Category Archives: Community

Enemies of Digital Economy Workers: the TUC

2010-03-30 by mjr

The Trade Union Congress’s chief executive recently came out in the crazy position of sharing a platform with the British Phonographic Industry (and why are they still relevant? What is the market share of phonographs now?) and supporting the much-hated Digital Britain guilty-without-trial “three strikes” disconnect measures.
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SPI March 2010

2010-03-10 by mjr

The meeting agenda is already posted for tonight’s (Wednesday’s) SPI board IRC meeting which will be at 2000 UTC. It’s another pretty lean meeting, with only some minutes to approve, so why not come along and let the board know … Continue reading →

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Paypal and Ethical Business

2010-03-03 by mjr

DoctorMO is calling Paypal the Pocketing Police after this “Paypal […] decided we were scammers and took our money” comment by Daniel Stone during the Xorg foundation election discussions. Our co-op has avoided Paypal for a number of years for … Continue reading →

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Disaster Recovery, Local Strategic Partnerships

2010-02-26 by mjr

I am MJ Ray and I have not blogged for a week</bloggers-anonymous> Sorry about that. Basically, it’s been hectic and I don’t want to write about some of the things that have been going on between the co-op and its … Continue reading →

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SPI February 2010

2010-02-10 by mjr

The meeting agenda is already posted for tonight’s (Wednesday’s) SPI board IRC meeting which will be at 2000 UTC (an hour earlier than last month, back at usual time). It’s another pretty lean meeting and I don’t know why. Last … Continue reading →

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Home Access Scheme or Hope Abandoned to Scandal?

2010-01-25 by mjr

After its puff by Prime Minister Gordon Brown, in newspapers and his podcast (mp3 file link) I’ve had a few people asking about the Home Access Scheme where families apply for a package from a closed list of six suppliers of new PCs, software and internet access. No … Continue reading →

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Get the Survey Monkey Off Your Back

2010-01-20 by mjr

I’ve been asked why I dislike surveymonkey surveys, I don’t want to reply fully in that forum (because it’s off-topic there) and I want to publish this for your feedback now. surveymonkey really frustrates me. In short, it’s often confusing, … Continue reading →

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SPI January 2010

2010-01-11 by mjr

A clear announcement went out in plenty of time and the meeting agenda is already posted for Wednesday’s SPI board IRC meeting which will be at 2100 UTC (an hour later than recently). As I write this, it’s a pretty … Continue reading →

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Anyone with TLC for Mac VLC?

2010-01-09 by mjr

VLC is free and open source portable media player software that supports a lot of formats and inputs and can also convert and stream. I think it’s been pretty useful for users who didn’t like MPlayer for whatever reason. Nicole … Continue reading →

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2009 Top 10 Software Cooperative News

2009-12-31 by mjr

Amazon Kindle Un-selling Books was the most-viewed news item on my blog this year. Once again, a lock-out/bad-business story takes the top spot. I don’t think that one got as much coverage in the mainstream media as they usually do, … Continue reading →

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