Published Date 2/29/16 1:55 PM DRAFT of 3 examples of “working” contemporary alternatives and their malcontent’s. The Village ButtyA lovely project provided originally by a hard-working individual with small funding and continuing energy. The need, boaters need a warm dry open common place, if their unique contemporary “village” culture is to survive the long term…
Why did the open web flower and die over the last 30 years
Published Date 2/22/16 1:17 AM Why did the thousands of open internet projects fail? despite the state, foundation, #NGO funding. The were early successful atavist tech projects, all proved to be pointless or withered with success. In all cases I would argue that the underlining failer was one of ideology, almost all projects worked against…
We face a digital cliff the open internet may be over
Published Date 2/11/16 5:30 PM Here are two views on this subject: We have Phil Windley who thinks the open internet was a historical fluke http://www.windley.com/archives/2016/02/decentralization_is_hard_maybe_too_hard.shtml here he is talking about the very real view that the internet is finished, that the commons have been enclosed by the #dotcons silos and what remains outside are…
A evil tainted favour leads to a renewable energy mess
Published Date 2/10/16 9:55 PM To illustrate what a mess we are currently in. Solar power over the last 10 years has plummeted in cost and crept up in efficacy, leading to a shift to sustainable energy in many western country’s. This decrease in cost had nothing to do do with western entrepreneur and the…
There s no such thing as society
Published Date 2/8/16 5:21 PM At the end of the 20th century we had a forceful right wing ideological push to reshape western society’s. The Thatcher/Ragion years started the push to create a world were “There’s no such thing as society”, as British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher declared “There are individual men and women and…
A big socerty community center the Hive Dalston
Published Date 2/6/16 5:05 PM The Hive Dalston – big society community centre a product of voluntarism and activist fashion with dose of hipster. Started out as an exciting project between radical (free party/activist) squatters and a more mainstream arts groups. The idea was to take up and use the Tory “big society” legalisation that…
Looking back looking foward Village Hall or Church Hall
Published Date 2/1/16 6:52 PM Am writing this for people who are actively leave the mainstream 9-5 society and move into disrepute subcultures to live their lifes. Issues of group organisation crop up reugally and are generally badly resolved leading to a consistent life sapping churning of bad will and trails of failed groups. For…