I’ve been on the road since Thursday, first at a working meeting of the Brave New Films, along with his colleague Leighton Woodhouse and Craig Aaron of Free Press, the organization behind NCMR. In this video, Robert spills the beans about his plans to bird-dog the Fox TV team that had come to NCMR to make trouble. More details here.
Here’s Lawrence Lessig at NCMR, just after he gave a rousing keynote address on the need to fix America’s operation system. As I say on the video to Larry, I’ve now heard three versions of his “Change Congress” speech, and each time it gets better and better. If you’re coming to PdF2008, you’ll see for yourself soon, as he’ll be keynoting for us too.
Here’s “Techgrrl” Deanna Zandt and customer service representative Craig Newmark, also at NCMR, getting acquainted.
And back in DC, here’s Tom Steinberg of mySociety.org, one of the most amazing citizen-led e-democracy collectives in the world, describing their newest project. They’re taking video from the BBC of House of Parliament sessions, and text from the Hansard (the official written record of Parliament) and they’ve set up a tool for the public to help match the video segments to the appropriate text. In just one week, nearly 1/3 of the 34,000 videos have been timestamped by citizen volunteers. Amazing!