprise and delight: it’s the start of a journey to doing things differently. It should be fun, so adding in things for your specific, quirky, bonkers community is up to you. Less faff, more fun.

What it doesn’t do

It doesn’t

• reveal any information about you to anyone that you don’t want to share (see https://d.cl8.io/privacy)
• track you (no cookies)
• create more noise in the world

On building it

cl8 is a just few hundred KB of code: a single Node.js file with zero npm dependencies. It mirrors the same architecture as Broadside: copy the file to a server, configure, start a service, done. The data lives in flat JSON. The whole thing was built with AI assistance in the same spirit as the other tools in this stack: it’s been something I’ve wanted for years, and AI has helped me build it in about the same time as it would have taken to evaluate and customise any SaaS alternatives and then sign up for none of them.

It’s meant to be the absolute minimum. A social directory for a few hundred people doesn’t need a database cluster, it does need good session management, solid authentication and security, and enough care in the UI to make filling in your profile feel like something other than homework. Less code, more fun.

If you run a community of practice and you’re tired of it living inside someone else’s product, ping me. It’s open licence, deployable in under an hour, and then the only person looking after your community’s data is you (and them).

A self-hosted social posting tool, ensuring you own your own content

In my ongoing experiments with ai-assisted dev of tools I’d like, I’ve create Broadside to solve a specific irritation. As we all know, “If you aren’t paying for the product, you are the product.” and as all these tools develop their own special enshittifications, it feels like it’s time to have another go at inverting the models.

Also, with the demise of that old-bird-site, things have become more federated and fragmented. I wanted to post across Mastodon, Bluesky, Threads and LinkedIn at the same time, and do so without ‘losing’ what I’d written the moment I hit publish.

Broadside it a small web app that posts to all four simultaneously, keeps a searchable archive of everything locally, and pulls social feeds into one place, including creating useful open things, like an RSS feed. This post is about why I made it, what it does, and the slightly eccentric vocabulary it uses.

You can read all my posts here: https://broadside.dgen.net/bindery/gavin

If you’d like to try it, just ping me (on any channel).

You probably didn’t know LinkedIn is a one-way street

If you post to LinkedIn regularly, you’re building a professional record in a place you cannot back up. They do not let you download your own posts in bulk – the “account data export” doesn’t include posts. You can use their API to POST to the site, but not GET your own content back (without paying).

For the platform most associated with professional credibility where people are documenting their work, sharing hard-won thinking, and announcing things that matter to them, to offer no way to retrieve what you’ve put there is, to be generous, unprofessional.

The same applies across many platforms, to varying degrees and I’ve maintained this website (dgen.net) to be both a business site and a master record of my own works, that I completely control. With music I am addressing a version of this by building a tool to convert my Spotify playlists into a physical record catalogue, because streaming solved discovery but not ‘ownership’. Social media has the same shape: it solved distribution but not possession. Broadside is an attempt to do something about that.

And, yes, of course there are loads of self-publishing tools, but they’re often commercialised into their own SaaS businesses with similar issues of enshittification (looking at you TweetDeck/HootSuite), or too ‘techy’ to actually do yourself. Alternative services, like Mastodon are great but also directly compete with, rather than replace the production flow.

What Broadside does

Broadside runs on my own server (you can host your own too, once I get it on GitHub, open licence of course), and it supports multiple users (so I can enable my constellations and communities to use it for free). It connects social accounts, enables a post to be written in a single compose window, and it posts simultaneously to whichever platforms you select (Mastodon, Bluesky, Threads, LinkedIn, or any combination. Note that Facebook and others don’t allow connections like this). Link previews, image attachments and scheduled posts all work.

It also is keep a copy.

Before anything goes to a social platform, it’s written to an archive on my server. That archive is searchable and downloadable. If any other platform disappears, your posts don’t (nb: if my/your server vanishes, you have backups everywhere else you’ve posted). If you want to find what you said about something three years ago, you can. This useful to me – having a personal, searchable archive of all my public writing is just nice, independently of the cross-posting convenience.

There’s also a feed view, pulling in my Mastodon and Bluesky feeds together into one place (NB: LinkedIn and Threads don’t allow this, and Facebook doesn’t allow anything).

With added AI?

I added an AI-assisted research tool that automatically surfaces related links (e.g. Wikipedia, academic papers, Guardian articles, Hacker News discussions and things I’m experimenting with) for anything I post. This last bit genuinely surprised me with how useful it can be by lowering the ‘friction’ in then googling for references – in an age of fake news, it’s nice to filter on some diverse-yet-trusted sources. The whole thing was built with Claude and, like my other experiments is stuff I wanted but would never have had time to build a decade ago.

And, a white-listed constellation?

Of course, once you’ve got a publishing tool that works well, you can share it with your friends. And then you have something that’s bot-free, curated (h/t haddock), and more akin to the original idea of shared bookmarking and socials. Back to basics, without the tracking (no, really tracking, like LinkedIn scanning all your browser extensions to fingerprint your machine and track you is actually a thing, never mind cookies).

All while not having to switch away from, or shut down, places you like to hangout with other friends and colleagues.

You can probably guess where I might go next with this: not leaving places, but rather connecting them.

On words

Those who know me already know I love finding fun words (e.g. Icebreaker One, AMEE, Tornado) to make using things just feel good. And, of course, design matters deeply to all of this so I’m experimenting with letting people choose their own themes. We love to personalise things.

Note that while I’m using ai for these prototypes, a quick plug for my friends at philpottdesign.com, just because ;).

I’ve given Broadside its own vocabulary because I think it’s more interesting than calling things “dashboard” and “feed”.

Broadside: historically, this is a large sheet printed on one side and distributed as news, proclamations, or verse – one of the original one-to-many formats. It felt right for a tool that takes one piece of writing and to many public spaces at once. Obviously, given my interest in things nautical, broadside is also when all the guns on one side of a warship are fired simultaneously… so quite apt!

The Murmurator: the compose interface. A murmuration is what you see when a flock of starlings moves as one coherent shape. Social media can feel a bit like that and The Murmurator is where you introduce something into the flow.

Murmurings: your own incoming feeds from the people you follow, across the networks.

The Bindery: your personal post archive. The Bindery refers to “a studio, workshop or factory where sheets of (usually) paper are fastened together to make books” [wikipedia] so felt apt for where your own posts are gathered, ordered, and made publicly accessible by default (as a public web page and RSS feed).

Commonplace: As I add people from my constellation into our shared Broadside instance, the Commonplace is our collective archive: everything everyone has posted, in one place (as a public web page and RSS feed). (originally I used Sammelband a German word for a ‘volume that binds together separately published works’ but that was getting a bit too esoteric, even for me).

Addenda: re-establishing control

Stepping aside from all the stupid AI-hype, I think we’re at a fascinating juncture that reminds me of the 1990s early web. The same AI tools that vast platform players are racing to deploy to bind us to them, are equally available to all of us.

We can all now build personalised infrastructure, in hours or days, that would have taken dedicated teams many months or years before. Broadside is an example of this: a small act of reclaiming your relationship with your own writing, from the platforms you publish on and can control.

If we can’t build things for everyone, it won’t work for all of us.

To quote NTK, “THEY STOLE OUR REVOLUTION. NOW WE’RE STEALING IT BACK”

Turning your Spotify playlist into a record collection, and why that could be really disruptive

Quick summary

I’ve long wanted to make it easy to buy the music of artists I like, not least because they get better £pay on physical, but when (not if) online services de-list things and hard drives break, they don’t vanish forever.

So, here’s a first experiment: pulling out one of my annual playlists into a ‘catalogue/shop window’ that links to various retailers, CD and Vinyl, and Bandcamp if that exists for the artist.

This is only 2025 for now, while I work out some of the bugs. https://dgen.net/w/playlists/2025.html

Update: now live at https://secondpress.club/p/5lx398

Some reflections (over the past three decades)

This is an example of shifting power dynamics in consumption, engagement and how we can help deliver open markets that work for everyone. I’ve also noticed that the music sector is often an early adopter/trailblazer for broader societal shifts.

Music streaming has solved discovery: a near-infinite library at your fingertips, finding new artists, forgotten classics and new connections has never been easier.

However, there’s an issue buried in that convenience: you don’t really ‘have’ any of it. If a label dispute pulls an album, or you cancel your subscription, your carefully curated listening history evaporates. This can also apply to your ‘downloads’ (even with good hard drives and cloud services, we still lose our digital stuff).

I’ve long thought about what it actually means to have a music collection. Back in the day (1998!) I put Virgin Megastores online: all 60,000 products (which is how may CDs were in a typical store), and designed a service with a colleague, Rick Glanville, where we could sell a subscription to digital downloads and give away a tiny MP3 player as part of the package. We even got Cambridge Electronics to make a little postage-stamp sized player. [yes, these pre-dated the iPod, iPod Shuffle and Spotify by many, many years].

While on that journey it struck me that we were in the process of reducing ‘music’ to a search box, killing most of the actual experience outside of listening, destroying record stores, and as humans we were likely to eventually push back on something so techno-reductionist.

Many of the things we enjoy about music listening are physical: this has played out in the long-term success of stores like Rough Trade, and the resurgence of vinyl (even cassettes are back!). At the time, as a bit of rebellion, I also released my own music as a 19kg solid granite MP3 player and radio transmitter.

In one of my many roles as CEO of Consolidated Independent, we helped get over 20% of the world’s music online: millions of tracks from thousands of labels distributed to hundreds of retailers and services. Some of the labels were terrified of the web destroying their business due to piracy, but the whole system had to embrace it, including sorting out commercial realities. Sadly some of those realities massively skewed market value to ‘the big guys’, including ludicrous statements from some (let’s say ‘commercial’) CEOs that if artists wanted more money they should increase their output (as if art and soup cans are the same thing ).

Don’t get me wrong, I love the fact we have vast access to new music, and listen to a very diverse range of music. And, it creates different challenges for us as consumers and music fans. Now we can have more agency in balancing out the way the music market works – the cathedrals are not going anywhere, but the bazaar has some new spaces.

What we can now do

One of the things I missed when listening was album art, and a few years back I made a 12″ sized screen to pull down and display whatever I’m playing on Spotify (AI helped me code this, and I would never have got around to it without that help).

Building things just for me is fun, and…

Interestingly, with just a few AI prompts and some lightweight code, I created a tool that takes my Spotify playlist, cross-references every album against Discogs, and produced a personalised catalogue.

Based on the individual tracks I’d added to my annual playlist (which I have going back 8 years now), it looks up the album that it was on. It then works out which are available on CD and Vinyl (or digital–only), where to find them, and who sells them. And, not ‘just Amazon’, but others: Rough Trade, HMV and directly linking back to the artist’s Bandcamp. This is just the start of and idea, and took less than half a day to create it as a prototype.

This makes me wonder about a quiet promise of AI that doesn’t get talked about so much: enabling each of us to build the world we’d like. This will disrupt the big platforms (Spotify, Amazon, Apple) who have invested billions in making their aggregated experience frictionless and hard to leave. They’re using AI to make them more personalised and ‘sticky’. We can do the same for ourselves.

The same AI tools they’re racing to build are equally available to you and me. We can now spin up personalised services—in an afternoon—that would have taken a dedicated development team a decade ago.

So, this is a prototype of a custom, personalised catalogue and record-buying assistant that can be built around your taste, routing money to your preferred retailers that you can share with your friends. It is a small but real act of reclaiming your relationship with artists, and their music, from the big platforms.

We can help bridge the gaps and connect the smaller services together (back to the original vision of the web).

And, looking forward, we can start blending, sharing, cross-connecting using federated services like Mastodon and then connecting people, places, gigs, merch, in a way that could actually help everyone.

Isn’t that exciting!?

Constellator Anna Versteeg has launched her new project: https://bbookproject.com

“a collaboration between medics, scientists, researchers, writers, artists, designers and the general public, exploring science and culture, the empirical and the human, to compile a people centered piece of work to create public awareness & debate around the breast, to question beliefs and prejudices, to share information, promote diversity (no breast is the same), encourage confidence and a positive change to the many troubling perceptions towards breasts.”

I’ve joined the Advisory Board of DECODE, which is exploring tools that put individuals in control of whether they keep their personal data private or share it for the public good.

https://www.decodeproject.eu/

ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY PRESS RELEASE

RAS PR 17/30 (NAM 13)

3^rd July 2017

A project that explores whether there is a musical equivalent to the curvature of spacetime will be presented on Thursday 6^th July by Gavin Starks at the National Astronomy Meeting at the University of Hull.

Starks, who has a background in radio astronomy and electronic music, been working on developing an ‘acoustic cosmology’ for more than 20 years in collaboration with Prof Andy Newsam of Liverpool John Moores University. Their aim is to test whether mathematical relationships that describe cosmology and quantum mechanics can be applied to a sonic universe, or ‘soniverse’.

Starks explains: “If we look at the way that music has evolved from mediaeval plainsong to the algorithms that generate current chart-hits, we can see parallels developing in the way we describe music and descriptions of our perception of the universe. We can now create new types of sound from scratch – electronic sounds that simply couldn’t have existed before. It leads us to think about a digital sound world that we can’t enter, because it physically doesn’t exist. The question is – what next? 

“We are starting to develop completely new forms of manipulating the microstructure of sound, as well as the macroenvironment in which we experience it. This raises questions about whether we can create a soniverse based on a set of fundamental equations, in the same way that we can create mathematical models of the universe.”

Starting with a single wavelength ‘sonon’, a fundamental particle in the soniverse equivalent to a photon, Starks has attempted to define its properties and the physics that may apply to it. The project’s initial model of ‘wave-time’ has three independent dimensions: the individual sonon wavelength, instrument time (the duration that an individual instrument plays) and performance time (duration equal to the length of an individual piece).

Some of the relationships explored to date are causal (i.e. the physics is consistent within the soniverse) and some are aesthetic (i.e. they describe a subjective musical construct). Many have direct parallels in the physical universe. For example, the listener in the soniverse is analogous to the observer in quantum mechanics: a sonon is only rendered musical or not when it is heard.  A temporal gravity allows the clustering of sonons to create rhythms or musical phrases. Wave-time can be bent by clusters of sonons, in the same way that gravity distorts space-time in the universe.

Starks believes that bringing together cutting-edge science and understanding of musical structure creates the opportunity for discovery: “There’s a long common history between physics and music, for instance people built columns in cathedrals at a height linked to the resonant frequency, even before they understood the nature of pressure dynamics. It’s a relatively recent phenomenon that art and science are treated as different disciplines. By bringing them back together, and creating a common language, we can find different ways of interpreting and thinking about both music and cosmology.”

Newsam adds: “As astronomers, our experience of the universe is essentially visual – images, graphs, and so on. With the soniverse, we hope to create a new way to appreciate the cosmos, using our instinctive grasp of music and tone to explore relationships between different objects and cosmological models.”

Media contacts

NAM press office

Robert Massey, Royal Astronomical Society, rm@ras.org.uk

Anita Heward, Royal Astronomical Society, anitaheward@btinternet.com

Morgan Hollis, Royal Astronomical Society, mh@ras.org.uk

Science contacts

Gavin Starks, Dgen, binarydust.org, gavin@dgen.net, @agentGav

Andy Newsam, Professor of Astronomy Education and Engagement, Director of the National Schools’ Observatory, Liverpool John Moores University, andy@schoolsobservatory.org.uk

Multimedia

Blog post with embedded player, video and more information: http://www.binarydust.org/2017/05/18/listen-to-the-radio-cube-of-the-antennae-galaxies/ 

This data-cube is based on an optical image of the “Antennae Galaxies” colliding, as taken by the Hubble Space Telescope and a radio-image taken by ALMA. Each pixel actually represents a spectrum of frequencies across the electromagnetic radio spectrum

The data-cube works in two ways.

• Firstly, the radio frequencies have been transformed into visible colours, so you can see a slice of the cube.
• Secondly, the electromagnetic spectrum has been transformed into an acoustic spectrum. Remember light≠sound: the frequency of electromagnetic radiation (‘light’) has been transformed into a frequency of pressure wave (sound).

By clicking the image and moving your cursor around you can “play” a spectrum of the colliding galaxies. Underneath, you can see a visual representation of the frequency spectrum. Spend some time moving slowly around the red(redshifted) areas – there is a surprising richness to the harmonics for such a simple sonification.

Note: the data-cube is 8MB and could take between 20 seconds to several minutes to appear if you are on a slow connection.

Audio

Inspired by the discovery of the first double-pulsar system (ranked as the 6th most important scientific discovery of 2004), and specially written to celebrate the 10th anniversary of RT32 – a reclaimed 32m Radio Telescope in the middle of the Latvian forests (the VIRAC Radio Telescope in Irbene) brought to life over a decade, after being trashed by the Soviet military, as the only radio telescope in the world that is dedicated to both science and art. 

The full name of the piece is ds² – series 1 (PSR J0737-3039B) http://www.binarydust.org/2010/01/04/ds2-series-1/ 

Further information:

Further information on the project can be found at: http://www.binarydust.org/2017/01/27/escape-into-the-multiverse/

Notes for editors

Running from 2 to 7 July, the RAS National Astronomy Meeting 2017 (NAM 2017, http://nam2017.org) takes place this year at the University of Hull. NAM 2017 will bring together around 500 space scientists and astronomers to discuss the latest research in their respective fields. The conference is principally sponsored by the Royal Astronomical Society and the Science and Technology Facilities Council.

T: http://twitter.com/rasnam2017

The Royal Astronomical Society (RAS, www.ras.org.uk), founded in 1820, encourages and promotes the study of astronomy, solar-system science, geophysics and closely related branches of science. The RAS organises scientific meetings, publishes international research and review journals, recognises outstanding achievements by the award of medals and prizes, maintains an extensive library, supports education through grants and outreach activities and represents UK astronomy nationally and internationally. Its more than 4000 members (Fellows), a third based overseas, include scientific researchers in universities, observatories and laboratories as well as historians of astronomy and others.

T: https://twitter.com/royalastrosoc

F: https://facebook.com/royalastrosoc

The Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC, www.stfc.ac.uk) is keeping the UK at the forefront of international science and has a broad science portfolio and works with the academic and industrial communities to share its expertise in materials science, space and ground-based astronomy technologies, laser science, microelectronics, wafer scale manufacturing, particle and nuclear physics, alternative energy production, radio communications and radar.

STFC’s Astronomy and Space Science programme provides support for a wide range of facilities, research groups and individuals in order to investigate some of the highest priority questions in astrophysics, cosmology and solar system science. STFC’s astronomy and space science programme is delivered through grant funding for research activities, and also through support of technical activities at STFC’s UK Astronomy Technology Centre and RAL Space at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. STFC also supports UK astronomy through the international European Southern Observatory.

T: https://twitter.com/stfc_matters 

Thinking about the sea

• http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/02/sunday-review/protecting-the-untamed-seas.html

and webcasting

• https://dgen.net/blog/ms-hans

and music

• http://rinse.fm
• http://store.darkclover.ro/album/sabo
• http://tidal.lurk.org
• http://lysuc888.blogspot.co.uk
• http://www.aec.at/aeblog/en/2015/08/03/rhythmus-als-dna-der-musik

and long playing things

• http://longplayer.org/about/

and cosmology/topology

• http://www.binarydust.org/2012/09/21/evolving-language
• http://www.nersc.gov/news-publications/nersc-news/science-news/2014/simulations-reveal-unusual-death-for-ancient-stars

and data

• http://theodi.org/who-owns-our-data-infrastructure

Some interesting Venn diagrams emerging.

Well, it’s been a while since I posted here (Twitter still winning), but here’s a long overdue synopsis of some of the things my first startup, Tornado, created. I’ll be adding to this from time-to-time as I get in touch with some of the old team.

Well, it’s taken a little while to pull together, but Binary Dust is now live. Hope you enjoy.

wow. we did it. we built and launched it on time. to the minute, as they walked off stage…

It finally (soft/beta) launched with a couple of “people of fame” (Orlando Bloom and Kate Bosworth). After years of planning, we ended up getting the funding “weeks” ago and built everything online in 4 weeks from scratch.

http://www.global-cool.com/

So, the 20 hour days will now cease and my time will now be occupied with marginally less (or more) busy days dealing with the ongoing development of the project.

A huge thanks to everyone on the web development team, who have proved (again) that we can actually achieve impossible tasks.

Special thank you to;

Diggory, Chris, Joel, Francis, Anna, Andy, Andrew, Peter, Enrico, AdrianP, Phil, LeeA, Joanna, Gage, LeeM, Rakesh, Matt, Dan, PaulH, PaulM, David, Richard, John, Athol, Steve, Ashley, Marc, Ben, Tom, Chris, Tara, Laura, Fahaad, AdrianH, Matt, MySociety.org (Pledgebank.com), VTR, Jerelang, Makeni, Counting Thoughts.

I’m absolutely delighted that we’ve been able to implement Creative Commons and GPL licensing as a core part of the project, integrate with Pledgebank (which is superb!)

I’ve got the responsibility of being “head of internet” which seems to translate into more and more every time, so if you have any ideas about what you think we should add, tell me.

I want to build this into The Place where you manage your carbon lifestyle and make a difference to the world.

I’ll write up some more about *how the hell we did that* soon … but first, sleep….

Oh, but did I mention we launched in English and Japanese?