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This is our group project video for Hub2, titled “Re-Imagining Boston City Hall Plaza Using Second Life.” See details below.
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I’m editing our group final video project for Hub2 in preparation for our meeting with the Boston Mayor’s Office next Thursday (see press release). The video is a mashup of Creative Commons licensed Flickr photos of Boston City Hall Plaza with video captured from our group’s Collaboration space on Boston Island in Second Life. [...]

Here’s the announcement from Nicholas Reville at PCF:
“I am incredibly excited to announce the launch of Miro 1.0.
With this launch, we are ready to build a movement for truly open video. We’re on a mission, we have a world-class product, we have an amazing community, and more and more open channels are being published every [...]

I just learned from Sam Mayfield (via the ACME listserve) that a group from Public Access Television in Vermont at the Center for Media and Democracy are going to Africa this fall to work with folks at Coastal Television in Cape Coast Ghana. Check out this short video about their trip and help support their [...]

The Internet & Society 2007 conference videos are now available for viewing on Democracy: Internet TV. They can also be watched on blip.tv.
We’re working on the mpeg2 files for University Channel so folks at Public Access TV centers and other channels can download them for broadcast.
For the complete conference audio and video archives, please [...]

The video above features a statement by Harvard Law School Professor and Co-Chair of this year’s Internet & Society Conference, Charles Ogletree in response to yesterday’s Supreme Court ruling on school desegregation.
This video is licensed by C-SPAN under a “liberalized copyright policy“. To watch the full video, including [...]

In “Verizon officials catch static over cable TV plan“, Globe staff reporter, Caroyln Johnson writes
Over and over, local officials appeared before the committee noting the current franchise process was working fine, with 49 Verizon cable franchises in place and 19 more pending. Critics voiced concerns that public, educational, and governmental access programming would suffer, that [...]

I recently returned from the first half of the Joint Committee on Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy hearing on cable franchising in Gardner Auditorium at the MA State House today. The near capacity-filled room was dotted with bright yellow, green, and pink stickers that read, “Don’t Mess with Access” worn by opponents of the bill.
City and [...]

The photo above is a slide from Mara Hancock’s (UC Berkeley) presentation during the “Next Steps I - New Structures and Efficiences” session at CCNMTL’s Video, Education, and Open Content conference. See more pics from Mara’s presentation and from the conference on Flickr.
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Here are my notes from Brian Newman’s (ReNew Media) talk at at CCNMTL’s Video, Education, and Open Content conference:
ReNew Media is founded by Rockefeller Foundation to help media artists with funding their projects. ReNew offers Media Arts Scholarships and in this process they hear a lot about what filmmakers and media artists do not [...]