Shifting the #mainstreaming to the #openweb

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

The alt-media gatherings have been suffering from the tyranny of the funders for more years than I care to remember. The is a big problem of the chattering classes in alt-media. This is a DRAFT over view of the gathering from a working grassroots perspective. Comments in italics are by me. === Festival === To…

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 7/31/15 2:03 PM A world to win The possibility of building a better more just world is far away. We have no alternatives to offer to the hegemonic neo-liberalisam. Over the last 20 years we have a decay of left thinking and action. From the 20th century hierarchical “stop the war” To the…

Published Date 7/21/15 9:35 PM DRAFT All the quotes are from Oscar Wild. “If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn’t. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.” LADY WINDERMERE’S FAN The chattering classes are a problem, they are a clear and present…

Published Date 7/16/15 3:20 PM Am thinking of running a workshop on small scale solar power. Here is an example of a cheap set-up that will run your large smart phone (and charge a tablet) This a Samsung Note phone to give you an idea of the size. The panel is rate at 1amp were…

Published Date 7/16/15 3:08 PM Am thinking about running a workshop on portable solar power. This is 32w folding solar panel with a battery pass through DC to DC transformer and 13′ video editing laptop running adobe CS. All Folds up and fits in a laptop bag. The solar costs £200-250 and you need a…

Published Date 7/7/15 10:50 AM Boaters are a vibrant minority culture living a parallel life in the heart of our cities and countryside. They are currently under threat from Insidious gentrification. The Village Hall Butty will give them a space to gather and celebrate their community. The aim is to create a floating village hall…

Published Date 6/26/15 5:46 PM [embedded content] Update They have raised just over half the funding and the is still 11 days to go (appeal ending 15th July 2015) Events on all week, big day https://www.facebook.com/events/1680993855468109/ Please support this project by directly donating or sharing this post with your friends and relatives. The longest and…

Published Date 6/25/15 2:41 PM A thinking allowed DRAFT Was sitting on me boat roof with a bottle of wine talking to me publisher friend about the video activism book, with a refocuses she would be up for helping to publishing it. From my point of view it need to be based on the complete…

Published Date 6/12/15 2:35 PM The are two current worthwhile grassroots “openspace” projects am involved with. Both have a lot of potential but both are more likely to fail for obverses and avoidable reasons. Lets look at both in turn: The Hive Dalston is an interesting hybrid project crossing the activist and corporate divide. Its…