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Published Date 11/25/12 3:31 PM This is cheap and light: Nature Power 55020 18 Watt Folding Solar Panel Laptop Charger w/8 Amp Controller. It would work fine for powering a tablet or netbook, might just manage to power a small ultralight laptop – but will not  have anufe umpf to power a full size laptop –…

Published Date 11/25/12 3:18 PM This looks quite usefull, next time we get some funding in I will get one to try, has anyone used one? PortaPow Premium Dual Emergency USB Battery Extender External Pack here The capacity is 6600mAh, 203g and 110x88x15mm The pack outputs 2.1A from one socket and 1A from the other, a total…

Published Date 10/17/12 2:12 AM It started as a mashup… INTRO We have everything in place currently to run the channel and scale it up to 100K’s viewers and when the funding comes through we can pay to expand the infustructer to make the channel independent from copurte structures and scalable to much wider ardencies.…

Published Date 10/6/12 12:13 AM Some feeling about my personal experience of old school democratic trade unionism. Friday Night Had an interesting, disquieting conversation tonight at a social event after the work of the NUJ delegate meeting. I had been visiting the delegate meeting room every so often to dip in to try and engage…

(DRAFT) The union’s Delegate Meeting (DM 2012) will take place from Friday 5 until Sunday 7 October 2012 in Newcastle. This is a reaction to the  final agenda  PDF Thinking about the NUJ delegate meeting. We all agree we need a union, but it isn’t obvious what is its role, used to be about negotiating with the…

Published Date 3/28/12 8:16 PM 1. What do you propose to do? Simple automated hyper-local advertising to sustain open projects – the new digital sweetshop window. 2. Is anyone doing something like this now and how is your project different? There are many automated advertising projects, but none for video that are as embedded in…

A common database of media metadata exchanged by RSS in and out, using open industrial standards and neutral unbranded widgets. 2. Is anyone doing something like this now and how is your project different? (30 words) There are many aggregators of news (eg http://daveriver.scripting.com/, or http://ignoregon.com) but they aggregate with whole rss feeds not tags, and new…

The green, world approach and local approach.     How this will work with broadband Internet TV   Profiling   In the mainstream the mantra of who, what, where is not new, though with interactive consumption it is taking on a new importance. Profiling is big on the NET, everyone is after personal information to…

Published Date 1/2/12 5:32 PM Hamish’s history of The European Newsreel The has been much talk about doing a European wide video newsreel for the last 10 years or so. Undercurrents, which grew out of the UK anti-roads movement, was in its latter additions an attempt at covering geographic wider story’s. However, it wasn’t till…

Published Date 9/28/11 9:28 AM Hi Everyone I’m writing to reflect a bit on the process we currently have for making a website appropriate for the RMC, an interactive website which genuinely builds radical media. This proposal also reflects, to be honest, my great anxiety about it. My position comes from the fact I really…

Published Date 12/12/10 12:41 AM The battle for the internet is switching from a cold war to a hot war, and the proxy battles over piracy have spilled into the open war over freedom of speech. The government/corporate extra-judicial attacks on the funding and domains of such groups as wikileaks and the counter-attacks of groups…