Shifting the #mainstreaming to the #openweb

Published Date 9/13/12 3:34 PM “The BioLite CampStove, designed for outdoor adventure and emergency preparedness, makes cooking on wood as clean, safe and easy as petroleum fuels while powering electronics off-grid.” I love tec like this, clever idea made real BUT it takes around 5 minutes to boil 1 liter of water and and will take…

(DRAFT) The union’s Delegate Meeting (DM 2012) will take place from Friday 5 until Sunday 7 October 2012 in Newcastle. This is a reaction to the  final agenda  PDF Thinking about the NUJ delegate meeting. We all agree we need a union, but it isn’t obvious what is its role, used to be about negotiating with the…

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 8/31/12 2:52 PM (This is a DRAFT) This worth reading to go with this view time and libertarean/liberals view of who created the internet In the 1970s the military looked at a problem – how to keep communication working in an anarchic environment (a nuclear war). Their solution was to work with this…

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 8/24/12 6:33 PM Lots of people have problems with this e-reader, here is the best advice I found: “To initiate a factory reset using the Home button and the power slider both of the following conditions must be met: 1) release the power slider while holding down the Home button, and, 2) push…

Published Date 7/10/12 12:31 PM Is there an alternative? Can we build a contemporary community out of a traditional society? Where and what is the path to it? Drawing the right people in is core to building intentional communities. The rainbow way of doing this is to use myths and traditions to help create norms,…

UPDATE: the blog has been moved 4–5 times and some posts did not make the move, this is one sadly, the transfer put this random old text in the place of the original post. If I remember right, it was a good post ): “A river that needs crossing political and tech blogs – On…

Published Date 7/3/12 9:25 PM [embedded content] John Wood, New Media Officer at the TUC, tell us what is the idea behind Netroots UK and his hope to see this type of events bring activists and campaigners together, learn digital skills, network and share ideas.  http://www.netrootsuk.org/http://visionon.tv/netrootsuk [embedded content] Catherine talks about the Move your Money…

Published Date 6/25/12 6:01 PM This is a view of my twitter world, the algorithms know who i am – take note they know who you are too… do you and your frends know who you are?  UPDATE: this image is hot linked from the original site and it is updating so the algorithm is now…