[videoblogging] Videos from Iran
Amazing videos from citizen journalists/participants in Iran on Twitter. I suggest following #iranelection and watch the news flow. I am amazed at how people are getting info out of the country through back doors when so many of the channels are being blocked. Stan Hirson http://ThinkingGlobalActingLocal.com http://PinePlainsViews.com
Re: [videoblogging] Videos from Iran
The way this has all unfolded is so amazing, and a realization of what so many of us have hoped for web video changing the world, and hopefully bringing about peace. On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 8:52 AM, Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones shir...@taconic.net wrote: Amazing videos from citizen journalists/participants in Iran on Twitter. I suggest following #iranelection and watch the news flow. I am amazed at how people are getting info out of the country through back doors when so many of the channels are being blocked. Stan Hirson http://ThinkingGlobalActingLocal.com http://PinePlainsViews.com -- Jeffrey Taylor 912 Cole St, #349 San Francisco, CA 94117 USA Mobile: +14157281264 Fax: +33177722734 http://twitter.com/jeffreytaylor http://organicconversations.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:videoblogging-dig...@yahoogroups.com mailto:videoblogging-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: videoblogging-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] Videos from Iran
Amazing videos from citizen journalists/participants in Iran on Twitter. I suggest following #iranelection and watch the news flow. I am amazed at how people are getting info out of the country through back doors when so many of the channels are being blocked. As Jeffrey said, we used to talk about these possibilities with videobloggingwhere you could get instant video out of a country during a tumultuous period. Where we would get video directly from people...instead of waiting for it to filter through CNN or the news wires. Now that it's actually happening in Iran, it seems very normal. Natural. Expected. I don't see much video where people are explaining how they feel or talking into the camera. This is probably a result from fear of being tracked down by the government. Also, wide shots of protests is a universal language. But personal video could be translated quickly and would add faces to the story. Humanize it further. Ive been seeing comments on twitter like I didnt know the men dressed so well. I see men in the streets wearing gucci. Its little details like this that change the whole perception of how we see another culture. Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://jaydedman.com http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790
[videoblogging] Opera Unite, a game changer?
An interesting idea, being able to share files, photo's etc all within a web browser. It could have tremendous potentional for video...I am curious to see what happens.. http://tech.yahoo.com/news/nf/20090616/tc_nf/67188 Opera on Tuesday unveiled a technology that aims to disrupt the client-server computing model of the Web. Dubbed Opera Unite, the technology turns any computer into both a client and a server so it can interact with and serve content to other computers directly across the Web. Unite eliminates the need for third-party servers. Opera CEO John von Tetzchner said Opera is opening up the full potential of the Web to everyone. PCs decentralized computing from large mainframes, he said, and Opera Unite is taking the next step by decentralizing the cloud. With server capability in the browser, Web developers can create Web applications with profound ease, von Tetzchner said. Consumers have the flexibility to choose private and efficient ways of sharing information. We believe Opera Unite is one of our most significant innovations yet, because it changes forever the fundamental fabric of the Web. More Privacy, Open Standards Opera pointed to the benefits of Unite for both consumers and Web developers. For consumers, the company said Unite's cadre of services offers greater control of private data and makes it possible to share data with any device equipped with a modern Web browser. On the Web developer side, Opera Unite simplifies the equation. Since Opera Unite services are based on the same open Web standards as Web sites today, creating cutting-edge Web services is less complex. Opera said Unite makes creating a full Web service as easy as coding a Web page. What interests me about Opera Unite is how current technology and the social world are now interconnected, said Molly Holzschlag, an Opera Web evangelist. Using open standards, including HTML, CSS and JavaScript, developers and even enthusiasts with a little standards savvy can make their own Opera Unite service. Opera Unite allows people the ability to be imaginative with their skills and create a wide range of technical and social applications using the same open standards used today. Building Your Own Cloud Opera Unite is available in a special version of the Opera 10 desktop browser from Opera Labs. Opera Unite services include File Sharing, Web Server, Media Player, Photo Sharing, The Lounge, and Fridge. Most of those services are familiar to Web surfers, while The Lounge and Fridge are Opera's unique spin on Web-based communications. The Lounge is a self-contained chat service running on your computer. A user's friends can access the chat room via a direct link. That means they are not required to sign into any particular service. Depending on the user's privacy settings, only a generated password is needed in order for people to log in to the chat room. Fridge users can post a note on their friends' virtual refrigerators. When a user shares a direct link to their refrigerator, the users and their friends, family or colleagues can exchange notes securely and privately in real time. Michael Gartenberg, a vice president at Interpret, called Unite a powerful concept that could give it a unique position in the browser wars. The challenge, he said, is evangelizing developers to build applications on top of Unite and explaining to consumers how this enables them to build their own cloud services rather than relying on companies like Yahoo, Google or Microsoft. Certainly there's enough practical features to get people using Unite, Gartenberg said. With this type of technology, anyone could host their own Twitter service for themselves and their friends if they wanted to, for example. There's a lot of potential, bandwidth and horsepower here that people can tap into. Opera is definitely on to something innovative. Heath http://heathparks.com
RE: [videoblogging] Videos from Iran also from Peru
citizen journalism is being the key to break the filtered media in Peru...more and more amateur videos are bringing up the true facts of what happened on June 5 th at La curva del diablo Bagua Peru massacre...native communities fighting for their right to protect their lands in the jungle of Peru-Amazonia...I was there on a 12 days trip and I can tell that many people got handycams and recorded incidents during this long long strike to repeal law decrees that contribute to destroy one of the lungs of the world the Amazon...they are starting to publish them and are contributing to find the truth and the ones who are guilty... To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com From: jay.ded...@gmail.com Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 16:06:30 -0400 Subject: Re: [videoblogging] Videos from Iran Amazing videos from citizen journalists/participants in Iran on Twitter. I suggest following #iranelection and watch the news flow. I am amazed at how people are getting info out of the country through back doors when so many of the channels are being blocked. As Jeffrey said, we used to talk about these possibilities with videobloggingwhere you could get instant video out of a country during a tumultuous period. Where we would get video directly from people...instead of waiting for it to filter through CNN or the news wires. Now that it's actually happening in Iran, it seems very normal. Natural. Expected. I don't see much video where people are explaining how they feel or talking into the camera. This is probably a result from fear of being tracked down by the government. Also, wide shots of protests is a universal language. But personal video could be translated quickly and would add faces to the story. Humanize it further. Ive been seeing comments on twitter like I didnt know the men dressed so well. I see men in the streets wearing gucci. Its little details like this that change the whole perception of how we see another culture. Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://jaydedman.com http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790 Yahoo! Groups Links _ Invite your mail contacts to join your friends list with Windows Live Spaces. It's easy! http://spaces.live.com/spacesapi.aspx?wx_action=createwx_url=/friends.aspxmkt=en-us [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Videos from Iran also from Peru
citizen journalism is being the key to break the filtered media in Peru...more and more amateur videos are bringing up the true facts of what happened on June 5 th at La curva del diablo Bagua Peru massacre...native communities fighting for their right to protect their lands in the jungle of Peru-Amazonia...I was there on a 12 days trip and I can tell that many people got handycams and recorded incidents during this long long strike to repeal law decrees that contribute to destroy one of the lungs of the world the Amazon...they are starting to publish them and are contributing to find the truth and the ones who are guilty... any links to these videos? There seems to be a needed combination for it all to work. --people with cheap cameras/phones who use them regularly in their personal lives --people who also have access to the internet or cell network...and use it regularly. --and people who also are plugged into a huge diverse network of people...and communicate regularly in their everyday life When all these things are in place, then it's really ready to not just expose a tough reality...but possibly do something about it. Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://jaydedman.com http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790
Re: [videoblogging] Opera Unite, a game changer?
as long as it proves to be secure, i've always admired the idea. uses to have a firefox plugin that did this as well... and some other simple web server apps over the years. it does still rely on opera proxy servers but that's just for negotiating connections, not for file transfers. i'm interested in anything that brings up some user independence. i'm not against cloud services at all. i just like to see a balance. and stuff like Unite and littleshoot.org are on my radar these days. Google Wave as well... though that's going to be a more complicated install and not for normal users... but in the same vein of federated services. it's also interesting to me how many people pay for web hosting with often times enormous storage and bandwidth capacity but do not leverage it in any way except to make use of a domain name, maybe a wordpress blog and some miscel things. being that the vast majority of users will not need to be concerned with cost of surpassing limits (and usually their are safeguards now), most people could actually get away with serving their own media off their own hosted servers. how many 'natural visits' would you get on youtube or vimeo or blip anyway? if you can leverage broadcast mediums like twitter to spread a url, then that's prob good enough. as soon as i have time to re-organize my own digital chaos... i'm going to stop using 3rd party services for hosting, although i may leverage archive.org for backups and long-term storage. independence is the new free @sull On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 4:50 PM, Heath heathpa...@msn.com wrote: An interesting idea, being able to share files, photo's etc all within a web browser. It could have tremendous potentional for video...I am curious to see what happens.. http://tech.yahoo.com/news/nf/20090616/tc_nf/67188 Opera on Tuesday unveiled a technology that aims to disrupt the client-server computing model of the Web. Dubbed Opera Unite, the technology turns any computer into both a client and a server so it can interact with and serve content to other computers directly across the Web. Unite eliminates the need for third-party servers. Opera CEO John von Tetzchner said Opera is opening up the full potential of the Web to everyone. PCs decentralized computing from large mainframes, he said, and Opera Unite is taking the next step by decentralizing the cloud. With server capability in the browser, Web developers can create Web applications with profound ease, von Tetzchner said. Consumers have the flexibility to choose private and efficient ways of sharing information. We believe Opera Unite is one of our most significant innovations yet, because it changes forever the fundamental fabric of the Web. More Privacy, Open Standards Opera pointed to the benefits of Unite for both consumers and Web developers. For consumers, the company said Unite's cadre of services offers greater control of private data and makes it possible to share data with any device equipped with a modern Web browser. On the Web developer side, Opera Unite simplifies the equation. Since Opera Unite services are based on the same open Web standards as Web sites today, creating cutting-edge Web services is less complex. Opera said Unite makes creating a full Web service as easy as coding a Web page. What interests me about Opera Unite is how current technology and the social world are now interconnected, said Molly Holzschlag, an Opera Web evangelist. Using open standards, including HTML, CSS and JavaScript, developers and even enthusiasts with a little standards savvy can make their own Opera Unite service. Opera Unite allows people the ability to be imaginative with their skills and create a wide range of technical and social applications using the same open standards used today. Building Your Own Cloud Opera Unite is available in a special version of the Opera 10 desktop browser from Opera Labs. Opera Unite services include File Sharing, Web Server, Media Player, Photo Sharing, The Lounge, and Fridge. Most of those services are familiar to Web surfers, while The Lounge and Fridge are Opera's unique spin on Web-based communications. The Lounge is a self-contained chat service running on your computer. A user's friends can access the chat room via a direct link. That means they are not required to sign into any particular service. Depending on the user's privacy settings, only a generated password is needed in order for people to log in to the chat room. Fridge users can post a note on their friends' virtual refrigerators. When a user shares a direct link to their refrigerator, the users and their friends, family or colleagues can exchange notes securely and privately in real time. Michael Gartenberg, a vice president at Interpret, called Unite a powerful concept that could give it a unique position in the browser wars. The challenge, he said, is evangelizing developers to build applications on top of Unite
RE: [videoblogging] Videos from Iran also from Peru
they are ON for hours and then some powerful influencial guy do some magic and those videos are down ...they circulate underground I have been collecting them through youtube (and translating-adding subts) and I also have some of my own...who is also collecting them are the ones who are supporting this cause. Independent media is mute in here... search in youtube the tags june 5 , junio 5 , peru massacre , bagua these videos come and go...the ones I have watched and downloaded ...they are not on line anymore I am re editing them with english subts and uploading in a temporary youtube account-which I guess---sooner or later is gonna be banned ..suspended or blocked http://www.youtube.com/PhotoVideoBlogger John Dkar I can not post them in my main channel-cause I would be banned http://www.youtube.com/johndkar To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com From: jay.ded...@gmail.com Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:26:32 -0400 Subject: Re: [videoblogging] Videos from Iran also from Peru citizen journalism is being the key to break the filtered media in Peru...more and more amateur videos are bringing up the true facts of what happened on June 5 th at La curva del diablo Bagua Peru massacre...native communities fighting for their right to protect their lands in the jungle of Peru-Amazonia...I was there on a 12 days trip and I can tell that many people got handycams and recorded incidents during this long long strike to repeal law decrees that contribute to destroy one of the lungs of the world the Amazon...they are starting to publish them and are contributing to find the truth and the ones who are guilty... any links to these videos? There seems to be a needed combination for it all to work. --people with cheap cameras/phones who use them regularly in their personal lives --people who also have access to the internet or cell network...and use it regularly. --and people who also are plugged into a huge diverse network of people...and communicate regularly in their everyday life When all these things are in place, then it's really ready to not just expose a tough reality...but possibly do something about it. Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://jaydedman.com http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790 Yahoo! Groups Links _ Drag n dropGet easy photo sharing with Windows Live Photos. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowslive/products/photos.aspx [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:videoblogging-dig...@yahoogroups.com mailto:videoblogging-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: videoblogging-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] Opera Unite, a game changer?
indeed. every domestic computer for several years can be a web server, on os x just tick a box and anything in your sites folder is now live online. always imagined a future where instead of server farms there would just be lots of small servers everywhere, where if your server breaks for a day or 2 then the sky really isn't going to fall. main reasons this has not happened: 1. when infrastructure rolled out they assumed we were consumers not creators or sharers so bandwidth down much greater than up 2. while computers can be web servers at click of a checkbox little has been done on the domestic end to teach/show/build apps that utilise this, i think because the ISP industry was invented and took on this role 3. tech managers are terrified of the idea of everyone's computer being their server, because i). falls outside of existing management models ii) distributes skill and expertise away from professional silos, iii) the idea of everyone being a peer in a technical, institutional and cultural environment falls too far outside of existing paradigms. hopefully it will change. For example telephones and their history of implementation and use show a way, but I'm not optimistic only because of how conservative, entrenched and powerful existing practices are. On 17/06/2009, at 6:50 AM, Heath wrote: An interesting idea, being able to share files, photo's etc all within a web browser. It could have tremendous potentional for video...I am curious to see what happens.. cheers Adrian Miles adrian.mi...@rmit.edu.au bachelor communication honours coordinator vogmae.net.au
