An #openweb organic intellectual,technologist and part of the #OMN
One of the most fascinating things about Rainbow Gatherings isn’t the food, the music, or even the politics – it’s the process. The invisible culture of how things get done. Spend some time in a Rainbow kitchen, or go on a mission for food supplies, and you’ll start to see two very different ways of … Continue reading Soft and Hard Process: Lessons from the Rainbow Shopping Mission
The #4opens is a completely obverse social restating of the #FOSS development model — but with a critical edition: The return of #openprocess, something we’ve lost over the last 10 years due to the shift from public email archives to our reliance on encrypted chat. With this in mind, what is still #blocking the #openweb … Continue reading Can people engage with the #4opens process?
A seminar in Oxford today. This presentation of the green alternative within capitalism. Recycling and doing better from mine wastes as a B company. VC funding is flooding into this area. A moral question, mining copper is a core part of allowing our current dysfunctional society to continue without the needed fundamental change. This is … Continue reading Copper the chameleon – earth processes generating critical copper.
The #OMN Modding Process The #OMN instances have been running for the last 5 years with an open modding process. Users can become mods after being around for a bit. The modding process is based on a clear #KISS project statement, with a “don’t be a dick” rider on the end. If an account is … Continue reading The #OMN Modding Process
If you keep doing the same thing, there will be the same outcome. Different world views have different process and sometimes different outcomes. All the #OMN projects are based on a different world view that we know can work to build “society” with scaling limitations and combining this with using #openweb tech that we know … Continue reading People BLOCKING the needed process, or more normally simply ignore it.
Published Date 10/17/12 3:50 AM In relation to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Social_Forum DRAFT – this is a e-mail dialogue that illustrates the issues of horizontal and vertical process and how they fail to balance. Firstly the has been a lot of talk of me as some kind of egotistical anarchist… this is far from the truth, and by long … Continue reading ESF horizontal and vertical process and how they fail to balance from 27 01 2004 and 23 02 2004
Capitalism’s invisible hand has always relied on hidden data. In the digital age, that data is metadata the overlooked, under-the-hood information that tells us who, where, when, how often, and what next. It doesn’t matter what you say or do if someone else controls the context around it. That’s where the power lies. Let’s be … Continue reading Metadata and the #OMN Path: Who Controls the Invisible Hand?
Our current #mainstreaming path of paywalls stacked on paywalls isn’t life, it’s a trap, we need a way out. In our everyday lives, we’ve come to accept the absurd: And if you miss a payment? Game over (inspired by). That’s not a functioning economy, it’s not freedom, it’s a hostage situation, where every basic human … Continue reading Capitalism is a hostage situation -Not an economy
Ten years ago, I posted photos of a police raid on a boat in Mile End Park to a local Facebook group. What followed was a storm of critique from fellow community members, particularly around privacy, ethics, and the nature of local news. That exchange came back through the memory algorithm on #failbook, it’s interesting … Continue reading What is journalism in a dotcons community space?
In our media and tech projects, we’re walking two very different paths – often without any or partly realising the tension between them. On one side, we’re seceding under capitalism. That means navigating funding applications, #NGO partnerships, grant cycles, and institutional compromises. It’s where projects get trimmed down to what’s legible to funders. It’s survival, … Continue reading Two paths, one bridge: Seceding under capitalism vs. seceding toward change