Funding Proposal: Open Media Network (#OMN) – Building Portable, Human-Centred Digital Commons

https://nlnet.nl/fediversity Project Title Open Media Network (OMN): Portable Digital Commons for a Federated Europe Summary The Open Media Network (#OMN) is a real grassroots initiative to build sustainable, human-centred digital infrastructure aligned with the principles of the #openweb and the #4opens. To providing easy-to-use, hosted cloud services with service portability and freedom at their core … Continue reading Funding Proposal: Open Media Network (#OMN) – Building Portable, Human-Centred Digital Commons →

OMN projects are tools for YOU to change and challenge the world we live (and die) in

The Open Media Network (#OMN) is an “anything in, anything out” network powered by a mediated trust system. Instead of one corporation or #NGO controlling the flow, the commernerty decides what happens to the data that moves through it. At its core, the #OMN is a data soup: tagged data objects flowing through channels. These … Continue reading OMN projects are tools for YOU to change and challenge the world we live (and die) in →

Open Media Network (#OMN) is a tool for change and challenge, to use to compost social mess

My experience of tech over the last 20 years has been like watching the same old weeds sprout up in the cracks, because the #eekprobem keep clinging to the illusion of control. But yeah, every bit of rot turns to soil eventually – as long as we keep digging, the roots of something real can … Continue reading Open Media Network (#OMN) is a tool for change and challenge, to use to compost social mess →

Open Media Network (OMN): An Overview

It’s past time to stop trying to own the river and start learning how to navigate it. Principles of the #OMN This is a reformatted and updated text from 8 years ago: The Open Media Network (#OMN) is a reboot of the “indymedia” project, reimagined as an open, decentralized network for sharing and aggregating content … Continue reading Open Media Network (OMN): An Overview →

Human tech – OMN

The #OMN Framework: the Five Functions (#5f) To build an #OMN site, we don’t start with platforms, features, or ideology. We start with flows. Think of the network as a system of pipes and holding tanks, with different connectors at each end. Nothing magical, nothing proprietary. The goal is that every part, in the abstract, … Continue reading Human tech – OMN →

Let’s build a real world example base on the OMN tools set -indymeda instance/network

Looking at this very simply, they are two pools of data – trusted and moderated – the trusted data is displayed on the site and flows out from the site as feeds. – the moderated is displayed on a back end moderation/draft feed the mods of the site get to decide what to do with … Continue reading Let’s build a real world example base on the OMN tools set -indymeda instance/network →

The OMN is a KISS project.

Let’s look at this from a different direction: As a core coder your mission is to build pipes that carry data flows. Then your mission is to build 5 function connectors on the ends of the pipes. Then to build holding tanks, databases, that store the content of the flow. In each “holding tank” the … Continue reading The OMN is a KISS project. →

OMN

The Open Media Network is a trust based, human moderated, #4opens project that builds a database shared across many peers. The project is more important for what it DOES NOT DO, than what it does do. It uses technology to build human networks. There are ONLY 5 main functions: * Publish (object to stream) – … Continue reading OMN →

A Minimal, Governable Infrastructure for Trust-Based Media Flows

Human Tech: The Open Media Network (#OMN) is a proposal for human-scale, federated media infrastructure built on standard #FOSS practices and the #4opens: open data, open source, open process, open standards. It does not attempt to invent a new platform. It defines a minimal, interoperable framework for how content flows through networks, in ways that … Continue reading A Minimal, Governable Infrastructure for Trust-Based Media Flows →

The #NastyFew Are Not Hidden – They’re Integrated

The #NastyFew are not hiding in the shadows, they’re integrated. The so-called “Epstein files” are not the record of one predator. They are a snapshot of how #mainstreaming works at elitist levels, a map of proximity around the people who default-run the mess we call society. Billionaires.Prime ministers.Cabinet officials.Tech founders.Bankers.Cultural icons. From Bill Gates to … Continue reading The #NastyFew Are Not Hidden – They’re Integrated →

Composting the myths: power, hidden religions, and why the #openweb matters

Let’s look at an example of how belief systems shape political reality. Some people still deliberately conflate anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism. This confusion isn’t neutral, it shapes how discussions are framed, who gets silenced, and which political paths remain possible. Let’s be clear: Much of the current framing is not about honest thinking, it is about … Continue reading Composting the myths: power, hidden religions, and why the #openweb matters →

How our “mainstreaming” people understand what they’re doing

The new #NGO generation are in the process of the second sell-out of the #openweb. These people are eather new or are comeing back to this “native” space, have stepped stright into running the current reboot after the original grassroots path burned out and was pushed aside. This new “NGO generation” holds strong views, their … Continue reading How our “mainstreaming” people understand what they’re doing →