Draft The fluffy/spiky debate in #XR is well on the fluffy side, not a bad thing. You’re seeing noise from the confused, spiky side of the tribe in reaction to this. Fluffy/spiky is not a moral judgment, rather it is a respect for diversity. Think #XR was fab, what comes next. They are doing it…
Anarchists please stop the sniping at #XR from the sidelines and get stuck into some direct action
Feel free to share the #climatecamp videos widely in Facebook/Twitter/openweb pages for #XR as it’s good that the new generation have a connection to their history. If you’re an anarchist please share these videos, if the #XR admins don’t block them then they radicalize #XR if they block them they question their credibility, simple effective…
A conversation about nuclear power as band aid for climate change
Q. Find it hard to understand people who support new nuclear power as a climate solution. Yes technically it could be but politically its just divide and destroy of progress movements as its not going to happen simple. Look at the history of dishonest/ridiculously over cost agenders, simple its poison, please support something people can…
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…
The idealogical swing
Published Date 7/27/17 7:30 PM In the 19th century we had a fight between the conservatives vs fundamentalist liberalism fighting/feeding inhuman industrial growth which lead to a human backlash in the 20th century of social democracy – that is a mediated democracy to push humane growth (progressive liberalism). The late 20th century #neoliberal (fundamentalist liberals)…
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…