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
What works in Activist video
Published Date 5/22/13 8:17 PM Made 2 films with nearly a million views each on youtube, in both cases part of the reason they are “successful” is because people are hating on them. [embedded content] More than thirty climate activists and local residents took mass direct action to prevent excavation work on Britain’s biggest ever…
Parasitic traditional media
Published Date 5/21/13 2:07 PM Its interesting how parasitic traditional media is, an idea or a news story will come out in a sub-culture (contemporary media) weeks or years before it becomes a “story” in traditional media. This time lag – together with the general lack of connection in traditional media to where story’s come…
Lifeboat to liveaboard conversion
Published Date 5/18/13 10:29 PM Am thinking about getting one of these to covert into a live-in open media centre. They vary from 7-9m in length and have seating (like sardines) for 30-60 people. Proposed mission would be to: * remove most of the seats to open the space up * paint it so it wasnt bright orange (need a good…
A presentation of the idea of the Open Media Network and where it currently is
Published Date 5/18/13 1:10 PM A presentation of the idea of the Open Media Network and where it currently is 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.…
Why are conversations about technology privacy and social change so difficult
Published Date 5/16/13 1:59 PM Over the last 10 years I have found a lot of intolerant and prejudiced attitude toward the impact new technology will have on our work and society. A recent conversation sparked off this thought. Our society has foundation myths – and they aren’t the bible any more – consumerism and…
Ethical aggregation and conversation OMN
Published Date 5/15/13 11:21 AM What is ethical aggregation? Always link back to the original producer hosting site. The exception to this is when the site is a corporate hosting site such as YouTube, then linking to an embed on an OMN site is preferable linking to that site. The content should be consumed where…
What is the Open Media Network
Published Date 5/7/13 3:09 PM It’s about human co-operation working with machine aggregation tools. It’s a stupidly simple social project using largly existing basic web technologies. – RSS in and out via tag (with de-duping and field-matching). This is it for the technical side of the project. Then there is the social side: open licences,…