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How to do open video - part 3 of 3

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 14:54 GMT

How to make a successful show. Amy Goodman: "Someone asked me what I thought of the mainstream media, and I said I thought it would be a good idea." http://visionon.tv http://openvideoconference.org

How to do open video part 1of 3 - how NOT to

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 09:45 GMT

Great advice from people who did open video already. visionOntv's 1st report from the Open Video Conference in New York 19-20 June. http://visionon.tv http://openvideoconference.org

How to do open video - part 2 of 3

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:43 GMT

Great advice from people who did open video already. visionOntv's 1st report from the Open Video Conference in New York 19-20 June. http://visionon.tv http://openvideoconference.org

UpTake - Secrets Of Starting A Citizen Media Organization

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 03:14 GMT

Script: You may have caught our live coverage of the Republican National Convention. We seemed to have cameras where ever the action was and were reporting what was happening hours if not days before the legacy media. So how did The UpTake, a non-profit that operates on a shoestring and the kindness of donors, manage to out-do the multi-million dollar corporate media? Simple: Train, Organize and Crowd source. We discovered people learn the most when we do hands-on, one-on-one sessions to cover the basics. Most important was to give people feedback on what they did. Now you have a bunch of people who can run a camera and want to cover news. That's great! But what are they all going to do? This is where applying the same organization techniques used in political campaigns comes into play. We turned to free services available on the web to keep track of volunteers, story ideas, events and of course equipment. The challenge was to connect volunteers with story assignments and equipment. We didn't have our own equipment to start, so we created a database of equipment our volunteers owned and were willing to lend out. We let people submit story ideas to our website. The hard part was finding volunteers to cover those stories. So we put one person in charge of just connecting volunteers and stories. (video of Recount and trial) Organizing volunteers was integral to our marathon coverage of Minnesota's US Senate recount and Election Contest Trial. The UpTake was the ONLY media to cover every minute of this and thousands around the world watched daily... for several months. Standup: Organizing can be as low-tech as listing what might happen on a sheet of paper and asking people who is interested in going there with a camera. It can also be as high-tech as using the cutting edge tools. Using Cover it Live and Twitter during live events we're able let our audience help us with the reporting. The time stamp on both services helps us locate the important snippets of video out of the hours we record... allowing our volunteers to quickly edit clips that are interesting. Using a free service called Tubemogul, we can publish those clips to You Tube, Blip and more than a dozen other video websites in a matter of minutes. During the RNC we used crowd sourcing on twitter to weretrack where news was happening by searching for the RNC hashtag or following particular people's tweets. Since our volunteers were dispersed all over downtown, we could have someone on the scene in minutes. And thanks to a free service called Qik, we were able to stream live video of the event as it happened. We use two kinds of phones for live streaming: The Nokia N-95 and the iPhone. Both lack a good lens and a good microphone. But we were able to solve part of that problem by using adaptors to plug in a professional microphone. These phones gave us another important advantage: police couldn't confiscate our video. That's an important consideration because police arrested dozens of journalists, including one of our own. Once the video was streamed from the phone, it was on a server where the police couldn't reach it. We still sent people out with regular tape cameras... and they came back with compelling video that we quickly captured, edited and distributed for the whole world to see. The UpTake - a shoestring volunteer operation -- was able to do all of this not only because the technology to do it was easy and affordable... but because we were able to organize. That is the secret ingredient in any citizen journalism organization... and it's something we're willing to teach others. The free services The UpTake uses are: Zanby (social networking, content management) Google Docs (spreadsheets for statistical analysis, shared text documents for collaborative writing) Zoho (Databases for volunteers and story ideas) Cover It Live (live blogging) Twitter (Crowd sourcing and reporting) Tubemogul (Video distribution tool) You Tube (Video distribution site) Blip (Video distribution site) Qik (Live video streaming from phones) Livestream (Live video streaming from computers)

Truth in Numbers - Wikipedia doc trailer

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 07:45 GMT

Coming soon.

Why Creative Commons?

Sat, 30 May 2009 07:20 GMT

Video explaining whats up with copyright today.

US Senator says "the internet should never have been invented"

Sun, 10 May 2009 15:55 GMT

The internet is under attack not only from corporate interests, but from politicians using the excuse of "homeland security". http://visionon.tv

Goodbye Old World

Sat, 18 Apr 2009 16:11 GMT

Pirate Bay bittorrent tracker creators who have been sentenced to prison and fined over $3 million nevertheless say "Goodbye old world, the future is ours". They say they cannot pay the fines, and even if they could, they wouldn't.

Nanotec Angels

Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:48 GMT

One of the favorite films I have made from 2005 The Heavenly Righteous Opposed to Nano-tech Greed manifested at a conference of potential investors in the nano-technology industry today. Harry Swan, once in charge of PR for Monsanto and now trying to sell nano-tech to investors, was presented with a Can of Worms Award.

Creative Commons - into to Health Commons

Wed, 25 Mar 2009 07:37 GMT

A look at how Creative Commons and the digitization of larger parts of our society will affect us.

Clean Coal?

Sun, 08 Mar 2009 16:10 GMT

The Coen Brothers Advert for Clean CoalFilm makers the Coen Brothers Advert for Clean Coal http://www.thisisreality.org/

Steal this film - trial edition

Wed, 18 Feb 2009 09:26 GMT

IN 2006, A GROUP OF FRIENDS DECIDED TO MAKE A FILM ABOUT FILESHARING... AND THROUGH THE PIRATE BAY, WE WERE COPIED AND MULTIPLIED BEYOND OUR IMAGINATIONS. TODAY THE PIRATE BAY ARE ON TRIAL, AND WE ARE PROUD TO SUPPORT THEM WITH THIS TRIAL EDITION OF STEAL THIS FILM. STF 'TRIAL EDITION' CONTAINS UNSEEN FOOTAGE, INCLUDING BROKEP AND TIAMO PREPARING FOR THE TRIAL, AND RE-ENACTMENTS OF THEIR POLICE INTERVIEWS. IT REPRESENTS 'STEAL THIS FILM 2.5', HALF WAY BETWEEN PART 2 AND THE 'FINAL CUT' WE ARE SHOOTING RIGHT NOW IN STOCKHOLM @ THE TRIAL. AFTER THIS RELEASE, WE WILL BE OFFERING IRREGULAR REPORTS ON THE TRIAL, WHICH WE'LL DISTRIBUTE IN CONJUNCTION WITH OUR FRIENDS @ TORRENTFREAK. AS ALWAYS SHARE, REDISTRIBUTE AND REJOICE, DONATE IF YOU LIKE. WE ARE ALL ON TRIAL TODAY - BUT THE TIRED OLD MASTERS WILL NEVER WIN.LEAGUE OF NOBLE PEERS, FEBRUARY 2009. -

The trial against the Pirate Bay has started in Sweden

Sun, 15 Feb 2009 17:09 GMT

find out about it here http://trial.thepiratebay.org/ For more info http://newteevee.com/2009/02/15/the-definitive-primer-to-the-pirate-bay-trial/

What is Creative Commons and why is it importent

Thu, 05 Feb 2009 16:20 GMT

Explains the history and launch of Creative Commons

What is Twitter?

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 10:09 GMT

What is twitter? views from the resent Twinterval in London UK

thisisreality

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 07:49 GMT

The Facts Burning coal is a leading source of global warming pollution. "GHG Emissions and Sinks 1990–2006,” US EPA 2008 Burning coal is the dirtiest way we produce electricity. “Carbon Dioxide Emissions from the Generation of Electric Power in the United States,” US DOE 2000.; “GHG Emissions and Sinks 1990-2006,” US EPA 2008 There are no homes in America powered by "clean" coal. IEA Greenhouse Gas R&D Programme CO2 Capture and Storage Database; Carbon Capture and Sequestration Technologies Program at MIT, CO2 Capture and Storage Project Database CO2 emissions from U.S. coal-based electricity are greater than emissions from all the cars and trucks in America. “GHG Emissions and Sinks 1990-2006,” US EPA 2008 The coal industry is spending millions advertising "clean" coal, but not a single "clean" coal power plant exists in the U.S. today. “Big Coal Campaigning to Keep Its Industry on Candidates' Minds,” Wall Street Journal, Oct. 20, 2008; IEA Greenhouse Gas R&D Programme CO2 Capture and Storage Database; Carbon Capture and Sequestration Technologies Program at MIT, CO2 Capture and Storage Project Database "While you might have heard the phrase ‘clean' coal during the presidential campaign, it's actually an oxymoron." Brian Williams, NBC News, Nov 18, 2008 There are roughly 600 coal plants producing electricity in the U.S. Not one of them captures and stores its global warming pollution. “Electricity Facts,” US DOE 2008; IEA Greenhouse Gas R&D Programme CO2 Capture and Storage Database; Carbon Capture and Sequestration Technologies Program at MIT, CO2 Capture and Storage Project Database "'Clean' coal is like a healthy cigarette." Blan Holman, attorney, Southern Environmental Law Center in Charleson, S.C. There is not a single large-scale demonstration "clean" coal plant in the U.S. today. IEA Greenhouse Gas R&D Programme CO2 Capture and Storage Database; Carbon Capture and Sequestration Technologies Program at MIT, CO2 Capture and Storage Project Database Virtually all the new coal plants that have been proposed will, just like their predecessors, release 100 percent of the CO2 they produce into the atmosphere, where it will linger—and contribute to global warming. "Coal Power in a Warming World: A Sensible Transition to Cleaner Energy Options," Union of Concerned Scientists. Oct. 2008. Although carbon sequestration has been the subject of considerable research and analysis, it has yet to be demonstrated in the form of commercial-scale, fully integrated projects at coal-fired power plants. “Coal Power in a Warming World: A Sensible Transition to Cleaner Energy Options,” Union of Concerned Scientists. Oct. 2008. An investment in wind power produces almost three times as many jobs as the same investment in coal power. And an investment in solar power produces almost four times as many jobs, and energy efficiency, almost thirty times as many jobs as coal power. Based on analysis of the new energy economy released by Earth Policy Institute, Nov. 2008 "We don't have a plant here in the United States today that has commercially installed carbon capture technology." Joe Lucas, Vice President of Communications, American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE). From: “Can Coal Be Clean? A Debate Between Michael Brune of Rainforest Action Network and Joe Lucas of American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity.” Democracy Now! The War and Peace Report, Oct. 2008 "Without the price on greenhouse gas emissions that is delivered by cap-and-trade mechanisms, CO2 capture and storage will remain a daydream." Jeroen van der Veer, CEO of Shell. July 2008 Madrid. Shell, “Delivering Energy for Sustainable Growth. The European Perspective," The 19th World Petroleum Congress Plenary Session, Madrid, June 30, 2008.

Net Neutrality

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 15:46 GMT

How greedy US corporations threaten to end the level playing field of the internet, meaning some information will be more equal than others. Barack Obama has declared his commitment to net neutrality, but now he needs holding to that in the face of the lobbyists. www.foureyedmonsters.com/neutrality www.visionon.tv

It's Not Information Overload. It's Filter Failure.

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 18:28 GMT

Web 2.0 Expo NY: Clay Shirky (shirky.com) It's Not Information Overload. It's Filter Failure.

http://blip.tv/file/get/Web2Expo-ClayShirkyShirkycomItsNotInformationOverloadItsFilterFa563.mov

NOmadjik Media Bus ~ AFTER tour

Sat, 31 May 2008 11:15 GMT

An invitation for independent video journalists to get on the bus and a tour of our current facilities.

http://www.youtubemp4.com/video/4P79UHNAIKo.mp4

OfflineTV - CouchSurfing meetup in San Francisco

Sat, 10 May 2008 13:11 GMT

Interview about using CouchSurfing in the US and how social networks can help to create real human networks bicycling across the USA.