Jim Barter : Digital Imagination

Adj. 1) Impossible to repress or control.

Chat rooms monitored. Blogs deleted. Websites blocked. Search engines restricted. People imprisoned for simply posting and sharing information.

The Internet is a new frontier in the struggle for human rights. Governments – with the help of some of the biggest IT companies in the world – are cracking down on freedom of expression.

Amnesty International, with the support of The Observer, is launching a campaign to show that online or offline the human voice and human rights are impossible to repress.

Find out more about this campaign

Steam powered toy robot!

“DESTROY, KLANK, MAIM, CLANG, KILL, POOT! POOT!”

…i need an army of steam powered robots to implement my plan to take over the world!

following on from the previous post about WCAG2, I thought I’d mention this…

PAS78 ‘Guide to good practice in commissioning accessible websites’ published by the BSI in march this year is exactly what it says on the tin.

Commisioned by the Disability Rights Commison from the British Standards Institute and primarily authored by the likes of Julie Howell (RNIB) and representitives from organisations like Abilitynet, The BBC, IBM, The Cabinet Office and others.

Aimed at the people who pay for websites rather than the people that build them it draws heavily from WCAG 1 and no mention at all is made of WCAG 2.

If (as is hoped) this document is successful and organisations in the UK pick up on it and use it as the basis for there future stance on accessibility then WCAG 2 may not be needed.

I hope.

PAS78s language is clear and consise and combined with WCAG1 covers any accessibility requirement that any website may have.

Yes, WCAG 1 has its flaws and needs updating, lets wait and see what the Samuri offer

PAS78 is available from http://www.bsi-global.com/ICT/PAS78/index.xalter

Joe Clark writes a Hell of a Piece on why WCAG2 is a very poor upgrade to WCAG1…

…to summarise, it’s impenetrable, and full of holes.

Coming soon to a web browser near you…

…http://www.woodseatsfestival.org.uk

in the meantime…

…woodseats google image search, suprises me in that most of the images do actually appear to be from or near to Woodseats in Sheffield, which makes me think the place name ‘woodseats’ must be fairly unique.

I used to be online under the name ‘cybo’, I still own cybo.co.uk, and one day I may do something with it.

In the meantime - the domain is still up for sale.

But the price just went up…

cybo.co.uk - Estimated Actual Value: $26,136.00.

I’ll take 25k…

changing the wallpaper again, it’s gonna be ugly for a while…

…try resizing the page…

…bare with me.

now I know there are only so many chords, and only six strings…

but check this out…

Tune one Graham Coxen - Freak Out Homepage

Tune two The Skids - Into the Valley Homepage (…ish)

!?!?!

WHS 4″ Traditional Pointing Trowel

The traditional WHS 4″ trowel with beech wood handle, is the accepted hand tool for British archaeological excavators. This quality trowel has been synonymous with archaeology for many years.

get yours here

http://www.getatrowel.co.uk/index.html

A friend of mine Matt Howden is performing music from his latest Album ‘Sieben: Ogham inside the Night’ at The Lantern, Kenwood Park Road, Netheredge. Sheffield. 8.15pm till 10.30pm. Friday 2 June.

Also on the night Niel McSweeney and Mark Johnson.

If you like the sound of ‘AltFolkRock’, fiddle, guitars etc., come along - it’s only £2.50!