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Participant postings

Kennedy: Democracy at the intersection of corporate facism and government communism?

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks of the press as the moderating force which helps participatory democracy modulate society between corporate facism and government communism. Is this an appropriate role for American Journalism? -- posted by Bill Densmore, densmore@mediagiraffe.org / ADD A COMMENT

Anonymity and identity

• Anonymity and identity -- journalists/bloggers, sources, and whistleblowers -- posted by Shava Nerad, Tor executive director, shava@freehaven.net

The theory of community authority for broadcasting

• Radio Free Brattleboro and a theory of community authority -- by Larry Bloch

Metavid -- Putting legislative proceedings in new contxt

• metavid is a project which seeks to capture, stream, archive and facilitate real-time collective [re]mediation of legislative proceedings. Metavid makes use of entirely free and open source software and video codecs to make both the footage and the architecture of the site available, accessible and recontextualizable. In terms of media graffiti, metavid enables the remediation of legislative video with dynamic scripts and "overlays". For example, the logos of a corporation put on top of a video stream of the sponsored politician.

What is a citizen journalist? Edit the wiki page

• We've started an editable wiki page which attempts to define what we mean by "citizen journalist." Feel free to add your two-cents or edit what's there.