Published Date 10/31/15 7:28 PM Planing a trip – On Sunday. Forcast is – Fog clears 9-10am some mist 11 low wind low tide at Sheerness 9.36am – we should leave 30-60 min before low tide to clearer the Medway. High tide at London bridge 15.19 – best to arrive before the tide turns This…
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 #4opens
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 an “alt/grassroots” tech project. Open data – is the basic part of a project https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_data without this open…
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…
Media Democracy Festival at Goldsmiths review
The alt-media gatherings have been suffering from the tyranny of the funders for more years than I care to remember. The is a big problem of the chattering classes in alt-media. This is a DRAFT over view of the gathering from a working grassroots perspective. Comments in italics are by me. === Festival === To…