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Published Date 5/21/13 2:07 PM Its interesting how parasitic traditional media is, an idea or a news story will come out in a sub-culture (contemporary media) weeks or years before it becomes a “story” in traditional media. This time lag – together with the general lack of connection in traditional media to where story’s come…

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

Published Date 5/18/13 10:29 PM Am thinking about getting one of these to covert into a live-in open media centre. They vary from 7-9m in length and have seating (like sardines) for 30-60 people.  Proposed mission would be to: * remove most of the seats to open the space up * paint it so it wasnt bright orange (need a good…

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

Published Date 5/18/13 1:10 PM A presentation of the idea of the Open Media Network and where it currently is The OMN is owned by nobody and run by nobody. It is merely a set of “stupidly simple” open standards, open databases and working practices. We are building some hubs to flesh the network out.…

Published Date 5/16/13 1:59 PM Over the last 10 years I have found a lot of intolerant and prejudiced attitude toward the impact new technology will have on our work and society. A recent conversation sparked off this thought. Our society has foundation myths – and they aren’t the bible any more – consumerism and…

Published Date 5/15/13 11:21 AM What is ethical aggregation? Always link back to the original producer hosting site. The exception to this is when the site is a corporate hosting site such as YouTube, then linking to an embed on an OMN site is preferable linking to that site. The content should be consumed where…

Published Date 5/7/13 3:09 PM It’s about human co-operation working with machine aggregation tools. It’s a stupidly simple social project using largly existing basic web technologies. – RSS in and out via tag (with de-duping and field-matching). This is it for the technical side of the project. Then there is the social side: open licences,…

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

Published Date 4/30/13 5:49 PM The OMN is owned by nobody and run by nobody. It is merely a set of Stupidly Simple open standards, open databases and working practices. We are building some hubs to flesh the network out. What is there at the moment.? Let’s highlight some of the projects: http://fund.openworlds.info Open funding…

Published Date 4/27/13 9:32 PM Almost all of Activism is organized on one corporate network and its run by this man “Mark Zuckerberg’s new political group, which bills itself as a bipartisan entity dedicated to passing immigration reform, has spent considerable resources on ads advocating a host of anti-environmental causes — including driling in the…

Published Date 4/24/13 10:33 PM This is two draft’s of a project for the end of the summer FUNDRAISING FOR THE REAL STORY Stories grow from the soil, they grow from social/geologic conflicts. Thus an interesting place to start a story is from the mud and dust where it stands. With this in mind we…