moblog

Here's an exciting project I've been working on recently (sorry about the PR speak, it's some copy I've been using in promotion!).

Glastonbury is a giant music festival, the biggest in the UK and probably in Europe, but it's located on a working dairy farm and we need to leave the farm the way the cows like it. So the only trace of this year's festival we want to leave behind are images, videos and text messages. So Greenpeace, Oxfam and WaterAid are collaborating with Moblog to capture the sights and sounds (but, thankfully, not the smells) on a mobile blogging website or moblog.

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Yesterday, we at Greenpeace UK staged a demonstration at Admiralty Arch in London where refurbishments are currently taking place. We've identified the plywood being used as hoardings around the site as having been illegally logged in Papua New Guinea and this is the third time we've exposed this problem on a government building site - they've even had a procurement policy in place since 2000 so you think they'd have got it right by now.

Fourteen protestors climbed onto the roof of the Arch and one of them had a camera phone while I had one on the ground. During the day we published images and videos direct to the web using moblog.co.uk and even though it was something of an experiment, the results have been pretty impressive. Things learnt include not trying to record vox pops next to central London rush hour traffic (doh!) but I found it an excellent way to tell the story of a protest as it's happening and draw in people who might not otherwise have heard about it.

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