Year: 2012

Published Date 2/15/12 12:57 PM The solar vagabond. Move your office to a beach or mountain-top far away from the power lines and keep connected. I have been testing and working with solar tech for years and will do a presentation of new and old toys.  With advice on which gear to buy/not buy for your laptop/mobile. Feel free…

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 2/10/12 3:05 PM iPhones have excellent cameras and pretty good internal mics so work well as basic CJ tool. But when you go beyond using it at a basic level you start to have problems. I highlight one of them here. It is much more complex to get an external mic into an iphone…

Published Date 2/5/12 3:50 PM (UPDATED) This is still well worth a read, it’s too late to save the common web from Scoble and an answer from Dave Winer This is something I have been facing for the last few years, and its why i have been working on the visionOntv open web project. Phwww…. but…

Published Date 2/4/12 5:03 PM I am visiting my parents who are of the newspaper reading age, it’s an interesting revelation/reminder to me of something I have known for a long time. That the people in newspapers are trailing edge, their thoughts and opinions are a week old, their news stale even before it is…

Published Date 2/4/12 4:49 PM We are a contemporary media project, not a traditional media project that works with “the people formerly known as the audience“. But the people formerly known as the audience are now the crap producers, could they become better producers? Throwing the net wide – getting a happy community rather than great films? Your film has no value…

Published Date 2/4/12 3:34 PM [embedded content] Poll Tax Riots – why I made the banner This banner was made in 1990’s in reaction to Margaret Thatcher introducing the Community Charge. [embedded content] Trade unions at GCHQ – banner The Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) is a British intelligence agency responsible for providing signals intelligence (SIGINT)…

Published Date 2/2/12 4:40 PM The history of my Solar Vagabond kit (DRAFT) Film-makers/writers/graphic designers have you ever dreamed of being able to work in the hart of nature rather than a boring office in the hart of the rat race. Well now you can work away from the electric grid (in a sunny climate)…

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

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