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My good friend Josh Wolf was jailed yesterday by a federal judge for standing up for the right of a free press, something that is guaranteed by the First Amendment. It all started when Josh filmed a protest around the G8 summit last year and posted part of it up on his blog. The mainstream [...]

Last Friday, I was one of a handful of videobloggers who presented at a Meet the Vloggers session at the Apple Store in SF organized by Josh Wolf. It went amazingly well, surprisingly. Public speaking isn’t really my bag but I’m finding it’s not hard to talk about GETV. Plus, showing a 5 minute video [...]

Patriotic Andre Originally uploaded by Ride n’ Fast &Take n’ Chances. Yes, today’s the 4th of July and it has some special significance for me. It’s not just because I’m an American citizen that still believes in liberty or that I found a horse on Flickr painted all wrong. My grandfather, who passed away several [...]

The last couple of weeks have been crazy busy and fun, with Vloggercon last weekend and RoboGames this weekend. Vloggercon was awesome on so many levels, but mainly for me it’s the people. The videoblogging community is passionate, amazingly creative, and very supportive of each other. Even in the face of stark disagreement, videoblogging humans [...]

I’m at the Netsquared conference today and tomorrow, which has the goal of bringing nonprofit orgs and technology providers in the same room to figure out how to work together. The lineup is pretty damn good (listening to Ethan Zuckerman right now rant about Bob Geldolf’s Live 8 concernt that raised “awareness” but not money [...]