Shifting the #mainstreaming to the #openweb

Published Date 6/25/11 11:26 PM This first banner  was made for Greenham Common Womens Peace camp in the 1980s to counter their vilification by main stream media. It was used during the 1984 miners strike and the Poll tax Riots too. Its now in Malta used by their Labour party in a general election. In…

Published Date 6/2/11 2:16 PM VisionOntv is a project to move people from being passive consumers to taking more of a role in production/curating and hosting news media. Its a project to empower the producers of media. So from a very broad-brush perspective: Has to be easy for normal people to browse, with a constant…

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 5/31/11 11:42 AM A look at ideas around Ukuncut, which grew from the winding down of the climatecamp movement. The ecology of hash-tag organising A group of driven people get together in a pub and come up with a strategy and a hash-tag – they then build a aggregating website to display the…

Published Date 5/29/11 4:05 PM The de-professionalising of media Digitisation is re-shaping many forms of media production and news is one of these. The business model the print press was based on scarcity and physical distribution. Old media is being forced to transform under the technological imperative of digitisation, and most will fail. From the…

A how to – Solar video production/editing studio. Filmmakers/writers/graphic designers have you ever dreamed of being able to work in the hart of nature rather than a boring office in the hart of the rat race. Well now you can work away from the electric grid (in a sunny climate) using small scale, light wate…

Published Date 5/8/11 12:28 PM [embedded content] “Stupid individualism” We are made this way Many try to heal on different paths Most Stumble from the individualism of there path “all you need is love” sing the rainbow “all you need is social/economic change” shout the activists Both drift into baroness with out the balance of…

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 3/29/11 5:26 PM It’s a “happening” party so you gotta come prepared Bottle, nibbles and dress for your happening. As usual to get past the door, you need to bring a “happening” that is a short performance, could be a magic trick, a speech, a song or poem, a one act theatre piece,…

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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