The illustrious Ethan Zuckerman of GlobalVoices.org is in my “speed geeking” group as we hear from 10 different online resources that can help bloggers and advocacy groups. Among his many talents, Ethan is a superb blogger and he’s noting all of this so check EthanZuckerman.com for his notes (in a few minutes).
SuperBlogger!
January 15th, 2007 | rants
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I love that guy. Do I see from this photo that he’s in the 12″ powerbook club?
Good eye, Chris!
[...] - I missed the pitch for MetaVid, but Ruby filled me in (as well as getting a good shot of me), and I love the idea. MetaVid grabs video from CSPAN and CSPAN2, encodes it with open algorithms and makes it available on the web under open licenses. Critically, they use closed captioning information and OCR to determine who’s speaking at which time, making it possible to search for clips that feature your congressperson or an issue you care about. Very, very cool. [...]
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