I Was just down at the Capitol in DC shooting congressional hearing on the future of video. The Chairman of the Telecommunications and the Internet Subcommittee, Ed Markey, of Massachusetts. shot video of the proceedings, vlogger style, to be YouTubed after the hearing.
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Jim Long // May 10, 2007 at 12:39 pm
uh oh Markey is turning the tables on the hearing room cameras!! I guess that would be “PGC”… politician generated content!
Jill Foster // May 10, 2007 at 3:11 pm
Excellent! Jonny’s officially gone Hillvloggin’.
Politician Generated Content | Verge New Media // May 10, 2007 at 5:10 pm
[…] 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 generated content generation by hoisting a DV camera and shooting from the dais. His staff (presumably) posted the video on Youtube. […]
Carl Weaver // May 10, 2007 at 6:17 pm
Awesome!
Greater Democracy » Blog Archive » Videoblogging as an antidote to too much TV. // May 11, 2007 at 9:49 am
[…] Perhaps it is the passivity of so much television viewing that is the main culprit. Passive television viewers aren’t typically presented with the idea of ‘expanding opportunity’. The biggest opportunities they have are texting their votes to American Idol. The real opportunities seem to be reserved for those who make media. Perhaps our education system needs to be changed to help students understand the great opportunities that are available to them as a result of technological innovation. Jonny Goldstien has a very interesting blog entry that relates to this. He videotaped Ed Markey, Chairman of the Telecommunications and the Internet Subcommittee, as Markey videotaped the hearings. People can bring their cameras to congress and create their own videos. There is even a new project, Open Source Cinema where people are working collaboratively to create a documentary about copyright in a digital age. […]
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