RIP: A Remix Manifesto

RIP: a Remix Manifesto

A VERY engaging and UPtempo doc exploring one of the most important issues of our time: corporate control of intellectual property - including music, films, and even life itself! This is about piracy and so much more - like your ability to borrow, quote, re-use, critique, create...

The re-mix movement, fueled by the participatory nature of of our evolving convergence culture, stands as a beacon of resistance, hope, freedom, liberated mice, and...FUNK

Lead the way, GIRL TALK!

DOWNLOAD the entire documentary at

http://www.ripremix.com/

REMIX the doc itself & contribute to the project at 
 http://opensourcecinema.org/

The David Letterman Affair

Old Media meets New Media in revelation of sordid late-night affair!
Read all about it. David Letterman's affair backlash.



Letterman admits to affair. Fans are abuzz trying to "spoil" the story by "sleuthing" all over the web for details. "video search: letterman affair"

Old media CBS is protective, plays cat & mouse game with YouTubers, keeps video confession off cyber-air-waves.No mention of on-air confession on Letterman's show web page. Comments section is on fire!

Twitter's buzzing. Search #letterman.
Blogs are buzzing. Type "blog:david letterman affair" in Google search for 50,000 returns.

Recording Power to the People

A great summary of tips & strategies for adding video to tell your community stories from Community Media Workshop.

Power to the "little brother" with a camera.

This is useful for non-profits, citizen activists, and anybody who wants to enhance their online presence and tell their stories with compelling video.

It will become relevant to our final project later in the term.

Ethnic Media Survive in Sinking Market

From National Public Radio
Though these are grim times for major news organizations across the country, a few organizations — often labeled "ethnic media" — are thriving.

Many of these newspapers and broadcast stations are doing well because they've tapped into an expanding audience — the sons and daughters of immigrants.

Listen to the story on NPR
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=102802880

The Press & Dissent

The press thrives on fostering dissent. It is in their interest, as dissent keeps us tuned in. Dissent (conflict) is at the heart of drama. Keep this in mind next time you watch "the news."

A coalition of sentiments is not for the interest of printers. They, like the clergy, live by the zeal they can kindle and the schisms they can create. It is contest of opinion in politics as well as religion which makes us take great interest in them and bestow our money liberally on those who furnish aliment to our appetite... So the printers can never leave us in a state of perfect rest and union of opinion. They would be no longer useful and would have to go to the plough."
--Thomas Jefferson to Elbridge Gerry, 1801.

Can there be an alternative? Is news on the web different? How?

Facebook & Journalism: What you Should Know

From Mashable.com, Facebook & Journalism: What you Should Know

In addition to the audio of a panel discussion on the topic, this post has links to two other interesting articles: Journalist's Guide to Facebook, Journalist's Guide to Twitter.

Great Cell Phone Video

Transnational/Transcultural motifs, production on mobile technologies, a global distribution network... all within a very clever and simple video. The local becomes universal in more ways than one.
CHECK OUT THIS VIDEO FROM CNN
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