[occupyaustin-it] Protip: spare batteries for livestream gear

[Gregory Foster]

Tonight, @OakFoSho <http://twitter.com/OakFoSho> has done a pretty 
remarkable job running the #OccupyOakland livestream 
<http://www.ustream.tv/channel/occupy-oakland-live> camera, rebroadcast 
all night on the Global Revolution livestream 
<http://www.livestream.com/globalrevolution>.  Around midnight PST, as 
riot police from all around the Bay Area converged on the remaining 
#GeneralStrike crowd, @OakFoSho (Spencer) ran several blocks around the 
police cordon to his vehicle to retrieve a backup battery as events 
escalated.  That battery lasted until around 2:30am PST, so he began to 
hunt around the crowd for another DroidX battery.  He was forced to 
acquire a micro-USB cable and identify an accessible power main to 
recharge while sitting still.  Some folks in the chat room began to say: 
"When the battery dies, the gas flies" suggesting law enforcement 
agencies were exercising restraint until the livestream went offline. 
@AnonMedics <http://twitter.com/AnonMedics> stepped up with a secondary 
livestream <http://www.ustream.tv/channel/anonmedics> around 2:15am.

Protip: acquire multiple backup batteries for our livestream gear.
gf

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Gregory Foster || gfoster at entersection.org
@gregoryfoster<>  http://entersection.com/

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