Creatives will need a new business model

Interesting article in the Guardian today about the 'Deep Web' and darkweb facilitated by Ian Clarkes Freenet software see: http://freenetproject.org

Where he is basically saying to have a free society, democracy, you cannot enforce copyright, so that we need a new business model where creative get paid in a different way. Radioheads 'free' downlaod of an albumm is an example of a different way of doing things, th… Continue

A red spire smoulders
from St. Michael's sanctuary
while buried below
suppressed waters
of Cyriath flow.

Sitting samadhi
fused causation
incense dissapates.

Something Understood
LISTEN AGAIN for 5 days:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00nnmsl/Something_Understood_Words_My_Mother_Taught_Me/

Ethical and religious discussion that examines some of the larger questions of life, taking a spiritual theme and exploring it through music, prose and poetry

Pamela Marre, a storyteller from a non-orthodox Jewish family, looks at how ancient… Continue

Poem: "Proverbial Ballade" by Wendy Cope from Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis. © Faber & Faber.

Proverbial Ballade

Fine words won't turn the icing pink;
A wild rose has no employees;
Who boils his socks will make them shrink;
Who catches cold is sure to sneeze.
Who has two legs must wash his knees;
Who breaks the egg will find the yolk;
Who locks his door will need his keys—
So say I and so say the folk.

You can't shave with a tiddlywinks,
Nor make red wine from garden pea… Continue