Write Me Again If I’ve Promised You A Copy of Stealing America

Hey I finally got my package of Stealing America DVDs.
Write me again at lisa@lisarein.com with your address, ok? I might have lost it already if you wrote me two weeks ago.
As I mentioned earlier, I am not making copies of Dorothy Fadiman’s DVD and handing them out. I am choosing to send you one of the stack of copies I was given for my participation in the film.
I’m about to put up a bunch of clips from the movie too.
Let’s start figuring out what we’re going to do about it this year, if the disenfranchisement happens again.

Foleygate Playlists to Help You Keep It All Straight

I’ve created a bevy of playlists on the Foleygate scandal, so you can watch them in order or skip around to the coverage from different days, or browse by show, or whatever.
I have Foleygate playlists for MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann, Jon Stewart’s Daily Show and Stephen Colbert’s Colbert Report, and for different variations on all three shows, by date mainly. These three are the only shows really covering what happened and who was involved.
What’s going on, of course, is even worse than was originally believed. It turns out that numerous people went to House Leader Dennis Hastert and told him about Foley’s ongoing problem with sending pages both sexually explicit emails and emails that were just kinda creepy (but you got what he was getting at).
The Republican Leadership had known about it for years, and were covering it up for political reasons.
Here are all the Foleygate Playlists
I’m about to add a bunch more clips from this last week over the weekend.

Dabble Gets A Nice Write Up In The Digimart Blog

Kind words from documentarian Peter Wintonick:

In terms of figuring out video on the net, of course we have our GooTubes and our Revvers and all the other perfectly great initiatives. But from me, byte by byte, Dabble is the next great thing, the next great think. Co-founder Lisa Rein presented a run-through. She is a multi-talented coder, podcaster, musician, re/mixmash artist and co-founder and first Technical Architect of Creative Commons, and the XML world’s “it” girl. That’s it as in I.T. If I was an enlightened patron of the electronic arts, or a venture capitalist, and I’ll never be because I am still waiting for money to become open-source, Rein and her team at Dabble have cottoned onto something with vision which answers my age old consumer question: How can I get my head around and manage all that video that’s out there on the web? Dabble provides an elegant, innovative answer. It zooms through literally millions and millions of clips and video videos out there and brings it all back to us at our little home/work stations. It scans, searches, organizes and indexes it all. It searches, makes sense and shares.
But the real genius is that it doesn’t actually need to bring in video from all over the place, it points to that content that partners and creators have out there and lets your keyboard fingers do the rest in a few easy steps. Like all great new things it makes the complicated simple. The nice thing about Dabble for makers and owners of content, is that it’s not a spider, and the original creator sources are attributed. And for all of us social networkers, which includes a few social not-workers too, Dabble

New Song: Democracy

Just released a brand new song: Democracy.
This song comes with its own page to help explain the lyrics.
It’s about what has become our sorry excuse for a democracy, and thinking about it for five minutes, in the context of the world at large.
I recorded the guitar and vocals for this on my mac laptop, using Audio Recorder. (I did mix it in protools, but I didn’t do anything special that would have required protools.)
Hope you like it. I’ve made all the source files available for remix, and it’s all under a Creative Commons Attribution license.
I decided to allow commercial use of the work. Let’s see how far it can get!

Dabble Mentioned In Forbes.com – Gives Mary An Honorary Professorship at CAL

So Forbes has a Mention of us in this strange “The Next YouTube” piece it ran.
Careful, when you launch the link, to look for the “stop” link right away, right above the “The Next YouTube” title, or it will start cycling through a bunch of other pages. I’m not sure what effect they’re trying for, but the one they’ve got is definitely as annoying as hell 🙂
But nevertheless, of course, nice to see Dabble mentioned in Forbes. And they seem to like us.
Oh yeah – they made Mary a Cal Professor too 🙂
From
the article
:

Make Your Own Channel
With user-generated photos and videos pouring out of dozens of me-too sites, smart aggregation tools are an obvious next step: Someone needs to keep track of all this stuff. One such solution is Dabble, lauched by University of California-Berkeley professor Mary Hodder in July. Dabble retrieves videos from users

Looking Forward To My Panel At Digimart 2006

I’ll be on a panel October 17th at the Digimart Conference going on in Montreal October 16-18.
The panel I’m on is called
Your Space On My Tube – How to Engage with the Online World and Make Money
, hosted by Scott Kirsner of the Cinematech Blog.
Scott’s really bringing together a neat group of people, including the Eepybird guys, who did the Extreme Diet Coke and Mentos Experiments.
I’m really looking forward to it.
It will be great to be in Montreal again. I used to go to Montreal every year for the small, uber-geeky XML conference that used to go on there every year. I haven’t gone to that conference since 2000 or so, and I had really missed Montreal.
Getting ready for the conference also forced me to write up an updated bio.
A couple of you have bugged me about this over the years, and I just didn’t have time to think about it until recently. Sorry!
I’m finally going to go back and bring it all up to date. There’s a lot going on, and I want you to know about it, so you can help me do better at everything. (Like always 🙂

New RU Sirius Show Up On Mondoglobo – With Me As Guest Co-host

I had a great time guest co-hosting with RU Sirius and Jeff Diehl on this week’s RU Sirius show. (MP3 – 26 MB)
We talked about election fraud (what a surprise) and interviewed Dan the Automator (Dan’s myspace page).
Photos are forthcoming, but I hate to hold up posting for anything these days, because I seem to never get back to it…