Interview with Pred, Predaor, Mike Carlton

Here is a working link to a video interview with Pred. I shot in his bedroom at Broadway in 2001.

There is also a clip of Pred bolting a poem that he wrote on a car hood onto a parking sign.

From Sydney Indymedia-
'In 1997, Predator helped set up Catalyst, a radical community activist tech collective in Sydney, Australia. They went on to provide information technology services for a wide range of activist and commmunity based organisations around both Sydney and Australia. In the process, knowledge was shared, skills were learned and taught - from building and maintaining hardware to writing computer code. It was from this original initiative that an open-posting model of web publishing was developed for the J18 protest that occured worldwide in 1999. The codebase was named 'Active' and went on to power the first Indymedia site. As they say, "the rest is history."

However, Predator's influence extended further. An Urban Explorer, he was a part of the Cave Clan - whose membership extends around Australia and internationally - and found the Sydney Cave clan branch. The tribe has, over the years, explored literally thousands of miles of underground passage ways, drains, mines and other components of the urban vasculature. Amongst other things, Predator was also a dumpster diver, anarcho syndicalist, molecular biologist, squatter, and well known good guy'.

From Wikipedia
'The open publishing script was first developed by video activists in Sydney, Australia, Predator who used to frequent Asgard BBS in Sydney wrote most of the code in Lord St, St Peters, Sydney..'

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Comments

IMC's were around before wikipedia so its quite possible that predator was not only the founding father of the IMC's but of wikipedia also.

Pred worked with AUSI, Australien Universal Space Industries when he coded the indymedia engine, AUSI still have a home page at australiens.net

Their were about 10 popular BBS's operating in Sydney before the rise of the internet. Predator learned alot about computers from BBS's or dialup DOS boxs & he also had a great love of Unix & Linux, he did work with AUSI, Australien Universal Space Industries, but when he coded the first indymedia engine I don't think AUSI had much to do with it.
He was a good bloke & a good friend of mine & yes its true Julian Assange used to upload his literature to our circle of computers in Sydney before their was the internet, but this was a very long time ago.