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NetRoots & Ma.gnolia on the Net2 Podcast

Britt Bravo — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 17:59:43 -0500

Our fabulous San Francisco Net Tuesday podcaster, David Collin, posted his interviews with Larry Halff, the founder of Ma.gnolia, and Nica Lorber, the organizer of Rootscamp in San Francisco, over the weekend. David also recorded Larry and Nica's presentations. Here are the links so you can check 'em out:
Larry Halff's presentation
Interview with Larry Halff
Interview with Nica Lorber
Nica Lorber's presentation

Veek the Vote

Gina Cardazone — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 14:43:38 -0500

Going a step beyond voting, people are using their video cameras and even cell phones to document voter intimidation, long lines, voter equipment problems, and to keep tabs of what's going on during the election.

Video the Vote was inspired by American Blackout, a movie about voter suppression, and encourages citizens to film the vote. Going one step further in futuristic media coverage, YouthNoise and Veeker are presenting Veek the Vote. A Veek is apparently a video taken with a cell phones (a video peek) and people are encouraged to take video peeks at their local elections and upload them. People can then not only view streaming videos from people's cell phones, but can embed the veek the vote player on their site. Actually, I'm going to do that right now. Let's seek how it goes.

Video of Ethan Zuckerman Segment from Citizen Journalism Session

jennifer schlegel — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 17:24:21 -0400

At ForaTv, more video now available online: Ethan Zuckerman’s segment from the NetSquared Conference Session: A Voice in the Wilderness to the Wisdom of Crowds: Citizen Journalism, Nonprofit Organizations and Social Change (coverage provided by Link TV). Last week we posted Dan Gillmor’s segment, also from this session. If you go to ForaTv and type in “netsquared” next to the Search function in the top menu bar, you’ll find this session and the others listed here in the archive: