Posts by: Walton Pantland
Beautifully demonstrated by this video, swarm theory is an idea from biology that proposes that large groups can solve complex problems very efficiently. For instance, ant colonies can quickly find the richest food source, bees choose a new hive or birds fly in exhilarating patterns like the starlings above.
Individual ants or starlings don’t [...]
Continue Reading →It’s time for unions to embrace the information age and develop an online, global, networked social movement unionism.
Continue Reading →The CGT union in Spain switched to Debian.
Continue Reading →It’s time for a trade union smart phone app.
Continue Reading →Is Open Source organising the way forward for trade unions? Some people seem to think so, but are we even sure what it means?
Trade unions in the West have been in decline since the late 1970s. This is because the capitalist crisis of the early 70s was caused in part by a powerful labour [...]
Continue Reading →In organising we need to be a wee bit off the wall because it works. – Finance sector seconded rep, Female, 31-40
There are a number of different organising models within the trade union movement. The Unite model sees organising as a specialist function that is ‘strategic,sectoral and global’, and was inspired by the ‘ Continue Reading →
The fact that hackers have been drawn to libertarianism is largely due to the absolute failure of the left to understand where the class line runs through the information wars.
Continue Reading →The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:
The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Fresher than ever.
Crunchy numbers
A helper monkey made this abstract painting, inspired by your stats.
A Boeing 747-400 passenger [...]
Continue Reading →It’s a feature, not a bug
If you’ve watched an ad for fibre optic broadband or the latest iPhone, you’d be forgiven for thinking that by parting with a (fairly substantial) splodge of wonga, you’ll soon be immersed in a brave new techno-utopia.
In reality, the experience is rarely as seamless as it is meant to be. [...]
Continue Reading →Earlier this year, I asked readers of this website to help me with some research by completing a survey. This was for a Masters dissertation I was doing for the International Labour and Trade Union Studies course at Ruskin College, Oxford. It’s a great course with experienced and [...]
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