Year: 2013

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…

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 4/1/13 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…

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 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…

Published Date 3/28/13 3:42 PM This is a NOTES for a DRAFT of a long post on history of progressive media over the last 25 years. I have been working on subjects of technology and social change for over 20 years. It all started while I was at university and coming up to my final…