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
Draw a line in the sand
Published Date 10/11/16 4:44 PM None of the current alt/grassroots media projects link to each other. Message them and ask why and refuse to support them till they do #thecanary #Reelnews #RealMedia #Novaramedia is basic KISS of lefty/radical/progressive thinking. What’s the solution? The minimum outcome a prominent small sidebar box front screen linking to other…
Looking at the tech and organising of UK alt grassroots media
How meany sites link to another alt/grassroots media sits. From this list of 38 UK sites, only 2 link to another site. Many people find it hard to understand the underlining understandings that push projects based on flow and linking, such as #OMN and #openweb. Here is a short list of activism projects. Silo Is…
Rebooting the open web
Published Date 9/20/16 2:42 PM The OMN is based on a simple understanding that the last 10 years have been wasted on #dotcoms and #encryptionists delusions. In this NGO’s, activists and at-geeks have wasted the open webs potential to shift society to a more humain path. To move beyond this decaying circle we need…
Where next for grassroots alt media
Published Date 8/7/16 6:07 PM It’s common knowledge that grassroots media is well F**ed and that #failbook and #twitter are the problem not the solution. Where can we go from here? To reboot alt-media (and play a role in rebooting the open web) we need to create an affinity group to cross the geek/political divide…
Media why do names matter
Published Date 8/7/16 6:04 PM Grassroots media Media made and distributed from the lower part of society, made DIY for, from, too, the grassroots. And at its best outreaching beyond. Alt- media Media made from an ideologically different perspective to the mainstream (invisible) ideology. And hopefully, though often not, made in a way that can…
Problem on the left the is no alternative
Published Date 7/16/16 3:38 PM In grassroots movements Social media tarts Capturing the grassroots and building a career in NGO land for them selves from activists movements/agenda’s. They are fine as far as they go, every campaign needs some, but they tend to be competent anufe to unbalance movements towards the “soft”. For them to…
Alt media
Published Date 6/8/16 6:19 PM Where is alt-media and what are the issues in geek culture that stop it from having much effect. There is no active working alt-tech and the open web that would be shaped by this open alt-tech is withering under the #dotcon push to enclose. * 98.9% of alt-tech projects are…
Boating Europe
Published Date 5/15/16 1:36 PM Circumnavigating Europe by inland water ways in a converted north sea oil rig lifeboat. 3-4 year trip from London to Russia and back through: Thames – London Seine – Paris Rhone – Marseille Over winter in the south before returning in the spring: River Rhine – Germany River Main –…