Shifting the #mainstreaming to the #openweb

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

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 11/8/12 1:01 PM DRAFT The balance of power in alt-media is too unbalanced to create an effective alternative voice in the upcoming mainstream media crises. Lets look at video on the web and IPTV GeeksProducersConsumers Currently alt-media video is scuwred to the geeks, all the current CMS’s and tools are to complex and…

Published Date 11/8/12 2:02 AM The corrected welcome sign from the European Rainbow Gathering 2012 in Slovakia (click on the photo for bigger image)   “The largest non-organization of non-members in the world. We have no leaders, and no organization. To be honest, the Rainbow Family means different things to different people. I think it’s…

Published Date 11/8/12 12:58 AM This was written as a reaction to activist focus on getting traditional media and the growing trap of corporate social media. Why do activist media? To do an action and not be able to communicate it is almost not to do the action at all. * You need a photo…

Published Date 11/6/12 12:50 AM The confrunce venue was evicted just before the event! so it when’t ahead in hackney instead. The Media is Dead, Long Live the Media! May 8th-10th – new media conference on Raven’s Ait Island. The imminent commercial collapse of mainstream media, and its replacement by PR-driven news, threatens the journalistic integrity and…

Published Date 11/6/12 12:47 AM This was copied over from the visionontv process page: This is the process of the visionOntv affinity group so far (an affinity group is a trust network)  At the core of any affinity group is a core/periphery relationship and a usheraly unspoken way of moving between them.  At base, the…

A bit of history http://hamishcampbell.com/diaz and some current thinking about the media.

From LENALEIA  Bratislava, Slovakia Jul 20     Positive A great guy. From Kayte Fairfax  London, England May 24      Positive Hamish is a super energetic video activist who is totally committed to his ideals and seeing them enacted in the world. He’s also a damn good vegetarian cook who whips up culinary delights when you least expect it, and loves a good debate!…

Published Date 11/3/12 12:38 AM DRAFT – thinking about Social networking OK we need to look agen at what we will use our CMS for – here is a look at the social networking side of it. Create A network: – around films – around filmmakers – around channels – around campaigns – list of filmmakers…

Published Date 11/1/12 1:45 AM DRAFT The old-mainstream media used to dominate national, international and local news to such an extent that many voices were unheard and any radical story was systemically distorted. With the onward march of the digitisation project (see more info LINK) the old-mainstream media is crumbling with the failer of its…

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