Published Date 9/17/17 10:02 AM A look at some of the current alt/radical media projects in the UK Novra media These guys are some of the most intelligent “idiots” I know. They produce good content and they produce a lot of it. * FANTASTIC CONTENT * HARD WORKING * OLD, BROKEN AND DANGURUES NEW/OLD MEDIA…
Building alt grassroots media networks to challenge the traditional media
Published Date 7/16/17 7:30 PM Our current groups doing alt/grassroots media are to limited in there idea of what media could/should be. The is either a naivety or a dishonesty to all the current grassroots/alt media. They act and think they can be “big media” with out controlling the distribution of there content in any…
Open letter to 4 alt grasssroots media groups about the openweb
Published Date 6/27/17 5:15 PM DRAFT (please comment) Building up alt/grassroots media would be nice to get a reply 🙂 NovaraMedia The Canary Reel Media Real News Hi guys, Good to get a reply about this project from you. OMN is a network of Open Media Sites. Its a push to #reboot the openweb that…
History of the visionOntv project
The original project was offlinetv and was a online network to setup screenings to bring people together and cross fertilize different radical campaigning groups. I was pushing it as “open” rebooting of the failing undercurrents video activism project. Before this I had been making a meager living doing screenings by fundraising vie the copyleft ruffcuts…
Power Politics of the undead left
Published Date 2/1/17 2:07 PM I have found memories of fighting the Power Politics of the “undead left” during the London Social Forum many years ago – lots of knotted strings of organic garlic around the top “taking the power table” to highlight the uncomfortable “undead left´s” grasping for power. Then the ad hock crew…
OMN and publishing on smart phones
Published Date 1/12/17 7:10 PM Its interesting for a moment to look at the potential affect on radical media phone apps of the OMN. Native “publish” from your phone “share this” to any node of the OMN and to many individual sites/blogs will work “out of the box” on any smart phone app that implements…
The OMN an easy project for everyone
Published Date 12/24/16 6:18 PM The OMN an easy project for everyone Producer groups have to put in minimal effort only puting a linking sidebar on their site and providing a RSS feed into the network. These can be: * Tag based content list “you might be interested in this” * Tag based site link…
The world is open for change
* Old paths have visibley vanished* People are up for doing things different* Funders are up for funding different* The new “commons” is infernat and as much as the #dotcons grab the is more.* Socerty is being #reboot ‘ed (trump, brixet etc.)* Our planet is likely to #reboot with out us (climate change) We don’t…