Blogumentary [chuck olsen]

The Minneapolis/St. Paul International Film Festival is in full-swing. Lori and I have seen 5 films between us, and thought it would be fun to review a couple in video flesh. Behold, watch! iPod/Quicktime  MP3 Public Enemy: Welcome to the ...

Click To Play MSP mag has been hippin' it up on the computers lately. Their Twitter account has come to life, and now they have something called styleparlor.tv. What you see above is a few excerpts from their interview with Project ...

Tonight, there was a gathering of great journalistic minds at an event called New Media, New Standards? Ethics in Online Journalism. There were old white guys, young white guys, in-between white guys, young women holding microphones, super old crazy ...

Mooki flings off a blinky Santa hat: Kiko in a bag!

Well, this is what he slapped together anyways, what with the writer's strike (whom he calls "dirty gay butt hippies" or "commies", I believe). VlogSanta.TV. Just one more video to get up in time for Xmas - where you finally what happened to Sprinkles ...

Big news!  The UpTake now has a new outlet for the video it produces.  We just launched a strategic partnership with Veracifier.com to recruit, train, and showcase independent video journalists from around the country during the 2008 election ...

Happy Merrydays to all vloggers everywhere, especially hot live video party hosts Steve and Zadi of Epic Fu. Here's a taste of the festivities in fast-motion, set to Wham's Last Christmas. Pour yourself a mug of wine and enjoy. And please - slow down and ...

Check out the newly-redesigned Meet Minneapolis, the convention + tourism site for my fair city. The site relaunched today, courtesy of my friends at Ciceron. I had the pleasure of producing several videos representing Minneapolis culture and life, ...

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You know how annoying it is getting tons of friend requests from completely random bands, most of which suck? Well, maybe it's not such a band thing. Today I got a friend request from Master of Con?usion. He has a geeky Macbook-rainbow photo and he's ...

iPod/Quicktime file The deets are over here! ALSO: Come on down to Solutions Twin Cities on Friday night. It promises to be a night of mind-expanding possibilities. I'll be making a very strange 7- presentation about citizen journalism, with some ...

Missing Girl Probably Raped

Join me now, on a magical journey back in time... August 30, 2006. A time when I had a movie screening in the big apple, thanks to Pioneer Theater programmer and Duluth native Ray Privett. You'll also see some behind-the-scenes footage of Rocketboom 2.0, ...

Quicktime The Uptake was on the scene of Friday's Critical Mass bike ride in Minneapolis. The ride was a huge success – both in number (The Strib says 600) and the lack of arrests or confrontation. The only confrontation we know of is documented here: ...

Quicktime At long last, the debut of Corn Guy! This is just a sneak peak. Now you begin to see why creepy photos of a large corn-headed dude appeared in my Flickr, not to mention Cristina in a Taco Girl costume. Keep an eye on CornGuy.tv for a couple ...

I knew this video on The Uptake would be a hot tamale. So far we've been linked by Wonkette ("MN Senator Norm Coleman was caught on tape inadvertently saying something about Iraq informed by reality."), Daily Kos, The Atlantic's Matthew ...

Last Saturday, a bunch of my peeps from The Uptake went to a big peace rally in St. Paul. Here, our new rock star citizen journalist Noah Kunin interRep. Keith Ellison about how relevant peace marches are and whether he stands by his vote to reauthorize ...

(imagine the following with an exaggerated Kung Fu accent) Grreeeat honor! The Clip Show, probably the top show covering and rating videoblogs, dedicated their most recent episode to my citizen journalism projects Minnesota Stories and The Uptake. ...