Published Date 12/8/12 6:56 PM Geek culture has always had a strong ant-progressive side to it and this in now dominant – it manifests as naivety about politics and over- complexity in open solutions. NGO culture is based on a anti-commons, a dog eats dog fight for survival based on short term funding criteria. Traditional…
Digital utopia or dystopia crosses to the real world close to decision time you part of the conversation
Published Date 11/30/12 3:44 PM Many have dreamed and worked for makeing the internet into a digital utopia which spilles over into the realworld. But while this has been happening a darker future has been building. ‘all the infrastructure has been built for absolute totalitarianism’ WikiLeaks The geek answer to this has a tendency to see the world in B&W…
The Pressblock take Oxford Street Oct20
Published Date 11/28/12 10:59 AM [embedded content] The Pressblock take Oxford Street, blocked McDonald’s, Starbucks and occupy Trafalgar sq during #Oct20 Radical Journalist’s putting there body’s on the line to bring wrong doers to account. A satire – at many demo’s the are more people with cameras than demonstrates. Shot, edited and distributed from a mobile phone. Part…
The best voltage regulator battery for portable laptop solar power
Published Date 11/25/12 6:53 PM You need to buy this exact model myPower ALL Plus MP3450i R3 External Instrument Battery as the cheaper ones in the myPower range do not allow power pass through, that is you can only charge OR power you cant do both at the same time. It also regulates the power in from 12-24VDC to…
18 Watt Folding Solar Panel Laptop Charger
Published Date 11/25/12 3:31 PM This is cheap and light: Nature Power 55020 18 Watt Folding Solar Panel Laptop Charger w/8 Amp Controller. It would work fine for powering a tablet or netbook, might just manage to power a small ultralight laptop – but will not have anufe umpf to power a full size laptop –…
Portable power pack
Published Date 11/25/12 3:18 PM This looks quite usefull, next time we get some funding in I will get one to try, has anyone used one? PortaPow Premium Dual Emergency USB Battery Extender External Pack here The capacity is 6600mAh, 203g and 110x88x15mm The pack outputs 2.1A from one socket and 1A from the other, a total…
Balance of power in new media s place in society from 09 05 2009
Published Date 11/8/12 1:01 PM DRAFT The balance of power in alt-media is too unbalanced to create an effective alternative voice in the upcoming mainstream media crises. Lets look at video on the web and IPTV GeeksProducersConsumers Currently alt-media video is scuwred to the geeks, all the current CMS’s and tools are to complex and…
What is a Rainbow Gathering
Published Date 11/8/12 2:02 AM The corrected welcome sign from the European Rainbow Gathering 2012 in Slovakia (click on the photo for bigger image) “The largest non-organization of non-members in the world. We have no leaders, and no organization. To be honest, the Rainbow Family means different things to different people. I think it’s…