City Council Blindsided by Freight Train as Boy Scouts Watch

[SamIam]

Free Stater barred from own trial

Caught on tape...court officers lay hands on liberty activist to keep him from attending "his" trial.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yt4RY38aIBI

I saw that, and I was like, dam, another one?!? Then I watched it. . . Thanks Dave! You ask a good questions at the end. Hopefully this will show people what is possible, and allow them to choose what's best for them in these situations.

[les nessman]

   I wont even leave my house without a miniature digital video camera in a small camera case on my belt anymore (with a removeable media card).   

[Mike Barskey]

   I wont even leave my house without a miniature digital video camera in a small camera case on my belt anymore (with a removeable media card). 

This is kind of tangent from the OP, but it could be important and/or handy to know. Has anyone seen Qik yet? It a service/software package that lets you stream video live to the web from your phone. My thought is that this could be very handy for activism: when cops take your phone (whether or not they're allowed to by their own rules) they often delete incriminating evidence, like photos or videos of them misbehaving, but if your videos were instantly broadcast to the web (and they're saved on Qik's servers, and I think you can download them to your computer later) then you have them even if the cops delete them. The video quality is fairly low but it's good enough to see what's going on, and the audio quality is clear enough.

I think there are a few services that do this but I only know of Qik. And I've also heard of similar services that transmit your phones still images to an online service immediately.

[Dave Ridley]

i look forward to having live upload eventually

for now at least we can stream audio to the net via porcupine 411