Published Date 9/27/17 11:41 AM https://www.thecanary.co Open data – the site has a RSS feed, but contet copyright so ½ of a open Open source – wordpress so a open Open “industrial” standards – Well WordPress is kinda a standard, they support RSS but no podcasts and all media on closed corporate accounts so ½…
Lets look at some open projects from the perspective of the 4opens Mastodon
Published Date 9/25/17 5:49 PM https://mastodon.social/ Open data – YES Can I save my data? Yes, some of it! It‘s under Preferences->Data export Open source – YES GNU AFFERO GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 3, 19 November 2007 Open “industrial” standards – YES We are using the OStatus suite of protocols: Webfinger for user-on-domain lookup Atom…
Don’t trust the fashionista
Published Date 9/25/17 4:24 PM Thinking about #Uber and the dysfunction of #Facebook. It’s time to #reboot many parts of the #openweb With the “visibility” of the failing of #dotcons such as #failbook privacy/obscured agronomic control of you, #uber and the race to the bottom culture. The will be a plausible “class” of people who…
A look at were alt grassroots media is at
Published Date 9/17/17 10:02 AM A look at some of the current alt/radical media projects in the UK Novra media These guys are some of the most intelligent “idiots” I know. They produce good content and they produce a lot of it. * FANTASTIC CONTENT * HARD WORKING * OLD, BROKEN AND DANGURUES NEW/OLD MEDIA…
Why alt grassroots media fail
Published Date 9/17/17 9:59 AM Stupid individualism and the visionOntv CJ video templates. Our templates for video journalism are designed to simplify and empower normal people to make coherent video news reports using the tools they already have. They are successful at this if people fallow the template’s – it says this at the end…