Published Date 3/15/16 4:29 PM
Am not going to say anything you probably do not know in this application so will keep it short.
The project has been inspired by the technical work and ideas of Dave Winer (http://scripting.com) and the practical media work and open web projects of Hamish Campbell (http://visionon.tv and http://hamishcampbell.com)
The aim of the project is to play a small part in overcoming the mind space gap that is highlighted on the side of my blog:
“A river that needs crossing political and tech blogs – On the political side, the is arrogance and ignorance, on the geek side the is naivety and over- complexity”
Its a no-brainer to say that the open web is failing as more of our mind share is taken up by closed networks such as #failbook and propitiatory “eco systems” such as apple, google, Amazon, Microsoft etc.
If we are to play a meaningful role is saving the commons we all build on we need a raft of projects and more impotently basic infrastructure to help re-boot the open web to push these encloses back. We need to cross the river talked about above, this is much harder than it looks, if you haven’t tried it you probably wont appreciate the difficulty involved.
Rivers, streams and springs and useful metaphors for understanding how we look at “news”.
* The springs are our blogs, our company pages etc.
* The streams are aggregaters based on subjects, our twitter streams and #failbook walls badly for-fill this role
* The rivers are currently our old mainstream media and increasingly the enclosing areas of #failbook and #dotcons.
I have a open standards based project to play a role in building up “news” outside of the #silos and will still work inside the silos so the is little to lose.
The OMN