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 view and strategy for sustaining the boater lifestyle and community
Food for thought (DRAFT) A view and strategy for sustaining the boater lifestyle and community. NVDA (direct action) with a good PR team works – Sorted office occupations in conjunction with a competent media team, could knock CRT onto the defensive in a week and refocus their agenda within a month. However this is a…
News Ideas for ethical aggregation of content
Published Date 3/29/15 11:10 PM The way forward for aggregation is to break away from the current failed strategies, and to make it “ethical”. This will need the technology that Dave Winer is pushing, amongst others: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown We need a clear separation of display formatting and content. In other words, content is published and formatted…
Puting up the wind mill
Published Date 3/1/15 12:43 AM My test wind mill, works, made from PVC piping a a small electric motor and a quadcopter blade for the rotor. Puts out 2-3v in a small wind. Testing the aluminium scaffolding pole tower with rope, 3m in hight, with the boat hight thats just less than 5m. Cutting notches…
The open web and the power of lobbyists
Published Date 2/27/15 1:37 AM http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_neutrality is being regulated. Net neutrality is a good thing the open web works because of it. But legislating around net neutrality is dangerous as it opens up the actuality existing open web to the power of lobbyists. Historically the web has been shaped by undefined “traditions” built on open…
Lets look for a moment at sanity in grassroots terms
Published Date 2/23/15 3:24 PM The are a lot of “insane” people in activism and counter-culture, its what makes it exciting, dynamic and affective. However with everything its a question of balance, lets look at how a movement stagnates, fails or growes and blossems. A short off the top of head list NGO’ists push limited…
Grassroots media Building affinity
Published Date 2/18/15 11:39 PM DRAFT In the last few posts I have looked at a failed organising strategy realmedia gathering, outlined a positive way out of this failer, the focused unconfrunce. But for wider understanding I think the content so far is lacking some background, lets look at an old post http://hamishcampbell.com/en/home/-/blogs/the-21st-centery here I…