Comments on: Retail politics in New Hampshire circa 2007

By: Annotate the web, then rewire it « Jon Udell

Annotate the web, then rewire it « Jon Udell — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:35:28 +0000

[...] sentence won’t make any sense to the average non-technical person, but the example I gave yesterday might. A by-product of this presidential election cycle will be massive quantities of online video. [...]

By: Two-way public media « Jon Udell

Two-way public media « Jon Udell — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:35:14 +0000

[...] possible today to treat public-interest audio and video as two-way media in this sense, but you have to be a bit of a propeller-head. I’d love to see [...]

By: Ocfktaxo

Ocfktaxo — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 18:45:40 +0000

Thanks!,

By: disney's mickey mouse

disney's mickey mouse — Wed, 28 May 2008 12:04:36 +0000

disney’s mickey mouse…

I Googled for something completely different, but found your page…and have to say thanks. nice read….

By: Citizentube at umwdtlt.org

Citizentube at umwdtlt.org — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 20:51:04 +0000

[...] has recently introduced citizentube. This channel kind of reminds me of Jon Udell’s post about recording local politics and making it widely available for a more nuanced look at a [...]

By: Citizentube at bavatuesdays

Citizentube at bavatuesdays — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 13:19:10 +0000

[...] has recently introduced citizentube. This channel kind of reminds me of Jon Udell’s post about recording local politics and making it widely available for a more nuanced look at a [...]

By: Benjamin B. Bolger

Benjamin B. Bolger — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 13:56:02 +0000

Dear Jon,

Thanks for posting this video clip. I am the person who asks the question to Hillary about jobs in America (2/11/2007 in Keene, NH). Can you please email me your contact information. I would like to get a high resolution version of this video clip (I’ll pay you anything for the tape). I’d be extremely grateful if you can help. My contact informaiton is bolger at post dot harvard dot edu (I am a grad. student at Harvard, but hope to return to Michigan one day and help bring back jobs to the Midwest in America).
Thanks for your help.

Best wishes,

Ben

By: Citizen ads, no thanks. Citizen analysis, yes please. « Jon Udell

Citizen ads, no thanks. Citizen analysis, yes please. « Jon Udell — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 04:30:46 +0000

[...] game-changing behavior I am looking for is something completely different. As I suggested here, we’re now in a position to slice and dice what politicians and pro pundits say, by candidate [...]

By: Carl Malamud to Brian Lamb: “You should not treat the U.S. Congress like Disney would treat Mickey Mouse” « Jon Udell

Sat, 03 Mar 2007 15:26:43 +0000

[...] treat Mickey Mouse” Filed under: Uncategorized — Jon Udell @ 10:26 am When I posted a video clip of Hillary Clinton’s talk at the Keene High School, which I’d TiVo’d from our [...]

By: Larry Welkowitz

Larry Welkowitz — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 04:35:24 +0000

What a great idea to organize these clips in a way that will help us sort out where the candidates stand on various issues.
About the questioner being a plant, a quick google search of his name, Ben Bolger, shows pics of him with Hillary and Bill Clinton and others, which suggests that he is either a plant or a political junkie. The important point is that with quick and easy ways to investigate campaigns, and where “local” doesn’t mean local any longer, openness will mean “honesty” which will be a good thing as we enter the campaign season up here in New Hampshire.

By: Jon Udell

Jon Udell — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 03:18:32 +0000

A friend of mine suggests that the questioner in this clip may have been a plant. That hadn’t occurred to me. But in fact it strengthens the argument I’m making for a collective effort to catalog what goes on at these events. With many eyeballs on the candidates and many hands curating the material, that kind of manipulation would be much harder to get away with and much riskier to try.

By: Jon Udell

Jon Udell — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 04:16:47 +0000

“The positive side would be to have people make mashups that make it easier for voters to see/hear much more complete answers from candidates.”

Yes. And if the Q and A segments are split out and tagged, as per this example, the mashup process doesn’t need to involve any video editing. Just link assembly that anyone can pretty easily do in the hypertextual domain.

“A potential downside will be (because I believe it will happen) other people making modifications to video to create distorted images.”

Yep. Of course this is just what all media do all the time. Not by alteration, but by selection.

“the availability of other images from the same event to provide a sanity check.”

Exactly.

In the long run, nobody should have to tote a camera, as in fact I did not to this event. The expectation should be that there are multiple cameras in the room providing a complete unedited view. Any derived view, like the one I made here, would refer to the original — or would be suspicious for not doing so.

By: Mike Caufield

Mike Caufield — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 03:33:36 +0000

Interesting you mention the rights issue. Viacom has recently engaged in a massive DMCA-based attack on YouTube; the netroots is freaking out about it for precisely this reason: If a candidate says something of note, and you wish to comment on it, you should be able to put up the clip. Anything less is contrary to the public interest. On the plus side, I have been to a number of these things and in almost all cases someone has personally videotaped it. As a matter of fact, one of the local vloggers puts together pretty amazing presentations, that really rival anything you'll find professionally.

By: Alfred Thompson

Alfred Thompson — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 01:09:20 +0000

I suspect that more and more people will be showing up with their own digital cameras at events like this one. Video is likely to show up on the Internet in a lot of forms. The positive side would be to have people make mashups that make it easier for voters to see/hear much more complete answers from candidates. A potential downside will be (because I beleive it will happen) other people making modifications to video to create distorted images. That worries me a bit. Now some will say that the availablity of other images from the same event to provide a sanity check. We’ll have to see how well that works in practice.