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Boing Boing mentions the Human Rights Video Hub Pilot on GVO BoingBoing.net posted a reader’s comments and link back to the Human Rights Video Hub Pilot on globalvoicesonline.org . Posted Oct 24, 2006 WITNESS October 25, 2006
Video exposes child-soldier's identity [via GV/WITNESS] [Originally published here as part of WITNESS‘s collaboration with Global Voices Online] If you’ve seen the guidelines for this site, you’ll know that there are types of footage that we wouldn’t post, and circumstances surrounding the shooting of particular videos that mean we wouldn’t even link to them. Today’s post is about one of those […] WITNESS October 20, 2006
Zimbabwe: Smuggled DVD brings union protest beatings to light [via GV/WITNESS] [Originally published here as part of WITNESS‘s collaboration with Global Voices Online] This video reached me late last night via Ethan Zuckerman. At nearly ten minutes, it’s longer than the other videos we’ve put up, but I strongly recommend you watch it. It includes footage of the Zimbabwean police and security intelligence services breaking up […] WITNESS October 13, 2006
US secret detentions: from hotel room to squalid prison cell [via GV/WITNESS] [Originally published here as part of WITNESS’s collaboration with Global Voices Online – this post was written by Gavin Simpson] When President George W. Bush confirmed in a speech last month that the CIA has been operating a programme of secret detentions on foreign territory, it was portrayed by the United States Government as part […] WITNESS October 5, 2006
Iraq: Rare testimony of abuse by the Iraqi Security Forces [via GV/WITNESS] [Originally published here as part of WITNESS’s collaboration with Global Voices Online] Torture in Iraq, says the UN, is “out of control”, and “worse than it has been in the times of Saddam Hussein”. So it was especially timely for Brian Conley at Alive In Baghdad to e-mail us to say that he had an […] WITNESS October 3, 2006
Eastern Europe: Video documents homophobia on the rise [via GV/WITNESS] [Originally published here as part of WITNESS‘s collaboration with Global Voices Online] The latest twist in the long-running saga of anti-gay violence and state oppression took place yesterday in Moscow, as an appeals court upheld the earlier lower court ruling to ban Moscow’s Gay Pride March in May 2006. The gay rights activists who brought […] WITNESS September 20, 2006
Reviewing how NGOs use vlogs and videosharing sites Beth Kanter has an excellent overview of recent discussions on how nonprofits and NGOs, mainly in the US, are using online video sharing sites, and also experimenting with their own vlogs documenting their activities. Most examples so far seem promotional or fundraising-driven rather than advocacy-driven, and its not yet clear how traffic is being driven […] WITNESS September 14, 2006
China: Government's video-censorship foiled [via GV/WITNESS] [Originally published here as part of WITNESS‘s collaboration with Global Voices Online] When a young teacher is found dead outside her apartment building in Ruian, the police report concludes suicide, but her family and students suspect a cover-up. Over a thousand people take to the streets in protest, and are met with police violence. Protestors […] WITNESS September 14, 2006
Human Rights Video Hub Pilot Launched Last Thursday, our Human Rights Video Hub pilot project with Global Voices Online launched. Sameer Padania, our Video Hub Editor has kicked it off with a post detailing how video cell phones and distributed networks are helping put an end to police and prison brutality in Malaysia. We will be keeping a close eye on […] WITNESS September 11, 2006
Malaysia: Cellphone video captures police excess [via GV/WITNESS] [Originally published here as part of WITNESS‘s collaboration with Global Voices Online] When the Malaysian police started accepting crime reports sent in by members of the public from their cellphones, little did they expect that their own misdemeanors would one day be caught in the frame. Malaysians have had to put up with police corruption […] WITNESS September 7, 2006
Blogumentary Last night we went to a screening of “Blogumentary“, by Chuck Olsen. Shot between the years of 2002 to 2004, it provides a great overview of the blogosphere, its impact on society and the colorful people who inhibit this world. A few things that I really stayed with me as I walked home were the […] WITNESS August 31, 2006
NY Times article on safety of web surfing in public places The most emailed article on today’s online version of the New York Times is called “Web Surfing in Public Places is a Way to Court Trouble.” Although geared at business travelers who are often talking about business or conducting it in very public spaces such as airport gates and business centers at hotels, there are […] WITNESS August 23, 2006
Top 10 Video Sharing Sites Reviewed Thanks again to the folks at unmediated for pointing out this review from lightreading comparing video sharing sites, something I’ve been meaning to do for a long time. Here are the results: 1) Blip.tv 2) VideoEgg 3) Dailymotion 4) YouTube 5) Veoh 6) Google Video 7) Grouper 8 ) Jumpcut 9) AOL 10) Eyespot WITNESS August 17, 2006
Propaganda and User Generated Content JD Lasica from OurMedia had an interesting post about a “spoof” of Al Gore’s Inconvenient Truth. Turns out that Republican PR firms are “users” too. Is this something we should expect on the Video Hub as well? WITNESS August 8, 2006