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…
Is the value in stirring up the past
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…
Good activist media
Published Date 4/1/13 6:04 PM Lets get positive for a moment What has worked in Alt/radical media? DRAFT – looking at two contrasting successful activist media strategys. When indymedia started in 2000 in the UK undercurrents the radical news organisation I was working for had played a role in its founding running a ALPHA build…
The OMN is a very simple thing
Published Date 3/31/13 8:24 PM Open media networking The data cauldron with configurer your own ladle tools. Hubs/nodes – RSS item in and out ver tag for full participating sites Consumers/producers – native plug-ins and JS embeds for displaying and existing RSS out for source sites. All data in and all data out – by trust, the…
A brief history of activism
Published Date 3/28/13 1:18 PM This is a DRAFT #Occupy has become bureaucratised and continues as e-mail lists and side projects, not very active. #ukuncut has become institutionalised. Still active – presser protests in conjunction with NGO’s #climatecamp The anarcho’ s left and most of the rest got jobs in NGO’s a few continue in…
Damping down alternative voices
Published Date 3/25/13 1:48 PM [embedded content] This is an interesting example of why visionontv is needed in the world of social media domination the video was pushed very hard and was shared extensively in Facebook and to a lesser extent in Twitter but has only 750 views – which isn’t rarely anufe to motive…