Our current groups doing alt/grassroots media are too limited in their idea of what media could/should be in this the is either a naivety or a dishonesty. The most successful act and think they can be #traditionalmedia” without controlling the distribution of their content in any meaningful way. This is of course not unusual, the…
Summing up of the #webroots meetings at #nwsk
Summing up of the #webroots meetings at #nwsk I came away feeling like an alien with the chasm that divides my #openweb view from the Facebook generation that made up the panel and ordnance. Some thoughts: As the guy from demo’s said the are better #openweb projects in most areas. Though these options were only…
The Open Media Network (OMN)
“We can’t engage as communities, unless we have money. I can’t even express how angry this makes me.” – an activist group using Facebook. People and organizations who feel this way are the initial targets. https://activism.openworlds.info is an unfettered space for Activists and groups to communicate and https://campaign.openworlds.info a safe space for Campaigning and NGO…
Offering a real alternative to the dotcons world
Published Date 10/17/17 4:59 PM This is a quite #reboot of the #openweb going on. This #4opens project has nearly 1 million users https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastodon_(software) It’s one of the use it or lose it moments for life outside #failbook. It would be a bad time for progressive funders to start to prop up the #dotcons world…
Don’t trust the fashionista
Published Date 9/25/17 4:24 PM Thinking about #Uber and the dysfunction of #Facebook. It’s time to #reboot many parts of the #openweb With the “visibility” of the failing of #dotcons such as #failbook privacy/obscured agronomic control of you, #uber and the race to the bottom culture. The will be a plausible “class” of people who…
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…
You do all know that posting polatics on failbook is a pointless circle of nothingness
Published Date 12/20/16 9:20 PM You do all know that posting polatics on #failbook is a pointless circle of nothingness. Please stop and do something more usefull. We have a clective Liberal fantasy in the is an idea that #dotcon can be social useful. Its not what the money (billions) was invested in. They “invested”…