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Africa participates in World Press Freedom Day 2009

May 2, 2009


The Media Institute of Southern Africa, the West African Journalists' Association, the Media Foundation for West Africa and the Eastern Africa Journalists Association will all be participating in various events in Africa in acknowledgement of World Press Freedom Day on 3 May, 2009.

Mural Memorial

May 2, 2009
Art & Activism
A mural in Fort Green, Brooklyn remembers Ben O'Garro


By ALEXANDER NAZARYAN

Agora TV, Argentina

April 29, 2009
Agora TV

New York Street Advertising Takeover

April 27, 2009

APRIL 26, 2009

"New York Street Advertising Takeover" Brings Art to Over 120 Illegal Billboards in NYC

Jordan Seiler's incrediblely ambitious "New York Street Advertising Takeover" became a reality yesterday, when over 120 illegal billboards throughout the city were white washed by dozens of volunteers.

The Singing Painters of Naya

April 22, 2009
The women of Naya make painted scrolls about social issues

CLICK ON THE PAINTINGS TO SEE DETAIL Painting and singing stories told in scrolls (patas in Bengali) goes back to

Developing Non-Corporate Video Publishing

April 20, 2009
The "Transmission Group" has been meeting over several years to develop open source publishing.

A meeting in Wiltshire UK Spring 2009 - the idea was to meet up and get some documentation and development done on using Drupal with Video. There were different sides of the coin. A lot of work was done on the Usability side of the user experience, and a lot of work on the following development elements. 12 people attended including the Dog

* Importing Media rich feeds with file enclosures * Subtitles displayed over video using JW player

* Grabbing non-corporate Flv files from URLs via the Embedded Media Field

* Transcoding with Media Mover and ffmpeg

The British Banner Tradition

March 31, 2009
Banners
The recent mobilizations around the g-20 in the UK have brought out the traditional colorful banners used for centuries in Britain.