Draft outline script – 01. Buying the boat & motivation

* Hamish life in London – activism (Diaz film money windfall) visionontv video training workshops – find (do talking head) presenting film/film clip, training workshop montage. “my name is Hamish have been a media activist for 20 years, i recently was paid a wodge of cash from an Italian feature film. I had been in…

OMN

The Open Media Network is a trust based, human moderated, #4opens project that builds a database shared across many peers. The project is more important for what it DOES NOT DO, than what it does do. It uses technology to build human networks. There are ONLY 5 main functions: * Publish (object to stream) –…

Extinction Rebellion outside the filterbubble

https://youtu.be/To5tZpjkakU https://feralculture.blog/2018/07/30/interview-with-extinction-rebellion/ If you won’t to network about this outside #failbook https://activism.openworlds.info/about or http://campaign.openworlds.info We need to reboot our networks outside the #dotcons if they are to speak beyond the #filterbubles to wider society. You can find this wider view by searching on the #openweb http://openworlds.info #OMN

A look at how technology shapes progressive/radical media-looking forward-looking back

3 events at newspeak house this winter:Session 1) Looking back – how technology shaped the production and distribution of radical/progressive media like #Undercurrents, #Indymedia etc. Session 2) The current day – failure of radical media technology. The rise of the #dotcons and the new alt-media projects. Session 3) Looking forward – The #activetypub meetup. This…

Helping the stepaway from the #dotcons

https://campaign.openworlds.info https://activism.openworlds.info https://visionon.tv https://openworlds.info http://omn.openworlds.info I have 5 working/funded/stable #openweb projects to push this winter to wider ordences. Covering News, Social Media, Video and Search. Be the change you wont to see #stepaway from the #dotcons back to the openweb. #4opens are key for projects to work dont drink to deeply from the #encryptionist stream…

Rainbow gatherings happen far away from Babylon – the problem of #failbook

Rainbow gatherings happen far away from Babylon, this is understood. Yet for the last 10 years they have been increasingly/largely organized on Facebook and its importent to state the obvuse that this is having an affect on the gatherings. Facebook being a #dotcon is full on strong Babylon energy and this energy is overflowing/washing over…

Radical Networks

Q. “From mass surveillance to the over-commercialization of the World Wide Web, the concept of a free and open Internet is continously threatened by corporate interests and over-reaching governments. Radical Networks is a festival and a conference, designed to foster critical discussions around these issues and to create opportunities to learn more about policy, DIY…

Power politics is always full of stupidity

Power politics is always full of stupidity, as priorities and agendas are pushed as power games rather than human needs. Power politics brings out the worst in human communities while pushing out, breaking and destroying the best. Any structure with a hierarchy will suffer from this. While most people agree that such structures are useful…

Should the state run #failbook

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/jeremy-corbyn-facebook-state-owned-social-media-bbc-iplayer-privacy-labour-public-ownership-a8504151.html A. Is this a good idea? Q. It is certainly a better idea. Whether or not it is the best possible is another question … A. We already have a healthy alt to the #dotcons growing. Do we need a state run one. This is a new look at a old debate between anarchist…

Serbian rainbow

When a rainbow gathering is “organized” rather than “foculised” you live through a more “dull” than “shiny” rainbow. The Serbian gathering is 600m up in wooded mountains so we have both sun and regular strong thunder storms with torrential rain. The kitchen was built before i came over a few dry days of flimsy plastic…