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Published Date 12/11/14 5:53 PM Went to a workshop at spacestudios on digital money and the arts. Here are my notes of the things I thought about/covered. Forms of money * LETS – works for liberals (the Brixton pound is a current example, at the meeting) * Digital – works for the Geeks then Capital…

Published Date 11/21/14 4:44 PM An example of what works. At Balcome the anti-fracking camp last summer we built a “visible affinity group” to do the power and tech for the camp. This was successful in providing working off grid energy for the camp of more than 200 people for 2 months. However it wasn’t…

Published Date 11/21/14 3:20 PM Its important to understand the perspective/world view am coming from to understand what am saying about the state of the alternative. Anarchist/socialist/libertarian/liberal leaning on the start and tapering off the end… am reacting against Hierarchical/conservative/authoritarian. This is a classic enlightenment divide so we should all be well aware of living…

Published Date 11/1/14 6:27 PM [embedded content]  Am thinking about seting up an import and installation business for small wind turbines from China to put onto boats and power protest camps. At the moment the majority of small scale power generation is from fossil fuels, this is both unpleasant and needless. Solar power in the…

Published Date 10/27/14 12:52 AM Stupid individualism and the visionOntv templates. Our templates for video journalism are designed to radically simplify and empower normal people to make coherent video news pieces using the tools they largely already have. They are successful at this if people fallow the template’s – it says this at the end…

Published Date 10/17/14 1:24 PM Was looking at this site/project http://occupydemocracy.org.uk here is a reaction: The tools we use for activism are dominated by top-down vertical thinking – the horizontal tools are left at the bottom of the tool box when we reach for a digital front for our grassroots campaigning. Our organising mirrors this…

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

Published Date 9/30/14 8:47 PM You need a panel with at least 14W to charge a tablet, the are a lot of them out there, but, they get VERY mixed reviews. I have only used larger or smaller panels so can’t vouch for any of these so please do some research before buying. Here are…

Published Date 9/28/14 2:31 PM UPDATE It seems this phone has issues with the adapter cable, so hold on any purchase for the moment. UPDATE2 We couldent get the moto G to work with the adapter cable, we trayed every way for a few weeks. So tryed the nexus 5 that had simuler issues but…

Published Date 9/25/14 11:39 AM DRAFT Journalists generally don’t understand what journalism is especially amongst the trainee and starting journalists. For many enthusiastic youngsters it is heroic individualism finding and telling the story and of course this is part of journalism but it’s a just a part. What they often miss is that news is…

Published Date 9/18/14 8:39 PM [embedded content] The last Newsreal produced by http://www.undercurrents.org ‘An antidote to everything that’s wrong with mainstream television news’George Monbiot ‘ sizzling with cheeky radicalismIt’s radical, it’s not for profit, and it’s damned good’New Internationalist Undercurrents News Network A compilation of cutting edge animations, documentaries, comedy, subverts and music videos from…