Shifting the #mainstreaming to the #openweb

Published Date 2/4/12 3:34 PM [embedded content] Poll Tax Riots – why I made the banner This banner was made in 1990’s in reaction to Margaret Thatcher introducing the Community Charge. [embedded content] Trade unions at GCHQ – banner The Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) is a British intelligence agency responsible for providing signals intelligence (SIGINT)…

Published Date 2/2/12 4:40 PM The history of my Solar Vagabond kit (DRAFT) Film-makers/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)…

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

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

Scene 1: Street in Dalston Opening shot: Busy street in Dalston with normal people. Gradual transition: One hipster appears, then two, then a few more, until the street is filled with hipsters. Focus: Establishing the hipster vibe of the neighborhood. Scene 2: Café (Otto) Camera tracks: A line of hipsters waiting to be served by…

Published Date 1/2/12 9:34 PM 2001 – The G8 Summit in Genoa I arrived in Genoa a few days before the anti G8 demonstrations were due to start, to help set up the Indymedia centre. We travelled in a tiny camper van with my frend Marion from Munich. The border caused no problem – the…

Published Date 1/2/12 7:04 PM Thinking were we come from… mainstream bohiminasm, hippy drop-out culture, Greenham, CND, vagabond, labour party, student, squatting culture, protest camp culture, DIY community group organising, undercurrents, internet utopian’s, Anti-GM direct action, coupuratewatch, risingtide, indymedia, summit hoping, anti-war direct action, mainstream alt-tv, rescuing/ running a community centre, European social forum/SWP, visionontv,…

The green, world approach and local approach.     How this will work with broadband Internet TV   Profiling   In the mainstream the mantra of who, what, where is not new, though with interactive consumption it is taking on a new importance. Profiling is big on the NET, everyone is after personal information to…

Published Date 1/2/12 5:32 PM Hamish’s history of The European Newsreel The has been much talk about doing a European wide video newsreel for the last 10 years or so. Undercurrents, which grew out of the UK anti-roads movement, was in its latter additions an attempt at covering geographic wider story’s. However, it wasn’t till…