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Web 2.0 still in its infancy
David Pogue wrote a blog entry this week entitled Asking the Crowd to Spread the News in which he muses about all the useful and more pro-active things that Web 2.0 applications could be used for beyond just entertainment (YouTube) and buying ‘collectors items’ (eBay), etc. Its further endorsement that the time is now for […]
Matisse Bustos Hawkes
May 11, 2007
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Does The Number have a lesson for human rights activists?
Our good friend Ethan has done it again, drawing the connection between a recent viral meme, anti-censorship, and human rights in an article on World Changing. A 16 digit number used as a key to decrypt HD-DVDs became the center of an online revolt against internet censorship yesterday, when it was posted on several blogs, […]
WITNESS
May 3, 2007
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Opinions on the Cellphone Videos from the Virginia Tech Massacre
Steve Safran of Lost Remote writes: I like it whenever I come upon contrarian points of view. And newassignment.net has a doozy. Steve Fox writes about Virginia Tech student Jamal Albarghouti’s cellphone video of the shooting at Virginia Tech. Here are some of his thoughts: As everyone steps up to applaud the “citizen journalism” that […]
WITNESS
April 23, 2007
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YouTube Scammed by 15 Year Old
From Slashdot: “A fifteen year old from Perth, Australia, posed as an employee of the Australian Broadcasting Commission, demanding that YouTube remove hundreds of video clips of ‘The Chasers War on Everything.’ The amusing part is that The Chaser is a comedy company well known to perpetrate exactly this sort of prank.” Interesting to see […]
WITNESS
April 14, 2007
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Alive in Mexico Correspondent Injured by Police
We received and email from our friend, Charles of blip.tv alerting us to a situation in Mexico. A person working with Alive in Mexico (the same folks who started Alive in Baghdad) was injured while covering demonstrations. We’ve tried to put them in touch with some of our contacts, but they could use some help […]
WITNESS
April 3, 2007
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Protests Move from Street to YouTube
Perhaps momentum is building for projects like the Hub. This article from The Age highlights how people in the Philippines are using YouTube to try and get attention about alleged government complicity with a rash of murders of political activists. From Slashdot: “One factor driving the move of political statements to YouTube, and away from […]
WITNESS
March 27, 2007
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Peter Talks About the WITNESS and the Hub at TED
This should have gone up a year ago, but I was tweaking our google adwords settings and stumbled across it. Anyway it’s a good nutshell explanation of WITNESS, and the early stage thinking behind the Hub.
WITNESS
March 22, 2007
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Guinea-Conakry: standing up to a power-hungry President [via GV/WITNESS]
[Originally published here as part of WITNESS’s collaboration with Global Voices Online – this post was written by Gavin Simpson] The technological revolution that enables ordinary citizens to capture and upload video footage on the web has been slow to take root in West Africa. Up to now we haven’t featured any video content from […]
WITNESS
March 13, 2007
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It’s our defining moment: NOI Online organizing/ technology conference
Some big ideas I’m just back from the New Organizing Institute’s training for progressive non profits “Online Organizing and Technology for Nonprofits”. Kudos to the team at NOI, specifically Rosalyn Lemieux and Heather Cronk, who kept the show on the road (& on time 99% of the time- a first for any conference I’ve attended) […]
WITNESS
March 13, 2007
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Herding the Mob
I ran across this story about “crowdhacking” – ways in which people try to game systems like eBay, Digg, and de.lico.us to promote stories, or gain higher feedback ratings. According to the article, these systems are all susceptible to manipulation, which has implications to the Hub once these tactics become more widespread. We should definitely […]
WITNESS
March 13, 2007
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Implications of the online video explosion
From lostremote As more niche online video makes its way on the web, it will draw large Long Tail audiences who are excited to find video programming that fits their unique interests. Read the rest of the article here.
WITNESS
March 13, 2007
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We’re looking for a Hub coordinator to join our team
In case you don’t check the WITNESS job postings, we are looking for a Hub coordinator to join our small but growing team. (job is based in Brooklyn, NY) WITNESS is seeking a dynamic Hub Coordinator to assist the Hub Manager in overseeing all community and content-related activity within the Hub site, assisting with day-to-day […]
WITNESS
March 7, 2007
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Privacy and Social Networking Sites
I recently reconnected with Dan McQuillan, the web manager for Amnesty International. We were both on a panel on human rights at the NetSquared conference last year. Anyway, Dan has a blog called, internetartizans that has a whole bunch of cool stuff human rights and internet technology. It’s definitely worth checking out. This post is […]
WITNESS
March 7, 2007
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Turkey Blocks YouTube
From Slashdot. FM Reader writes “After a controversial mock-up video reportedly submitted by a Greek member about Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey, Turkish courts ordered the national ISPs to ban the online video service, YouTube. YouTube hostnames are currently redirected at the DNS level to a page that announces the court order.” […]
WITNESS
March 7, 2007
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YouNewsTV
From lostremote: Stations owned by Fisher Communications, Journal Broadcast Group and Granite Broadcasting will soon launch a user video initiative powered by Broadcast Interactive Media. Called YouNewsTV, it will allow users to upload their own video, which will be vetted before it appears online. Users can share the video or embed it on their own […]
WITNESS
March 5, 2007
