- More on Jailed Video Blogger Josh Wolf It’s been awhile since I’ve posted anything about the Josh Wolf situation. He now has the distinction of being longest incarcerated journalist in US history for contempt of court, 170 days. An article from Slashdot links to an interview with Wolf on Democracy now. Video blogger and independent journalist Josh Wolf has been in a […]
- 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 […]
- Josh Wolf out on Bail As a follow up to an earlier post, video blogger, Josh Wolf has been released after being imprisoned for 30 days for refusing to give up footage from a demonstration in San Francisco protesting the G8 summit.
- 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 […]
- Interview with Jailed Video Blogger Here’s a follow up to my last post about imprisoned video blogger, Josh Wolf. CNET’s interview with Josh Wolf, a video blogger who is Federal prison for refusing to hand over footage he shot during a G8 protest held San Francisco in July 2005. An SFPD police car was damaged during the protest and because […]
- Video Blogger Goes to Jail Today our friends at unmediated posted a story about Josh Wolf, a video blogger who shot some footage of the G8 protests in San Francisco last year which he posted to his blog. Now that footage is being subpoenaed by the Federal Government, and since Wolf has refused to turn over the tapes he was […]
