Hamish Campbell an #openweb organic intellectual and technologist
The #OMN Framework: The Five Functions (#5F) The #OMN is simple flows, not platforms, it’s a way of thinking about media as flows of objects moving through a network. People shape the flow, you can find a more technical view to read after here. A human-scale, federated media infrastructure built on #FOSS practices and the … Continue reading Let’s try and simplify the #OMN
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
We currently have deeply embedded idea that objects have to be owned by an individual, as we are taught to think in terms of possession, this is mine, that is yours. We measure security through what we own, status through what we accumulate, and value through what we can control. This feels like common sense … Continue reading Rethinking commons
I am not religious, but that does not mean religion is something that can only be dismissed as irrational, stupid or obsolete. There is a useful distinction between believing in a religion and understanding the social, cultural and philosophical work that religion has historically done. This matters for the #OMN because we are interested in … Continue reading Religion, mystery and the #openweb
Every few months another AI company executive suggests that their latest Large Language Model possess values, ethics, judgement, emotions, or even a form of consciousness. The latest example is claims around Claude, where discussion has drifted toward the idea that the system possess “a functional version of emotions or feelings.” This is a good moment … Continue reading AI didn’t break the web. The dotcons did – AI just turned up the volume