Published Date 6/8/16 6:19 PM Where is alt-media and what are the issues in geek culture that stop it from having much effect. There is no active working alt-tech and the open web that would be shaped by this open alt-tech is withering under the #dotcon push to enclose. * 98.9% of alt-tech projects are…
Open Media Network
The project The Open Media Network is a project to play a small role in revitalising the open web. It uses the tried and tested technology of RSS, taking it out of a basic personalised mash-up of feeds into an open metadata social network. Its initial focus will be around alternative media, enabling projects to grow and…
Outline of 20 years ups and downs of grassroots activism in the UK
Published Date 11/30/15 3:38 PM In my expirence the flowering of the #indymedia networks followed by the first years of #climatecamp were the high points of activist culture. The end of climate camp was the low point of activist culture, after this the drift to #NGO and #fashionista was wide and dissipating. #Occupy was a…
The problem with alt media
Published Date 10/17/15 3:48 PM Looking at the media (or lack of media) comeing out of the media democracy festival kindaled a old train of thought: Most alt-geeks are trying to solve a pointless problem “privacy online” anything online is in a “photocopying system” privacy is an illusion. You can get a shallow privacy by…
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…
Breaking the frame gathering
Published Date 4/22/14 1:15 PM I have decided not to get involved in this activist tech gathering even though it is completely on the subjects that are core to my work. I had tried to interact but with no noticeable affect. The is a failer of imagination in almost all atavist tech that shapes a blankness…
Parasitic traditional media
Published Date 5/21/13 2:07 PM Its interesting how parasitic traditional media is, an idea or a news story will come out in a sub-culture (contemporary media) weeks or years before it becomes a “story” in traditional media. This time lag – together with the general lack of connection in traditional media to where story’s come…
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,…
Damping down alternative voices
Published Date 3/25/13 1:48 PM [embedded content] This is an interesting example of why visionontv is needed in the world of social media domination the video was pushed very hard and was shared extensively in Facebook and to a lesser extent in Twitter but has only 750 views – which isn’t rarely anufe to motive…