Weeks Pages/Week5
Political Blogs
Lecture Videos
The lectures for this week are on Monday, September 25th at 1:15pm and Tuesday, September 26th at 1:15pm. Both will be taped. They will be available here in QuickTime format approximately 24 hours after they occur.
Get the Videos Delivered (or if you have trouble w/ playback)
- Democracy Player is a free and open source video player/aggregator that will download and play back your class videos (sort of like a TiVo for your computer).
- Mplayer is another free and open source video player with its own codecs for playing Real(tm) and Quicktime(tm) (as well as all the other common formats). Some people who have problems with Democracy Player can play the videos with mplayer.
- VLC is another video player. It is, in my opinion (this being Dean), far easier to use than Mplayer.
From the Syllabus
Monday, Oct. 9. Practice Day: Introduction to Video
- Production Guest: Jason Crow, Cambridge Community Television
See notes from Jason Crow's guest lecture here.
Tuesday, Oct. 10. Public Citizen Discourse: Political Blogs and Net Organizing
- Guests: Professor John Palfrey, Berkman Center for Internet and Society; Dan Gilmore
- Assignments: none
- Readings: none
Interesting Reading on Blogging & Politics:
- The Rise of Blogs
- Times profile of liberal bloggers on the campaign trail (need to register free w/ nytimes.com)
- An Irish conference will examine the benefits of political blogging
- Wikipedia Article on Political Blogs
- On the Author Effect: Recovering Collectivity (not about political blogs, but discusses the collective way in which "authorship" is now being performed online; has implications for the power political blogs can and do have)
Links to Some Political Blogs:
The list is getting pretty long-- click here to see it, and add any others you read.
Thoughts on Political Blogs
Click here to read our thoughts and add yours. Bonus: Jordan Catalano weighs in!
Video Editing
HOWTO
It might be useful to have some tools or tutorials on video editing, if people are interested. If anyone knows of a good, free video editor for Windows, a link would be great. I understand Jahshaka is powerful, but I haven't been able to figure out how to use it. - ccwalsh