Month: October 2012

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

An live edit-in-camera piece by visionOntv reporter Hamish Campbell at the "Future that Works" demo in London.

Published Date 10/17/12 3:50 AM In relation to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Social_Forum DRAFT – this is a e-mail dialogue that illustrates the issues of horizontal and vertical process and how they fail to balance. Firstly the has been a lot of talk of me as some kind of egotistical anarchist… this is far from the truth, and by long…

Published Date 10/17/12 2:35 AM F***K off and do it your self This is a humorous response page to many quires we get. This project is radically decentralized so you will be continuously disappointed and dis-empowered if you keep asking permission before you do things. LINK And if you continuously need the “centre” to mediate…

Published Date 10/17/12 2:12 AM It started as a mashup… INTRO We have everything in place currently to run the channel and scale it up to 100K’s viewers and when the funding comes through we can pay to expand the infustructer to make the channel independent from copurte structures and scalable to much wider ardencies.…

Published Date 10/17/12 1:47 AM The is a whole load of fake citizen journalism thought going on in this debate http://bit.ly/J0i5l Basically “professionals” here see citizen journalism as a way of getting raw material so that they can do “real” journalism on the cheap. But the role of the paid professional journalist is almost eliminated…

Published Date 10/17/12 1:13 AM Our project is basically about technological standards – It isn’t about what people do with these standards – the standards them selves lean in the direction we politically desire inherently. And these technological standards will not be brought about by technology, but the social use of technology, so we are…

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

Published Date 10/7/12 6:28 PM Reflections on looking around the room at the 2012 NUJ DM conference – The union is by far the most democratic I have found, but this democracy is embedded in a deeply ingrained bureaucratic tradition. The is the establishment who have to keep the day to day of the union,…

Published Date 10/6/12 12:13 AM Some feeling about my personal experience of old school democratic trade unionism. Friday Night Had an interesting, disquieting conversation tonight at a social event after the work of the NUJ delegate meeting. I had been visiting the delegate meeting room every so often to dip in to try and engage…

Published Date 10/3/12 10:05 PM Thinking about the NUJ delegate meeting. We all agree we need a union, but it isn’t obvious what its role is. Used to be about negotiating with the bosses, but now we are all our own bosses so a bit schizophrenic to be negotiating with ourselves. Where are we now?…

Published Date 10/2/12 4:28 PM My last report on the NUJ conference was Graysky thinking. Lets look for a moment at some Bluesky thinking for the NUJ. The nutcracker – The union and money A few blue sky ideas: * Have a roll out of support the union buttons on members blogs and sites and…