Monday, February 4, 2008
Thursday, January 31, 2008
Kyra Phillips Reverse Oreo Comment
CNN news anchor Kyra Phillips jokes about making a "reverse oreo" with co-anchor Don Lemon and "Open House" show host, Gerri Willis.
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Caroline Kennedy Campaign Ad for Obama
Caroline Kennedy's campaign commercial for Barack Obama. Airing in 2008 Super Duper Tuesday Primary states just a week before the election. Yes we can! Si se puede!
Sunday, August 26, 2007
Burning Laser Hack
Love these hack videos. This is one of the coolest. There are others at http://www.kipkay.com. There's one to hack an Easy Button to make it say anything you want. One to make an underwater housing for a video camera. One to double your gas mileage. One cooler than the next. Not only cool but they will save you some money.
Thursday, March 29, 2007
Rescue Internet Radio: Sign the Petition
This is just a cut & paste job of email I got from freepress.net. Just passing it on.
Rescue Internet Radio: Sign the Petition
Online music is in danger. A recent ruling by an obscure regulatory board threatens to put independent and public radio on the Internet out of business.
The "Copyright Royalty Board" is dramatically increasing the royalties "webcasters" must pay every time they stream a song online. Public Internet radio like NPR is especially at risk.
The rules could shut down nonprofit and smaller commercial Internet radio outlets and force larger webcasters to play the same cookie-cutter music as Clear Channel. So much for new online alternatives.
This is not just another petition. The Copyright Royalty Board isn't used to hearing from the public, so your action can really make a difference. And we need to stop them before the new charges go into effect.
Artists must be compensated for their work. But the new regulations don't even differentiate between public outlets, small upstarts, and the largest commercial companies. The proposed increase would silence many outlets that play independent artists and musical genres you can't find anymore on the radio dial.
As soon as smaller webcasters start to attract a sizable audience, the royalty costs would be astronomical -- and likely fatal. And nonprofit stations like NPR should not be forced to pay so much money that they actually fear an increase in their listeners.
Industry-wide consolidation has destroyed musical diversity and shut out independent and local artists on broadcast radio. We can't let the same thing happen on the Internet.
The Copyright Royalty Board -- or if necessary, Congress -- needs to fix the rules so that artist and musicians thrive alongside a new generation of Internet radio webcasters. Send them a message by adding your name to our petition.
Tell Your Friends
Our goal is collect 50,000 signatures by Monday. Help us get there by telling all your friends that now is the time to take action.
Thanks for all you do,
Josh Silver
Executive Director
Free Press
www.freepress.net
Rescue Internet Radio: Sign the Petition
Online music is in danger. A recent ruling by an obscure regulatory board threatens to put independent and public radio on the Internet out of business.
The "Copyright Royalty Board" is dramatically increasing the royalties "webcasters" must pay every time they stream a song online. Public Internet radio like NPR is especially at risk.
The rules could shut down nonprofit and smaller commercial Internet radio outlets and force larger webcasters to play the same cookie-cutter music as Clear Channel. So much for new online alternatives.
This is not just another petition. The Copyright Royalty Board isn't used to hearing from the public, so your action can really make a difference. And we need to stop them before the new charges go into effect.
Artists must be compensated for their work. But the new regulations don't even differentiate between public outlets, small upstarts, and the largest commercial companies. The proposed increase would silence many outlets that play independent artists and musical genres you can't find anymore on the radio dial.
As soon as smaller webcasters start to attract a sizable audience, the royalty costs would be astronomical -- and likely fatal. And nonprofit stations like NPR should not be forced to pay so much money that they actually fear an increase in their listeners.
Industry-wide consolidation has destroyed musical diversity and shut out independent and local artists on broadcast radio. We can't let the same thing happen on the Internet.
The Copyright Royalty Board -- or if necessary, Congress -- needs to fix the rules so that artist and musicians thrive alongside a new generation of Internet radio webcasters. Send them a message by adding your name to our petition.
Tell Your Friends
Our goal is collect 50,000 signatures by Monday. Help us get there by telling all your friends that now is the time to take action.
Thanks for all you do,
Josh Silver
Executive Director
Free Press
www.freepress.net
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
We Are the Media
When I think about what I wrote in the last post, and I look at Zennie's video and I see so many cameras. So many people doing what he's doing. And so many people are doing it on Youtube and Google Video and Live Video and Revver and iFilm and so many other outlets, it makes you realize that in a sense we are becoming, or that we already are the media. That the old paradigm of waiting for some elite group of "journalists" to tell us what's news and what's not is fading slowly and thankfully away. We inform ourselves and we do a much more thorough and complete job of it than the conventional media, who are by definition not democratic and who, because of who owns them, and their closeness to power, must necessarily have their own agendas.
Barack Obama Hosted By Sen. Barbara Boxer In San Francisco
This is a video by Zennie Abraham, one of the people I met at As One San Francisco. He's in one of the videos below. It is a great example of the kind of citizen journalism that Youtube has the potential to produce. And is producing. It gives us a view we don't always get from the conventional media. I'm still trying to get around to the videos of people I met at As One SF and as I do I'm more and more impressed.
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