Over the past few months the ActivityPub world, and the larger decentralised social media ecosystem, has seen increasing tension leading to public shaming and attacks that I believe hurt everyone's ability to progress, undermines our collective goal of better social media for all, and hurts the wider social web. More importantly, I believe it constitutes … Continue reading You’re Doing It Wrong

First published in Uncommonalities Volume II: Bad Enough (Bratum Books) It would've been bad enough without the new Chair being such a persnickety arsehole. After almost two years of tedious meetings, tedious reports and tedious comment reviews run by a tedious Chairperson, now they had to sit and suffer the tedious wrap-up meeting - in … Continue reading Impact Assessment

as published at https://nation.cymru/opinion/the-welshman-on-the-front-line-of-new-yorks-battle-with-covid-19/ Jaz-Michael King Friday, April 3rd. It’s been a heck of a week. New York is the hotspot for COVID-19 in the United States and I work for a national public health non-profit headquartered just outside Queens on New York’s Long Island. I moved to New York in 1996, having been born and … Continue reading The Welshman on the front line of New York’s battle with COVID-19

this article first appeared on https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/fhir-up-oven-promoting-interoperability-turning-apis-pies-king/ The American healthcare system is increasingly worried that patients might want their health records in a troublingly new and scary form: digital. Despite the billions of dollars invested into arming the nation’s healthcare industry with electronic health records, very little of that data has turned into actionable, patient-centered data … Continue reading FHIR up the Oven! Is Health Data… Pizza?

First published in Parallel.Cymru MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2019 TUESDAY, MARCH 19, 2019 Jaz-Michael King is the creator of Tŵt, a community microblog built from the ground up in Welsh and English versions, with the aim of creating a bilingual, privacy-focussed social media experience. Born and raised in South Glamorgan, Jaz now lives and works in … Continue reading Creating a new online community for Wales, Tŵt

Tŵt is a bilingual online social content platform, very similar to Twitter in some ways, and very much not in others. You may well be thinking the same thing I heard a more than a few times during its development; “do we really need another social media platform?” and I hope you’ll read on to … Continue reading Tŵt – Supporting Bilingual Communities Online