Laying the groundwork for a future worth building

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…

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…