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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 […]

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Lets look at some dotcons from the perspective of the 4opens Facebook

Published Date 9/25/17 5:03 PM https://facebook.com/ Open data – A small YES and many many NO’s the is a obscured link were you can download a lot of data that facebook holds about you it’s a SMALL YES. But all the interlinking and meta data that is used is hidden and for sale to the […]

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Building a alt grassrots media network

Published Date 2/21/17 6:10 PM The OMN rollout is a 10 step process Rollout a single node to link alt media and share content to 100 sites. More More More Rollout full social taging flows and start the offline backup, start to move away from the dotcons. More More More More The openweb grows into […]

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Power polatics and the race gender card

Published Date 1/31/17 12:50 PM Deal with issues, allowing them to be pushed under the carpet has a cost. The are real issues round gender/race politics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_politics Then the is a the sad and bad playing of the race/gender “card” that is sometimes used when real issues become stressful. This happen to me a year […]

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Foundations of alt grassroots projects

Published Date 12/29/16 4:07 PM All projects am working on at the moment are based on: PGA hallmarks 1. A very clear rejection of capitalism, imperialism and feudalism; all trade agreements, institutions and governments that promote destructive globalisation. 2. We reject all forms and systems of domination and discrimination including, but not limited to, patriarchy, […]

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Ruffcuts project

An early copy left project I setup while at undercurrents   The project is complemtery to the VHS news video; it entails putting lots of roughly edited news shorts and good video clips on to a computer playerbal CD-ROM.   The CD’s can be freely copied and given away The CD’s can be sold by […]

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Undercurrents in the Mainstream The Trojan Horse Application

This was an profetic project outline from 2001 (or 2007 cant quite tell) Undercurrents in the Mainstream. The Trojan Horse Application A proposal for a world-wide workers co-operative approach to New Media – A Universal TV Channel. .By Hamish Campbell Imagine an internet TV channel where anyone can put anything in and take anything out. […]

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Why do all alt grassroots events have the same speakers

Published Date 12/15/16 4:46 PM I start to understand why all alt/grassroots events have the same speakers. Looking about you send out invites to everyone who has done it before. To reach out to new people would be taking a risk, would be hard work to hand hold them though the process. The lack of […]

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Activism and flaring egos go hand in hand

Published Date 12/10/16 8:47 PM Activism and flaring egos go hand in hand Well that almost went well with editing the headboards for the activist project. Shame on us all for it degenerated into shit behaver for the last 45 min. Its understandable X wanting a say on the project – an open way to […]

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The Roman Empire is old hat

Comparing the US global role to the Roman Empire is an old hat. Today we are seeing the “declining” face of this comparison. Trump is selling off “offices” to the highest bidders and drawing power around him self and his family. The White House will be filled with toads and hangers on, the “court” made […]