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

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 6/20/12 4:45 PM if you walk into a private owned walled garden, tend the ground and grow the bounty, and they close the gates. You have to pay to eat the produce. The moral – do not walk in to the walled gardens in the digital world, the are huge trakes of free…

Published Date 6/15/12 1:16 PM The myths and traditions of Rainbow are what a gathering is. The people come to gather and “enact” these myths and traditions, but they are generally neglected. To put an arbitrary scale on this – the national rainbows are generally only 10-20% of rainbow power, were the European is 40-60%…

Published Date 6/14/12 8:28 AM The digital tsunami has passed, the washed away sea front of the old media world is being re-built with the usual fast food joints and global burger bars media outlets. Leaving little space left on the fringes for the new media world that hasn’t made the shift into the new…

Published Date 6/9/12 8:33 AM The are meany tools for organizing on the web, few are widely used, most are a flash (a churning) of fashion. Fashionable web evangelist’s will tell you to use that tool or this tool for a job. And each tool is designed to for fill one job. BUT the most…

Published Date 6/9/12 8:03 AM Simferopol’, Crimea, Ukraine. The hostel I was going to stay in near the railway station was not open. so I had an idea, public transport is very cheap around 20p for a tram or bus ride so looking at my offline map I found a forest near a reservoir close…

Published Date 5/18/12 5:29 PM The Rainbow shopping mission (DRAFT) The gatherings are fascinating places to see very different views of human organising, social institutions and working/broken alternatives to traditional society. I found that when on a shopping mission you should go with your own crew, to go with an existing crew is a recipe…

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 4/13/12 5:24 PM It was a good to share skills and ideas with the different groups last night. We introduced a range of programmers and developers to Liferay, and started what is almost certainly the first community bug-fix of a Liferay site in London. The next London Liferay User meetup will be in…

Published Date 4/9/12 9:44 PM Queen Party 21st April (Dalston, London) Everybody comes as a queen, any queen will do. Bring rich wine and fine dining. Gold, swans, hats, handbags, microphones, tight trousers and wig, a tetra. The royal verity show – performers free, everyone else 20 million $$$$. RSVP as the queen (any queen…