Consequent to the discussion we had yesterday about where to go with the weblog, I'm going to provide a quick summary of the content areas that I'm actively following.

Abh's concern at the intimidatory factor of 'theory' can be addressed by locating the conceptual reflection in relation to factual incidents and on going 'campaigns', and that indeed is the idea behind the 'feature' proposal. Indeed, in answer to Ben's perplexity before the idea of the journal, this is exactly how I perceive it's purpose to be; a container in which fragments can be collected and put into an intelligible form and where short translations can find a home.

So here it is my worksheet:

- Expansion of and resistance to intellectual property laws, with emphasis on battles around patents and p2p.

- Immaterial labour and information economy. In Barcelona this May there beigins a fight against Forum 2004, a cultural festival modelled in some senses on the social forum. There is a broad campaign which is investigating the relations between culture and gentrification, bohemianism and city branding etc.

- The debate about precariousness in France/Italy/Spain and how that relates to discussions about labour in the US and casualization/flexibility in Ireland/UK. This year May 1st will be the focus for a Europe-wide mobilization around 'precarity' and lots of actions have been taking place already around transport, the reform of the law relating to intermittent labour in france's entertainment industry, campaign for a 'guaranteed income' etc.

Linked to this are the various inquiries and experiences in non-conventional organising, from the Hotlines inquiry into Call Centers, accounts from the fats-food/drink biz etc, the kind of thing found on http://www.prol-position.net/en/index.htm The one other area which I'd like to know more about is sex work, and what kind of conflicts are taking place. In Franmce there have been some amazing campaigns and actions confronting also how things have changed due to the rise in the number of migrant prostitutes etc. Does anyone have any good sources for info on this subject?

- Collaborative audio-visual production, bandidth pooling, collective authorship, copyleft licensing etc. This is basically practical work relating to the http://www.V2V.cc project and to a lesser degree http://www.ngvision.org

- Italian developments around grassroots communications, post-Genoa legal proceedings and the flotasam and jetsam that constitutes everyday life in Berlusconia.

- Ireland, EU enlargement etc. Seeing as there will be the first massive international mobilization in Dublin this coming May 1st, I'd like to give some visibility to the local struggles taking place there, parse through some of the debates about Europe and provide coverage.

Of course other amongst u are interested in these topics too, so this is not an attempt to seal of these themes but a signal that I'm following them, and would be interested in developing longer synthetic pieces in collaboration with others.