An #openweb organic intellectual,technologist and part of the #OMN
The “User Story #makeinghistory” outlines a process for digitizing the Campbell Family archive, which contains significant historical materials related to activism and political movements. Here’s a breakdown of the steps involved: Setting up the Application: The archive sets up a desktop computer or a hosted VPS instance to install the #DAT based p2p application for … Continue reading User Story #makeinghistory
Funding Proposal: Archiving the “Commons” with #MakingHistory and #OMN Project Overview:The #MakingHistory project, from the Open Media Network (#OMN), is a project to create a decentralized and community-driven archive of the “commons” – a collection of grassroots, activist, and historical material shared across a wide network of people and community groups and organisations. By leveraging … Continue reading Funding Proposal: Archiving the “Commons” with #MakingHistory and #OMN
Project Overview: MakingHistory is an initiative within the Open Media Network (#OMN) aimed at preserving and archiving digital content shared across the network. It operates on the same principles and workflow as the renowned Indymedia project but utilizes a different template to organize and categorize content. The primary objective of MakingHistory is to ensure that … Continue reading Funding Application: MakingHistory – Archiving the Open Media Network
For historians of the book, the case of modern China offers much to challenge and embellish prevailing narratives of the field. The Mao era was a particularly extraordinary period, when one of the world’s most populous and powerful states turned its attention to the dissemination of print on an unprecedented scale. In this talk, Dr … Continue reading Politics, paper, print: reflections on the book history of the Mao era
The #OMN are building this into the archiving nodes (see the #makinghistory project https://unite.openworlds.info/Open-Media-Network/MakingHistory) you can then choose to archive hashtags, and you can get a “lossy” view of what is backed up across the network you can see, so you can choose what to focus on your archiving then we rely on “institutions like … Continue reading Archiveing the “commons” the #makeinghistorys project.
White Lies About Security and Privacy in the Fediverse We’re told small white lies about security and privacy to boot up #Mastodon. But the truth is, this #openweb tech is about dancing elephants throwing paper planes as a security/privacy model. Yes, this is simply not the right tool for the “common sense” privacy and control … Continue reading Talking about tech – Enclosing the “commons” is a bad history for native societies
The 1999 Seattle WTO protests, known as the Battle of Seattle, were a turning point in the history of globalization and global trade. The protests took place from November 30 to December 3, 1999, during the World Trade Organization’s (#WTO) Ministerial Conference, which aimed to launch a new round of trade negotiations. However, the negotiations … Continue reading The 1999 Seattle WTO protests were a strong moment in the history of globalization and global trade
Hamish Campbell, the founder of #VisiononTV, began his journey into copyleft video through his project called #RoughCuts. In a recent interview, Campbell shared how RoughCuts started as one of the first copyleft video projects that encoded activist video in MPEG-1 format, an early standard format for video. He would burn CDs with an hour of … Continue reading History of copyleft activist grassroots video distribution
For people who like buzzwords The World Wide Web is a system of interlinked hypertext documents that is accessed through the Internet. #Web01, #Web02, and #Web03 are terms that are used to refer to different generations or phases of the World Wide Web (#WWW). #Web01 refers to the early days of the World Wide Web, … Continue reading A fresh look at #openweb history
#ClimateCamp was a radical grassroots direct action movement to directly challenge #climatechaos and raise awareness about climate change and advocate for solutions to mitigate its effects. The movement was made up of a loosely organized network of activists who used a diversity of tactics to achieve their goals. Climate Camps were established in many countries. … Continue reading A look at the recent history of radical grassroots activism
The Witches Cauldron: #MakingHistory is an open activist archive project that aims to create a data commons based on the #4opens framework and motivated by the PGA hallmarks. The project is about creating a metadata-enriched digital collection of items hosted on a redundant and federated network of hosts and servers around the world, starting with … Continue reading The Witches Cauldron: Making History
The “better” #closedweb (ISP intranets) was “surprisingly” destroyed by the “inferer” #openweb, which then exploded in use to spread everywhere. The #mainstreaming thinking then tried and failed to recapture this #4opens project for ten years as it takes up global space, and was a real challenge change, that the “common sense” said should not exist. … Continue reading An activist history of the web