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First video for Videobloggingweek2008. Videoblogging week started in 2004 with less than ten videobloggers as a participatory way to raise awareness of videoblogging and welcome new videobloggers. Over the years Videoblogging Week has grown to be an exciting yearly event that encourages people to push themselves creatively. I m also posting this to Semanal.

Ryan and I say this contraption in New Orleans. Everyone who saw it said it was so much better than seeing 5 guys spend a whole day fixing one pothole.

This for week 12 of Semanal. A game suggested by Daniel of Pouring Down. Join in.

i fucking love you so much.

Here s FCC Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein talking about Net Neutrality. He was speaking to a great panel at the Politics Online conference on the future of broadband in the US. It s funny that the conversation is not about technology, but simply what openness means. The current Bush administration (represented by the guy on the right) thinks we should just let market forces figure it out. But others consider broadband as a public service like telephone, water, and roads. Without open guidelines, where s the innovation and equal access when there s a duopoly controlling the access to the internet?

Since Ryanne and I are moving soon, we re getting rid of everything to drive across the country. This is for week 9 of Semanal, a year long group video project that is open for anyone to join.

Look how insane LA looks at night as you fly into the city. We built it piece by piece. This is for week 7 of Semanal. Music: Pachebel s Canon In D (Glass Harmonica). See how they play the crystals here. Kick ass.

This is for week 3 of Semanal where we are posting one video a week for 2008.

Here s a video for week two of the Semanal project, where we are posting one video a week for 2008. Check out everyone s work and join in. No rules, just encouragement and often madness. Music by: William Zeitler (playing glass harmonica) The Fixed Stars

This video settles my debt to two projects at once. It s Carp Caviar Promo month (see my past contributions here and here). It s also the first week of Semanal, where everyone is posting a video every week for 2008. I like these group video projects. Come join the fun.

Day 27 of NaVloPoMo.

Ryanne learns to use a chainsaw as we prepare for the apocalypse. Day 23 of NaVloPoMo.

Day 21 of NaVloPoMo. I took this video of a creepy TV evangelist this week when I flew to the East Coast on an overnight. TV evangelists in the US were in their prime during the 80 s with Jimmy Swaggart, Robert Tilton, and James and Tammi Faye Baker. The style is simple: get a TV show, say that god has given you the power to create happiness, and keep asking for money. This first group were all eventually convicted or humiliated off the TV screen only after their lavish lifestyles became too outrageous. TV evangelists have since become more sophisticated with James Dobson, Pat Robertson, and Ted Haggard (recently uncovered). Instead of just asking for cash for their own pockets, they now help organize voting blocks that elect US politicians. Everyone knows this is where the real power and money is. Hook right into the vein. Anyway, this guy is a throwback to the simple, Give me money and god will reward you days. He s hypnotic like a vampire. I can only imagine the people who call to give money at 4am. Desperate, sad, confused.

Several months ago I briefly met with the awesome Brewster Kahle of the Internet Archive. He was showing off the OLPC computer (One Laptop Per Child). They were initially promoted as costing $100, but are now about $200 each. The computer is designed to be bought in orders of 100,000 units by developing countries to jump start their educational process. If every kid has a computer that s connected to the internet and each other, and is using open source software they can learn to program, then the kids in these countries can figure out their own solutions. This is the social techie dream. But there are many people who say the OLPC program is bullshit. I just got into another heated debate tonight over OLPC. The argument is that children in developing nations need clean water and food first. Many children barely have proper schools to attend. How are you going to give a kid who lives in a hut a computer? The corruption in many developing nations is incredible, and this would be another waste of precious resources. Why give computers to kids anyway? Give them to the adults. I believe in appropriate technology and trust that the right people will find their ways to computers. I truly believe that there are those of us who love to connect and explore. The OLPC computer just lowers the barrier to having a machine that connects you to the greater web so you can find your own way. Computers are not the answer, but they are a tool. It s a pretty cool computer if you check out the features. It runs on linux, has a video camera built in, an automatic mesh network is created through the antennae, and can be powered by a hand pump. Brewster is especially excited because he s working on Project Gutenberg which is scanning thousands of books that can be read on computers like these. He has a dream.

What do you do when you find yourself being recorded? Record back.

I walked by a park where they were watching a movie. It s the totally crazy Cannibal Holocaust. Kind of a weird movie to screen in a public park.