Jezza's Blog

I really enjoyed reading this, and learned a lot about a struggle that I thought I already knew about. There is a lot of detail, and some...

I made some kvass. I'd had it from a stall in the Soviet Union in the late 1980s, and it had stuck in my mind as a nice not-too-sweet ...

Putting my review here, in case the tax-dodgers at Amazon get grumpy and refuse to publish it. "Lots of interesting information about...

Went to see Evrything yesterday - an interesting Internet of Things start-up with a heritage in the really rather clever Web of Things grou...

--> I've been thinking a lot about ' The year of the flood ' lately. I read it a couple of years ago, but I haven...

Lots of women are reading 'Fifty Shades of Grey'. Really really lots. They read it on trains, on planes, in airports. Quite a few...

I love sharing and the sharing economy. I think the idea of collaborative consumption, P2P 'production', and commons-based economics...

Revolutionary socialists have a narrative. In that story, the capitalist system and the power structures that sustain are overthrown by...

No claims for originality here, except that I have metricated and reconfigured the amounts to fit my saucepan and fermenting vat. To m...

Last week I attended the 2 nd Citizen Cyberscience Summit on behalf of my employer, Ovum. It was probably the most exciting place ...

A random collection of links to documents - not all favoured, just a place to keep the links so as to file the hard copy (sometimes in the r...

Last night we went to see Bingo by Edward Bond. We were all pretty fed up with it, and bored at the absence of character or plot de...

I'm not a nationalist of any kind. I don't think that England would be better off without Scotland, and I wouldn't necessar...

I was surprised and disappointed to hear the BBC constantly repeat without any significant challenge the government claim that the public se...

I love the 'This Column Will Change Your Life' column in The Guardian, and this book is mainly a compilation of that. Things I par...

All political parties have political strategies. For the major political parties, the ones with the hope and prospect of forming a governm...

Hats off to Rachel Botsman and Roo Rogers for writing this. They've synthesized and evangelized some disparate trends to show that there...

What's the attraction of arcologies , sea-steading , moveable cities and the like? Why are they such a common motif in popular culture...

Watched ' Life After Armageddon ', a US dram-doc, on Channel Five the other night. It depicts a society brought to collapse by an ou...

Yesterday I watched The Story of Stuff , an Internet video/film about the wastefulness of our throwaway consumerist society. It left me feel...