Insulate Britain’s activities Insulate Britain is an environmental protest group. It is the offshoot of Extinction Rebellion that’s been winding up motorists across the UK and bringing attention to the climate crisis. Basically, to date they have been causing havoc on roads in an organized but peaceful way. What they… Read More »On Insulate Britain: Civil Resistance Works, They Need Public Support
A Strange Dream A few nights ago, I had a vision of an Earth where somehow a global society was emerging. It was not necessarily cohesive but the human populations of my dream-world had had a sudden and shared epiphany that united them despite their differences. They basically became aware… Read More »On Social Media and Money: The Controlled Minds Need Feeding
Privacy By Default Online privacy as a field is a whole new world for many people. Cyber-security is ever-changing as technologies are invented or adapted and old tech is made redundant. It is vitally important that we get to grips with what is at stake here, despite the rapidly shifting… Read More »Online Privacy In The Age of Digital Surveillance
Supermarkets these days It genuinely surprises me when I’m queuing in a supermarket and there is a hold up for a number of minutes. This is a testament to the incremental improvements in selling groceries to the masses and also the lucrative nature of making little changes to big business.… Read More »On the state of the World: Lost in the Supermarket
An Issue for the Coming Decade Between Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp there are over 3.5 billion active users. That’s almost half the planet’s population. The social media network has become megalithic, ever-present and seemingly irreplaceable. It’s electronic tentacles stretching around the globe and creeping into our lives. Facebook has capitalised… Read More »Forgoing Facebook’s Offerings: Reducing my Digital Footprint
I recently watched The Great Hack on Netflix, a documentary exploring the impact on Digital Rights of the recent scandals affecting the social media titans. I enjoyed the film and found it quite eye-opening in some ways. It confirmed my ambition to be Facebook free. Yet I also thought it… Read More »On Digital Rights and Societal Change: The Great Hack
An Extra Day This week just gone by, I felt like I needed an extra day to get everything done. I was toying with the idea and wondered what such a day would be called. I settled on the rather boring name ‘Newday’, and decided it would come after Friday, and could… Read More »Being where you are and Incremental Improvement
Reductionist Quotes A couple of things have piqued my interest in the self-help industry recently and started me thinking of taking more care with my online content. One is that I have begun using my Twitter account a bit more frequently to promote my various digitally-based activities. Twitter is awash… Read More »Reductionist Quotes, Social Media and the Loneliness Survey
My last post was a reflective one and I’ve been thinking about other formative experiences I have had that set me on the course leading to where I am now. On a personal level, I am also probably seeking to reassure myself that I’ll make at least an ok parent.… Read More »Motivation for doing the Best for Ones Children
Thanks mainly to a positive comment I recently found a YouTube Channel of an Amsterdam based spoken word artist called Vino Venitas. For one thing, it has reminded me of the creativity of exploring a poetic voice. For another, a certain video of his has inspired me to write about… Read More »Captain Your Own Ship : Never give up on your Friends
There is a deep-rooted idea that human life is separate to nature. It is an idea that’s become popular in many modern ways of thinking. Human Beings left the savannah and jungles long ago. The sweep of time has brought many transitions, from hunting to farming to industrialization. Now, our… Read More »Nature versus Technology – Mindfulness, Acceptance, Peace
A Confidence Trick The internet can be an unnerving and wicked entity, and I’m saying that without even having ventured onto the notorious Dark Web. A couple of weeks ago I paid the equivalent of five dollars to list my blog on a blog directory called Blogarama only to find… Read More »Confidence Trick : Trust and the Online Nemesis