Month: April 2013

Published Date 4/30/13 5:49 PM The OMN is owned by nobody and run by nobody. It is merely a set of Stupidly Simple open standards, open databases and working practices. We are building some hubs to flesh the network out. What is there at the moment.? Let’s highlight some of the projects: http://fund.openworlds.info Open funding…

Published Date 4/27/13 9:32 PM Almost all of Activism is organized on one corporate network and its run by this man “Mark Zuckerberg’s new political group, which bills itself as a bipartisan entity dedicated to passing immigration reform, has spent considerable resources on ads advocating a host of anti-environmental causes — including driling in the…

Published Date 4/24/13 10:33 PM This is two draft’s of a project for the end of the summer FUNDRAISING FOR THE REAL STORY Stories grow from the soil, they grow from social/geologic conflicts. Thus an interesting place to start a story is from the mud and dust where it stands. With this in mind we…

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

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

Published Date 4/18/13 1:32 PM Some NOTES It seems to me that after living through two explosions of protest DIY creativity, the CJB/anti roads movement and the climate camp are the examples am thinking about here. The are some lessons to learn. Both of these movements were “affinity group” driven at their core, that is a…

Published Date 4/17/13 4:56 PM It consistently amazed me how activists walked into the trap of corporate social networking. I can understand NGO groups narrowness of focus, its were the funding is. I can understand traditional media’s embracing of Facebook, Twitter and the closed ecosystem of app stores as its a perceived as a “safe”…

Published Date 4/17/13 12:46 PM Those we see as trustworthy are Liars, cheats and swindlers. The bankers and bureaucrats at the moment. I think we have always had this backwards view of the world, is it a failure of the education system or a failure of our collective imagination – the needing to belong. The…

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

Published Date 4/12/13 11:46 AM Some more notes: Not an isolated individual website – many individual websites in a bigger commons. The open internet used to be a such a commons Q. why is this increasingly no longer so and why/what should/can we do about this. Subject sites linked by affinity sharing activity streams. An…

Published Date 4/8/13 7:11 PM Idea for a project for next winter. I have been making activist films for 20 years well over 100 short radical actavist 3-10 minit news reports on many different campaigns.  Tell the stories of video activism by my films – list all films then get key people who were in…

Published Date 4/2/13 3:29 PM DRAFT looking at the actavist groups I have been involved with. Its interesting to try and record your view of what happened and why it happened. Though as most people will have internalised a different view to yours  this can be painful for thoughs who lived through this history. This rises…