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Published Date 10/3/12 10:05 PM Thinking about the NUJ delegate meeting. We all agree we need a union, but it isn’t obvious what its role is. Used to be about negotiating with the bosses, but now we are all our own bosses so a bit schizophrenic to be negotiating with ourselves. Where are we now? […]

(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 8/31/12 2:52 PM (This is a DRAFT) This worth reading to go with this view time and libertarean/liberals view of who created the internet In the 1970s the military looked at a problem – how to keep communication working in an anarchic environment (a nuclear war). Their solution was to work with this […]

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 […]

Published Date 3/10/12 10:16 PM Am testing out a load of solar gear in my back garden, have a old 17AH lead acid battery from a UPS, trying to find out if it will hold a charge. You have to keep batteries topped up with power otherwise they deteriorate over time. UPDATE: it did not […]

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 Newsreal The has been much talk about doing a European wide video newsreal 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 10/18/11 4:07 PM There is an issue of centralization around a single portal for different types of content on the web, and the withering of diversity of outcomes that this entails. There are a few successful implementations of p2p web structures such as blogging and RSS but they are exceptions, we have total […]

A how to – Solar video production/editing studio. Filmmakers/writers/graphic designers have you ever dreamed of being able to work in the hart of nature rather than a boring office in the hart of the rat race. Well now you can work away from the electric grid (in a sunny climate) using small scale, light wate […]