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Rosetimes - Online Video Interviews in the Style of Charlie Rose Interviews

This past summer some friends and I came up with a way to conduct video interviews over the Internet with crystal clear audio. We use a camcorder at each site, recording audio locally, and then merge the video files afterwards.

For those who might be interested, an article about "rosetimes" was published earlier this week on the Newsforge web site.

I envision a day when grassroots interviews of community members drowns out the shoutfests on television. Read more...

Wikimania 2006

Wikimania 2006: The International Wikimedia Conference

Cambridge, MA

August 4-6, 2006

by Jessica Duda
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Rosetimes -- online video interviews

The other day I started wondering whether it's possible to conduct video interviews over the Internet in the style of a Charlie Rose interview -- with crystal clear audio. It turns out there is a way of doing so by using a camcorder at each side of the interview -- recording video and audio locally. Read more...

Center fellow Martin Lucas at Alliance for Community Media conference

Center fellow Martin Lucas presented a new video, "Making the Music You Want to Hear", at the annual gathering of cable access programmers, the Alliance for Community Media, in Boston. Along with Washington DC-based community development specialist Jessica Venegas and Brooklyn Cable Access TV Director of Education and Community Partnerships, Carlos Pareja, Lucas showed the 17-minute film showcasing three stories of successful public engagement with community media centers. Read more...

Summer Reading: Crowds, Collaboration, Convergence and the Public

Summer is a great time to take a breath and open those books that stacked up during the press of events. I've been fascinated by the overlapping themes of collaboration, participation and convergence. Read more...