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Today’s Videos
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Mon, 08/21/2006 - 16:02Let me take a few moments to highlight a couple videos I stumbled across today. The first was done by a high school class in Danbury Connecticut. Please visit http://www.dhsthepromise.com/.
The second is http://www.thedreamthatwasamerica.com. They are both great videos. Unlike the raw footage shot by an individual, these are highly polished videos put together by teams. Yet I think they illustrate other aspects of what can be done with videos shared online.
In my email with Tim Salem, who wrote “The Promise” video, I talked a little bit about creating some sort of ‘behind the scenes’ video about how “The Promise” was put together. The idea is to encourage and empower other people, whether they are individuals doing citizen journalism, or high school classes creating powerful projects.
Are there other videos out there that we should know about?
The YouTube Election
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Sun, 08/20/2006 - 11:24(Originally posted on various blogs in various formats,
OAC,
The Official Lamont Blog
and Greater Democracy.)
Today’s New York Times has this article,
The YouTube Election.
But YouTube may be changing the political process in more profound ways,
for good and perhaps not for the better, according to strategists in both
parties. If campaigns resemble reality television, where any moment of a
candidate's life can be captured on film and posted on the Web, will the
last shreds of authenticity be stripped from our public officials? Will
candidates be pushed further into a scripted bubble? In short, will YouTube
democratize politics, or destroy it?
Well, for me, good campaigns don't resemble reality television. Sure, some people may try to use something like YouTube to make their campaign like reality television, and most people will recognize how vapid such a campaign really is.
No, good campaigns resemble the political discussions over Sunday dinner. We all tried to be polite, no matter how hard it was. We struggled with issues. Sometimes, we might even admit that we had said something wrong.
Demo from MGP2006
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Thu, 06/29/2006 - 14:51
A quick demo of a video shot with a Cannon PowerShot during the Media Giraffe Project conference
New Media
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Sun, 06/25/2006 - 21:45Sunday evening at 9 PM EST, there is a U2 performance on Second Life. For more information about these performances, check out this. The folks behind this are particularly on ONE.org and its European counterpart,
. You can read about the group in this post.
Then, Tuesday, I will be attending the Games for Change annual conference in New York City. To a certain extent, the U2 in Second Life is an interesting Game for Change. It will be interesting to see what some of the other Games for Change will be.
Games for Change is both Tuesday and Wednesday. I will cover Tuesday’s event, and if I’m lucky, some of Wednesday’s event. But, Wednesday is when the Media Giraffe Conference starts. I’ll be talking about politics and online videos
Fiona, talking about Garfield
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Tue, 06/20/2006 - 19:48
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Fiona is a natural born video blogger. On the way home from her grandparents house, she said she wanted to make another movie.
In this clip, she talks about visiting her grandparents and going to see the movie Garfield.
This video was originally shared on blip.tv by ahynes1 with a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license.
Uploaded by Aldon on 20 Jun '06, 7.35pm EDT.
