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Check out the bottom left side of the image… Some of the new Obama YouTube videos have download links, which is a fantastic development. Lessig reports that this sort of linking may begin happening with other videos too. It may be too soon for download links on every video, but I personally know a lot of [...]

Al Jazeera is releasing some amazing and inimitable footage from the ongoing Gaza conflict. All footage is licensed with Creative Commons (CC-BY), so it’s freely reusable. Check out Al Jazeera’s Creative Commons repository page, but don’t forget to ... [More] subscribe to the Miro Channel, where you’ll get the highest res version of the video available. This [...] [Less]

Unless you’ve been stuck in an ice storm this week, you probably saw the Wall Street Journal article pronouncing Net Neutrality dead (and claiming that Google and Obama were dancing on its grave). The authors seemingly mixed up Net Neutrality with ... [More] edge caching; it’s the difference between holding subscribers hostage —by charging creators for access [...] [Less]

In collaboration with friends at Arts Engine, Creative Commons, and Intelligent Television, I was interviewed for a case study about filmmakers and Creative Commons licensing — scroll down to watch or download the video. Arts Engine is the ... [More] organization behind the Media that Matters Film Festival; an annual showcase of twelve short films that address some [...] [Less]

We’re experimenting with the suddenly popular IntenseDebate comment system. We think it might be really useful on the Miro Guide someday, but want to try it here first. Unfortunately, it looks like it hides previous comments from before today… not sure if there’s a way to change that. Old comments should be [...]

NRK, Norway’s public broadcaster, is distributing their original kids series, Kometkameratene, in full HD with Bittorrent. They recommend Miro as the easiest way for their viewers to subscribe (and give step-by-step instructions) on their blog post. ... [More] NRK isn’t a newcomer to Bittorrent; they’ve used it to distribute their shows before and saved serious hosting money [...] [Less]

We recently posted a call for translators to work on the new Miro 2.0 branch; it was brought to our attention that our translation syncing for the GetMiro.com website were not working properly. I’m happy to say that this has been fixed and we’ve added some clarification to the translation section of our Get Involved [...]

This year we’re partnering up with the folks at the Center for Social Media for their upcoming conference, Making Your Media Matter 2009. These are the same people who were behind the awesome Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video. The Center for Social Media says: On February 12th and 13th in Washington DC, we invite [...]

Today we launched an ‘open transition’ effort with Mozilla and Change Congress to promote open data principles for the Obama transition: take a look and join us here. The Obama team has signaled an unprecedented interest in using technology to make the process of governing more transparent and inclusive, which is a wonderful development. [...]

More than almost any large foundation, the Knight Foundation understands that internet technology is central to its mission and its operation. Today they launched Knight Pulse which engages with the community information projects they fund and the ideas that drive them. It’s a brilliant approach to transparency and I think will be very [...]