Shifting the #mainstreaming to the #openweb

Published Date 1/7/14 11:20 AM London hackspace is a creative space, I got the idea of manually charging the battery on the spur of the moment as the was a friendly guy doing the same “it better to do it manually” so took up the challenge, added a do-not hack sticker with contact info. Someone…

(DRAFT) 1989-1992 A Year Long Summer I spent the summer of 1989 travelling in Ireland. I can’t now remember why Ireland? The first step was a lift to Barnsley with my parents to help put up the Exhibition 100 Years of Woman’s Banners in the City Art Gallery. Then I hitchhiked through the Lake District…

Published Date 12/19/13 2:50 PM A ruff DRAFT I love affinity group organising, its a very effective way of getting good stuff done. Lets look at the highs and lows of a few such inspiring groups. First 2 years climatecamp were affinity group organised (manifested), it worked very well, the was no “democracy”. Process grew…

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 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 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 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 11/6/13 8:46 PM Organising on Facebook is suicide for the internet and the future of our society. We need to do different and we need to do this now, luckily this isn’t actuality a very hard thing to do. The most simple/basic thing to do is to have a organising website hosted on…

Published Date 11/3/13 4:38 PM DRAFT (needs a spell check) [embedded content] The was little preparation for the filming of the action beyond asking a film-maker a week before the event. No information on what the action is or were it is, I come an hour early to the meeting place with equipment I think…

Published Date 11/2/13 6:04 PM Next stage on boat (1): Find friendly boater with a generator and good backup tools Find a disc changing tool for B&D angle grinder Mark off 2” cutting on the ceiling bulge Extra mask and overall – find safety glasses. Cut the fibre glass, using a hover to reduce dust…

Published Date 10/28/13 2:14 PM Remember everyone is a volunteer, nobody at camps is payed to do the hard work. At Balcome when I arrived tech was a disaster, all the power was brought in by car by taking 12v battery’s to locales houses brought back by car drained till flat then repeated each day.…

Published Date 10/27/13 12:34 PM A look at the parts that make it happen (DRAFT) Lets look at the groupings first that balance helping/hindering a campaign. These are of course B&W images to highlight issues, on the ground things are always complex with many overlaps. The “family” – what is most important to them is…