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VCAM is at the Vermont ACLU conference (Thought and Expression in a Changing World) today at the Windjammer in South Burlington, covering it with our cameras. My co-worker Seth decided on a whim to try and stream it online. We did no real planning for this, he just brought along a laptop and we figured [...]

Three of my co-workers are in NYC this weekend for the Open Video Conference and I’m a jealous community media center staffer (I’ll have to brag about what an awesome time I have next month in Portland, OR for the National Alliance for Community Media conference to make them jealous). Fortunately, the OVC is being [...]

Over the past several Junes I’ve made a habit out of of soliciting photographs of Candleblog readers and constructing collages of them for the blog. I even turned it into a contest for the last couple of years to help generate interest. This year, I want to try something a little different. Let’s take a [...]

Following a link from @cresmer on Twitter, I have just finished reading what is easily the best analysis of Twitter’s central importance to social media, the Internet and the nature of public discourse that I’ve seen yet. Leave it to the inimitable Steven Johnson to sum it all up. As I read the article — [...]

My friends at Found Line in Burlington have developed this really simple, elegant and USEFUL web app for aggregating various tagged social media feeds in one spot. It’s cleverly called tagnabit. Based upon their successful Vermont Town Meeting Day aggregator and subsequent Alliance for Community Media conference site, tagnabit lets you enter a tag of [...]

So I’m at the Alliance for Community Media Northeast Regional conference at Champlain College today hanging with my PEG access peers from around the region. We’re actively trying to encourage community media folks, most of whom have been active in user-generated content for many years (since way before YouTube), to embrace social media as a [...]

Here are the subjects of the blog posts I’ve been meaning to write on my staycation but haven’t found the time for… 1. The end of newspapers does not mean the end of professional journalism. Examples of previous technological paradigm shifts support my claim. 2. Using the new Star Trek film as an example, I [...]

Last week I was on The Mark Johnson Show on WDEV. Mark was broadcasting live from the Leahy ECHO Center for Lake Champlain, talking about ECHO’s Voices for the Lake project and social media. I was there to talk about blogging and Twitter and new media in general. I was on right after Senator Bernie [...]

I know I’m coming a little late to this party but OMG this is the perfect crystallization of the potential of the remix culture. An Israeli remixer going by the moniker Kutiman has taken clips from a bunch of YouTube videos and combined them to make amazing musical mashups. It’s not just a technological and [...]

So I’m listening to a new CD right now by a band I absolutely love and I’m enjoying the hell out of it. The thing is, it’s not “out” yet, meaning the band has not officially released the disk to the public. You can pre-order it (which I’ve actually done, BTW), but I still technically [...]