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…
Power polatics and the race gender card
Published Date 1/31/17 12:50 PM Deal with issues, allowing them to be pushed under the carpet has a cost. The are real issues round gender/race politics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_politics Then the is a the sad and bad playing of the race/gender “card” that is sometimes used when real issues become stressful. This happen to me a year…