Published Date 12/5/15 6:47 PM Looking at what we have to base open media on – my initial reaction is one of anger that what we have is so crap and ill-suited but you can only work with the tools you have. Looking to set-up a seed network using existing CMS’s. WP, Druple and Davie…
Some questions came out of the last grassroots media gathering about OMN
Published Date 10/19/15 8:54 PM Questions and draft answers in terms of what I don’t understand it is what do sites specifically have to do? * At a basic level very little. – output an RSS feed of their articles/videos/podcasts (most sites do this already) – grab a sidebar embed code (or CMS plug-in) then…
What would an open media network OMN look like
Published Date 2/4/15 7:48 PM Lets do some grounded/blue sky thinking 😉 The internet has been (unbelievably) successful because its libertarian/anacist open/trust peer to peer network with very light centre and governances. How do we (re)build an grassroots-media to flourish in the 21st century remains of this open web? What would an open media network…
The tech manifesto of the OMN
Published Date 3/20/14 4:27 PM (DRAFT) In tech development the are many paths and some of these lead to much more fertile ground to cultivate for the open internet/open society path that the ONM is taking. We clearly reject: * Client server relationships. * Closed security culture. * Geek only designer aesthetics and vanilla geek…
Ethical aggregation and conversation OMN
Published Date 5/15/13 11:21 AM What is ethical aggregation? Always link back to the original producer hosting site. The exception to this is when the site is a corporate hosting site such as YouTube, then linking to an embed on an OMN site is preferable linking to that site. The content should be consumed where…
We are rolling out some sites and applications that work within the OMN
Published Date 4/30/13 5:49 PM 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 there at the moment.? Let’s highlight some of the projects: http://fund.openworlds.info Open funding…
What is the Open media network 2 OMN
Published Date 4/12/13 11:46 AM Some more notes: Not an isolated individual website – many individual websites in a bigger commons. The open internet used to be a such a commons Q. why is this increasingly no longer so and why/what should/can we do about this. Subject sites linked by affinity sharing activity streams. An…
The OMN is a very simple thing
Published Date 3/31/13 8:24 PM Open media networking The data cauldron with configurer your own ladle tools. Hubs/nodes – RSS item in and out ver tag for full participating sites Consumers/producers – native plug-ins and JS embeds for displaying and existing RSS out for source sites. All data in and all data out – by trust, the…
Booting up the Open Media Network OMN
Published Date 3/2/13 11:30 AM The open web is being locked out of the closed web – with share this options replacing web-links and Facebook replacing most peoples blogs. If this continues the “open web” will wither and become dysfunctional and the closed web will grow to become the web for the majority of people.…
Navigating challenges: online governance, trolling, and privacy
It’s interesting and useful to look at the critical issue of online governance, community dynamics, and the problem of #mainstreaming trolling on both the #dotcons and open social platforms like #Mastodon, #Fediverse and the broader #openweb Let’s start with mastodon, the complexity of (default) privacy settings leads to public conversations inadvertently shifting into private spaces,…
Yes, we are in a mess, we need a path
There are many paths and perspectives on how to tackle the profound mess we’re in, and one of them comes from Roger Hallam and Extinction Rebellion (#XR), which, has brought to light a deep issue: the creeping “common sense” of #deathcult worship infiltrating activism. From a radical viewpoint, XR stood as a “first mover”—an innocent,…