I was informed of the following, please do pass onto your friends and colleagues.… Continue

Lifestile, a registered charity that I am co ordinator / secretary of, are developing a small number of digital projects and training for people, especially in the Newcastle/ Gateshead area, but its for anyone.
We are setting up a project in Blakelaw newcastle soon.
Learning circles will be set up about issues, such as training in computers, podcasting, video and open source software/ hardware. Anyone interested, (or if you are interested in forming your own learning circle) can email m… Continue

I went to a conference on Monday evening about the future of broadband. Gateshead Council with alcatel have set up a 1G broadband (thats 1000 Mb !!)..

They are starting with 100M .. puts 'up to 2M' max for everyone into perspective...

I am secretary of a charity called lifestile in Newcastle upon Tyne. We have had informal discussions with numerous people over the years, and see there are a number of barriers to the community and its development. So we have decided to develop a number of projects/ websites relating to these issues, (podcasting, vodcasting, etc) as well as helping the community.
One of these projects is povertyscope.org. This project is to help people on benefits and give them a voice via another project i… Continue

This week i made the brave decision to leave facebook in search of genuine friendships... i hope digitaldiscovery.ning.com will create a network of like minded people rather than just a huge advertising space where people can spy on you and waste their lives away playing farmville... i rest my case.