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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 […]
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September 14, 2006
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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 […]
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September 11, 2006
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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 […]
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August 31, 2006
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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 […]
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August 23, 2006
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Human Rights Watch Report on Internet Censorship
Human Rights Watch recently published a report on Internet Censorship in China. The report gives details about how corporations like Yahoo!, Microsoft, Google, and Skype are cooperating with the Chinese government censorship efforts. It also gives some good background on the “Great Firewall of China,” which refers to the way in which the Chinese government […]
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August 22, 2006
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China Making Sure That User Generated Content Is Officially Registered Content First
Another good post from unmediated originally from techdirt: China has a long history of being a bureaucratic society — and it seems they’re really learned how to apply that bureaucracy to the internet. They have tens of thousands of people monitoring the internet, for example. However, they’re really going to ridiculous extremes in trying to […]
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August 19, 2006
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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
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August 17, 2006
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Cellphones in Iraq
There was an interesting article in today’s New York Times about how important cellphones are in Iraq, not just for communication, but as a tool for self expression. Iraqis use their cellphones to pass around viral videos that poke fun at the Iraqi government, the US military, and energy shortages among other things. Here’s how […]
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August 9, 2006
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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?
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August 8, 2006
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The State of Human Rights Tagged Videos
I was thinking, maybe a good way to see what might happen w/ the Video Hub is to check out what’s going on on existing sites, like YouTube and Google Video. Doing a quick search on human rights, came up with the following links. Salvor at YouTube Salvor blogs about sex worker exploitation in Spain. […]
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August 7, 2006
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Back From Korea
I got back from the OhMyNews 2nd annual Citizen Journalist’s Forum. I think my presentation on Citizen Journalism and Technology went well but, you can decide for yourself since they video taped the whole thing. Alternatively Ethan took notes, as did Greg Daigle, a citizen reporter for OhmyNews from Minnesota I met during the forum. […]
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July 20, 2006
