Hamish Campbell

Published Date 3/15/17 8:20 PM

The OMN will allow you to find good quality alt\grassroots content. It’s a way of getting distribution outside Facebook and Twitter to push-up the use of the open web. It’s a stupidly simple social project using existing basic web technologies.

The OMN is an open network so we call each of the sites “nodes” as they are small parts of the wider World Wide Web (WWW). Openworlds is the first node/siteof the network, currently with links to 10 embeds on sites as an initial soft roll out. We are aiming to expand this out up to 100 sites over the summer for the hard launch.

If you have a web site and want to play a part in this “soft roll out” go to openworlds

Step 1: If you are interested in only some subjects or groups, click on group tags (with @ in front) and/or subject tags. You can choose as many as you like and then only these will show up in your river embed. Then click the RSS link.

Step 2: Take the URL of the RSS feed, in the new window that opens. Go to your CMS/site/blog and install a RSS display/widget and add the RSS URL to it. You can use the formatting options to change the number of items and what info to display to make it look nice.

That’s it for now, your site is now a part of a open alt/grassroots media network. Playing a role in linking and cooperating to build a progressive worldview empowering people to build a better world.

Published Date 3/4/17 6:32 PM

A first step to reboot alt/grassroots media land an update on were we are on the OMN (open media network) linking project.

* The is a node/site up http://omn.openworlds.info:8080/

* This currently has 10 embeds https://github.com/tomspost/OMN/wiki on sites as a soft roll out

* we are aiming to expand this out to 100 sites over the summer for the hard launch

We bring good content in and push it out as links on site sidebars/sections on these sites. To make this work better the producer sites need to add more subject tags to posts as embedding sites can use these to display content flows they like ie. the more tags the more shared views for producer sites.

For a lose time scale of the project http://bit.ly/2mUDA3f

Howto use the OMN

This is a first step of a longer project.

Goto http://omn.openworlds.info:8080

1) You can click on the RSS feed button to get a news river for your site, this will link to articles from all the feeds in the node/site.

2) If you are interested in only some subjects or groups click on group tags (with @ in front) and/or subject tags. You can chose as many as you like and then only these will show up in your river embed. Then click the RSS link.

3) Take the URL of the RSS feed, in the new window that opens. Go to your CMS/site/blog and install a RSS display/widget and add the RSS URL to it. You can use the formatting options to change the number of items and what info to display.

That’s it for now.

Your site is now a part of a open alt/grassroots media network. Planing a role in linking up and cooperating to build a progressive world view. To empower people to build a better world.

Published Date 3/2/17 7:37 PM

Its not the people we should be angry at for the current Brixet/Trump mess, it is the small/tiny number of people who pushed neo-liberal polices through for the last 30 years, probably a few thousand.

The people rebelled, yes, they could have rebelled to the left or the right, they rebelled to the right as the right were more competent in the face of the lefts divisions and general uselessness. Be angry with these few and make friends with the majority who decide our future.

And the left stop this divided uselessness, we need a left reboot, keep it KISS currently few “ideas” on the left are worth much. A good first step for the left is for groups to link to each other and share media and events, work out KISS “liberal” diversity of tactics and co-operate.

Stop the rot and start the composting.

Published Date 2/21/17 6:10 PM

The OMN rollout is a 10 step process

1. Rollout a single node to link alt media and share content to 100 sites.

2. More

3. More

4. More

5. Rollout full social taging flows and start the offline backup, start to move away from the dotcons.

6. More

7. More

8. More

9. More

10. The openweb grows into the semantic web, the dotcons become history.

 

Time scale

* This could take a year with support and full on effort

* 2 years with interest and some geek commitment

* 5 years with active BLOCKING and geek’s turning away and doing something “better”.

* It will FAIL if the alt/grassroots groups don’t links to each other and each tries/pushes to be the “one” ie if we strive for the same dotcon working in alt/grassroots media.

“Be the change you want to see”

Published Date 1/31/17 12:50 PM

Deal with issues, allowing them to be pushed under the carpet has a cost.

The are real issues round gender/race politics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_politics Then the is a the sad and bad playing of the race/gender “card” that is sometimes used when real issues become stressful.

This happen to me a year ago at the Good Social Centre in Dalston. The was a “monster” dominating process by talking over everyone with a steady flow of power politics. I was confronting him about this at a project meeting.

Activists strangely tend to have issues with direct action when it happens in there community’s, they sat around looking from one “monster” to the other “monster (me)” making no judgement between the two. In the end he played the Asian “race card” and that was the end of that.

He terrorized and wrecked the space for a year before he was final excluded from space meetings. Sad and bad…

Yes playing the race/gender card can highlight a real issue but sometimes its just more power politics. And if the issue is down to power politics in the first place then this is likely the second not the first reason the “race/gender” card is used to block.

In the case above it turned out that he was a mentally ill, druggie, control freek, with a MBA in bullshit. Sadly he did have real talents, that were key to the project if he could have been helped/supported out of the nasty power politics. This was only fully understood a year latter after he was excluded from the meetings.

Ps. Truth is good, he could have played the “mental illness” card, every one would have agreed and helped him.