Shifting the #mainstreaming to the #openweb

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…

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…

Published Date 2/18/14 2:04 PM If you use a Mac, buy a Mac, if you use a PC buy a PC, if you are undecided buy a PC as Macs are for the slave mentality – its a locked down, but functional, world in Mac land. For PC laptops I recommend thinkpads duel booting into…

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…

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 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…

Published Date 2/5/14 12:05 PM The “Sticky 6” were acquitted of all charges related to them superglueing themselves to the doors of Bell Pottinger, a PR company working for the likes of Cuadrilla, who explore potential fracking sites in the UK, and a host of other unsavoury clients. http://www.redpepper.org.uk/damage-limitation/ http://www.nodashforgas.org.uk/ http://grassroots.visionon.tv [embedded content][embedded content] 6…

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 1/26/14 2:49 PM This might be a good portable low powered laptop charging system. Mercury27 Portable & Foldable 27 Watts Solar Battery Charger. I haven’t tested this and it gets mixed reviews but for bang for the buck this is a very good deal if it works. Get it here MP3450E-60 27,000 mAh Dual…

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 1/22/14 12:20 PM Here are a list of components you could use to build a basic solar power set-up for powering a laptop in the summer, charging a phone and LED lighting. In the winter it would provide lighting and basic phone charging but would have problems keeping a laptop running. The images…

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