Published Date 11/21/14 3:20 PM Its important to understand the perspective/world view am coming from to understand what am saying about the state of the alternative. Anarchist/socialist/libertarian/liberal leaning on the start and tapering off the end… am reacting against Hierarchical/conservative/authoritarian. This is a classic enlightenment divide so we should all be well aware of living…
My Media
Published Date 11/17/14 3:29 PM I live in a functioning contemporary P2P media world. For a few weeks I have tried going back to the traditional media. Its an eye opener to (re)realise how narrow and right wing the progressive traditional media is. I live in a world of RSS aggregation for my “newspaper”, podcasts…
Importing goods from China
Published Date 11/1/14 6:27 PM [embedded content] Am thinking about seting up an import and installation business for small wind turbines from China to put onto boats and power protest camps. At the moment the majority of small scale power generation is from fossil fuels, this is both unpleasant and needless. Solar power in the…
Stupid individualism and the possibility of an alternative
Published Date 10/27/14 12:52 AM Stupid individualism and the visionOntv templates. Our templates for video journalism are designed to radically simplify and empower normal people to make coherent video news pieces using the tools they largely already have. They are successful at this if people fallow the template’s – it says this at the end…
The poverty of the alternative
Published Date 10/17/14 1:24 PM Was looking at this site/project http://occupydemocracy.org.uk here is a reaction: The tools we use for activism are dominated by top-down vertical thinking – the horizontal tools are left at the bottom of the tool box when we reach for a digital front for our grassroots campaigning. Our organising mirrors this…
DIY solar power to far
How to solar power your Tablet
Citizen journalism equipment update 2014
Journalists generally don t understand what journalism is
Published Date 9/25/14 11:39 AM DRAFT Journalists generally don’t understand what journalism is especially amongst the trainee and starting journalists. For many enthusiastic youngsters it is heroic individualism finding and telling the story and of course this is part of journalism but it’s a just a part. What they often miss is that news is…
The last newsreel from undercurrents
Published Date 9/18/14 8:39 PM [embedded content] The last Newsreal produced by http://www.undercurrents.org ‘An antidote to everything that’s wrong with mainstream television news’George Monbiot ‘ sizzling with cheeky radicalismIt’s radical, it’s not for profit, and it’s damned good’New Internationalist Undercurrents News Network A compilation of cutting edge animations, documentaries, comedy, subverts and music videos from…