VIDEO: Kent Bye on speaking out

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I first met Kent Bye in October of 2005. He was in town to talk about his new project that was going to collaboratively break down how the media helped ignite the Iraq war. I was really excited about how articulate he was in his descriptions of the news media. We were all just beginning to figure out where videoblogging fit into the ecology. This conversation on a Manhattan street captured our thinking.

Fast forward 18 months later. Kent and I both happened to moved to the Bay Area. I'm making software that helps creators work on large video projects remotely...basically allowing videobloggers to work on group projects like the big media does. Kent received a $50,000 grant to work on the Echo Chamber Project. We weren't joking around.

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Comments

[cheryl]

Freaking bravo! Love you, love Kent Bye. Sure, average people aren't trained as journalists. And a lot of us need to work on separating fact from opinion. But I don't think the average journalist can perceive truth any better than I can, or you can, or any human can. Everything "trained journalists" write is filtered through them first (no matter how objective they think they are), and then, much worse, through the company they work for. I am so sick of being sold whatever truth some corporation wants me to believe. Keep doing what you do, both of you.

[mike]

Los Angeles, California- March 30th 2007

Persian Video has announced they have released their beta version of the site which enables the Persian Community to post videos related to Iran on the web. The basic concept behind www.PersianVid.com is same as youtube. Just that PersianVid has turned its focus on the Persian Community as suppose to the World.

www.PersianVid.com also announced that they are working on releasing new feature on the site later on this year. The engineers behind the revolutionary Iranian site believe in linking the Persian Community inside and outside the county together.

www.PersianVId.com has said to including Persian Music, Persian Music Videos and Movies later on. They are also working on a forum and blog for the Persian Community. Also in a statement release Friday March 30th 2007 www.PersianVid.com has announced they have formed a partnership with www.Tehran1.com in bringing a more in-depth site to Iranian Community.

On the same statement release by www.PersianVid.com it was said that www.terhran1.com will change its focus on designing a Persian Community on the web something close myspace.com.

More information about www.persianvid.com could be found at

web: www.persianvid.com

email: info@persianvid.com

P.O.Box 8384

Calabasas, CA 91302

[Dave Toole]

It's all about getting it out there and sorting through the problems to find potential solutions, good piece, keep it up!
"Our opinion is a springboard into the facts" Cool

[Rupert]

I wouldn't be surprised if we see increasing amounts of backdoor legislation to define the status of journalist and limit who can film what, where. Like in France recently they passed a law with a section which purported to be about combating 'Happy Slapping' - kids beating people up and recording it on their phones... but what the law appears to actually say is that you can't film an act of violence unless you're an accredited journalist. And they passed it on the anniversary of Rodney King being beaten by LAPD, the filming of which would apparently have been illegal under this law.
So. Watch this space.

[jonny goldstein]

I love the videos you make. Simple and powerful. People talking about stuff they give a damn about. It's been fun watching people move along these last couple of years and I look forward to following everyone for the next couple of years and beyond. Keep rockin' it.

[trine]

hey, ive just read "Dream - Re-imagining progressive politics in an age of fantasy" by Stephen Dubcombe, I thnk you'd both really like it. talks about the emotional hooks you are talking about...