So you need to start a press team, huh?

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Thursday November 01, 2012 · 8:41 PM PDT

2012/11/01 · 20:41

Speaking as press, I have to give the media team at Occupy Chicago credit - they get their word out and do all they can to help the press cover their events. Having been approached by smaller Occupies for help with their media efforts, I asked Natalie Solidarity of Occupy Chicago's media team to spell out what makes their group so good.

What she told me in this interview can help your Occupy (or any other group looking for media coverage) bunches and oodles. This is good information, and hence pretty boring. But if you can stay awake for less than 10 minutes you stand to benefit a lot.

What are the Rights of the New Media?

mikasi

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Friday October 12, 2012 · 2:44 PM PDT

2012/10/12 · 14:44

Vloggers, Bloggers, and Livestreamers... What the hell?

2008's RNC had to have set some sort of record. According to one Minneapolis/St. Paul paper 72 journalists were arrested during the convention, the most noteworthy being Amy Goodman of Democracy Now. Why did this happen?

Some argue that the police and TPTB are becoming more fascist. I don't know if that is the case or not, but I do know that new technologies have to be giving the cops and their bosses headaches and hemorrhoids.

High quality cell phones can Livestream and upload pictures and videos real time. HD video cameras and digital cameras give any of us the power and the tools to become the media. That some states enacted laws to make it illegal to videotape police in action shows that those in charge simply don't like it and want to reign it in.

A new balance, one that deals with the new media reality will be established. It's in it's first shaky steps of coming to be now. But it's going to be a while.

That said, I offer up this interview with Jerry Boyle. Jerry is a Chicago lawyer who has worked with the National Lawyers Guild in the Windy City. [Note: in this interview Boyle speaks for himself and not as a representative of the Guild.]

This video is CSPAN long unfortunately, and that is discouraging. However, if you are part of the "new media" then it is worth a watch. Or at least a listen. Put it on the player with the sound up while you edit your latest Occupy video.

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Wednesday October 10, 2012 · 12:35 PM PDT

2012/10/10 · 12:35

and I haven't been able to post anything. On the way to LaSall and Jackson from the Olgivie Train Station I came across this man on the bridge. I'd seen him before doing the same thing. He stands out among the panhandlers and buskers I see in the city. Why? Because he delivers. While others shake cups on street corners or play $1000 guitars in an attempt to make a day's wage this man is total DIY.

Every time I pass him he's doing the same thing - beating on a drum set that he made mostly from scratch. Pickle buckets, coffee cans, a beat up old tom and a couple of symbols attached to whatever - that's all this man needs to make music.

His detrmination to do what he wants to do despite a low budget is inspiring. You gotta love the DIY.|

This video is for him.

Drone on...

mikasi

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Tuesday September 25, 2012 · 8:55 PM PDT

2012/09/25 · 20:55

Some things we understand because we are oft exposed to them. They almost become part of us. On the other hand there are things we hear about and get an idea about but when it comes down to it we really only think we know about them.

Such is the case with Drones and Drone Warfare.

Joe Scarry from No Drone, Illinois Chapter, gives us a quick yet detailed look at what a drone is, what it can do. Need a visual reference? No problem-o. On his right Joe has a scale model of a drone complete with missiles.

Both types.

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So you need to start a press team, huh?

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It's been a long two busy weeks...

Drone on...