http://www.openmicnews.org News for you, by you Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:47:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en (Admin note: Archiving has begun again. Associated text is taken verbatim from the R4nger5 LJ. Using the 64Kb recoded version from Archive.org to ease downloads.) EDIT: Now using a recoded 32K version, as the inital file was a partial and the full one was huge. NEWS Guardian ColumnisT backs our POV on ... http://www.openmicnews.org/2008/07/21/r4nger5-radio-episode-35/ Okay, so I'm not quite sure what's going to be happening to the OMN site, but for the moment the database is back together and WordPress is all up to date. The archive is re-uploading. So what's been is here for you to go through. Still not sure why the custom ... http://www.openmicnews.org/2008/07/09/picking-up-the-pieces/ As you may have noticed, it's been some time since OMN was last updated. Collectively it seems life has gotten busy for all the OpenMicNews hosts. It seems like OMN is dead. However, not so. The idea behind OMN is a pretty open one. And there's other out there keen to start ... http://www.openmicnews.org/2008/01/25/introductions/ The government has been criticised for cutting the right of arrested suspects to advice from a qualified lawyer. In a little-noticed change, from next February most people who are arrested and held in custody in England and Wales for minor offences will usually be denied the right to speak to a ... http://www.openmicnews.org/2007/10/14/not-that-were-erroding-your-rights-or-anything/ The noise of an engine can become a calming thing after a few decades working with it. The paint-chipped blades of an elderly combine harvester, flailing their way through golden ripe grain under a crystal blue sky, throwing up the seeds that'll be ground into flour for market and to ... http://www.openmicnews.org/2007/09/07/a-staggering-breach-of-world-security/ New style show, seeing how it goes. Enjoy! Here's the newslinks: Climate Camp, police incursion timeline with videos: 13.08.2007 07:33 14.08.2007 23:26 15.08.2007 00:00 15.08.2007 00:12 15.08.2007 00:52 15.08.2007 01:25 Climate Camp, "It's a Trap!": http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/08/378350.html http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/08/378378.html Volcanoes and Climate change: http://www.gaspig.com/volcano.htm http://www.cmar.csiro.au/e-print/open/greenhouse_2000e.htm Useful tool: The Wiki Tracker http://www.openmicnews.org/2007/08/16/show-24-taking-it-as-it-comes/ Right, some minor changes have been made to the website.We now have two RSS feeds.On the left of the main page you'll see the Audio Feed. This is the feed for podcasts only, and what you'll find on directory sites.On the right however, is the full RSS. It contains everything ... http://www.openmicnews.org/2007/08/16/site-changes/ There've been some difficulties with time and equipment of the various hosts. A slight change to OMN is being concidered, but we will return shortly. http://www.openmicnews.org/2007/07/30/returning-soon/ Sci here. Last night I spent 2 hours recording the show for you, but PowerGramo decided this was a bad thing and not long enough anyway. So it took the decision to insert blocks of silence several times a second into the recording. This has the effect of doubling the ... http://www.openmicnews.org/2007/06/28/powergramo-sucks/ It's been an odd 38hours. Delayed and without sleep, I think this was a fucking excellent recording nontheless. Download and enjoy listening to me eulagise the wonders of the CF-28 Toughbook, the dangers of the upcoming fruit-robot rebelion and occasionly thinking I'm Max Headroom while making dire predictions on the future ... http://www.openmicnews.org/2007/06/25/fun-with-sleep-deprivation/