Hey local buddies – I want to make sure that BarCamp Portland is on your radar. It’s coming up next month. What’s BarCamp? If you’re not familiar, it’s a network of technology “unconferences” held in more than 30 cities around the world, with no preset agenda. I just put together a SplashCast channel of RSS feeds for BarCamp videos on YouTube arround the world. This should give you a taste of what it’s like.

I blogged more about this here.

If you read my previous post on the arrest of DJ Drama for making mix tapes, you’ll find this video interesting. US Rep Mike Doyle defends DJ Drama and remixer Girl Talk on the floor of the US House. Pretty sweet. I wrote about it in more detail here.

It’s just one part of one speech, but I think it’s awesome. Big thanks to John Harman of Feedia for grabbing it and cutting out these 2 of 30 minutes for me in a hurry.

Check out this post at TechCrunch – surpise, surprise huh? A partnership! For more info on CC, check out these short films about Creative Commons and CreativeCommons.org. See also this interview I did with Mike Linksvayer, the CTO of Creative Commons.

Check out this post at TechCrunch – surpise, surprise huh? A partnership! For more info on CC, check out these short films about Creative Commons and CreativeCommons.org. See also this interview I did with Mike Linksvayer, the CTO of Creative Commons.

As some readers here may have noticed, my friends at the Committee to Protect Bloggers have curtailed their work due to funding shortages. People still concerned about bloggers threatened by their governments because of the contents of their blogs (and there are plenty of reasons to be concerned) should check out this new advocacy project, from Global Voices Online. See also the project’s introductory post and wiki. Thanks to Curt for pointing this out.

Bloggers gotta stick together!

Study published this week in USAToday finds, among other things, that 78% of US youth 18-24 have a personal website or blog. That can’t be right. That’s insane. Sure isn’t the case amongst youngsters I hang out with. The future is coming though, it’s almost old hat to set up a MySpace blog at least. Look out work world.

This looks great – a nice looking video player for films downloaded from Google Video, finally for Mac. Google Video has everything YouTube has except hipness, right? And now with a desktop player for both Macs and PC’s, maybe they’ve got more. You can embed videos in your web page from Google video just like you can YouTube. Well, I won’t claim to know much about this field really – here’s a great discussion comparing YouTube and Google Video over at the Church of the Customer blog. Don’t forget the comments section. That’s actually got me convinced that YouTube does have more, community oriented features. I’m just making note of the Macness here, don’t take my word on the best online video – go check out the scene at GeekEntertainment.tv. That’s who I’d ask.

Don’t forget to see the last story I wrote too, about Google’s kinda creepy TV plans. Downloader beware about this video player, huh?