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.

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.

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 not just decorative, they are the very essence of what a gathering is. People don’t simply come together; they come to enact these shared rituals and stories, whether consciously or unconsciously. Yet, these core elements are often neglected or forgotten.

To put an arbitrary measure on this: Most national Rainbow gatherings operate at around 10–20% of what we might call “Rainbow power.” By contrast, European gatherings often reach 40–60%, thanks to a deeper collective memory and stronger enactment of Rainbow values.

At the heart of every Rainbow gathering is a powerful, mostly invisible core of shared myth and tradition. These are not static rules, but living tools, designed to overcome and transcend the “#stupidindividualism” of the Babylon world. And where these tools are remembered and used, they work remarkably well – transforming groups of strangers and misfits into a coherent, caring whole.

The challenge is that this process works as a virtuous circle: If enough power is present at the beginning – meaning people arrive already carrying the stories, practices, and spirit – then the gathering tends to flourish. But if that power is lacking, and the myths are not held or remembered, then incoherence sets in. Fragmentation and conflict tend to dominate instead.

Rainbow gatherings, at their best, offer a glimpse of a different way of being – but only if we collectively remember how to make them live.

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.