Lets look at some alt projects from the perspective of the 4opens realmedia

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

Published Date 9/26/17 12:05 PM novaramedia.com Open data – the site has RSS output and a API running on a custom version of wordpress (that is on github) so it kinda has opendata, would need clarification to confirm. ½ a open for now. Open source – Yep the site is opensource and it up on…

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

Published Date 9/25/17 5:03 PM https://facebook.com/ Open data – A small YES and many many NO’s the is a obscured link were you can download a lot of data that facebook holds about you it’s a SMALL YES. But all the interlinking and meta data that is used is hidden and for sale to the…

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…