Brining #indymediaback The fallow flower beds/farm that is #indymedia needs to be bought back to life slowly with as little change to the structure as possible. In our current social tech state just about ANY change will start ripping and when this starts it escalates quickly to do real damage. The original 2000-2008’ish structures cover…
Judge projects by the #4opens then by #PGA hallmarks. A good first step.
A complex counterintuitive subject. When Capitalism and “free-market” stop being the trust that glues society together. You are left with social data and who controls it. Open or closed becomes the choice we face. Open it’s a shared commons. Closed its something else. The closed path of the #encryptionists for the last 10 years. The…
Should we use tech or social to verify a news source/flow.
Looking at the indymedia reboot It’s verified by the crowd/community as you will have text, photos etc from the event from different views with some of them by known actors. The event happened. A single post from a unknown source needs verification. Its journalism 🙂 from a grassroots prospective based on community and trust in…
Q&A what is a fashernista in the hashtag way.
Q. I’ve read a lot of your stuff but I’m hoping you’ll clarify something. What’s a “fashernista”? A. A large part of society who do what’s fashionable. Not what’s right/wrong/best. In the era of the #deathcult of neo-liberalism this has always been the wrong path to take. It’s a simple idea. men-make-their-own-history-but… #fashernista is a…
The encryptionsists – the last 10 years.
Security theater you should ask who we are hiding from. The sad and bad outcome of just about everything is only our friends – our enemies, the state and the #dotcons can almost always look behind the curtain. The rare exception of this is p2p encryption, never client server. Though the issue that makes most…
4opens review of NHSX track and trace app
WHAT DO PEOPLE THINK ABOUT THIS? The app is from NHSX with contributions from Apple and Google obvs and Pivotal Labs and Uni of Oxford. All source code for front and backend on Github and open source. https://github.com/nhsx/covid19-app-system-public https://github.com/nhsx/covid-19-app-android-ag-public https://github.com/nhsx/covid-19-app-ios-ag-public What is the actual polatics behind this? #4opens review. Think it duse 2 opens as…
On outreach of OMN and indymedia reboot
Q. I’m not interested in doing that, as I don’t know what it is you are actually proposing. Apart from using hashtags and talking about #deathcult I don’t actually understand your plan? What I haven’t heard is a practical way of hosting and distributing alt media. Visionontv turned into a mess, just as Indymedia did.…
#4opens reviews – Discord
https://discord.com The #4opens: Are a simple way to judge the value of a “alt/grassroots” tech project. Open data – is the basic part of a project https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_data with out this open they cannot work. * hard to say am assuming you can download your chats? but your contacts ect? Say ½ a open Open source…
What is the Open Media Network (OMN)
The project is to decisively shift power from the geeks and admins to the producers and consumers of media. In this its about good UI and simple empowering #KISS tools to move content by categorising it with a bootum up folksonermy. This simple approach is balanced by shared site level higher languages for the complex…
A look at the internal mess of the uk indymedia project
The project i like to point to as an example. The indymedia project, an early alt-media network that spread the use of open source software and #4opens organizing around the world at the turn of the century. In the UK the was a #geekproblem vs #openweb fight that became nasty over what we would now…