Aphid & I (dale) will be hosting a free culture/free skool class. It will take place Nov 7th, 14th & 21st 6:30-8pm UCSC Porter Room D245. Anyone interested in free and open source media should come check it out. Here is the description that will go out with the freeskool prints, which should be going out soon.

We will examine free and open source software for purpose of democratizing the production of audio/video media. We share how to work with free and open content repositories such as archive.org & metavid. We look at methods of subverting proprietary content sources, for critical use. We will look at free and open source systems for video editing and discuss methods for online collaborative media production. And finally look at systems of online distribution. Participants are encouraged to bring their laptops if they have them.

Update: Here is an outline of Open Media as discussed in the first meeting.

Do go check out the new version of democracy player with improved ogg theora support :).

This means that you can now grab the rss link() at the top of any metavid search and add the channel to democracy player. As new video clips come online they will be listed in your channel. But don’t get too anxious for new clips congress has conveniently taken the month off for campaning and whatever else they do in their free time.

As everyone already knows Mark Foley ran into some trouble for being a sexual predator, and I guess this cultural values warrior had previous relations with pages from as long ago as 2000. If there is one thing corporate media does well its sex scandals. I wish people had to resign when it was discovered they were misinforming about other issues. But soon we will be the media so maybe that will change a few things…

Anyway in the long tradition of hypocrisy and moral politics here Mark Foley rants on Internet Predators.

The clips were located by first setting up advanced search and listing all the clips by Mark Foley. Then I adjusted the url for the desired segment. I have noticed a few others pointing to this already. Feel free to share this clip