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
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dilbert Bureaucracy
Digital utopia digital dystopia
Published Date 8/11/11 3:56 PM The 20th century view of privacy is no longer valid for the 21st century world. The digital transition has ushered in a world of complete surveillance – the questions now are more about who watches who – who is empowered to watch you, not ‘should you be watched’. Let’s briefly…
Sparking a twitter torrent
Published Date 7/24/11 11:29 PM A normal morning in Dalston, London. The visionOntv crew are slaving away over their laptops, as usual, on a Sunday morning, when I notice a very angry tweet from Jeff Jarvis, a professor of journalism in New York. Clicking on the hashtag I discover a torrent of impassioned truth-telling, of…
Technology and Social Change Working with the Facebook Generation
They own the Media We ve got the Message
Published Date 6/25/11 11:26 PM This first banner was made for Greenham Common Womens Peace camp in the 1980s to counter their vilification by main stream media. It was used during the 1984 miners strike and the Poll tax Riots too. Its now in Malta used by their Labour party in a general election. In…
Geek Manifesto DRAFT
Published Date 6/2/11 2:16 PM VisionOntv is a project to move people from being passive consumers to taking more of a role in production/curating and hosting news media. Its a project to empower the producers of media. So from a very broad-brush perspective: Has to be easy for normal people to browse, with a constant…
What s next for Sukey the keep safe mobile and informed app
The ecology of hash tag organising DRAFT
Published Date 5/31/11 11:42 AM A look at ideas around Ukuncut, which grew from the winding down of the climatecamp movement. The ecology of hash-tag organising A group of driven people get together in a pub and come up with a strategy and a hash-tag – they then build a aggregating website to display the…
The de professionalising of media DRAFT
Published Date 5/29/11 4:05 PM The de-professionalising of media Digitisation is re-shaping many forms of media production and news is one of these. The business model the print press was based on scarcity and physical distribution. Old media is being forced to transform under the technological imperative of digitisation, and most will fail. From the…
My first backpack Solar edit studio
A how to – Solar video production/editing studio. Filmmakers/writers/graphic designers have you ever dreamed of being able to work in the hart of nature rather than a boring office in the hart of the rat race. Well now you can work away from the electric grid (in a sunny climate) using small scale, light wate…