Summing up of the #webroots meetings at #nwsk I came away feeling like an alien with the chasm that divides my #openweb view from the Facebook generation that made up the panel and ordnance. Some thoughts: As the guy from demo’s said the are better #openweb projects in most areas. Though these options were only…
The Open Media Network (OMN)
“We can’t engage as communities, unless we have money. I can’t even express how angry this makes me.” – an activist group using Facebook. People and organizations who feel this way are the initial targets. https://activism.openworlds.info is an unfettered space for Activists and groups to communicate and https://campaign.openworlds.info a safe space for Campaigning and NGO…
visionOntv – A bit of history
Our main visionontv site (running for 10 years) has generated many millions of downloads and video views for other video account holders vie RSS, torrents, embeds and playlists. The early part of the project was based on RSS/peer2peer were its difficult to get hard figures. We can count the views on our secondary target the…
Testing peertube webRTC seedboxes
Have been test useing seedboxs to store and server video for peertube installs. For first test setup am useing Vuze with a RSS and webRTC plugin as this is a easey. The latist version of peertube am useing https://peertube.mastodon.host/videos/local has implemented feeds, these work fine and send the new videos posted to the torrent dowenload…
A look at the #geekproblem
In the alt tech, everything is broken. At the hart of this is a assumption that control and certenty are needed for good softwear. Were in realerty softwear matches the human condition trasentery/lossy. Trying to force the ideal is why most of our alt projects do not work. This is the base of the #geekproblem
A metaphorical view of tech and society
The data soup Mobs do not have minds, but they do have lots of tasty cultural bits bubbling and stirring that make a good humane soup we feed and grow on. Experts/individuals have small minds and little/narrow incite into wider social truths they build single view expert solutions to universal mob swirling problems. These are…
Seeding video on the openweb
Published Date 3/8/18 12:32 PM We are #rebooting the #openweb side of http://visionon.tv project based on https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/wiki in early/middle of April. The idea is to run this as decentralised as possible, that is to only temporally store the large videos files on the central server and rely much more on seedboxes in peoples homes and…
Lets look at some alt projects from the perspective of the 4opens Themediafund
Lets look at some alt projects from the perspective of the #4opens – Themediafund https://themediafund.org Open data – the site has no visible RSS its likely wordpress so maybe has a hidden feed. Copyright content so the data is closed and locked vier copyright.1/4 open Open source – The site is likely wordpress so opensource…
4opens archiving project
Published Date 10/27/17 4:23 PM MAKING HISTORY The creation of a data soup of semantic enriched digital items on a redundant federated network around the world. The WitchesCauldron is a commons based on the 4opens motivated by PGA hallmarks Simple and human scale KISS (Keep it Simple Stupid) to facilitate DIY. Be part of this…