History’s of #indymedia are full of academic wank

The Problem of Academics Covering Activism, in activism, particularly within grassroots movements like #Indymedia, there is a significant disconnect between academic interpretations and the realities on the ground. This gap is not a matter of perspective but represents a fundamental misunderstanding of the dynamics and operational mechanisms of activist movements. The disconnect, academics gravitate towards … Continue reading History’s of #indymedia are full of academic wank →

Makinghistory a OMN project

DRAFT of #makeinghistory This is exactly the same #OMN project and workflow as the #indymedia project – just a different template on top. We need to work to add this tag function.

visionOntv – A bit of history

Our main visionontv site (running for 10 years) has generated many millions of downloads and video views for other video account holders vie RSS, torrents, embeds and playlists. The early part of the project was based on RSS/peer2peer were its difficult to get hard figures. We can count the views on our secondary target the … Continue reading visionOntv – A bit of history →

Making History Resistance Exhibition

A river that needs crossing political and tech blogs – On the political side, there is arrogance and ignorance, on the geek side there is naivety and over- complexity My videos are on these two youtube channels visionontv 3,832,876 views and undercurrents 22,689,976 views

Making History

Published Date 6/14/17 1:27 PM Making History * is the open actavist/grassroots archiveing project that “Resistance Exhibition” is the UK flow. * Travelling open commons / archiving project * boating europe (outline the trip) * Applying for Lush central funding, with match funding / organizing from local Lush shops * 8 venues over 2 years … Continue reading Making History →

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 … Continue reading History of the visionOntv project →

History of progressive media over the last 25 years

Published Date 3/28/13 3:42 PM This is a NOTES for a DRAFT of a long post on history of progressive media over the last 25 years. I have been working on subjects of technology and social change for over 20 years. It all started while I was at university and coming up to my final … Continue reading History of progressive media over the last 25 years →

A brief history of activism

Published Date 3/28/13 1:18 PM This is a DRAFT #Occupy has become bureaucratised and continues as e-mail lists and side projects, not very active. #ukuncut has become institutionalised. Still active – presser protests in conjunction with NGO’s #climatecamp The anarcho’ s left and most of the rest got jobs in NGO’s a few continue in … Continue reading A brief history of activism →

A political history of the internet

Published Date 8/31/12 2:52 PM (This is a DRAFT) This worth reading to go with this view time and libertarean/liberals view of who created the internet In the 1970s the military looked at a problem – how to keep communication working in an anarchic environment (a nuclear war). Their solution was to work with this … Continue reading A political history of the internet →

Its good to know more about our history

History of visionOntv

History of The European Newsreel

Published Date 1/2/12 5:32 PM Hamish’s history of The European Newsreel The has been much talk about doing a European wide video newsreel for the last 10 years or so. Undercurrents, which grew out of the UK anti-roads movement, was in its latter additions an attempt at covering geographic wider story’s. However, it wasn’t till … Continue reading History of The European Newsreel →