At Pixelodeon I interviewed Kent Bye about the new PoliticalVideo.org project as well as his Echo Chamber project and the role of the citizenry in providing video commentary on the 2008 election. PoiticalVideo took 500 hours from the WhiteHouse.gov site and is making the public domain footage of President George W. Bush available for download, […]
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Final scenes from Personal Democracy Forum
Here is a Flickr photo set from the Personal Democracy Forum. And a couple of last vignettes: – From co-founder Micah Sifry in a passing conversation about the two schools of thought at grassroots politics conferences: "It comes down to this. Is it about getting more videos out there, or is it about organizing the […]
At Personal Democracy Forum
I’m here in Manhattan attending the Personal Democracy Forum for the first time, courtesy of Micah Sifry. Tomorrow I’m hoping to organize a session about the upcoming Remix Politics 2008 channel at the PDF unconference. Ari Melber is live-blogging the conference. Liza Sabater (blogdiva) and Alex Williams (podcasthotel) are also blogging it via Twitter. Somewhat […]
Help us name a new politics channel
Today a few of us met in San Francisco to begin planning the contours of a new online political speech channel for the 2008 election. (Picutred from left, Dave Toole of Outhink, yours truly, Brewster Kahle of the Internet Archive, Doug Kaye of the Conversations Network and Morty Wiggins of Outhink.) The idea is a […]
Meeting Rep. Jerry McNerney
In all my years of voting, I’ve never actually met any of my congressional representatives face to face — until a few minutes ago. I took this shot of Rep. Jerry McNerney, who was voted to represent California’s 12th Congressional district in last November’s election, at the Pleasanton BART station. We spoke for a few […]