2006–2017
466 posts
2017 46
November 2017
October 2017
- 4opens archiving project
- We need projects like the Media Fund as part of an #openweb echo syteam
- Next 4opens projects
- Making History Resistance Exhibition
- Offering a real alternative to the dotcons world
- Lets look at some alt projects from the perspective of the 4opens corporatewatch
- Lets look at some alt projects from the perspective of the 4opens realmedia
- Lets look at some alt projects from the perspective of the 4opens democracynow
September 2017
- Lets look at some alt projects from the perspective of the 4opens thecanary
- Lets look at some alt projects from the perspective of the 4opens Novaramedia
- Lets look at some open projects from the perspective of the 4opens Mastodon
- Lets look at some dotcons from the perspective of the 4opens Facebook
- Don’t trust the fashionista
- Castle Pond Pong Pollution
- A look at were alt grassroots media is at
- Why alt grassroots media fail
July 2017
- The ideological swing
- Building alt grassroots media networks to challenge the traditional media
- Inevitable deaths
June 2017
May 2017
April 2017
March 2017
- One more step OMN
- A first step to reboot alt grassroots media
- The left Stop the rot and start the composting
February 2017
- Building a alt grassrots media network
- History of the visionOntv project
- How to do ethical aggregation and news flow displays
- Power Politics of the undead left
- The OMN is up for limited roll out
January 2017
2016 61
December 2016
- Foundations of alt grassroots projects
- Open standards and the OMN
- The OMN an easy project for everyone
- A example live edit TV studio schedule
- The Witches Cauldron open activist archive
- Ruffcuts project
- Undercurrents in the Mainstream The Trojan Horse Application
- People who aspire to be exploitation class
- You do all know that posting politics on #failbook is a pointless circle of nothingness
- Food for thought for thoughts who do not like conflict
- Why do I call Facebook a #dotcons
- Draft user storys
- Human beings are by nature social creatures, we link
- Open Media Network user story s Lucy
- OMN dont be shy
- Privacy and uk Indymedia
- 3 small alts
- User story for the OMN Ana and her Cat Pixy
- Media Fund
- An alt media revolution
- Trump was chosen and elected by this internet web and more will grow from the dotcons
- Boaters need to act to replace CRT
- Open Spaces and words we use
- Why do all alt grassroots events have the same speakers
- The use of language and writing by activists has an impact
- Activism and flaring egos go hand in hand
- The Roman Empire is old hat
- A way to tell if an organisation is closed while pretending to be open
- The world is open for change
- Find and Join the OMN
October 2016
- Some thoughts on the OMN idea
- Draw a line in the sand
- Looking at the tech and organising of UK alt grassroots media
September 2016
August 2016
July 2016
June 2016
May 2016
April 2016
March 2016
- Is client server p2p torrent infrastructure failing
- A OMN post for geeks
- The spring OMN The river of news project
- Todo Europa boat trip
- To escape our silo thinking
February 2016
- Hope filled tributary s feeding fresh water to the polluted mainstream
- Why did the #openweb flower and die over the last 30 years
- Support reviewing offgride tech
- We face a digital cliff the open internet may be over
- A evil tainted favour leads to a renewable energy mess
- There is no such thing as society
- A big socerty community center the Hive Dalston
- Looking back looking forward Village Hall or Church Hall
January 2016
2015 47
December 2015
November 2015
October 2015
- Plan from the Medway to Central London
- Cheap free tools for coastal cruising
- The #4opens
- Some questions came out of the last grassroots media gathering about OMN
- The problem with alt media
- Trip up the Medway
- Media Democracy Festival at Goldsmiths review
- Trip down the Thames to the Medway
July 2015
- A world to win
- The problem of the chattering classes in activism
- Smartphone Solar Charging
- Mobile Solar power for a laptop
- How to re boot grassroots media to help to re boot the open web to create real social change
- THE VILLAGE BUTTY
June 2015
- The Village Butty Project
- What would a new book on grassroots media look like
- Worthwhile grassroots openspace projects
- Offgride travel with Small Solar Power
April 2015
- Student Loans driving bankruptcy
- Being a Pirate the CC ers life
- Best small USB Solar Panel
- Wind Turbine Generator
- Cheap solar panels
- Chargeing your Laptop form solar power
- Basic boat 12v electrics
- A new banner for WILPF
- A view and strategy for sustaining the boater lifestyle and community
March 2015
- Torrent blocking notice in my local cafe
- News ideas for ethical aggregation of content
- Puting up the wind mill
February 2015
- The open web and the power of lobbyists
- Citizenfour hiding behind Oscar
- Lets look for a moment at sanity in grassroots terms
- Grassroots media Building affinity
- Lister Petter LPW3 Marine Diesel service
- What would rebooting grassroots media look like
- Real Media Gathering how not to reboot grassroots media
- The failure of the student loans company
- Dangerous thoughts anonymity on the internet
- What would an open media network OMN look like
January 2015
2014 48
December 2014
November 2014
October 2014
- Stupid individualism and the possibility of an alternative
- The poverty of the alternative
- DIY solar power to far
September 2014
- How to solar power your Tablet
- Citizen journalism equipment update 2014
- Journalists generally don’t understand what journalism is
- The last newsreel from undercurrents
- Problem with semi flex solar panel
- Boat battery bank
- Pink Castle GM action report
- Pink Castle – GM crops
August 2014
- The 5 levels of gentrification
- The boaters with out moorings fight for survival
- Solar speck Broad Beam canal boat
July 2014
June 2014
May 2014
April 2014
- Breaking the frame gathering
- We have been updating and renovating our websites
- Video traning at anti fracking camps
- Come to an anti-fracking camp this summer
- Activisttech org at work at Daneshill protection camp
- Cooking dinner at daneshill protection camp
- I sold the protest video for this ecotricity advert
- Another lifeboat on the river Lea
March 2014
February 2014
- FAQ why use open websites
- Advice on new laptop and phone
- Quality Refurbished laptops Thinkpad
- Boat Life Battery power
- WordPress friend or foe for activism
- PR firm Bell Pottinger clients include the Cuadrilla fracking company and members of the family of Bashar al Assad
- Boat life heading out of london west
January 2014
2013 88
December 2013
- A Year Long Summer
- I love affinity group organising
- Looking at wind turbines as little sun in winter
- Boat life photos
November 2013
- The boat is coming on
- Trying out different video platforms citizenTV
- Activist social media suicide and its prevention
- S hell Last minute filming of artistic direct action
- Heat light and water on the boat
October 2013
- Fixing protest camp problems and there back lashes
- How to build an effective protest camp
- Working out the flue
- Outline plan for boat
- Working on the boat roof
- Who is building a submersible
- Repair fibreglass boat
- Heating the boat
- Replaceing the boat fuel hose for BSS
September 2013
- The dangerous boat certificate BSS
- The Man who bought a lifeboat
- Attempted Putsch at Balcombe
- This happens nearly every day at Balcombe Snatch Arrest
- Balcombe Snatch Arrest
- Greenham women talks about protest camp life
- How far is Balcombe camp a responsible alternative
- Balcombe Protection Camp has a working solar power station
- Camp tech needs for Balcombe
- Snatch Snatch Snatch
- Balcombe power use
- Balcombe one man stops a fracking truck for an afternoon
August 2013
- Balcombe the missing solar Panels
- Balcombe working in the tech tent
- Balcombe anarchist and conservative
- Frackoff Protest Camp Balcombe
- 10 days at Balcombe Protection Camp
- Heating a boat
- Rainbow gatherings where we are
- Frackoff at Balcombe
- Solar Panels 100w cabling and connectors
- Buying the boat
- Boat solar power options
July 2013
June 2013
- Filming Genoa 2001 G8 protest
- Kicking apart the illusion that social media is a friend to radical voices
- Video Faslane Peace Camp
- Hard or Soft is the question
- Stopg8 and a media spun story of suicide
- Activist media strategy is broken
- How the internet works
- StopG8 website Activist web organising tools are broken
May 2013
- Europe waterways
- What works in Activist video
- Parasitic traditional media
- Working on the boat insulation
- Lifeboat to liveaboard conversion
- Apple s Middle finger It s Pointed at You
- A presentation of the idea of the Open Media Network and where it currently is
- Why are conversations about technology privacy and social change so difficult
- Ethical aggregation and conversation OMN
- What is the Open Media Network
- Videos from the eSWP event spacehijackers
April 2013
- We are rolling out some sites and applications that work within the OMN
- The activist problem of failbook
- New journalism Stories grow from the soil
- DIFFERENT TYPES OF SOLAR
- Thinking out loud looking at aspects of stupid individualism
- How we create a better, just world with the people that are currently in the world rather than some theoretical people or class
- The Activists FUCKED UP USE of corporate social media
- Who do we trust
- Distributed 5 video reports from the Thatcher Demo in Trafalgar Sq
- What is the Open media network 2 OMN
- My videos a winter project
- Is the value in stirring up the past
- Undercurrents and the birth of video activism
- Good activist media
March 2013
- What are we building
- The OMN is a very simple thing
- History of progressive media over the last 25 years
- A brief history of activism
- Damping down alternative voices
- What is needed for the next 5 years to build an open media web
- Rainbow talks to occupy movement in the US bad sound
- How did you find the Rainbow Gathering
- Who to cull Fox s or tradtional media
- Booting up the Open Media Network OMN
February 2013
2012 93
December 2012
November 2012
- Digital utopia or dystopia crosses to the real world close to decision time you part of the conversation
- The Pressblock take Oxford Street Oct20
- The best voltage regulator battery for portable laptop solar power
- 18 Watt Folding Solar Panel Laptop Charger
- Portable power pack
- The Political Compass
- What is visionOntv and why is it important
- Grassroots video distribution from ruffcuts to visionOntv
- Balance of power in new media s place in society from 09 05 2009
- What is a Rainbow Gathering
- Why do activist media from 17 09 2009
- A conference we organised DRAFT invite from 06 04 2009
- How do we organise from 19 09 2009
- Thoughts about traditional and contemporary media post Genoa 2001
- Backup of Couchsurfing profile
- Thinking about visionOntv project from 03 05 2008
- The memory hole from 07 09 2010
October 2012
- We ran into the trap of corporate social networking
- #Oct20 – Brassed Off By Cuts
- ESF horizontal and vertical process and how they fail to balance from 27 01 2004 and 23 02 2004
- F K off and do it your self page from 13 10 2010
- Interesting for me look at were how we started our project from 13 04 2008
- A post from 19 09 2009 The is a whole load of fake citizen journalism going on
- Post from 29 03 2009 it is a technological project which can only come out of a community project
- Dyslexia a curse or a gift
- Life at London new media and independent broadcasting NUJ
- A personal perspective of trade union organising the NUJ DM
- Some half thought through notes for the NUJ delegate meeting
- The NUJ and Bluesky thinking 2012
September 2012
- Life on the road
- Portable renewable power technology
- NUJ Delegate Meeting 2012 Newcastle
- Facebook as news
August 2012
- A political history of the internet
- Canadian Alternative Media Centres at Summits
- Hamish explaining the templates video
- Its good to know more about our history
- Fixing problems with Kobo Touch e reader
July 2012
- Finding the Rainbow Gathering
- Failbook Activist’s and the hamster cage
- Some of the interviews I did at netroots 2012
June 2012
- I like tag clouds
- History of visionOntv
- Best tent to buy for Vagabonding
- The trap of small thinking and using Facebook
- Rainbow gatherings have a strong, largely invisible core of myths and traditions
- The media wreck
- What is the web You are the tools you use
- How to stay for free in a city
May 2012
April 2012
- Solar Vagabond escape the rat race
- Solar vagabond Smart Phone
- April London Liferay User Meetup
- Queen Party
March 2012
- Powerful shocking and hart worming documentary Black Block
- Solar laptop power
- Micro advertising for sustainability
- Films coming soon from ORCCon2012
- What can we learn from the film kony2012
- The Stupidly Simple Open Media Network
- Old UPS battery for solar setup
- Why indymedia has the site is untrusted message
- Orwell vs Huxley
- DIAZ Don t clean up this blood Trailer
- At work at the Bristol Radical Film Fest
February 2012
- Turning off the comments
- Diaz Don’t Clean up this Blood
- Me and Marc working on live edit shows
- Solar power ready for the summer
- Were are my Twitter followers
- The video Cameras I have owned and used
- Workshop on Solar Vagabonds at London Hackspace
- occupy mind the gap
- If violence is the answer to getting traditional media were is the alternative
- Using an Apple Phone for citizen journalism
- Is it to late to save the open web
- I am visiting my parents who are of the newspaper reading age
- Thoughts on project Definition
- My mum made many banner during the 1980 s
- Solar Vagabond
January 2012
- Solar recharging a smart phone
- Embed a radical media stream on your site
- The Trials of the 1 occupiedjustice
- Programming social change
- Hipster Burgers: Short Film Outline
- Diaz up in the water tower
- Were do I come from politicly
- Stupid individualism and Re creating the Soviet Union
- An idea for internet TV from 2001
- History of The European Newsreel
- ENR the foundation report
- The European News real project and being relevant
2011 69
December 2011
- The Court justice for the people
- Q A of the Save the internet session at rebelliousMC
- Copy Right activist video and Youtube
- Some Old Photos
- The Role of #Blocking in Horizontal Projects: Mannequins Dancing to Barely Visible Strings
- Escaping the Hamster Cage re thinking Geek culture
- Whose Internet is it part 1
- Open security has problems data mining
November 2011
- How to escape from a police man
- I keep finding my self as a bullet ridden corpse
- Live edit PC
- Good sound recording with a mobile phone
- Michael Albert – what’s wrong with facebook and twitter
- Hamish Campbell on Sky News Dale Farm Eviction
- Hamish Campbell in the Sky News studio- Dale Farm
- visionOntv studio therealsocialnetwork
- The memory hole in activism
October 2011
- Donnacha DeLong what s wrong with the traditional media
- This is not a protest this is a process
- How I learned to stop panicking and love disorder
- The blind activist stamped into corporate social networking silos for political campaigns DRAFT
- DIY guide to using solar panels for your laptop and smart phone
- The state of video aggregation on the web
- Embedding the best audio from rebelliousMC
- Using a good mobile phone with an external mic to shoot live video reports
- Just because work is invisible dose not mean that it dose not happen
- The video embed for RebelliousMC get one for your blog
- Cafe Socierty
- Whose Internet is it Are We Losing the War
- Power politics In activist organizing prioritizes self-interest over outcomes
September 2011
- One way of building trust is to have offline social meetups
- Trust and control and the role of gatekeepers in blocking
- Trust and control are real life issues in mainstream and radical media DRAFT
- Proposal for making the interactive site live
- The Proposal an interactive website which genuinely builds radical media
- Control freak s DRAFT
- Am going to start blogging more about process in activist groups am involved in
- Pea crop from my window Garden
- The web as political ideology
- How to build an interactive website
- LIVE RMC SITE Conferences guidelines
August 2011
- The Rebellious Media Conference 8 9 Oct is urgently seeking techies
- dilbert Bureaucracy
- Digital utopia digital dystopia
July 2011
June 2011
- They own the Media We ve got the Message
- Geek Manifesto DRAFT
- What s next for Sukey the keep safe mobile and informed app
May 2011
- The ecology of hashtag organising DRAFT
- The de professionalising of media DRAFT
- My first backpack Solar edit studio
- A bit of spell casting from the greek rainbow gathering how to make this work in visionOntv
March 2011
- Some Radical Media on 26march
- Its a Party
- Sukey and the light bulbs filled with ammonia tweet
- Some more little things you can do to be ready for Saturday
- Why aren t more people using animoto to tell there stories
- How to get involved in citizen independent journalism on March 26
- Remember that the nuclear industry have always lied Japan nuclear
- Alt Media Grass roots reporting for March 26th TUC Demo
- Thoughts on alt organising from 2007
- The Internet is dead Long live the Internet
- Round up of intresting comments I have found on climatecamp winding dowen
- Collective statement from some individuals affected by recent infiltrations Various 2011 03 02
January 2011
2010 11
December 2010
- The recent police violences at the student demo s is nothing new rather a new group of people are experiencing systematic police abuses
- The battle for the internet is switching from a cold war to a hot war
- How to help with building a news Channal on visionOntv
November 2010
- London Anarchist Book Fair Catholic Worker
- Lets make opensource tools the mediaplayer
- This video s distribution is damaged by the use of copyright corporate music
- visionOntv Channels guide
- End of the internet as a open platform comes much closer
- ClimateCamp Media
- The way forward some simple social technical solutions