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From my tribe blog:
As an early member of tribe.net who saw the invites arrive on Friendster(!) drawing legions of mostly Californian Burners over to this site it is sad to see the bastion of what could be considered the neotribal movement (labels suck) fall to such a skeleton crew and leaky ship. As this is my reincarnated profile after the last one froze and I am seeing massive exodus as well as people blogging their personal e-mails to their networks (something I did and encouraged before my 1200 + network went into login logjam- to little avail I might add) I have some thoughts...
It would be negligent of me to not mention to those who don't know and even to those who do that a tribal community site that pre-dates tribe.net and most of the other trendy sites used by our widespread community continues to live on. When tribe.net,myspace, and facebook all vaccumed people into their folds offering many bells and whistles the traffic on the mostly Vancouver Mainland based site dropped dramatically. And yet it remains available for use, with the odd bug report, but with a much more faithful response.
Need to find someone in the community? I get asked for contacts constantly and the thx website has been useful for the most part, second only in speed to using Facebook (aka CIA Book) for searching a name, mainly because people will tend to use pseudonyms more than not on Tribalharmonix. When the masses glommed onto tribe.net Rheo the webmaster of thx.org created a means to link profiles from the two sites. A handy way to take advantage of the more rich profiles found on that site, but also showing the linkage between those networks and those found on the thx site.
I've seen so far a Ning site for tribers to join which in all honesty doesn't appeal to me so much. Who runs Ning? No clue over here. I'd much prefer someone at the helm who genuinely is a visionary and holds interest in such things as:
tribal co-operatives
tribal classifieds/tribal market
land co-operatives
sustainability
eco-community
Burning Man
Now, the only reason I've not tried to earnestly wage a campaign to get everyone over to tribe.net is a) it seems like an impossible task
b) people locally may tend to associate Tribal Harmonix with specific types of events/social networks that they don't see themselves reflected in for whatever reason due to geography,clique-ification, music taste etc c) diversity is more important than having everything on one platform, right?
And not only that, our one main webmaster couldn't easily contend with a mass migration onto the site with numerous demands and little time to field it all. As it is he's had to rely on google ads (tailored to be relevant to the community using the site) which I personally am not stoked on but it's the only real revenue generator to sustain the site based on trials using paypal.
For all the reasons barring the way from integrating networks on a tribal meme based I think the benefits of doing so outnumber by far. I've held hopes that tribe.net would accomplish the aims of dance communities which converged at conferences like Gathering of the Tribes which spawned so many worldbridging efforts in the dance movement. And I do count the successes but more towards opening the door for people who had previously not embraced the internet as a tool for our movement to come together. Now we're all here and our spaceship is malfunctioning and not going anywhere it seems. I applaud those who are running the site but they are subordinates of a corporate entity which in the end could care less about the sites continued role in evolving culture.
So in the very least, have a look, or another look at tribalharmonix.org and consider what it could mean at this time. Absorb the artistic layout graciously done by Sijay of OnBeyond Metamedia reflecting a Gaian approach to technology. Sijay had developed a pre-cursor to Tribal Harmonix called Navigator Online whose spirit was absorbed into the thx site in the infancy of the community networks. Absorb the relatively low tech systems in place which remind me of how the Battleship Galactica runs to avoid take over by Cylon technology. It finds the tried and true systems before jumping on the latest bandwagon which has been a bit frustrating yet also proven wise in some cases. Ultimately any social networking site will only be as spectacular as the people who frequent it, no matter how cool the features. Consider what a site like Tribalharmonix could be with the collective abilities of those who support its aims.
Some of those closer to the organizational levels of Tribal Harmonix will bemoan the dynamics which have prevented them from engaging in work with the site. Techies all have their bias' in regards to what they want to work with but as a guild of lightworkers using the medium I would hope that intention would override and allow the best outcome for all. I would hope that our webmaster Rheo would find those who he could work with to enable the platform for a wide diversity of platforms such as tribe.net has hinted towards but with a full arsenal of applications to make use of beyond what he alone could muster.
This rant grows long so I will try to finish this off. I will do that by saying that Tribal Harmonix is in its greatest sense a meme. Its words say it well enough but I will say that the original vision of Tribal Harmonix was to unite the already functioning circles of community in all their diversity, all their musical variation, to keep our light collectively brighter than if we held them all apart. It was at one time a noticable thing about our 604 region when people came to visit. They sensed a large community. Now it seems more splintered, which I take as a necessary growth phase as many people have stepped forward to form individuated scenes and pathways into the global arena. But now also perhaps might we see if it might serve us all to get back on our evolving virtual mothership and rescue the floundering webworks so we might fulfil our destiny with greater ability.
Digest and share feedback if you've made it this far and by all means if you haven't done so hook yourself onto Tribal Harmonix even just to explore within. See the archive of our collective consciousness that's been happening there since 2001 or so. See where it's aimed and let's traverse the chaos with Tribal Harmonix.
www.tribalharmonix.org
As an early member of tribe.net who saw the invites arrive on Friendster(!) drawing legions of mostly Californian Burners over to this site it is sad to see the bastion of what could be considered the neotribal movement (labels suck) fall to such a skeleton crew and leaky ship. As this is my reincarnated profile after the last one froze and I am seeing massive exodus as well as people blogging their personal e-mails to their networks (something I did and encouraged before my 1200 + network went into login logjam- to little avail I might add) I have some thoughts...
It would be negligent of me to not mention to those who don't know and even to those who do that a tribal community site that pre-dates tribe.net and most of the other trendy sites used by our widespread community continues to live on. When tribe.net,myspace, and facebook all vaccumed people into their folds offering many bells and whistles the traffic on the mostly Vancouver Mainland based site dropped dramatically. And yet it remains available for use, with the odd bug report, but with a much more faithful response.
Need to find someone in the community? I get asked for contacts constantly and the thx website has been useful for the most part, second only in speed to using Facebook (aka CIA Book) for searching a name, mainly because people will tend to use pseudonyms more than not on Tribalharmonix. When the masses glommed onto tribe.net Rheo the webmaster of thx.org created a means to link profiles from the two sites. A handy way to take advantage of the more rich profiles found on that site, but also showing the linkage between those networks and those found on the thx site.
I've seen so far a Ning site for tribers to join which in all honesty doesn't appeal to me so much. Who runs Ning? No clue over here. I'd much prefer someone at the helm who genuinely is a visionary and holds interest in such things as:
tribal co-operatives
tribal classifieds/tribal market
land co-operatives
sustainability
eco-community
Burning Man
Now, the only reason I've not tried to earnestly wage a campaign to get everyone over to tribe.net is a) it seems like an impossible task
b) people locally may tend to associate Tribal Harmonix with specific types of events/social networks that they don't see themselves reflected in for whatever reason due to geography,clique-ification, music taste etc c) diversity is more important than having everything on one platform, right?
And not only that, our one main webmaster couldn't easily contend with a mass migration onto the site with numerous demands and little time to field it all. As it is he's had to rely on google ads (tailored to be relevant to the community using the site) which I personally am not stoked on but it's the only real revenue generator to sustain the site based on trials using paypal.
For all the reasons barring the way from integrating networks on a tribal meme based I think the benefits of doing so outnumber by far. I've held hopes that tribe.net would accomplish the aims of dance communities which converged at conferences like Gathering of the Tribes which spawned so many worldbridging efforts in the dance movement. And I do count the successes but more towards opening the door for people who had previously not embraced the internet as a tool for our movement to come together. Now we're all here and our spaceship is malfunctioning and not going anywhere it seems. I applaud those who are running the site but they are subordinates of a corporate entity which in the end could care less about the sites continued role in evolving culture.
So in the very least, have a look, or another look at tribalharmonix.org and consider what it could mean at this time. Absorb the artistic layout graciously done by Sijay of OnBeyond Metamedia reflecting a Gaian approach to technology. Sijay had developed a pre-cursor to Tribal Harmonix called Navigator Online whose spirit was absorbed into the thx site in the infancy of the community networks. Absorb the relatively low tech systems in place which remind me of how the Battleship Galactica runs to avoid take over by Cylon technology. It finds the tried and true systems before jumping on the latest bandwagon which has been a bit frustrating yet also proven wise in some cases. Ultimately any social networking site will only be as spectacular as the people who frequent it, no matter how cool the features. Consider what a site like Tribalharmonix could be with the collective abilities of those who support its aims.
Some of those closer to the organizational levels of Tribal Harmonix will bemoan the dynamics which have prevented them from engaging in work with the site. Techies all have their bias' in regards to what they want to work with but as a guild of lightworkers using the medium I would hope that intention would override and allow the best outcome for all. I would hope that our webmaster Rheo would find those who he could work with to enable the platform for a wide diversity of platforms such as tribe.net has hinted towards but with a full arsenal of applications to make use of beyond what he alone could muster.
This rant grows long so I will try to finish this off. I will do that by saying that Tribal Harmonix is in its greatest sense a meme. Its words say it well enough but I will say that the original vision of Tribal Harmonix was to unite the already functioning circles of community in all their diversity, all their musical variation, to keep our light collectively brighter than if we held them all apart. It was at one time a noticable thing about our 604 region when people came to visit. They sensed a large community. Now it seems more splintered, which I take as a necessary growth phase as many people have stepped forward to form individuated scenes and pathways into the global arena. But now also perhaps might we see if it might serve us all to get back on our evolving virtual mothership and rescue the floundering webworks so we might fulfil our destiny with greater ability.
Digest and share feedback if you've made it this far and by all means if you haven't done so hook yourself onto Tribal Harmonix even just to explore within. See the archive of our collective consciousness that's been happening there since 2001 or so. See where it's aimed and let's traverse the chaos with Tribal Harmonix.
www.tribalharmonix.org
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