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Fire at a holiday flat in Kewstoke (Weston Mercury)
Tech firms more trusted than Facebook: poll
computerworlduk: Why are there on billion dollar open source companies?
Martyn Drake's Blog: Peter Serafinowicz on why “he steals movies”
Why Making Money from Free Software Matters - The H Open Source: News and Features
Comedian Mark Thomas wins £1,200 over police search | UK news | The Guardian
Eight Strategic Mistakes with Memberships | Blue Avocado
Don’t Steal From a Compsci - A Rambling Slate
Escape (the) Windows: Open Source and Open Standards under Threat in Europe - Community - ComputerworldUK
Rescued car park scraps fees
They can't read, can't write, keep time or be tidy: Tesco director's verdict on school-leavers | Business | The Guardian
Green Bristol Blog: And Quiet Flows the Avon
Bristol Traffic: Pavement Blocking
Penval - News: Being Digital
#22 Education, Training and Information « The Workers' Paradise
Why the Greens dominate Bristol's online politics | Bristol24-7
Vowles the Green in Knowle: Zero Meals Per Gallon...
DavePress: That was the ukgc10 that was
righttowork.org.uk - conference
The Weston Mercury - Road to nowhere
Courageous, consistent and persistent Peter Tatchell deserves Liberal award Posted by Glenn Vowles
Poblish: crowdsourcing new policies, and why blogging has to change | Local Democracy
Gustavo Noronha (kov) » Blog Archive » Cool hack - html5tube
Sustainable Redland » Blog Archive » Lord Turner’s committee says airports can’t keep expanding
Anarchist6[zero]6: Climate Change: What if We're Wrong?

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Fire at a holiday flat in Kewstoke (Weston Mercury): Fire at Kew Lodge in the next road. I was out at the time. Saw no sign of it since my return. Efficient dealing by Avon Fire!
Posted/permalink: 2010-06-22T14:23:10-05:00
Tech firms more trusted than Facebook: poll: This strikes of as trusting thugs more than conmen, but at least it's the right way around IMO.
Posted/permalink: 2010-06-22T07:45:44-05:00
computerworlduk: Why are there on billion dollar open source companies?: Posted/permalink: 2010-06-12T10:10:11-05:00
Martyn Drake's Blog: Peter Serafinowicz on why “he steals movies”: Great article from Martyn which adds a technical view to the artist view of the problems with DVDs, MPAA and its friends. "If it's THIS difficult for people at his level getting them to co-operate with them, the consumer has no chance whatsoever for a reasonable fair use policy."
Posted/permalink: 2010-05-24T20:34:02-05:00
Why Making Money from Free Software Matters - The H Open Source: News and Features: Glyn Moody, author of Rebel Code, hits the spot again. This is why software.coop is so against the DEAct because it is a pain for making money fairly from freedom.
Posted/permalink: 2010-04-29T15:42:37-05:00
Comedian Mark Thomas wins £1,200 over police search | UK news | The Guardian: Comedian arrested for "over-confident attitude" reminds me of the Not the Nine O'Clock News sketch
Posted/permalink: 2010-04-20T09:41:33-05:00
Eight Strategic Mistakes with Memberships | Blue Avocado: Many of these apply to co-ops. Thanks to Adrian Ashton
Posted/permalink: 2010-04-16T11:57:58-05:00
Don’t Steal From a Compsci - A Rambling Slate: A great HOWTO catch a criminal with a GPS-enabled phone
Posted/permalink: 2010-04-08T16:16:24-05:00
Escape (the) Windows: Open Source and Open Standards under Threat in Europe - Community - ComputerworldUK: As if DEBill wasn't enough, it seems that we're under attack at the EU level again. Don't let them set a rubbish agenda!
Posted/permalink: 2010-04-01T13:32:30-05:00
Rescued car park scraps fees: Axbridge Town Council buying a car park and deciding it is cheaper to run it free
Posted/permalink: 2010-03-30T10:52:25-05:00
They can't read, can't write, keep time or be tidy: Tesco director's verdict on school-leavers | Business | The Guardian: UK schools: now you need a degree to stack shelves?
Posted/permalink: 2010-03-10T18:33:10-05:00
Green Bristol Blog: And Quiet Flows the Avon: New phrase! "Institutional Motorism - a deep rooted prejudice in favour of motorised traffic at the expense even of the safety"
Posted/permalink: 2010-02-17T20:00:06-05:00
Bristol Traffic: Pavement Blocking: Satire or not? "The problem with bikes is that they clip the pavement-side wing mirror, and sometimes when you open your door they swear at you for hitting them."
Posted/permalink: 2010-02-11T15:25:55-05:00
Penval - News: Being Digital: "I don’t object to paying for content. I do object to having to pay for content by being forced to use one channel. In Negroponte’s words: “Such a smorgasbord of incompatible set-top boxes is a horrible thought”"
Posted/permalink: 2010-02-10T12:07:48-05:00
#22 Education, Training and Information « The Workers' Paradise: "People often focus on the user principles and democracy as being the principles that separate co-operatives from other businesses. Of course, in my opinion, the best answer is that they are all equally important and feed into each other. Case in point: how strong can democracy be if the electorate isn’t educated or informed?"
Posted/permalink: 2010-02-09T10:39:13-05:00
Why the Greens dominate Bristol's online politics | Bristol24-7: "what they bring to the table are some basic journalistic instincts that the other parties either lack or are withholding. These qualities might be raw but they include natural curiosity; an eye for a story; the desire to dig beneath the surface; a willingness to question authority; disdain for the ‘party line’ and that quality Paxman summed up as, “why is this lying bastard lying to me?”. All are alive and well on the Green blogs alongside an uninhibited willingness to deal in ideas."
Posted/permalink: 2010-01-29T10:02:47-05:00
Vowles the Green in Knowle: Zero Meals Per Gallon...: "The amount of corn required to fill a 4X4 tank with biofuel would feed a child for a year."
Posted/permalink: 2010-01-27T16:20:58-05:00
DavePress: That was the ukgc10 that was: Review of UKGovCamp10 with links to sessions. Hopefully it will be udated with pingbacks as more material appears online
Posted/permalink: 2010-01-24T14:02:51-05:00
righttowork.org.uk - conference: Interesting idea but looks a bit SWS which might put people off. But isn't employment doomed anyway? Worker #coops anyone?
Posted/permalink: 2010-01-24T13:11:32-05:00
The Weston Mercury - Road to nowhere: how not to position a road sign
Posted/permalink: 2010-01-21T15:23:46-05:00
Courageous, consistent and persistent Peter Tatchell deserves Liberal award Posted by Glenn Vowles: "I am honoured, but quite surprised, to win Liberal Voice of the Year, given that I'm a left-wing Green." Credit to the LibDems for not fiddling the vote when he won.
Posted/permalink: 2010-01-21T10:57:54-05:00
Poblish: crowdsourcing new policies, and why blogging has to change | Local Democracy: Interesting idea but it requires javascript and cookies and google and bleargh. Do I want my CPU fan running that much just to blog? I'll have to explore a bit more before I decide. Maybe a mobile/lite version will appear soon.
Posted/permalink: 2010-01-19T16:23:16-05:00
Gustavo Noronha (kov) » Blog Archive » Cool hack - html5tube: Definitely in the hack department, but also definitely cool, turning YouTube from a Flash horror into a html5 web site.
Posted/permalink: 2010-01-19T14:36:39-05:00
Sustainable Redland » Blog Archive » Lord Turner’s committee says airports can’t keep expanding: "the Committee on Climate Change [...] basically saying that we can’t meet our carbon reduction targets AND let air travel carry on growing. [...] North Somerset Council needs to take note"
Posted/permalink: 2010-01-19T12:35:46-05:00
Anarchist6[zero]6: Climate Change: What if We're Wrong?: No source given (as far as I could see), but the graph is a very scary thought.
Posted/permalink: 2010-01-17T14:12:42-05:00

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