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Check out this interview with yours truly on the new local radio show, The Browser. We talk all about “social media” and a bit about VCAM and futurism and democracy and a bunch of other crap. Listen to me bloviate at length at your own risk. Thanks to Jonathan for having me on.

Okay, I admit that the title of this post, while technically relevant to the material I’m about to present, is probably a bit more dramatic than necessary, but I’m hoping to draw some clicks from my Twitter followers and I needed the auto-tweet to sound compelling — and nothing compels the tweeps like some new-media-hating. [...]

[Full disclosure: I am on the board of the Vermont ACLU, but my remarks on this blog do not necessarily represent the views of the Vermont ACLU or it's membership -- these are my own, personal thoughts on these matters.] When I was on the VCAM board of directors, we spent a great deal of [...]

I wrote a lengthy post yesterday about California’s proposition 8 and the definition of the word “right” as it pertains to constituations and case law and WordPress ate it and spit half of it back up. I got frustrated and couldn’t rewrite the thing. I’ll get to it soon. Been busy lately but have lots [...]

I want to to take a minute and point out a couple of cases of traditional media embracing social media in Vermont. First of all, VCAM has entered the social media realm more forcefully lately. Spear-headed by my co-worker Seth, VCAM now has a growing Facebook presence (and group) and a twitter account to go [...]

Here is Eva Sollberger’s excellent capsule summary of this year’s Art Hop. If you don’t live in the area and have wondered what all this “Art Hop” stuff is that I go on about every September, watch the video. Eva does a lovely job of capturing the gist, the feel… the gestalt, if you will, [...]

This is a big weekend. Tonight is my first Intro to Filmmaking class of the fall semester at CCV and I’m busy getting the course documents in order. After class tonight I’ll edit together a series of award-winning short films by Vermont filmmakers that the Vermont International Film Festival will screen at VCAM as part [...]

All this week VCAM and RETN are hosting a video-making summer camp for 6th-9th graders.  All day today I’ve been either working with kids or editing video interviews they shot of each other.  The plan is to upload a video blog entry for each day.  These were all shot on the Flip Ultra camera, BTW, [...]

Sometime next week several of my short films will be available for free on-demand to all Burlington Telecom cable subscribers.  How is this possible?  Recently VCAM has been providing BT with on-demand versions of several locally-produced films and TV shows.  We’ve taken on the task of doing the transcoding of the video and organizing the [...]