An #openweb organic intellectual,technologist and part of the #OMN
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
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 8/24/12 6:33 PM
Lots of people have problems with this e-reader, here is the best advice I found: “To initiate a factory reset using the Home button and the power slider both of the following conditions must be met: 1) release the power slider while holding down the Home button, and, 2) push and release the power slider quickly. If the factory reset is successfully initiated, the LED will turn red. If unsuccessful with the first attempt try again until you get a red LED.”
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Published Date 7/10/12 12:31 PM
Is there an alternative? Can we build a contemporary community out of a traditional society? Where and what is the path to it?
Drawing the right people in is core to building intentional communities. The rainbow way of doing this is to use myths and traditions to help create norms, rather than using hard structures.
The myths and traditions help to build a norm, all though not perfect this does work and creates moments of beauty for large numbers of people around the world year on year. The is no perfect society only transient beauty and moments of truth – and the seeking of perfection is the sure way to destroy the thing it sets out to create. Here I look at the process of finding and getting to the gathering.
The 3 “rules” of building and finding Rainbow Gatherings.
* Its a word of mouth network, keep the core information about the gathering off the web.
* Poetry rather than fact, hint rather than tell, draw the “hippy” map so that it is hard to understand.
* The path hinted by fabric scraps in the trees rather than clearly signed, make sure the gathering is not accessible by road and a 10-20km hike.
The working through this (unspoken but intentional) fog – brings the “right” people to the gathering. And for some controversially excludes not only the “wrong people” but also disabled, older generations, mums with kids and the less connected people. However imagine what a rainbow gathering would be like right next to a main road with a bar/alcohol shop and supermarket – you would likely see something worse than the “A camp” in US gatherings.
Many gathering invent there own myths and traditions – some gatherings start to have rules (LINK) and these soon start to look and feel more like a holiday camps rather than a gathering of the tribe.
UPDATE: the blog has been moved 4–5 times and some posts did not make the move, this is one sadly, the transfer put this random old text in the place of the original post. If I remember right, it was a good post ):
“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 7/3/12 9:25 PM
John Wood, New Media Officer at the TUC, tell us what is the idea behind Netroots UK and his hope to see this type of events bring activists and campaigners together, learn digital skills, network and share ideas.
http://www.netrootsuk.org/
http://visionon.tv/netrootsuk
Catherine talks about the Move your Money Campaign. This project wants to change the financial system by asking people to move their bank account to ethical providers.
About the campaign: http://www.moveyourmoney.org.uk/
Isabel and Jake make their 1st mobile phone report during visionOntv’s workshop at Netroots UK.
Published Date 6/25/12 6:01 PM
This is a view of my twitter world, the algorithms know who i am – take note they know who you are too… do you and your frends know who you are?
UPDATE: this image is hot linked from the original site and it is updating so the algorithm is now following me… be scared be very scared!?
UPDATE2: try not to shoot the messenger any government or private corporate can find this information, and they do find all this about you too – i am just making mine visible so you can see it.
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
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 6/20/12 4:45 PM
if you walk into a private owned walled garden, tend the ground and grow the bounty, and they close the gates. You have to pay to eat the produce. The moral – do not walk in to the walled gardens in the digital world, the are huge trakes of free land on the open web, inhabit it and grow your own utopia. Failbook has failed you, why are you asking them to open the gate agen? RUN!!! RUN!!!!
Published Date 6/15/12 1:16 PM
The myths and traditions of Rainbow are what a gathering is. The people come to gather and “enact” these myths and traditions, but they are generally neglected. To put an arbitrary scale on this – the national rainbows are generally only 10-20% of rainbow power, were the European is 40-60% rainbow power.
Rainbow gatherings have a very strong, largely invisible core of myths and traditions these are designed to overcome and transcend the “stupid individualism” of the Babylon world, and in as far as they are remembered and enacted they do this very well. The issue is that it is a virtuous circle, if the is the power there to start with then it is generally successful in transforming a bunch of strangers and misfits into a coherent whole. If the power is not there to start with them then incoherents tends to grow and dominate.
Published Date 6/14/12 8:28 AM
The digital tsunami has passed, the washed away sea front of the old media world is being re-built with the usual fast food joints and global burger bars media outlets. Leaving little space left on the fringes for the new media world that hasn’t made the shift into the new mainstream. Traditional media is re-creating itself, contemporary media is withering. Lifestyle, Inaction scwobaling and NGO dispoling failed to fill the space left by the digitization wave. The old media is back, with the renewed vigor of the full digital power, be frightened, be very frightened.
