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
Solar laptop power
Published Date 3/28/12 8:22 PM [embedded content] This is a new 32W panel which is more than my older 25W panel, and runs a bigger laptop Rugged folding 32.2W solar panel. 18 to 20VDC open circuit voltage. Current 2.4A in full sun. Cigarette socket connector. 16″ X 10″ folded; 14″ X 44″ unfolded. 1 1/2…
Micro advertising for sustainability
Published Date 3/28/12 8:16 PM 1. What do you propose to do? Simple automated hyper-local advertising to sustain open projects – the new digital sweetshop window. 2. Is anyone doing something like this now and how is your project different? There are many automated advertising projects, but none for video that are as embedded in…
Films coming soon from ORCCon2012
What can we learn from the film kony2012
The Stupidly Simple Open Media Network
A common database of media metadata exchanged by RSS in and out, using open industrial standards and neutral unbranded widgets. 2. Is anyone doing something like this now and how is your project different? (30 words) There are many aggregators of news (eg http://daveriver.scripting.com/, or http://ignoregon.com) but they aggregate with whole rss feeds not tags, and new…
Old UPS battery for solar setup
Why indymedia has the site is untrusted message
Orwell vs Huxley
DIAZ Don t clean up this blood Trailer
At work at the Bristol Radical Film Fest
Turning off the comments
Published Date 2/28/12 1:34 PM [embedded content] This is a video response to Dave Winer’s post on Scripting News about why he has turned off commenting on his blog. Winer was using the comment platform Disqus and discussed with the developers to have some options implemented. He got frustrated at the end when he realised…