A river that needs crossing political and tech blogs – On the political side, there is arrogance and ignorance, on the geek side there is naivety and over- complexity My videos are on these two youtube channels visionontv 3,832,876 views and undercurrents 22,689,976 views
Offering a real alternative to the dotcons world
Published Date 10/17/17 4:59 PM This is a quite #reboot of the #openweb going on. This #4opens project has nearly 1 million users https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastodon_(software) It’s one of the use it or lose it moments for life outside #failbook. It would be a bad time for progressive funders to start to prop up the #dotcons world…
Lets look at some alt projects from the perspective of the 4opens corporatewatch
Published Date 10/7/17 6:07 PM https://corporatewatch.org/ Open data – the site has RSS output and the content licence is CC so a open Open source – hard to tell what the site is runing but likly open source so a open for now Open “industrial” standards – they support RSS, but thats about it so half a open Open…
Lets look at some alt projects from the perspective of the 4opens realmedia
Published Date 10/6/17 1:04 PM https://realmedia.press Open data – the site has a RSS feed but is copyright so 1/2 of a open Open source – its wordpress kinda open 1/2 Open “industrial” standards – they do not easely support RSS podcasts and most media is corp hosted so 1/2 a open Open process – Process is opaque. Bronze 2 opensSilver 3 opensGold 4…
Lets look at some alt projects from the perspective of the 4opens democracynow
Published Date 10/6/17 12:30 PM https://www.democracynow.org/ Open data – the site has a RSS feed, no copyright/CC notice on site so ½ of a open till clarifyed Open source – hard to tell if the code base is opensource so no open for now. Open “industrial” standards – they support RSS and podcasts and all media is openstandered so a open Open…
Lets look at some alt projects from the perspective of the 4opens thecanary
Published Date 9/27/17 11:41 AM https://www.thecanary.co Open data – the site has a RSS feed, but contet copyright so ½ of a open Open source – wordpress so a open Open “industrial” standards – Well WordPress is kinda a standard, they support RSS but no podcasts and all media on closed corporate accounts so ½…
Lets look at some open projects from the perspective of the 4opens Mastodon
Published Date 9/25/17 5:49 PM https://mastodon.social/ Open data – YES Can I save my data? Yes, some of it! It‘s under Preferences->Data export Open source – YES GNU AFFERO GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 3, 19 November 2007 Open “industrial” standards – YES We are using the OStatus suite of protocols: Webfinger for user-on-domain lookup Atom…
Don’t trust the fashionista
Published Date 9/25/17 4:24 PM Thinking about #Uber and the dysfunction of #Facebook. It’s time to #reboot many parts of the #openweb With the “visibility” of the failing of #dotcons such as #failbook privacy/obscured agronomic control of you, #uber and the race to the bottom culture. The will be a plausible “class” of people who…