I live with 3 other people in a small apartment in Harlem. We each have our own room. It's like a hotel I guess, that's incredibly expensive. For the obvious reasons, we have no TV. Cable is expensive, most TV programming sucks, and it's not worth the money for the few good existing shows. I love TV. Hell, I work at a TV station and make it all day. But you can only be condescended to so much while you do your best to ignore the 15 minutes of mind-numbing commercials each hour. This is why I'm so into videoblogging. The obvious vision is create a stage for people to inject their own video. Call them original TV channels that come through your broadband connection that you watch on your computer...and may eventually end up on your video iPod or the TV itself. In this process, Im even learning how we can be different from TV and take it further. In the meantime, my roommates listen to a lot of radio...AM radio...talk radio...which is pretty rich in NYC. Mike Malloy is the recent favorite....a radical progressive. I worry when our media becomes so one-sided...right or left...but I got to admit that it's very empowering to hear someone speak plainly about the Bush crime family . CLICK TO WATCH The election is over...Bush has won...and many in New York are dealing with the anger, confusion and fear of what kind of country the US is becoming. Mike Malloy reads a letter from a woman to the people in the red states. Its truer than anything I hear on TV. You may not agree with her opinion but it's good her opinion can be heard. So this video is how I imagined she would make a videoblog if she knew how to videoblog...instead of writing a letter to a radio host...which is the traditional way to get your voice heard at this time. How lame. How cool we are now.
