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Embedded With the Candidates, NBC News Videoblogging the Campaign

June 25, 2007

video blogging tools of the trade So is this your idea of fun? Are you a political junkie? Are you good at multi-tasking? Do you work well with liltte or no sleep? If the answer to ALL of these questions is “yes”, I suggest you look into a once-in-a-lifetime (or once every four years at [...]

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Politician Generated Content

May 10, 2007

DC Media Maker and web 2.0 raconteur Jonny Goldstein files a report today from Capitol Hill, where House Subcommittee Chairman, Ed Markey, (D., MA) was holding a hearing on the “Future of Video”. Congressman Markey made “news” today by making media! Markey, accustomed to looking AT lenses, not THROUGH them, paid homage to the user [...]

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The Live Video Revolution

April 26, 2007

As the largest collection of live trucks my colleagues and I had ever witnessed beamed images of the horrifying massacre at Virginia Tech, a live TV revolution was quietly happening on the internet. Prompted by “always on” Justin.tv, suddednly everyone’s video had to be live. Tech evangelist Chris Pirillo was live streaming on Ustream, when [...]

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Today’s Shooting Assignment: The Pentagon’s V22 Osprey

April 13, 2007

photo credit: US Navy Photo No those AREN’T Pentagon correspondents being booted out the back for publishing DOD leaks. Today I’m off to Quantico Marine Base to shoot this wacky chopper..plane..whirly-bird thingy. If nothing else, it’ll be good pictures. Can I just point out tha today is Friday the 13th? Given the lethal history of [...]

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Josh Wolf, the Blogger Code of Ethics and the Title of Journalist

April 12, 2007

I’m a bit suspect of all the latest kerfuffle over a “Blogger Code of Ethics”.  In it, Tim O’Reilly and many other well-intentioned folk are trying to codify behavior on the internet.  It all seems a little too group-think for my tastes, and while I’m sure there are noble and useful ideas contained within such a [...]

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Josh Kinberg files a field report for Rocketboom.

March 29, 2007

Josh files a Rocketboom field report about free speech colliding with “national secuirty”. I met Josh at VON07 and I assure you he’s NOT a threat. Hey, not for nuthin’, but hats off to OLD media for telling the story too! But it’s Josh’s personalization of the story that helps me connect. Josh at VON07 [...]

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