A river that needs crossing political and tech blogs – On the political side, there is arrogance and ignorance, on the geek side there is naivety and over- complexity
My videos are on these two youtube channels visionontv 3,832,876 views and undercurrents 22,689,976 views
A river that needs crossing political and tech blogs – On the political side, there is arrogance and ignorance, on the geek side there is naivety and over- complexity
My videos are on these two youtube channels visionontv 3,832,876 views and undercurrents 22,689,976 views
Shoping list
* Thermaltake LANbox SFF Gaming Case http://www.hardwareking.net/product_info.php?currency=GBP&info=p85847_Thermaltake-Lanbox-Lite-black–VF6000BNS-.html (with no windows)
£ 50
* CoolerMaster Silent Pro M500 Power supply – 500 Watt
£60
* MSI H67MA-E45 Motherboard B3 or Gigabyte GA-H57M-USB3 (rev. 2.0)
£80
* i7 processer http://mocustoms.co.uk/store/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=32159
£200
* Grafics card http://www.nvidia.com/object/product-geforce-gtx-460-us.html
£150
* HDMI capture http://www.blackmagic-design.com/products/intensity
£140
* firewire capture card http://www.maplin.co.uk/pci-express-3-port-21-firewire-221528
£25
* memery card reader
£15
* SSD main drive http://www.dabs.com/products/crucial-128gb-m4-sata-6gb-s-2-5–solid-state-drive-7GL1.html
£150
* 2TB hardrive 7200 http://www.trusthardware.co.uk/products.asp?partno=WD20EVDS
£90
8GB ram
£40
Total £950 + upto £100 postage
Screen £130
Live edit PC
The plan is to have a reliable portable (easy to carry) 3 live camera + screen capture with the ability to both stream and capture to file at the same time. And have the capability to capture 720P video. This will also be used as a HD H264 AVC traditional editing PC and for bulk encoding.
Case must be small and light and strong to run quietly
i7 4 core processor
Nvideo grafics card with at least 1GB of ram and cuda – reliable drivers – drive 2-3 displays
4-8 GB of ram
built in fire-wire
extra firewire card
black magic Intensity Pro video capture card
spare expansion slots
USB3
SD card reader
DVD recorder is optional
SSD for main hardrive
Fast 2TB second hard drive for video storage
Then use external drives for backup. We could use a local network drive for capture to edit/encode on external laptop
Windows 7
It will only run Premiere, Wirecast, and Photoshop
Internet will be locked down
Need a compacted, strong and light monitor to go with it.
Camears
2x £50 each =£100
1x HDC-TM900 camcorder £750
Long HDMI Cable £30×2 =£60
lighting
Camtree LED Light 600-LED with Barn Doors & Battery Mount Plate + Tripod light Stand video studio & location continuous lighting with 4-gel filter, AC Adapters & storage bag
3x £276 =£828
Mic
Rode NTG-1 Condenser Shotgun Microphone
2x £150 =£300
A river that needs crossing political and tech blogs – On the political side, there is arrogance and ignorance, on the geek side there is naivety and over- complexity
My videos are on these two youtube channels visionontv 3,832,876 views and undercurrents 22,689,976 views
A fascinating debate between ZNet founder Michael Albert and visionOntv founder Hamish Campbell covering a wide range of topics, including what's wrong with facebook, the usefulness of non-corporate tools and the importance of linking for radical media. For more info go to http://live.rebelliousmediaconference.org/znet-zsocial-and-beyond http://zcommunications.org/znet http://visionon.tv/plugandplay http://hamishcampbell.com Back ground reading:
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/facebook-finally-makes-your-exported-data-useful/3452
http://www.wired.com/business/2011/06/google-facebook-export/
A river that needs crossing political and tech blogs – On the political side, there is arrogance and ignorance, on the geek side there is naivety and over- complexity
My videos are on these two youtube channels visionontv 3,832,876 views and undercurrents 22,689,976 views
Boulton Co – sky news. More info http://hamishcampbell.com
A river that needs crossing political and tech blogs – On the political side, there is arrogance and ignorance, on the geek side there is naivety and over- complexity
My videos are on these two youtube channels visionontv 3,832,876 views and undercurrents 22,689,976 views
Published Date 11/2/11 9:46 PM
The is a churning of the wheel in activism, it is part of the explanation of why campaigns tend to tern in cercals, the social change we push is often bogged down by these muddy memory’s. The churning of the ground is mistaken for real movement, then activist get bored and move on to the next campaign. Its rare that the cart of activism moves any real distance.
Of course what is needed is for someone to innovate, get straw or wood under the wheels, leaver the cart out of the hole, organise a rope team to pull together, this gets the cart further along the road to where people really would like to go. Its a spark that dose it, but sparks that fall on muddy ground are soon snuffed out.
The memory hole keeps us all in the mud, it dampens the sparks that make things happen, its a churning that moves the mud in a facsimile of progress – and many people mistake the churning of mud for the moving of the cart. The failure of inspiration leads many to drop out of the activist path. The cart abandoned mired in the mud for the next group of idealistic and eager but forgetful crew to push and pull.
So the morel of this muddy and forget full fable? Please add your thoughts in the comments.