Published Date 2/21/17 6:10 PM The OMN rollout is a 10 step process Rollout a single node to link alt media and share content to 100 sites. More More More Rollout full social taging flows and start the offline backup, start to move away from the dotcons. More More More More The openweb grows into…
History of the visionOntv project
The original project was offlinetv and was a online network to setup screenings to bring people together and cross fertilize different radical campaigning groups. I was pushing it as “open” rebooting of the failing undercurrents video activism project. Before this I had been making a meager living doing screenings by fundraising vie the copyleft ruffcuts…
How to do ethical aggregation and news flow displays
Published Date 2/15/17 12:13 PM The is an issue of fast flowing (lower quality) news sites dominating over slower flowing (quality) sites on short 5/10 story sidebars on the #OMN To get round this the are a number of options: We only show one item (the latest) from each feed in embed RSS feed flows.…
Power Politics of the undead left
Published Date 2/1/17 2:07 PM I have found memories of fighting the Power Politics of the “undead left” during the London Social Forum many years ago – lots of knotted strings of organic garlic around the top “taking the power table” to highlight the uncomfortable “undead left´s” grasping for power. Then the ad hock crew…
The OMN is up for limited roll out
In Praise of Idleness another candle lighted
Power polatics and the race gender card
Published Date 1/31/17 12:50 PM Deal with issues, allowing them to be pushed under the carpet has a cost. The are real issues round gender/race politics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_politics Then the is a the sad and bad playing of the race/gender “card” that is sometimes used when real issues become stressful. This happen to me a year…
Trust and Media Flows
Rebooting Alt Grassroots Media
The OMN Beta is a subset of the full open project. Its a just the linking part. A first step to the data soup and open per2per network. A single node will facilitate existing alt/grassroots media projects to link to each other. This will hopefully, partly overcome the #geekproblem to brining in talented developers to…
Moveing through past blocking in activism
Published Date 1/19/17 11:53 AM can be hard to keep “bureaucratic” thinking out of activist organizing. We do have ongoing adhock strategys that work fine, but, these have issues with scaling. This is an unresolved and un-looked at. Open can help: We have a bit of friction going on, lets all try and reduce this…
OMN user storys A Writers Blog
Published Date 1/12/17 11:18 PM Tabs Blog Tabs is a writer and journalist who in the past was published in major newspapers. She writes opinion pieces based on current news events. She keeps her hand in by writing pieces for her blog. She then posts her blog on facebook. Some of her friends share her…
OMN and publishing on smart phones
Published Date 1/12/17 7:10 PM Its interesting for a moment to look at the potential affect on radical media phone apps of the OMN. Native “publish” from your phone “share this” to any node of the OMN and to many individual sites/blogs will work “out of the box” on any smart phone app that implements…