Legal Paralysis

Do too many laws, prevent us from actually doing anything good?
George Monbiot highlights, present alarming police activity and our ever steady progress towards a police state in the name of freedom. http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/georgemonbiot/2009/jun/22/kingsnorth-fit-police-surveillance
However this question isn’t just about the laws and how their being applied, which is indeed of grave concern. But also of how our [...]

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Intellectual Property is Theft

In response to Dougald Hines call for articles around the theme COMMONSense. and this has been bubbling under for some time now, so it’s time to splurge.
Intellectual Property is theft
Let us not decieve ourselves any longer, all forms of property and property rights are about control and power. They change the rules of the world, [...]

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The Ideas Diary – Blog the Aged Project

Get younguns to film old uns talking about what life was like growing up in a particular geographic location.
Will serve to include the old in the digital media revolution and hopefully break down a few of the perceptions that both parties hold. Plus it will create a sense of history around an area.
I was shocked [...]

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Socialising Social Enterprise

At the Catalyst awards Dan Mcquillan asked “what next?” for the Catalyst Awards and Social Enterprises.
He suggested a mash up of all the events together to bring them all under one roof. I suggest taking it a stage further.
Why don’t we look in more detail at the collaboration opportunities that exist within these separate social [...]

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“Anti Social” behavior

Ever since Thatcher denied it’s existence society has been in decline, like a Discworld god that no longer has a following.

I found this great quote in the Private Eye this morning…

“The government was concerned about ANTI SOCIAL BEHAVIOR and in 2004 passed a law about it. This law allows Police to break up [...]

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One night in ten: Distributed postal service

Stemming from the communities talking to each other conundrum, but with a little of rising fuel costs thrown in.

Do we really need mail delivered to our door?

What if it was 5 doors down, and I had to pop round (or they did by private arrangement if I’m really lazy) or the end of [...]

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