Shifting the #mainstreaming to the #openweb

Published Date 4/12/13 11:46 AM Some more notes: Not an isolated individual website – many individual websites in a bigger commons. The open internet used to be a such a commons Q. why is this increasingly no longer so and why/what should/can we do about this. Subject sites linked by affinity sharing activity streams. An…

Published Date 4/8/13 7:11 PM Idea for a project for next winter. I have been making activist films for 20 years well over 100 short radical actavist 3-10 minit news reports on many different campaigns.  Tell the stories of video activism by my films – list all films then get key people who were in…

Published Date 4/2/13 3:29 PM DRAFT looking at the actavist groups I have been involved with. Its interesting to try and record your view of what happened and why it happened. Though as most people will have internalised a different view to yours  this can be painful for thoughs who lived through this history. This rises…

A river that needs crossing political and tech blogs – On the political side, there is arrogance and ignorance, on the geek side there is naivety and over- complexity My videos are on these two youtube channels visionontv 3,832,876 views and undercurrents 22,689,976 views

Published Date 4/1/13 6:04 PM Lets get positive for a moment What has worked in Alt/radical media? DRAFT – looking at two contrasting successful activist media strategys. When indymedia started in 2000 in the UK undercurrents the radical news organisation I was working for had played a role in its founding running a ALPHA build…

A river that needs crossing political and tech blogs – On the political side, there is arrogance and ignorance, on the geek side there is naivety and over- complexity My videos are on these two youtube channels visionontv 3,832,876 views and undercurrents 22,689,976 views

Published Date 3/31/13 8:24 PM Open media networking The data cauldron with configurer your own ladle tools. Hubs/nodes – RSS item in and out ver tag for full participating sites  Consumers/producers – native plug-ins and JS embeds for displaying and existing RSS out for source sites. All data in and all data out – by trust, the…

Published Date 3/28/13 3:42 PM This is a NOTES for a DRAFT of a long post on history of progressive media over the last 25 years. I have been working on subjects of technology and social change for over 20 years. It all started while I was at university and coming up to my final…

Published Date 3/25/13 1:48 PM [embedded content] This is an interesting example of why visionontv is needed in the world of social media domination the video was pushed very hard and was shared extensively in Facebook and to a lesser extent in Twitter but has only 750 views – which isn’t rarely anufe to motive…

Published Date 3/19/13 9:38 PM * We have to discredit the domination of corporate social networking such as FB and twitter as solutions. (this should be easy – but needs to be put in a centralised place that is easy to send people to). WHY * Deal with the “geek question” how to get user-friendly…

A river that needs crossing political and tech blogs – On the political side, there is arrogance and ignorance, on the geek side there is naivety and over- complexity My videos are on these two youtube channels visionontv 3,832,876 views and undercurrents 22,689,976 views