A river that needs crossing political and tech blogs – On the political side, there is arrogance and ignorance, on the geek side there is naivety and over- complexity My videos are on these two youtube channels visionontv 3,832,876 views and undercurrents 22,689,976 views
How to build an interactive website
Published Date 9/11/11 9:00 PM FEEDBACK# > GENERAL At the moment the site layout is quite confusing: > How do you navigate back to the top page from the sub-pages? > You can’t always navigate between the pages: eg. from http://live.rebelliousmediaconference.org/discuss/-/message_boards/view_message/137952 I can’t press the “organise” button (a green arrow comes up instead) hamish: There are some…
Digital utopia digital dystopia
Published Date 8/11/11 3:56 PM The 20th century view of privacy is no longer valid for the 21st century world. The digital transition has ushered in a world of complete surveillance – the questions now are more about who watches who – who is empowered to watch you, not ‘should you be watched’. Let’s briefly…
Sparking a twitter torrent
Published Date 7/24/11 11:29 PM A normal morning in Dalston, London. The visionOntv crew are slaving away over their laptops, as usual, on a Sunday morning, when I notice a very angry tweet from Jeff Jarvis, a professor of journalism in New York. Clicking on the hashtag I discover a torrent of impassioned truth-telling, of…
They own the Media We ve got the Message
Published Date 6/25/11 11:26 PM This first banner was made for Greenham Common Womens Peace camp in the 1980s to counter their vilification by main stream media. It was used during the 1984 miners strike and the Poll tax Riots too. Its now in Malta used by their Labour party in a general election. In…
Geek Manifesto DRAFT
Published Date 6/2/11 2:16 PM VisionOntv is a project to move people from being passive consumers to taking more of a role in production/curating and hosting news media. Its a project to empower the producers of media. So from a very broad-brush perspective: Has to be easy for normal people to browse, with a constant…