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 trip down the big river
Published Date 3/21/14 2:36 PM A trip through central London on the river Thames from Brentford to Limehouse. Ready to set-off from the last squatted mooring on the big river, near Kew bridge. Very calm for the first half. The crew relax and take photes The bridges were easer than further up the river as…
The tech manifesto of the OMN
Published Date 3/20/14 4:27 PM (DRAFT) In tech development the are many paths and some of these lead to much more fertile ground to cultivate for the open internet/open society path that the ONM is taking. We clearly reject: * Client server relationships. * Closed security culture. * Geek only designer aesthetics and vanilla geek…
FAQ why use open websites
Published Date 2/22/14 10:04 PM We need to get activist to actually use alternative net infrastructure. FAQ Q. Its to complex to use this geek software. A. So was Facebook when it started, almost nobody understood what twitter was for for ages – all new experiences are hard. Its actually ONLY a question of motivation…
Quality Refurbished laptops Thinkpad
Published Date 2/14/14 1:35 PM I recommend buying a Refurbished Thinkpad laptop to activists. T series – are good soled general use laptops X series are small and very low power for protest camps and solar power setups Used ThinkPads are cheap because after businesses are done with them, which is 3-4 years after they’ve been…
WordPress friend or foe for activism
Published Date 2/5/14 12:18 PM In tech the successful part of the corporate internet is building peer-to-peer(ish) web projects. This is after the wholesale failure of the top-down hierarchical internet that went bankrupt in the dotcom boom. facebook and twitter, 4square and instagram, youtube etc are all built on horizontal(ish) peer production. Activism is still…