Published Date 10/6/17 1:04 PM https://realmedia.press Open data – the site has a RSS feed but is copyright so 1/2 of a open Open source – its wordpress kinda open 1/2 Open “industrial” standards – they do not easely support RSS podcasts and most media is corp hosted so 1/2 a open Open process – Process is opaque. Bronze 2 opensSilver 3 opensGold 4…
Lets look at some alt projects from the perspective of the 4opens democracynow
Published Date 10/6/17 12:30 PM https://www.democracynow.org/ Open data – the site has a RSS feed, no copyright/CC notice on site so ½ of a open till clarifyed Open source – hard to tell if the code base is opensource so no open for now. Open “industrial” standards – they support RSS and podcasts and all media is openstandered so a open Open…
Lets look at some alt projects from the perspective of the 4opens thecanary
Published Date 9/27/17 11:41 AM https://www.thecanary.co Open data – the site has a RSS feed, but contet copyright so ½ of a open Open source – wordpress so a open Open “industrial” standards – Well WordPress is kinda a standard, they support RSS but no podcasts and all media on closed corporate accounts so ½…
Lets look at some alt projects from the perspective of the 4opens Novaramedia
Lets look at some open projects from the perspective of the 4opens Mastodon
Published Date 9/25/17 5:49 PM https://mastodon.social/ Open data – YES Can I save my data? Yes, some of it! It‘s under Preferences->Data export Open source – YES GNU AFFERO GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 3, 19 November 2007 Open “industrial” standards – YES We are using the OStatus suite of protocols: Webfinger for user-on-domain lookup Atom…
Lets look at some dotcons from the perspective of the 4opens Facebook
Don’t trust the fashionista
Published Date 9/25/17 4:24 PM Thinking about #Uber and the dysfunction of #Facebook. It’s time to #reboot many parts of the #openweb With the “visibility” of the failing of #dotcons such as #failbook privacy/obscured agronomic control of you, #uber and the race to the bottom culture. The will be a plausible “class” of people who…
Castle Pond Pong Pollution
A look at were alt grassroots media is at
Published Date 9/17/17 10:02 AM A look at some of the current alt/radical media projects in the UK Novra media These guys are some of the most intelligent “idiots” I know. They produce good content and they produce a lot of it. * FANTASTIC CONTENT * HARD WORKING * OLD, BROKEN AND DANGURUES NEW/OLD MEDIA…
Why alt grassroots media fail
Published Date 9/17/17 9:59 AM Stupid individualism and the visionOntv CJ video templates. Our templates for video journalism are designed to simplify and empower normal people to make coherent video news reports using the tools they already have. They are successful at this if people fallow the template’s – it says this at the end…
The idealogical swing
Published Date 7/27/17 7:30 PM In the 19th century we had a fight between the conservatives vs fundamentalist liberalism fighting/feeding inhuman industrial growth which lead to a human backlash in the 20th century of social democracy – that is a mediated democracy to push humane growth (progressive liberalism). The late 20th century #neoliberal (fundamentalist liberals)…
Building alt grassroots media networks to challenge the traditional media
Published Date 7/16/17 7:30 PM Our current groups doing alt/grassroots media are to limited in there idea of what media could/should be. The is either a naivety or a dishonesty to all the current grassroots/alt media. They act and think they can be “big media” with out controlling the distribution of there content in any…