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Ten Top Stories you aren’t hearing is an annual list that is very iluminating…

See how corporate media censors our news, here in the good old usofa, almost as much as China does it.  The difference is that our censorship works not be limiting particular item, but by drowning them out in trivia.

Many thanks to the following post on  Open all Night, by way of the Open all Night feedlist on OPML Workstation.

Thomas Kostigen via MarketWatch: Ten big news stories you aren’t hearing lists “Hunger and homelessness increasing in the US” at #4.

“As
hunger and homelessness rise in the United States, the Bush
administration plans to get rid of a data source that supports this
embarrassing reality, a survey that’s been used to improve state and
federal programs for retired and low-income Americans.” >

Check out my new favorite toy, Jim Moore’s blip.tv blog

Also check out “Alive in Baghdad” on blip.

The high point for me of Podcamp 2006 last weekend was meeting Dina Kaplan (shown here with Irina Slutsky) and the rest of the folks from blip.tv, and being introduced to its wealth of features.  blip.tv is far and away the best platform for video producers.

The blip.tv business model is to support the independent producer who hopes to quit his or her day job and make money producing videos.  blip.tv enables the producer to retain the brand.  blip.tv facilitates the producer/advertiser matchup if desired.  blip.tv handles copyright notification and Creative Commons licensing if desired, and also supports the retention of rights by the producer as desired.

Under the hood, blip.tv does extensive transcoding, so that your video is available in multiple formats.  The upload and tracking tools are easy to use.  And blip.tv handles automatic cross-posting on a variety of sites, as well as to the Internet Archive.

I have NO financial interest in blip.tv–though I wish I did.

Tom Morris and I spent the day walking and talking blogging, technology, and two American Revolutions.  And of course we both feel we are in a great new revolution now–from the citizen philosopher/soldiers of the 1770s, to the citizen writers, poets and activists of the mid 1800s, to the global citizens of today.

I have become fascinated with video blogging.  Tom and I videoblogged all afternoon long.  Check out the result here, at my videoblog on blip.tv.  And by the way, blip.tv is the best software I’ve used in a very long time. 

Here are our videoblogcasts, one by one:

Walden Pond, Concord Massachusetts,
early evening, September 11, 2006

RSS feed of my blip.tv playlist

At approximately 11:30 this morning >former Iranian President Mohammed Khatami arrived at the Charles Hotel in Cambridge, Mass.

>For a while last week no government agency–including Harvard and the Secret Service, would say how Khatami
would arrive in town and how his security would be assured.  A spokesman for the Boston Police said, “I think
he will take a cab from the airport–I understand that’s how this sort
of thing is done.”

>
Well, that
wasn’t exactly how it went down.  A friend was there a few minutes ago
and observed the whole scene.  She was shopping for vegetables at the
Sunday morning organic farmers’ market on the plaza in front of the
Charles Hotel.  Without warning a small army of very large black SUVs
drove heatedly up the street and massed in front of the Hotel.  People
did a double take:  Are those submachine guns pointed out the windows? 

The >Secret Service >agents
were on high alert.  Numerous agents emerged from the cars and
surrounded the front of the hotel, with guns drawn, sweeping back and
forth over the crowd that quickly came to attention.  Imagine a few
dozen electified organic farmers, Cambridge moms, hotel guests and
Harvard Square morning tourists.

Khatami was in a middle
vehicle sandwiched between other SUVs.  He himself was sandwiched
between two Secret Service agents.  When a deep ring of vehicles and
agents was established around him, protecting a corridor into the hotel
entrance, he was wisked out of the car and into the hotel.  Nothing was
visible except the top of his black turban.
>

“There are people in this state who have suffered from terrorism,
and taking even a dollar of their money to support a terrorist is
unacceptable,” Romney, a potential candidate for the Republican Party’s
2008 presidential nomination, said in a telephone interview yesterday.

Romney
said that he expected the State Department at a meeting scheduled for
today to request a State Police escort and other traffic services, but
that he had called yesterday to inform them that no such services would
be provided.

Harvard defended the visit, saying,

>
Within a day of the governor’s refusal to help out, reason had prevailed in other quarters, and Boston and Cambridge agreed to make up for the state protection.

>

I was at the Podcamp 2006 kickoff last night at Harvard.  Wonderful night, inspiring, lots of terrific folks.  Thanks so much to the organizers and sponsors!

Check out the new free version of OPML Workstation, built for video and audio podcasting..

The long-running never again genocide in Sudan continues, and continues to decline.  The Sudanese government has not only rejected the UN Security Council resolution that it accept a peacekeeping force, but has now announced that it wants the small African Union force out of Darfur as well.  In addition, the government has sent a large new force of its own into Darfur. This all follows on attacks on aid workers, the arrest recently of journalists who had traveled into Darfur from Chad, and the continuing attacks by Sudanese troops and militias on Darfurian refugees.

The world’s governments continue to do nothing.  Last week in the UN Security Council Russia and China abstained from the vote to send troops into Darfur, sending a message of support to the Sudanese government.  Russia is a major supplier of arms to the Sudanese government, and China is the mahor business partner with the government–being the main developer of Sudanese oil fields.

Here are links from the ever-excellent Google news, in case you want to know more.

a good culture post, on google, by scoble..here.

Nemo Karow just put up this terrific music blog outline at OPML Workstation, and made it public.  Check it out here:

http://opmlworkstation.com/browse/FreeMusicBlogs/

I just fired this note off to Dan Gillmor (with copy to Lisa Williams), sharing my enthusiasm:

Hi Dan,

You truly inspired me at the Berkman-hosted Wikimania 2006 conference recently. 

Lisa Williams and I have been talking excitedly about citizen
journalism initiatives lately, and I want to share this simple mashup
of free hosted OPML and free hosted video.

The revolutionary think is how quickly these sites can be created, that they are hosted for free, and that they can be continually updated and modified, and that the editing can be done by an individual or a group or the public.  Here is a simple demo, not much except an introduction to the concept, and a basic how-to.  But I think you will immediately see the potential.