https://campaign.openworlds.info https://activism.openworlds.info https://visionon.tv https://openworlds.info http://omn.openworlds.info I have 5 working/funded/stable #openweb projects to push this winter to wider ordences. Covering News, Social Media, Video and Search. Be the change you wont to see #stepaway from the #dotcons back to the openweb. #4opens are key for projects to work dont drink to deeply from the #encryptionist stream…
Building alt/grassroots media networks to challenge and widen the traditional media
Our current groups doing alt/grassroots media are too limited in their idea of what media could/should be in this the is either a naivety or a dishonesty. The most successful act and think they can be #traditionalmedia” without controlling the distribution of their content in any meaningful way. This is of course not unusual, the…
A metaphorical view of tech and society
The data soup Mobs do not have minds, but they do have lots of tasty cultural bits bubbling and stirring that make a good humane soup we feed and grow on. Experts/individuals have small minds and little/narrow incite into wider social truths they build single view expert solutions to universal mob swirling problems. These are…
Lets look at some alt projects from the perspective of the 4opens Themediafund
Lets look at some alt projects from the perspective of the #4opens – Themediafund https://themediafund.org Open data – the site has no visible RSS its likely wordpress so maybe has a hidden feed. Copyright content so the data is closed and locked vier copyright.1/4 open Open source – The site is likely wordpress so opensource…
Offering a real alternative to the dotcons world
Published Date 10/17/17 4:59 PM This is a quite #reboot of the #openweb going on. This #4opens project has nearly 1 million users https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastodon_(software) It’s one of the use it or lose it moments for life outside #failbook. It would be a bad time for progressive funders to start to prop up the #dotcons world…
Lets look at some alt projects from the perspective of the 4opens realmedia
Published Date 10/6/17 1:04 PM https://realmedia.press Open data – the site has a RSS feed but is copyright so 1/2 of a open Open source – its wordpress kinda open 1/2 Open “industrial” standards – they do not easely support RSS podcasts and most media is corp hosted so 1/2 a open Open process – Process is opaque. Bronze 2 opensSilver 3 opensGold 4…
Lets look at some alt projects from the perspective of the 4opens democracynow
Published Date 10/6/17 12:30 PM https://www.democracynow.org/ Open data – the site has a RSS feed, no copyright/CC notice on site so ½ of a open till clarifyed Open source – hard to tell if the code base is opensource so no open for now. Open “industrial” standards – they support RSS and podcasts and all media is openstandered so a open Open…
Lets look at some alt projects from the perspective of the 4opens thecanary
Published Date 9/27/17 11:41 AM https://www.thecanary.co Open data – the site has a RSS feed, but contet copyright so ½ of a open Open source – wordpress so a open Open “industrial” standards – Well WordPress is kinda a standard, they support RSS but no podcasts and all media on closed corporate accounts so ½…
Don’t trust the fashionista
Published Date 9/25/17 4:24 PM Thinking about #Uber and the dysfunction of #Facebook. It’s time to #reboot many parts of the #openweb With the “visibility” of the failing of #dotcons such as #failbook privacy/obscured agronomic control of you, #uber and the race to the bottom culture. The will be a plausible “class” of people who…
A look at were alt grassroots media is at
Published Date 9/17/17 10:02 AM A look at some of the current alt/radical media projects in the UK Novra media These guys are some of the most intelligent “idiots” I know. They produce good content and they produce a lot of it. * FANTASTIC CONTENT * HARD WORKING * OLD, BROKEN AND DANGURUES NEW/OLD MEDIA…