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…
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…
Hope filled tributary s feeding fresh water to the polluted mainstream
Published Date 2/29/16 1:55 PM DRAFT of 3 examples of “working” contemporary alternatives and their malcontent’s. The Village ButtyA lovely project provided originally by a hard-working individual with small funding and continuing energy. The need, boaters need a warm dry open common place, if their unique contemporary “village” culture is to survive the long term…
Why did the #openweb flower and die over the last 30 years
Published Date 2/22/16 1:17 AM Why did the thousands of open internet projects fail? despite the state, foundation, #NGO funding. The were early successful atavist tech projects, all proved to be pointless or withered with success. In all cases I would argue that the underlining failer was one of ideology, almost all projects worked against…
A big socerty community center the Hive Dalston
Published Date 2/6/16 5:05 PM The Hive Dalston – big society community centre a product of voluntarism and activist fashion with dose of hipster. Started out as an exciting project between radical (free party/activist) squatters and a more mainstream arts groups. The idea was to take up and use the Tory “big society” legalisation that…
Outline of 20 years ups and downs of grassroots activism in the UK
Published Date 11/30/15 3:38 PM In my expirence the flowering of the #indymedia networks followed by the first years of #climatecamp were the high points of activist culture. The end of climate camp was the low point of activist culture, after this the drift to #NGO and #fashionista was wide and dissipating. #Occupy was a…
Media Democracy Festival at Goldsmiths review
The alt-media gatherings have been suffering from the tyranny of the funders for more years than I care to remember. The is a big problem of the chattering classes in alt-media. This is a DRAFT over view of the gathering from a working grassroots perspective. Comments in italics are by me. === Festival === To…
The problem of the chattering classes in activism
Published Date 7/21/15 9:35 PM DRAFT All the quotes are from Oscar Wild. “If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn’t. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.” LADY WINDERMERE’S FAN The chattering classes are a problem, they are a clear and present…