Published Date 5/12/17 11:55 AM Building up alt/grassroots media would be nice to get a reply 🙂 Hi guys, Good to get a reply about this project from you. OMN is a network of Open Media Sites. The currency (value) of the web is the link without linking content (no matter how good) it has…
Fashernisat
Published Date 4/18/17 11:53 AM I have been talking about the fashernisatas for the last few years, its an idea/group that I have been struggling to work with my whole time in the alt/grassroots. So what is a #fahernista? Â A group of individuals who value/push there own individual advancement over the needs of the croup…
Stalled roll out of OMN
Published Date 4/16/17 5:04 PM How to move on with alt/grassroots media producers linking to each other? Currently the shamelessly do not do this, even though they have repeatedly stated they do over the last 5 years. 1) Keep private messaging them on steps they can take, this works to an extent, as asked them…
One more step OMN
Published Date 3/15/17 8:20 PM The OMN will allow you to find good quality alt\grassroots content. It’s a way of getting distribution outside Facebook and Twitter to push-up the use of the open web. It’s a stupidly simple social project using existing basic web technologies. The OMN is an open network so we call each…
A first step to reboot alt grassroots media
Published Date 3/4/17 6:32 PM A first step to reboot alt/grassroots media land an update on were we are on the OMN (open media network) linking project. * The is a node/site up http://omn.openworlds.info:8080/ * This currently has 10 embeds https://github.com/tomspost/OMN/wiki on sites as a soft roll out * we are aiming to expand this…
The left Stop the rot and start the composting
Published Date 3/2/17 7:37 PM Its not the people we should be angry at for the current Brixet/Trump mess, it is the small/tiny number of people who pushed neo-liberal polices through for the last 30 years, probably a few thousand. The people rebelled, yes, they could have rebelled to the left or the right, they…
History of the visionOntv project
The original project was offlinetv and was a online network to setup screenings to bring people together and cross fertilize different radical campaigning groups. I was pushing it as “open” rebooting of the failing undercurrents video activism project. Before this I had been making a meager living doing screenings by fundraising vie the copyleft ruffcuts…
How to do ethical aggregation and news flow displays
Published Date 2/15/17 12:13 PM The is an issue of fast flowing (lower quality) news sites dominating over slower flowing (quality) sites on short 5/10 story sidebars on the #OMN To get round this the are a number of options: We only show one item (the latest) from each feed in embed RSS feed flows.…
Power Politics of the undead left
Published Date 2/1/17 2:07 PM I have found memories of fighting the Power Politics of the “undead left” during the London Social Forum many years ago – lots of knotted strings of organic garlic around the top “taking the power table” to highlight the uncomfortable “undead left´s” grasping for power. Then the ad hock crew…