Year: 2012

Published Date 11/6/12 12:50 AM The confrunce venue was evicted just before the event! so it when’t ahead in hackney instead. The Media is Dead, Long Live the Media! May 8th-10th – new media conference on Raven’s Ait Island. The imminent commercial collapse of mainstream media, and its replacement by PR-driven news, threatens the journalistic integrity and…

Published Date 11/6/12 12:47 AM This was copied over from the visionontv process page: This is the process of the visionOntv affinity group so far (an affinity group is a trust network)  At the core of any affinity group is a core/periphery relationship and a usheraly unspoken way of moving between them.  At base, the…

A bit of history http://hamishcampbell.com/diaz and some current thinking about the media.

From LENALEIA  Bratislava, Slovakia Jul 20     Positive A great guy. From Kayte Fairfax  London, England May 24      Positive Hamish is a super energetic video activist who is totally committed to his ideals and seeing them enacted in the world. He’s also a damn good vegetarian cook who whips up culinary delights when you least expect it, and loves a good debate!…

Published Date 11/3/12 12:38 AM DRAFT – thinking about Social networking OK we need to look agen at what we will use our CMS for – here is a look at the social networking side of it. Create A network: – around films – around filmmakers – around channels – around campaigns – list of filmmakers…

Published Date 11/1/12 1:45 AM DRAFT The old-mainstream media used to dominate national, international and local news to such an extent that many voices were unheard and any radical story was systemically distorted. With the onward march of the digitisation project (see more info LINK) the old-mainstream media is crumbling with the failer of its…

A river that needs crossing political and tech blogs – On the political side, there is arrogance and ignorance, on the geek side there is naivety and over- complexity My videos are on these two youtube channels visionontv 3,832,876 views and undercurrents 22,689,976 views

An live edit-in-camera piece by visionOntv reporter Hamish Campbell at the "Future that Works" demo in London.

Published Date 10/17/12 3:50 AM In relation to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Social_Forum DRAFT – this is a e-mail dialogue that illustrates the issues of horizontal and vertical process and how they fail to balance. Firstly the has been a lot of talk of me as some kind of egotistical anarchist… this is far from the truth, and by long…

Published Date 10/17/12 2:35 AM F***K off and do it your self This is a humorous response page to many quires we get. This project is radically decentralized so you will be continuously disappointed and dis-empowered if you keep asking permission before you do things. LINK And if you continuously need the “centre” to mediate…

Published Date 10/17/12 2:12 AM It started as a mashup… INTRO We have everything in place currently to run the channel and scale it up to 100K’s viewers and when the funding comes through we can pay to expand the infustructer to make the channel independent from copurte structures and scalable to much wider ardencies.…

Published Date 10/17/12 1:47 AM The is a whole load of fake citizen journalism thought going on in this debate http://bit.ly/J0i5l Basically “professionals” here see citizen journalism as a way of getting raw material so that they can do “real” journalism on the cheap. But the role of the paid professional journalist is almost eliminated…