Q. So are you gonna say what you’ve done? I don’t think posting on fb has any affect on the dotcons? The opposite in fact A. Yep it dose, am doing a stepaway project, a group of us run 5 #openweb servers with a search engine, social network, video hosting, and tools development site/openweb organizing. …
Are your viral left mems a problem rather than a solution
“comedy” and “sarcasm” have both been a relevant reaction to the control of the #dotcons of our personal communication and communities. This actually is an unhealthy reaction, as it feeds clicks to the very thing it ridicules. Data is just data. The solution is not to engage, rather to “#stepaway” and take your community with…
Talking to our crew in the dotcons
What are contemporary sins?
You rarely get anywhere by simply renaming things. All you do is lose the historical thried and then recreate the same mess. #Stupidindividualism is often the motivation for this, and it’s a big sin in the liberals and “post politics” crew. A metaphor that individualism makes us stupid and that to live outside a balance…
Indymedia
We are a wide affinity group working to reboot the global indymedia network using modern federated protocols such as #activertypub. This reboot will be based on the OMN project code.What is the OMN (Open Media Network): The project is to shift power to the producers and consumers of media. It’s about good UI and simple empowering…
What Planet of the Humans Reveals About Us
To counter the squirming of the #brightgreen pushback to the MM documentary. A #deepgreen view of the way out of the #deathcult mess. And yes the documentary is full of bad journalism. So read and reply to the thinking. Please take care to not be a “liberal” troll. here’s an essay written by suzanna jones…
The Rainbow Myths and Traditions
ben.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_Gathering Have been organically grown nomadically by word of mouth by doing from the early 1970’s. They obviously fail when applied to settled life. If you want to try that you need to look beyond the rainbow to other connected traditions. The are meany place to start to look at this. Could start here: Https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/…
What is the Open Media Network (OMN)
The project is to decisively shift power from the geeks and admins to the producers and consumers of media. In this its about good UI and simple empowering #KISS tools to move content by categorising it with a bootum up folksonermy. This simple approach is balanced by shared site level higher languages for the complex…
A look at the internal mess of the uk indymedia project
The project i like to point to as an example. The indymedia project, an early alt-media network that spread the use of open source software and #4opens organizing around the world at the turn of the century. In the UK the was a #geekproblem vs #openweb fight that became nasty over what we would now…
The stress and destruction of the boaters on rummelsburg bay in Berlin
ideas for trying to mediate the stress and destruction of the boaters on rummelsburg bay in Berlin: Keep things open, build many loose networks as well as strong organising groups. Don’t let one side dominate the other. The full moon gathering – this is a good place for a bay “parliament” in the early evening.…
Talking to an “academic” what is rainbow
Q. I have been interested in the rainbow gatherings, particularly the political grounds where gatherings come from. Nothing on this subject is talked about on the facebook groups. People are only looking for a nice vacation destination or yoga lessons. Do people share rainbow philosophy and political ideas? A. lots of thoughts and experiences on…
The currency of the 21st century is information
What is the effect of #geekproblem, of privacy and encryption, and their fetishization of #cryptocurrencies? The market (liberal individualism and private property that comes with it) provides information on value based on explotion greed and selfishness. #Opendata and #metadata provides information on value based on connection, cooperation and altruism. A #4opens approach spreads connection, cooperation…