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Universal Subtitles: Open Source Subtitling for Web Video Last week, our friends at the Participatory Culture Foundation put out a beta release of Universal Subtitles, an online tool that allows people to add subtitles to any video on the web. WITNESS August 20, 2010
Google unmuzzles itself in China Google has received brickbats a-plenty for its stance in China, where, in order to be permitted to operate by the Chinese government, the search company agreed to censor particular "sensitive" search results - Tiananmen, Dalai Lama, democracy, human rights, and so on. WITNESS January 13, 2010
Human Rights Electronic Evidence Study The Center for Research Libraries Global Resources Initiative is currently studying how NGOs and archiving institutions collect, manage and preserve digital human rights documentation, including blogs, social media, and video and other media from mobile devices; the project is described in significant depth on The Documentalist, the project's blog. WITNESS September 17, 2009
SAA2008: A few final notes Back from SF, to the office, first day of school, general fall craziness. I want to post just a couple of other notes re SAA before I move on to other topics. The session “Returning Displaced Archives: Legal and Ethical Perspectives” moderated by Trudy Peterson. The panelists, to whom scenarios (hypothetical and actual) were put […] WITNESS September 4, 2008
We're in the Netxplorateur 100! Congratulations to our friends at Psiphon, who have won the Grand Prize at the Forum Netxplorateur in Paris – deserved recognition for a very exciting tool… What we didn’t know until Psiphon told us is that the Hub was selected too as one of the Netxplorateur 100 – “100 Net trailblazers creating new digital practices […] WITNESS March 5, 2008
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
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
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
Veoh Relaunched Veoh, one of the video sharing sites we looked at early on, has relaunch with a new slicker interface as well as some cool transcoding and syndication features, including automatic cross-posting to YouTube, Google, and MySpace. Here are a couple of reviews from TechCrunch and LostRemote. WITNESS February 13, 2007
MySpace’s Video Filtering Technology While researching possible options for video filtering technology for the Hub, we came across some stuff about Audible Magic, a company that was developing a way to filter for copyrighted material. It appears that MySpace is going to use this technology for their videos. It will be interesting to see how well it works. In […] WITNESS February 12, 2007
Two Articles about Social Networking Sites for Change In all the hubbub about video on the hub, we seem to be forgetting that a big, if not bigger, consideration should be the hub’s social networking capabilities. If people can’t connect, interact, and organize as a community, how will the hub be anything more than a bunch of videos tagged as being “human rights […] WITNESS February 7, 2007
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
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. […] WITNESS July 20, 2006