Published Date 2/18/15 11:39 PM DRAFT In the last few posts I have looked at a failed organising strategy realmedia gathering, outlined a positive way out of this failer, the focused unconfrunce. But for wider understanding I think the content so far is lacking some background, lets look at an old post https://hamishcampbell.com/en/home/-/blogs/the-21st-centery here I…
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What would rebooting grassroots media look like
Published Date 2/13/15 2:01 PM DRAFT Intro to the event Unconferences are called for a reason and are about a subject, generally with an idea of an outcome. Invite all the existing groups and most importantly, representatives from past groups to tell their stories and outline their ongoing projects. Invite groups from outside the activist/NGO…
Real Media Gathering how not to reboot grassroots media
Published Date 2/11/15 4:46 PM Draft Firstly, I don’t have any ill will to the people I know organising this event and would love it to succeed in being a part of the kindling to (re)light the fire of alt-media. But we have 3 main problem groupings/failures blocking grassroots media (culture) from rebooting Let’s look…
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Dangerous thoughts anonymity on the internet
The last 10 years activist technology and its supporting NGO’s have been pushing the encrypted web as secure form of communication. From the Indymedia network “not logging IP’s” to Wikileaks “secure whistleblowing” to numerous encrypted chat and social networks. Not to mention all the corporate dotcoms “solutions” jumbling up the space. This naiveté working had…
What would an open media network OMN look like
Published Date 2/4/15 7:48 PM Lets do some grounded/blue sky thinking 😉 The internet has been (unbelievably) successful because its libertarian/anacist open/trust peer to peer network with very light centre and governances. How do we (re)build an grassroots-media to flourish in the 21st century remains of this open web? What would an open media network…
Where is our media
Published Date 1/24/15 7:42 AM Climate camp is a example of the transition from alternative media to social media. At the beginning of the Climate Change Movement Indymedia was declining. At the first two camps there was a healthy Indymedia centre providing internet, sustainable power and computers There’s always a stress between alternative media and…
Alt geek culture is broken indymedia
Organise the 21st Century
Published Date 12/23/14 7:52 PM Lets look at how we acturly organise. Garssroots alternative streams (and mainstream river with more complexity) can be split into a number of streams * The horizontals * The verticals In the horizontals the organising is actually pretty opaque – lets look at the tributary’s Organic consensus – this is…
Art money and socierty some notes
Published Date 12/11/14 5:53 PM Went to a workshop at spacestudios on digital money and the arts. Here are my notes of the things I thought about/covered. Forms of money * LETS – works for liberals (the Brixton pound is a current example, at the meeting) * Digital – works for the Geeks then Capital…
Where are we an example of what works
Published Date 11/21/14 4:44 PM An example of what works. At Balcome the anti-fracking camp last summer we built a “visible affinity group” to do the power and tech for the camp. This was successful in providing working off grid energy for the camp of more than 200 people for 2 months. However it wasn’t…