VikkiChowney

It's been a long time coming, but finally, Ben, Dan, James and I are ready to soft launch The Really Mobile Project website.

For those of you that missed the teaser, it's a mobile-focused online video show and website that we've been working on for the past six weeks or so.

The boys first worked together as a team at The Mobile Industry Review (formerly SMS Text News) where they, as lead contributors, reached a peak of 250,000 viewers within the first year of launch. When we all heard that the site was going 'subscription-only', we decided to build something new that would continue the tradition of providing behind the scenes insight, reviews and breaking news from the global telecoms space.

At the moment, the site includes a few short pieces of written content and some video diaries. We all thought we'd take some time to talk individually about what we've been up to, playing with and what's coming up. We're getting things ready for the main shows, drafting in equipment and planning content, but this should tide you over till then.

From here on in, we'll be producing a mixture of written and video-based features, including interviews with key industry figures and event coverage. It's important to us to reach out and involve the people that read our analysis and opinion, as those are the people that make the conversation so interesting. And after all, we're doing this so that there's a corner of the web set aside for mobile fanatics to gather and geek out for a bit.

It's really (chortle) important to us to make this a two-way thing, so thoughts, comments or input is most welcome.

Watch this space.

Some of you may be aware of my support for Global Cool, a climate change charity that focuses on the reduction of carbon emissions by creating practical initiatives instead of fundraising alone. This means that saving the planet isn't just for people who like to think of themselves as 'green', it's about having a little bit of fun in the process.

For Global Cool, the first part of the year has been all about about 'recycling'. As part of the mobile phone chapter of this (organised in conjunction with Vodafone), they hosted a Swishing Party during London Fashion Week, where people could exchange unwanted clothes with each other.

In fact, Swishing involves getting your friends together to swap clothes and socialise at the same time. Every person must bring at least one good quality, clean item of clothing, or an accessory, that they'd feel proud to hand on.

To give this bit of context, Global Cool spoke to 3,500 British women, and found that an average of £470 per person was spent on items in 2008 that were never worn – an estimated total of £11.1 billion in the UK alone. One in ten of the women surveyed confessed to binning these unwanted clothes, effectively contributing to the estimated 900,000 tonnes of UK clothing that is sent to landfill every year.

I attended the Global Cool party and had a blast (read my fellow blogger Gemma Seagar's write up on Retro Chick for details), so I've decided to do my bit to organise a Swishing event of my own on May 27th. We'll kick things off from 7pm, at The Club Bar & Dining on Warwick Street, who have very kindly allowed us to hold our Swish in their fantastic Lounge bar.

I think this could be a great opportunity to contribute to this initiative and have a bit of fun at the same time. Although I do think that this will predominately female focused, boys are more than welcome. I can't promise you'll have as many clothes to choose from, but the more the merrier in my eyes.

It’ll be based on a token-based system, so will be fair, and no money gets exchanged. Tickets are free, but I've only got 60 places to give away, so sign up here to secure one.

I'm looking for a few sponsors to help us out by providing first drink free and a bit of food, so if you know anyone that would like to get involved, let me know.

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"The first in a series of guest posters, Vikki Chowney from BitchBuzz talks about her experiences as a guest blogger at the G20 summit, recently held in London.

I’d always assumed that one of the main reasons I’d been asked to join the G20Voice project was my interest in climate change and the reduction of carbon that is apparent within my day-to-day blogging, as well as my evangelism of Global Cool. One of the main goals for The London Summit was to discuss the effect of both of these issues on the economy and to report on what would be put in place to help deal with the results...."

Click through to read the full post on the Global Cool blog and keep your eyes peeled for some exciting news that we'll be announcing next week