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Published Date 2/6/15 3:15 PM I was at college in the years that the old grant system was faded out to be replace by student loans. Honours Student Lone 1994-1996 and Erudio Student Loans in 1998. After I finished the course in 1999 each year you had to fill in a deferment form which needed…

The last 10 years activist technology and its supporting NGO’s have been pushing the encrypted web as secure form of communication. From the Indymedia network “not logging IP’s” to Wikileaks “secure whistleblowing” to numerous encrypted chat and social networks. Not to mention all the corporate dotcoms “solutions” jumbling up the space. This naiveté working had…

Published Date 2/4/15 7:48 PM Lets do some grounded/blue sky thinking 😉 The internet has been (unbelievably) successful because its libertarian/anacist open/trust peer to peer network with very light centre and governances. How do we (re)build an grassroots-media to flourish in the 21st century remains of this open web? What would an open media network…

Published Date 1/24/15 7:42 AM Climate camp is a example of the transition from alternative media to social media. At the beginning of the Climate Change Movement Indymedia was declining. At the first two camps there was a healthy Indymedia centre providing internet, sustainable power and computers There’s always a stress between alternative media and…

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 12/23/14 7:52 PM Lets look at how we acturly organise. Garssroots alternative streams (and mainstream river with more complexity) can be split into a number of streams * The horizontals * The verticals In the horizontals the organising is actually pretty opaque – lets look at the tributary’s Organic consensus – this is…

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…