Published Date 7/13/15 1:43 PM DRAFT We need to get our current dispurate and weak activist sites to link to each other, then get NGO’s to do the same. Then push out news river embeds to more mainstream sites to expand the network. This project needs to be run as a non-branded open network based…
Worthwhile grassroots openspace projects
Published Date 6/12/15 2:35 PM The are two current worthwhile grassroots “openspace” projects am involved with. Both have a lot of potential but both are more likely to fail for obverses and avoidable reasons. Lets look at both in turn: The Hive Dalston is an interesting hybrid project crossing the activist and corporate divide. Its…
Lets look for a moment at sanity in grassroots terms
Published Date 2/23/15 3:24 PM The are a lot of “insane” people in activism and counter-culture, its what makes it exciting, dynamic and affective. However with everything its a question of balance, lets look at how a movement stagnates, fails or growes and blossems. A short off the top of head list NGO’ists push limited…
What would rebooting grassroots media look like
Published Date 2/13/15 2:01 PM DRAFT Intro to the event Unconferences are called for a reason and are about a subject, generally with an idea of an outcome. Invite all the existing groups and most importantly, representatives from past groups to tell their stories and outline their ongoing projects. Invite groups from outside the activist/NGO…
Real Media Gathering how not to reboot grassroots media
Published Date 2/11/15 4:46 PM Draft Firstly, I don’t have any ill will to the people I know organising this event and would love it to succeed in being a part of the kindling to (re)light the fire of alt-media. But we have 3 main problem groupings/failures blocking grassroots media (culture) from rebooting Let’s look…
Dangerous thoughts anonymity on the internet
The last 10 years activist technology and its supporting NGO’s have been pushing the encrypted web as secure form of communication. From the Indymedia network “not logging IP’s” to Wikileaks “secure whistleblowing” to numerous encrypted chat and social networks. Not to mention all the corporate dotcoms “solutions” jumbling up the space. This naiveté working had…
Where is our media
Published Date 1/24/15 7:42 AM Climate camp is a example of the transition from alternative media to social media. At the beginning of the Climate Change Movement Indymedia was declining. At the first two camps there was a healthy Indymedia centre providing internet, sustainable power and computers There’s always a stress between alternative media and…
How to build an effective protest camp
Published Date 10/27/13 12:34 PM A look at the parts that make it happen (DRAFT) Lets look at the groupings first that balance helping/hindering a campaign. These are of course B&W images to highlight issues, on the ground things are always complex with many overlaps. The “family” – what is most important to them is…
Balcombe anarchist and conservative
Published Date 8/26/13 6:55 PM (DRAFT) Interesting to think about the things you are involved with and the things you do. Important to understand am not talking about the sciences or polatics of fracking here, am lifting the lid to see what I can see under the hood of both camps. I had been staying in…
A presentation of the idea of the Open Media Network and where it currently is
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.…
What is the Open Media Network
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,…