When a rainbow gathering is “organized” rather than “foculised” you live through a more “dull” than “shiny” rainbow. The 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 sheets…
Power Trip: Fracking in the UK
Power Trip: Fracking in the UK (63mins) takes you onto the frontlines of UK resistance in the battle to stop the controversial energy extraction process known as ‘Fracking’. Undercurrents productions show what happens beyond the few seconds glimpsed on the mainstream TV news. We follow grandmothers (Lancashire Nanas) as they team up with younger activists…
Building alt/grassroots media networks to challenge and widen the traditional media
Our current groups doing alt/grassroots media are too limited in their idea of what media could/should be in this the is either a naivety or a dishonesty. The most successful act and think they can be #traditionalmedia” without controlling the distribution of their content in any meaningful way. This is of course not unusual, the…
Since we left London
Since we left London that we have been roughly marking on a map our overnight stops. It’s not graphically amazing but does give an idea on how far we got! Since we left London we’ve done 2750km on European Inland Waterways to Vienna on 8 different rivers and 17 canals throughout 3 countries. We’ve passed…
Brainstorming London boater gentrification
Summing up of the #webroots meetings at #nwsk
Summing up of the #webroots meetings at #nwsk I came away feeling like an alien with the chasm that divides my #openweb view from the Facebook generation that made up the panel and ordnance. Some thoughts: As the guy from demo’s said the are better #openweb projects in most areas. Though these options were only…
The OMN Its a network of flows
The Open Media Network (OMN)
“We can’t engage as communities, unless we have money. I can’t even express how angry this makes me.” – an activist group using Facebook. People and organizations who feel this way are the initial targets. https://activism.openworlds.info is an unfettered space for Activists and groups to communicate and https://campaign.openworlds.info a safe space for Campaigning and NGO…
visionOntv – A bit of history
Our main visionontv site (running for 10 years) has generated many millions of downloads and video views for other video account holders vie RSS, torrents, embeds and playlists. The early part of the project was based on RSS/peer2peer were its difficult to get hard figures. We can count the views on our secondary target the…
Testing peertube webRTC seedboxes
Have been test useing seedboxs to store and server video for peertube installs. For first test setup am useing Vuze with a RSS and webRTC plugin as this is a easey. The latist version of peertube am useing https://peertube.mastodon.host/videos/local has implemented feeds, these work fine and send the new videos posted to the torrent dowenload…
A look at the #geekproblem
In the alt tech, everything is broken. At the hart of this is a assumption that control and certenty are needed for good softwear. Were in realerty softwear matches the human condition trasentery/lossy. Trying to force the ideal is why most of our alt projects do not work. This is the base of the #geekproblem
A metaphorical view of tech and society
The data soup Mobs do not have minds, but they do have lots of tasty cultural bits bubbling and stirring that make a good humane soup we feed and grow on. Experts/individuals have small minds and little/narrow incite into wider social truths they build single view expert solutions to universal mob swirling problems. These are…