Link Loving 31.03.12

• Londoners On Bikes – could this campaign shift Mayoral-candidate positions?

Link Loving 30.03.12

• Five ways modern men are trained to hate women. David Wong.
• Google’s lab of wildest dreams. Claire Cain Miller and Nick Bilton.
• A short history of privatisation in the UK: 1979-2012. Richard Seymor.
• Coolest infographic of 2012 so far – The Carbon Map. Duncan Clark and Robin Houston.
• Burma: ‘the people aren’t scared anymore’. William Lloyd George.

It Could Have Been Me

Another one to add to the list of social change songs we should learn…

Link Loving 29.03.12

• Explore Nelson Mandela’s archives online. Mark Yoshitake.
• On the civil rights trail with Bob Fitch. Rachel Signer.
• What young people should do with their lives. Kurt Vonnegut.
• Turns out that by treating people as consumers, you boost materialistic values. Guy Shrubsole.
• It’s not a job search, it’s a permanent campaign. Dorie Clark.
• Mass distribution and mass disobedience in Spain. Ter Garcia.

Lead Me

If, like me, you sometimes have moments of not knowing what to do – this is for you. From my friends Luke, Arthur, Wheaton and Kenny.

The 99% Spring – 100,000 Strong

This looks awesome. Especially the wide variety of organisations behind it.

Link Loving 28.03.12

• Building social license to operate – take the alternative guided tour of the Tate Britain/Modern/Boat. Tate à Tate.
• Riots panel to call for curb on youth-targeted brand adverts. Daniel Boffey.
• Welcome to the Anthropocene. Nice graphics.
• Beautiful images of remote cabins where you can imagine writing profound things and reading even more profound things.
• Interested in food and social change? Live in London? Come to this workshop – We Are What We Eat.

Celebrating Two Years On This Blog

It all started with a trip to Montenegro and the idea of decreasing informational input, and increasing productive output.

I’m subscribed to more blogs and mailing lists than ever, have more interesting podcasts that I want to listen to, and my bookshelf is in a permanent state 0f near-collapse – so I have obviously not really learnt my lesson. However, much has happened over the last two years, and that is worth celebrating.

The most-read posts are, thankfully, when I write some content. Top posts include:

• The attack on Johann Hari is an attack on our progressive infrastructure.
• What are practical, meaningful actions campaigns can ask people to take?
• What Rio+20 could be about.

Here’s to the next two years – and thank you for reading, sharing and commenting.

Link Loving 27.03.12

• Robert Reich on saving capitalism and democracy. h/t Alex Evans
• Are rich people unethical?
• Coming soon – MPs Direct.
• Do we need an EU-specific online progressive community? Tom Baker reflects on three days of campaigning in Brussels.
• Are we seeing the difference between change and defense in our social change strategy? George Lakey is spot-on as ever.
• On success and failure. Penelope Trunk.

If I Had A Hammer

Loving this summery social justice-themed number from Trini Lopez