some good posts

Interesting articles about tec and law
http://techdirt.com/articles/20080819/1139092031.shtml

Green marketing
http://blog.futurelab.net/2006/08/ecomagination_etc_green_market.html

Who cares about the echo chamber? Who cares if they like your product or not? What every startup should be thinking about above all else is their market. How are you going to make money? Where is that money going to come from? And do everything in your power to make your product, your marketing communications, your brand, everything about your company, about one thing: Appealing to and serving the market that is going to make you profitable.
http://mashable.com/2008/08/26/insights-into-the-marketability-of-tech-companies/

VOTV WEBSITE - We need:

We are using http://www.liferay.com CMS to build the interactive part of the VOTV project.

User pages

The user has the option to add RSS feeds of there existing social networks/blogs, publish storeys direct (blog) and access/display content/interactions on forums over the sight. The is a “wall” that we might use and a list of all interactions on the CMS that we should def use.

Show template pages

- main page

- forum

- chat

- news page – RSS mash up

- contact

(wiki)

* embedded blip show player

* RSS mash up of channel content

* search

* presence

Channel page

- main page

- calendar

- forum

- chat

- news page

- contact

(wiki)

(shop)

* embedded blip tag show player

* RSS mash up of channel content

* search

* presence

TV station page

- main page

- calendar

- forum

- chat

- shop

- resources, RSS etc

- contact

- documents and photos library

(wiki)

* embedded show player

* RSS mash up of station content

* search

* presence

Help pages

- forum

- chat

- sight map

- FAQ

(wiki)

Problem websites - Climate Camp

Looking at our logs for VOTV at the climate camp it seams we got almost no traffic from the climate camp website and UK IMC.

Around 5% of traffic came from http://www.climatecamp.org.uk
Only smaller/occasional traffic from IMC http://indymedia.org.uk

Seams strange as the content was very good and have good traffic from other websites?

Thinking beyhind VOTV - to see why we are doing what we are doing.

Like our George and Uri book review show – these are both right! we ride the space in between these too points of view.

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Is LG15: The Resistance a Web Show or a TV Show?

Web video is starting to mirror traditional TV, like it or not.

http://newteevee.com/2008/08/30/is-%E2%80%9Clg15-the-resistance%E2%80%9D-a-web-show-or-a-tv-show/

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At the 2007 EG conference, Kevin Kelly shares a fun stat: The World Wide Web, as we know it, is only 5,000 days old. Now, Kelly asks, how can we predict what’s coming in the next 5,000 days?

Kevin Kelly has been publisher of the Whole Earth Review, exec editor at WIRED, founder of visionary nonprofits, and writer on biology and business and “cool tools.”

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/kevin_kelly_on_the_next_5_000_days_of_the_web.html

The world's smallest campaigners strike

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One inch high activists have shut down Kingsnorth coal-fired power station. The drama unfolded at E.ON's replica of the plant at Legoland (sponsored by E.ON) while people at Climate Camp protest the planned new coal plant at Kingsnorth. Lego police were in attendance, along with a Lego police helicopter - but neither the campaigners nor the police would comment...

We have just received our first VOTV correspondents piece – about Palestine.

This is from Mina and Lorenzo from the deaz court case, am well pleased (:

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Going to work

Every morning Palestinian workers have to queue to cross the Gilo-Checkpoint into Israel. The workers are humiliated and their right of movement and the right to work gravely restricted. On special mission for Undercurrents

Palestine, August 2008
Duration: 3’32” Format: PAL, 4/3 Letterbox

http://www.socialautopsy.org/site/html/going_to_work.html

VisionOnTV Mission Statement - draft 6

VisionOnTV Mission Statement
VisionOnTV is a television station which promotes social and environmental justice. Broadcasting primarily on the internet, we aim to empower grassroots campaigning and direct action.
We will enhance dialogue and action for social change. We will widen mainstream coverage of events to inform viewers of a different world-view. We will preserve a record of UK and international counter-culture.
VisionOnTV also aims to inform, engage and inspire the wider public. Crucially, VisionOnTV is an outreach project, which aims to reach as many people as possible, to make social change via video a real possibility. In practice this means we will broadcast content with the widest possible definition of “alternative”. We believe that social change takes many different forms, and we aim to be a portal to them all.
VisionOnTV strongly favours the use of open source tools for video production and distribution. There is an on-going battle for the soul of the worldwide web, between client / server relationships (what people need they have to get from a corporation) and ‘people to people’ relationships (people freely sharing skills and knowledge with each other). The internet itself is based on peer-to-peer relationships, which we strongly defend.
We will not approach this dogmatically, however. At a given time we need the best tools available. For outreach to be successful, the tools need to be reliable and simple to use. We will help to develop these tools where they do not exist, but sometimes the best ones will be corporate and closed source.

Our aim is to make viewing VisionOnTV as easy as watching traditional TV. The whole range of options for knowledgable people will be there, but never in a way that confuses the first-time viewer.
Digital information is innately free, but corporations want to restrict that freedom. We defend that freedom via creative commons distribution, which represents the majority of our content. This means that anyone can re-edit and re-distribute our content under a non-commercial creative commons licence. We promote a view of media democracy which breaks down the social divide between those with broadband and those without. Viewers receive high-resolution copies of films downloaded into their computer. Because the content is creative commons, viewers can copy films and distribute them or project them in a cinema, festival or community hall. Therefore just one broadband connection can serve a whole community.
VisionOnTV has substantial costs for its maintenance. We will firmly grasp the nettle of trying to be sustainable by generating income, to give project workers and content producers funding into the future.
We include only ethical advertising on VisionOnTV, which means we will only accept non-aspirational info-verts from ethical companies.
Monies beyond the running costs of VisionOnTV will be transferred to a production fund, where producers of already-featured content can easily (and non-bureaucratically!) apply for production grants.
VisionOnTV puts the viewer first. For this reason content is editorially controlled at the centre. We are not an open publishing project, and we have a quality threshold for all films featured. To this end, we produce our own content, will work with a wide range of video producers, and provide tools for less experienced producers to enable their work to have maximum impact.
We see VisionOnTV as one of many interconnected alternative media projects around the world. VOTV supports the open standards that enable this to happen.

A poem by me mum.

Birds?

From Studley to Cambridge, flat as far as the eye can see

In the July sunshine ploughed fields like a black velvet sheet.

Mauve and white potatoes , barley, wheat, fat hen in the beet.

Where is space for the wildflower, food for the bird and the bee?

A picnic at the road side, bathed in sticky sweet pesticide,

choking with streaming eyes as the giant machine roars by.

No more DDT, but the poisoned fields still feed you and me.

Rachel Carson with Silent Spring led the way, she had her say

Surreal green rye grass, creeping death to the meadow and wood,

and death to the riotious flowery hedges of my childhood.

Gardens weedkilled, paved and decked, wildlife severely checked

Carnivorous pets stalk our gardens, full of well fed energy

Bird alarm calls mistaken for songs joyous and free

Nestlings die before they learn to fly

On one day we filled in the forms for the RSPB

to let them know how many birds we could see.

The RSPB founded so long ago, by those with vision to see

birds are better wild and free in bush and tree

The caged song birds in the market place, those old ways ,

On mantelpieces dusty glass domes, those dead glass eyes, those old days

Stuffed birds and handsome feathers decorating hats ,

lifted in the breeze as fashionable women strutted with men in spats

Across oceans in Australia they studied and found ,

The more dogs around the less birds and wildlife abound

especially those which live near the ground

The carnivorous smells, noise and stress, wildlife sixty percent less.

A massacre around the warm Mediterrean sea

The crack and spit of guns clean the sky

of everything that can fly

a hoopoe glimpsed in a fig tree,

the soaring honey buzzard in the hot blue sky

only minutes, at most a few hours before they die.

The children in the schools care with graffitti on the bus shelter they cry

“It's your world in which we grow and we shall grow to hate you”

The birds don't belong to you. They are our birds too.

Say younger generations and other nations.

Thalia Campbell - August 2008

In hommage to Gertrude M. Goldsmith & Florence Rainford who opened my eyes.

Final show at Climate Camp 2008

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VisionOn.Tv host their wrap up chat show with Conor and Jenny who look back on the weeks events. Was the Climate Camp a sucess?

http://www.visionOn.tv

Police at Climate Camp 2008

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How did the Police behave during this years Climate Camp? A chat show with two campaigners

http://www.visionOn.tv