Published Date 12/29/15 3:24 PM To livestream the event we have these options: A lot of our equipment is broken or missing. Mobile phone samsung note with line in from sound deck. Might have to use with the mini mixer with 12v battery for sound to work. Would need long USB cable (or big USB…
Is ideology back we have missed you
Published Date 12/17/15 11:35 PM The ideology of Isis has too legs The first leg is in Saudi Arabia – Wahhabi’s its deeply intolerant and imperialistic with petro dollars behind it. The second leg is western arrogant imperialism hiding behind the tatty mask of liberalism. If we need to bomb anyone maybe it should be…
Outline of 20 years ups and downs of grassroots activism in the UK
Published Date 11/30/15 3:38 PM In my expirence the flowering of the #indymedia networks followed by the first years of #climatecamp were the high points of activist culture. The end of climate camp was the low point of activist culture, after this the drift to #NGO and #fashionista was wide and dissipating. #Occupy was a…
Cheap free tools for coastal cruising
Published Date 10/31/15 7:13 PM DRAFT (needs links) Many boat navigation tools for coastal cruising are available as smart phone apps and laptop programs. OpenCPN gives you a large screen navagation map with live GPS location and heading of your boat. BTGPS sends the smart phone GPS location to the laptop map in OpenCPN Speedview…
The 4 opens
Published Date 10/19/15 9:38 PM The #dotcon can not be fixed, the #fashernistas who keep flocking to new “ethical’ish” ones are a problem not a solution. The #4opens: Are a simple way to judge the value of a “alt/grassroots” tech project. Open data – is the basic part of a project https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_data with out this…
Some questions came out of the last grassroots media gathering about OMN
Published Date 10/19/15 8:54 PM Questions and draft answers in terms of what I don’t understand it is what do sites specifically have to do? * At a basic level very little. – output an RSS feed of their articles/videos/podcasts (most sites do this already) – grab a sidebar embed code (or CMS plug-in) then…
The problem with alt media
Published Date 10/17/15 3:48 PM Looking at the media (or lack of media) comeing out of the media democracy festival kindaled a old train of thought: Most alt-geeks are trying to solve a pointless problem “privacy online” anything online is in a “photocopying system” privacy is an illusion. You can get a shallow privacy by…