- Egypt videos back up at the Hub As I mentioned in my last post, a number of the Egypt police brutality videos at the Hub had been embedded from Wael Abbas’ YouTube account. When his account was suspended, these videos on the Hub (and everywhere else they were embedded) stopped playing. We’ve now managed to restore some of the key videos, and […]
- Take 60 seconds to watch this – and then pass it on See video on the Hub here.
- 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 […]
- Mobile Phone Video Exposes Abuse in Russia http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6319439.stm
- NYC 911 and Cellphone Videos By now most of you have already heard that Mayor Bloomberg has announced a program that will allow people who call 911 to also send images and videos from their cellphones. It was also mentioned on SNL’s Weekend Update last night.
- Saddam execution video re-ignites death penalty debates worldwide [via GV/WITNESS] [Originally published here as part of WITNESS‘s collaboration with Global Voices Online] Over the past four months, we’ve tried to feature and contextualise videos we felt should be seen and debated by a wider audience. Today’s featured human rights video is something completely new. You may be one of the millions who have sought it […]
- 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 […]
- Secure Mobile Phone Looking around to see what sort of things exist to help keep mobile uploading of video secure, I ran across this article from OhGizmo about a GSM phone that uses 1024 bit Diffie-Helman encryption. I don’t know anything about encryption protocol, but it sure sounds impressive. While this phone doesn’t protect the user’s identity it […]
- Like-minded folks Afew weeks back, Gareth Benest of One World TV visited our digs here in Brooklyn. We spent sometime discussing our plans which to any sane person would sound like we were pretty much developing the exact same project and talking to all the same people. It really didn’t come as a complete surprise to either […]
- What’s Happened Thus Far This is the first entry in a blog intended to document the process we are going through at WITNESS while building the Video Hub. In fact we’re probably not going to call it the “Video Hub.” In case you don’t know what the “video Hub” is, feel free to visit www.witness.org/technology to read up on […]