WordPress friend or foe for activism

Published Date 2/5/14 12:18 PM In tech the successful part of the corporate internet is building peer-to-peer(ish) web projects. This is after the wholesale failure of the top-down hierarchical internet that went bankrupt in the dotcom boom. facebook and twitter, 4square and instagram, youtube etc are all built on horizontal(ish) peer production. Activism is still…

PR firm Bell Pottinger clients include the Cuadrilla fracking company and members of the family of Bashar al Assad

Published Date 2/5/14 12:05 PM The “Sticky 6” were acquitted of all charges related to them superglueing themselves to the doors of Bell Pottinger, a PR company working for the likes of Cuadrilla, who explore potential fracking sites in the UK, and a host of other unsavoury clients. http://www.redpepper.org.uk/damage-limitation/ http://www.nodashforgas.org.uk/ http://grassroots.visionon.tv [embedded content][embedded content] 6…

A basic solar power setup for summer laptop use and winter lighting

Published Date 1/22/14 12:20 PM Here are a list of components you could use to build a basic solar power set-up for powering a laptop in the summer, charging a phone and LED lighting. In the winter it would provide lighting and basic phone charging but would have problems keeping a laptop running. The images…