Takin' notes re: a road-ready team of vloggers Dave. That's kinda what Road Node 101 will explore starting 9/29.
How to hit the road, vlog the process, and learn & teach and give along the way. Jan P.S. If you're interested in being part of it, the trip begins in NYC, then to Saratoga Springs, Worcester and Lowell MA, Echochamber Project in Maine, Nova Scotia, Montreal and Philadelphia. The Road Node 101 email list is the first link in the sig, below. -- "It isn't done alone. Pay more." http://groups.yahoo.com/group/roadnode101/ - education http://fauxpress.blogspot.com - motion http://blog.urbanartadventures.com - sound http://vlogpresskit.blogspot.com - media http://the-hold.blogspot.com - literature . On Sep 6, 2005, at 5:30 PM, Dave Huth wrote: > --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, andrew michael baron > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> we're looking for things >>> that *videobloggers* can do, presumably via their videoblogs. >>> >> >> >> Document. Its not even a question. > > > This is the core of what we can do in service to our society as video > bloggers. > > We don't have to become journalists (some of us will, most of us > can't, that's not the > point...) but _together_ we can begin to fulfill _the FUNCTION of > journalism_. > > I wish there had been a large, loosely but passionately networked > group of no-bullshit > vloggers who, in an organized and mutually supportive way, could have > "activated" along > the gulf coast to send one person into every New Orleans neighborhood > with his or her > camera and a bag of minicasettes and batteries, and just stand in hip > deep sewage every > day SHOOTING FOOTAGE ALL DAY LONG. > > If that had been the case we would RIGHT NOW be spending our time > doing much more > constructive things as video bloggers other than sitting thousands of > miles away watching > Geraldo cry and arguing about whether George Bush is the devil. > > We would as a community be concentrating all of our efforts on > retrieving, copying, > editing, hosting, posting, archiving, indexing, and distributing > thousands of hours of > footage in an unstoppable Mainstream Media runaround. > > Maybe over the coming months and year we can explore ways of aligning > ourselves toward > something like this so that the next time (and the next time and the > next time and the > next time...) we will be ready. > > Dave > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back! http://us.click.yahoo.com/T8sf5C/tzNLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
