Social Investigation and Action
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BlogMail in a few words
- Software: BlogMail soft
- Portal: blogmail.cc
- Media Communication and Diffusion: public electronic mail or MailBlog
- Cultural and artistic creation: set of MailBlogs
- Social Action: empowerment
- Group of social engineer: Blogx Populi
Characteristic:
Free
Open
Public
Multidirectional/multiplatform
Multiuser
Automanager
Blogx Populi objectives
·to promote colective empowerment
·strengthen horizontal communication
·to favour social change
- in order to achieve this its aims are:
·to construct new mental (become empowered) and social structures
·to protect these structures
·to shorten the distance between real life and its public representation
- Through:
·software development
·making communicative structures avaliable
·creating new cultural productions
·socializing actions, experiences and ideologies
BlogMail is the cyberspace visible part of political action promoted by the freedom of knowledge found in its creation, access and interaction.
BlogMail releases personal knowledge gathered through electronic mail, it puts it within anyones reach, offering the opportunity to contribute at the same time.
BlogMail proposes a public, spontaneous, daily, naturalized and pacific manifestation of our realities, for the sake of shortening the distance between real life and its public representation, working in the construction of new mental and social structures that reinforce horizontal communication strengthening collective empowerment.
E-mail History and RFC
Ray Tomlinson
1971
He created the e-mail from the SNDMSG and the CYPNET
He worked in BBN (before beginning to work in Arpanet), he was told by his boss that he was wasting his time in something with no future.
1973
75 % of the ARPANET traffic is e-mail
1977 RFC 733 Standard for the Format of ARPA Net-work Text Messages
1982 RFC 822 Message Format
1994 RFC 1939 Post-Office-Protocol, v.3
1995 RFC 1869 SMTP
1996 RFC 2045 Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
1996 RFC 2060 Internet Messages Access Protocol, v.4
2001 RFC 2821 Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
2001 RFC 2822 Internet Message Format
E-mail: The public and the private
1986 e-mail services for companies
1991 PGP
1994 Spam
Echelon
Carnivore
The barrier of Private Life
What do we mean by Private Life?
Greek antiquity: "to be private of policy"
“What is private life deprived of?” Quite simply of life itself, which is cruelly absent. People are as deprived as possible of communication and of self-fulfillment; deprived of the opportunity to personally make their own history." Guy Debord 1961
“Propietary software keeps users in a division and a state of powerlessness. Division, because each user has been forbidden to help others distributing copies and powerlessness, because the user doesn't have the ability to change a program nor a way to find out what it does” Richard Stallman 2004
"personal is politic", Feminists Lesbians '70
Services which have little capacity for communicative projection currently given by your Internet Service Provider
ADSL
Chats
Webs
Correo
BlogMail Technician
in contrast BlogMail is:
GNU/Linux
LDAP
Apache
MySQL
PHP
Exim
Bind
Subversion
BlogMail Soft (WordPress MU Hacked)
Structure by machines
Production
- nodreams
- Pentium III 600
- in Xarxa SenseFils
- Apache, MySQL, Exim, BlogMail soft.
- orwell
- AMD 1000
- LDAP Server, Apache, MySQL, Exim, Bind, BlogMail soft.
- Web, mailling list, downloads
- blogmail.sourceforge.net
- Xeon 2,6
Development
- rented machine
- Xeon 2,8
- subversion
Unify Service
Weblogs Server
Webmail / POP3 / IMAP
Lists Manager (MailWoman module)
Forum
Economy
Automanager
Present state
BlogMail 0.6beta
svn checkout http://svn.blogmail.cc/blogmail/trunk .
blogmail-general@lists.sourceforge.net
