

Alex Polvi, friend of Miro and a community marketer for Mozilla, has won a Vidoop contest called How do you identify? with a very cute video (see below). Vidoop is a company that takes a cool approach to internet logins, with an OpenID service that gives you one universal login and an option for image grid based identification (take a look). Alex is donating his $1000 prize to Miro and Vidoop is matching that. Thanks so much guys! Here’s Alex’s winning video (with a shout-out to Miro): A little insight into how I identify. Shot with my iSight + iMovie.
Democracy Now! Friday, April 4, 2008 Democracy Now! Special: Martin Luther King's Life and Legacy 40 Years After His Assassination The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated forty years ago today. He was in Memphis, Tennessee to march with sanitation workers demanding a better wage. We spend the hour on his life and legacy. We hear from the Rev. Jesse Jackson, who was with King at the Lorraine Motel, where he was killed; Harry Belafonte, who was with Coretta Scott King at the King home in Atlanta on April 4, 1968; Dr. Vincent Harding, a close friend and colleague of King’s who wrote King’s major antiwar speech, “Beyond Vietnam;” Taylor Rogers, a former sanitation worker in Memphis; Charles Cabbage, a longtime activist and community organizer in Memphis who met with King hours before he died; Jerry Williams, one of the only African American detectives in the Memphis Police Department in 1968; Judge D’Army Bailey, a circuit court judge in Memphis and co-founder of the National Civil Rights Museum; and we hear King in his own words, giving his major speech against the war in Vietnam and his last public address given the night before his death in Memphis, Tennessee.
From the Oscar Nominated Director that brought you Fifty Percent Grey, Ruari Robinson presents you his newest creation, The Silent City in Full Resolution HD. This film is amazing with stunning CGI, great performances and an entertaining storyline. Enjoy!
The best way to deal with piracy is to go in hard - real hard. It doesn’t matter if you upset non-pirates or alienate your customers, it doesn’t matter if you make children cry. Pirates are evil and they need to be dealt with severely - this documentary shows how it’s best done, using intimidation and violence MSSG Logo In the time it took you to read the introduction to this post, movie pirates have cost the MPAA $12.7m in lost revenue, several thousand people in the movie industry have lost their jobs, and civilization (as we know it) is under threat. Faced with this nightmare scenario, drastic action is called for, as any delay could exacerbate the already horrendous losses listed above. It’s time to stop movie piracy in its tracks - right now - by letting loose the “Movie Screening Security Guards”, armed with the bluntest instruments known to man - and night vision goggles. MSSG Night VisionMSSG is a four-man security team, here to serve and protect the integrity of the Hollywood movie industry. They say they’re here to hunt down strange people - the type that download stuff from the Internet and anyone carrying large bags “like a suicide bomber” into a movie theater. Their training allows them to see things normal people can’t, so when they’re confronted with what appears to be a kid with a cellphone, they do the right thing - and immediately destroy it, rightly terrifying the child. MSSG Celebration “The world needs morals and integrity,” says the MSSG boss, “and when someone’s going around recording films that cost millions of dollars to make, and showing them to all their little snot-nosed friends while they’re picking their noses, well that’s just wrong. When you take morals and integrity away from a human being, I ask you: What then? What do you have left then? Taken from http://torrentfreak.com/movie-screening-security-guards-take-on-the-pirates-080326/
Create the mobile Internet future Welcome! Join the Moblin community to create the mobile Internet experience! Moblin.org is an open source community for sharing software technologies, ideas, projects, code, and applications to create an untethered computing experience across Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs), Netbooks, and embedded devices. The computing hardware is based on Intel® Atom™ Processor Technology, which requires software optimized for low power, low footprint, high performance, wireless, and graphics to deliver a full Internet experience. The Moblin Core Linux Stack, an integrated open source software stack serves as a starting point for developing applications for these devices. The first devices using Moblin based software are the Mobile Internet Devices generally available from device manufacturers by summer of 2008.
Lisa Hannigan in conversation with Jim Carroll about pies, the Electric Picnic, school days and her forthcoming debut album. credits: camera: myles claffey and denice woods sound: tiffany holder set by natalie winterlich and henrietta thomas grading and compression by myles claffey post production david costello directed by donal scannell produced by jimmy costello and susan scannell electric picnic is a pod concerts/aiken promotions event electricpicnictv 2007 is a pod concerts/grasp/scanarama production funded by O2 thanks to una molloy at turning pirate; john reynolds, clare byrne and siobhan o'dowd at pod concerts, damian devaney, colm codd, tanya townsend and joanne donnlean at O2.
FULL clip from the show. Two IT nerds watch an anti-piracy commercial at the beginning of a pirated DVD. :D Don't you hate those annoying FBI warnings? This is from The IT Crowd, UK version. The episode's called "Moss and the German", from season 2. Chopper Read did a nice stand-up routine about this MPAA ad too.
Programa Piloto OLPC - Arahuay - Canta, PerúJimGettys1 min - Nov 11, 2007Programa Piloto OLPC - Arahuay, Canta, Perú OLPC Pilot Program, Arahuay, Peru - a video of the first OLPC pilot school in Peru. This video was produced by people in the Peruvian Ministry of Education working for Oscar Becerra, and is posted with his permission.
Nicholas Negroponte outlines the vision behind the $100 laptop OLPC and the challenges in getting it produced.
We speak with Eric Deritis from AMD as he gives us an overview of the OLPC. The One Laptop Per Child project is an important one, and Eric not only shows us a near-final build of the hardware and software, but he also gives us some background on the project itself, and why it's impact could be so huge. One quote he gave us was that the product isn't meant to reach the next billion people in the world, but rather it's meant to reach the last billion people. Powerful stuff.
The Opera Software CTO shows off his OLPC running a customized Opera browser. Author: snackfight Keywords: olpc opera browser wired wirednews Added: March 2, 2007
More info blogged at http://geekvideo.blogspot.com/2007/06/inner-working-of-one-laptop-per-child.html Author: GeekVideo Keywords: OLPC Mesh Network Added: June 10, 2007
In 1997, a film crew accompanied an Interplast volunteer surgical team to An Giang province in Vietnam's Mekong Delta. The filmmakers donated their services to document the team's experiences and produce A Story of Healing, which earned the 1997 Academy Award for best documentary short subject. The 28-minute film is followed by a short epilogue after the credits which follows-up on two patients 16 months after their surgeries.Ten years after its original release, A Story of Healing has been released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivatives license (by-nc-nd) and is available for free online.If you enjoy this film or feel compelled by Interplast's work, then please donate to us so we can continue and expand our work, or subscribe to our blog feed.
Dear Potential Donor: Online video is growing rapidly, but is also facing a crisis: a few very large sites have dominant market share and cases of corporate censorship are happening every single day. Creators are stuck. Miro is leading the fight to ensure that video online can be open to every creator, anywhere in the world. This is truly a battle for the future of free speech and media access. Miro is software that can be one of the most important solutions to keeping online video open and democratic. With broadcast TV, a few companies own a few channels; Miro creates an online system for video that is open to an unlimited number of channels and websites. The future of online video and TV can be as open and democratic as the internet itself as long as Miro is in the game. Like any 501c3, all donations to the Participatory Culture Foundation (creators of Miro) are 100% tax-deductible. But what makes giving to Miro uniquely powerful is that at the same time that we are directly advancing our mission, we are also building for the long-term. Since our 1.0 release in November 2007, we have moved quickly to create an earned income program that, in the model of Mozilla, will eventually support all of our activities. We need your help so that we can continue to grow Miro to the point that it can become self-sustaining. Your investment in open media right now will pay benefits to everyone for many years to come. We started our work in 2005 as a nonprofit because we could see what was going to and can still happen in this emerging market of online video—we're a proactive media activism organization with a product that can effectively fight for one of the most winnable fights against large and fierce companies we're facing now. We are always happy to discuss giving options and give you more details about our organization and our business plan. Please don't hesitate to talk to me personally to learn more—you can reach me at nicholas(at)pculture.org or 1-508-963-7832. We are also happy to introduce you to some of our current supporters who can tell you more about their giving experience and why they have chosen to invest in our work. Sincerely, Nicholas Reville
Supporters of Open Media: Miro is made by a non-profit organization that is leading the fight for open internet video: hundreds of thousands of people use our open software every month, we've powered the distribution of thousands of independent creators and public broadcasters, and we're demonstrating why net neutrality matters. Miro has a chance to become a desktop application for a truly mass audience. If we can reach this point, we'll have ensured that open video distribution, without censorship or corporate gatekeepers, will be here to stay. But we're at a critical moment. Our team cares deeply about our mission and we need to ensure that our work can continue. Two large donors have promised to commit funding if we can also build strong support from our users. There is no more important time than right now for you to donate—we're taking steps towards self-sustainability—in the meantime we urgently need your support. I hope you’ll join our effort to build a more open media. Sincerely, Nicholas Reville, Executive Director
A 74 second introduction to Miro, the internet TV application. This video is shown on the first load of Miro once you have downloaded and installed it.
Many Miro users don't realize that there is a social mission driving our project. Last week I recorded Nick Reville, our executive director, giving his pitch for open video and Miro.If you're wondering how a piece of software could possibly pave the way to a more independent and democratic media space, definitely watch this video.
On or Off, with nothing in between. Remember when booting a computer gave you enough time to make a cup of coffee? Not anymore... With Splashtop you can read e-mail, chat with friends, or surf the Web seconds after pushing the power button!
The third part in a three part series. In December 2007 the founders of The Pirate Bay received over 4000 pages of legal documents ending a long investigation by the Swedish police. Dayrobber.com met up with Peter Sunde and Fredrik Neij in Stockholm to get their view on filesharing, the entertainment industry and doing business on the Internet.