http://www.kevingillan.info Mon, 25 Jan 2010 12:57:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en $(document).ready(function() {myWidget = new Silobreaker.Network({ query: "5_2263180607288770572 [itemref]", showSliders: false, showTrashcan: false, showZoom: false, width: 400, height: 300, totalNodes: 10, apiKey: "6a44ii52zti3tz1mobf7", linkBaseUrl: "http://www.silobreaker.com/" }); Silobreaker.injectWidget("widget_963e68bad8", myWidget); }); A rather natty document network widget from silobreaker.com. The European Court of Human Rights today issued its judgement on the case that Penny Quinton and I have [...]]]> http://www.kevingillan.info/articles-papers/128 So, you’re starting to be convinced of the benefits of linux? Keen to experience the increased speed and power and to try out some of the thousands of pieces of free software available? Like the thought of being secure from viruses and spyware? But still a little attached to your Windows operating system? Here’s a [...]]]> http://www.kevingillan.info/techblog/127 I came across various instructions for connecting an Ubuntu powered laptop to the internet through your mobile phone’s data connection. My first thought was ‘brilliant’, followed rapidly by ‘ooh this’ll be fiddly’. It requires a bit of manual coding, but using Rahid Hasan’s excellent how-to it just worked first time (that link looks broken now, [...]]]> http://www.kevingillan.info/techblog/125 Paper presented to the European Sociological Association General Conference, Lisbon, September 2009. Abstract: The academic publisher Reed Elsevier also organised the world’s largest defence exhibitions. The exhibitions themselves have regularly met vibrant street protests, and from 2005 campaigners targeted the corporate organisers. A coordinated network of anti-arms trade activists, academics, medical professionals and institutional shareholders formed a [...]]]> http://www.kevingillan.info/articles-papers/124 The latest edition of Ubuntu (9.04) is generally excellent. There are continuing problems with graphics cards, however, that probably flow more from the proprietary (closed source) drivers provided than anything that Ubuntu folks can control. For me, its the NVidia driver that’s the baddy, failing to recognise any accurate information from my Acer widescreen monitor. [...]]]> http://www.kevingillan.info/techblog/122 NB This adventure has been postponed due to my lack of knowledge/skills to make it work Moving from a flat to a house so no longer will the same room function as lounge, dining room, study and guest room. Simply having a very long cable on a widescreen monitor meant that one PC used [...]]]> http://www.kevingillan.info/techblog/119 Paper for presentation at the Alternative Futures and Popular Protest Conference, 15-17th April 2009, Manchester Metropolitan University. Abstract: Direct action (DA) is often considered to be a tactical approach to protest, utilised in the service of a wide range of causes. More recently, the notion that DA forms the basis of a radical social movement of itself [...]]]> http://www.kevingillan.info/articles-papers/118 Presentation at Medsin Global Health Conference, University of Manchester, 29th March 2009. This talk was based on recent research into the campaign that persuaded Reed Elsevier to quit the defence sector. You can download the powerpoint slides here. ]]> http://www.kevingillan.info/articles-papers/120 Short talk for the ‘Internet for Activists’ day organised at SOAS, 15 March 2009. The purpose was to outline two different ‘ideal typical’ attitudes that activists typically bring to their engagements with technology. Within recent anti-war activism most people have approached technology as users, interested in the technology itself only to the extent that it makes [...]]]> http://www.kevingillan.info/articles-papers/117 Piece for ‘Peace News’ written with Jenny Pickerill. This is a super-short summary of some of the research we carried out for Anti-War Activism and is available from the Peace News website. ]]> http://www.kevingillan.info/articles-papers/121