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Drupal as a Tool for Citizen Journalism Here’s another article I came across from the Unmediated feed. Drupal is a leading contender as the platform for development of the hub, this article from newassignment.net talks about how Drupal is being used by sites like Ourmedia, and the Onion. WITNESS January 30, 2007
Google announces overhaul of Google Video strategy, plans for YouTube’s future In a somewhat timely turn of events relative to my last post about Google Video, Google has just announced that Google Video will become a search engine for video content posted anywhere online. Users now get search results from YouTube in addition to Google Video. Here’s a full article from Arstechnica. WITNESS January 25, 2007
Best practices when aggregating videos Re-Remediated (again) from unmediated, who got it from JD at Social Media. Our friend from blip.tv, Mike Hudack, wrote an article with some handy guidelines at Video Vertigo: • Aggregators should always identify the individual show, videoblog or video podcast in their index, and include a link to the appropriate site for that show. When […] WITNESS January 23, 2007
NYC 911 and Cellphone Videos By now most of you have already heard that Mayor Bloomberg has announced a program that will allow people who call 911 to also send images and videos from their cellphones. It was also mentioned on SNL’s Weekend Update last night. WITNESS January 21, 2007
Obama on Brightcove Barack Obama announced his potential run for president last Tuesday, but not on any of the major media outlets, rather on Brightcove, a sort of YouTube for business. This article from LostRemote explains. WITNESS January 18, 2007
WITNESS named as one of 59 Smartest Nonprofits Online for Hub Pilot This award is a joint effort established by Squidoo.com, NetSquared, and GetActive, designed to recognize nonprofits who are setting new standards in savvy Internet marketing. We were nominated for the Hub Pilot and web 2.0 smarts. WITNESS January 17, 2007
Caught On Camera: Human Rights Videos on GV [via GV/WITNESS] [Originally published here as part of WITNESS’s collaboration with Global Voices Online] You’d be forgiven for thinking it’s been Saddam, Saddam, Saddam, in recent weeks, but GV has covered other human rights videos that deserve a bit of limelight – so, in this regular new feature, I’m going to round up the best of those […] WITNESS January 16, 2007
Saddam execution video re-ignites death penalty debates worldwide [via GV/WITNESS] [Originally published here as part of WITNESS‘s collaboration with Global Voices Online] Over the past four months, we’ve tried to feature and contextualise videos we felt should be seen and debated by a wider audience. Today’s featured human rights video is something completely new. You may be one of the millions who have sought it […] WITNESS January 7, 2007
Panopticon Catches a Killer Happy New Year. It’s been awhile since the last entry, but better late than never I guess. A lot has happened in the last year with user generated content culminating with Time Magazine’s Person of the Year being “You.” In particular, video from camera phones has gotten a lot of press attention with the notable […] WITNESS January 3, 2007
Egypt: Bloggers open the door to police brutality debate [via GV/WITNESS] [Originally published here as part of WITNESS‘s collaboration with Global Voices Online] ‘Extraordinary rendition’ has passed into common parlance over the last year as human rights organisations have accused the US government of exporting suspects to be tortured in regimes like Egypt, Morocco and Syria. But while cases involving international suspects get the headlines, these […] WITNESS December 9, 2006
China: Videos emerge of clashes between police and students in Jiangxi [via GV/WITNESS] [Originally published here as part of WITNESS‘s collaboration with Global Voices Online] Hot on the heels of the Chinese government’s claim of a 22.1% reduction in “mass incidents” (read “protests”), here’s some more video of “mass incidents” from China, in case you missed this portion of John Kennedy’s latest Beijing bulletin: Backing up to China […] WITNESS November 24, 2006
Egypt: Cairo's women speak out against violence [via GV/WITNESS] [Originally published here as part of WITNESS‘s collaboration with Global Voices Online] In the run-up to the annual global campaign for 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence, Egypt’s First Lady, Suzanne Mubarak, addressing a meeting of the Arab Women’s Organisation, issued a heartfelt plea: What shall we do to face challenges of discrimination, extremism […] WITNESS November 23, 2006
Former Yugoslavia: Can video play a part in truth, justice and reconciliation? [via GV/WITNESS] [Originally published here as part of WITNESS’s collaboration with Global Voices Online – this post was written by Gavin Simpson] It fell to the controversial figure of Carla del Ponte, prosecutor at the UN war crimes tribunal in the Hague, to lament the slow progress of justice in the Former Yugoslavia in a lecture she […] WITNESS November 6, 2006
Mexico: The last moments of Bradley Roland Will [via GV/WITNESS] [Originally published here as part of WITNESS‘s collaboration with Global Voices Online] Journalism seems like a precarious profession to practise in Mexico. It’s ranked by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) as one of the most dangerous places to be a journalist. The latest tragic example of this came on Friday 27th October, in the […] WITNESS October 30, 2006