Our Website at Collective Communication

Our new Collective Communication website runs on a 486 Cyrix 100 with 32 meg of ram and a gig. The server is O'Reilly's NT Website 1.1, soon to be replaced by Website Pro. We have a 34.4 connection topped off at 56kb after compression to our internet service provider (ISP) Dave Harris of Westside BBS fame. Thanks to Dave for giving us a good deal.

Now 56kb is not a lot, so we can't have much in the way of graphics until we find an eleemosynary soul with a bigger pipe to host them for us. I'll bet someone knows someone with a good T1 connection who will help us out. Send email to Roger Eaton

What we will have is a web BBS. CCI board member Tim Gordon is sysop, and also technical consultant without whom we would have no website at all. He is into computer games, so I'm sure the BBS will have a section on that. In addition, we plan a discussion area for our online volunteers, and another for Los Angeles issues. We are expecting stupendous growth, naturally, so no matter that we are a total unraveled fringe group, by this time next year we should be hosting multiple discussion areas on our own InterMix software, beginning to puzzle some people and having fun at it, too.

Online volunteers. That's what we want and need now. Collective Communication is an idea with a lot of spin-offs, and each aspect or tangent has its own devotees out there on the web. We need volunteers to link people to people on the net with those who are interested in global community and the human identity (which may not be the right word), non-violence, the web as an intelligence for humanity, religious ecumenicism, collaborative filtering, consumer ratings, ethnic identities of all sorts, Los Angeles, sister cities programs, world ecology, etc, etc, and of course, collective communication if anyone else is already working on it. We will build reciprocal web links on the basis of the volunteer contacts. I'm suspecting the web is a great organizing medium. Let's try it and find out.

This year we build our online community. Next year we switch to our own InterMix software and implement a collective dialogue between the community and our righteous newsletter editor Patricia Rowuin - community directed media!

- Roger Eaton