> Is the Political Video Project still going? I see politicalvideo.org only > goes as far as 2007 or so. > Problem is I need video from the past year because I plan on capitalizing on > President Obama's hopeful plans to change Washington (And call him & his > staff on the carpet on a few things at the same time) by making a remix viral > video & posting it to my political blog. > So I suppose the bigger question now (Given all the issues at stake) is what > (If anything) is being done to somehow continue (Or preserve) videos from the > Obama Administration? > In my opinion, we shouldn't stop preserving videos simply because we've > changed Presidents in the past year. That's lame.
All political speech should be available no matter what party is in power. http://politicalvideo.org started because you couldn't easily get access to President Bush's speeches. All his videos were locked in REAL or streaming Windows format. Several of us spent a week scraping Bush's presidential site, transcoding the video archive, and reposting online in a searchable format. Obama's administration has greatly diminished the need for hacking to get access. Here are high-quality photos you can download posted daily: http://www.flickr.com/photos/whitehouse. His speeches are posted online, including a downloadable mp4 and mp3: http://www.whitehouse.gov/photos-and-video/video/weekly-address-reining-budget-deficits I would like to see even more transparency beyond just access to videos in the political process. http://sunlightfoundation.com/ is a good advocacy group to check out. Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://momentshowing.net http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790
