Save the Internet | Rock the Vote

I "met" Arin Crumley of Four-Eyed Monsters when he commented on a video of on mine over at YouTube. When I visited his site, I noticed that he had some widgets, including a voice message comment line. We got into some back and forth email about widgets and he was kind of enough to give me a really useful critique of one of my videos. He's a talented filmmaker (as is Susan and the other folks at Four-Eyed Monsters). So, I've been looking for a good reason to link over to them and now I found it!

He created the above "open source documentary" on Net Neutrality called Humanity Lobotomy. He is encouraging people to download and remix it or spread it. And, as you can see below, Mike Ambs, of Caliblog already has. All of the video clips came from searching “net neutrality” on YouTube, Google Video, Podzinger and delicious. The project wiki is here and he has a del.icio.us feed where he is tagging resources here. (And note how he has incorporated the use of his voice mail comment line into his content)

I'm seeing more and more examples of participatory media -- take for example WGBH's Video Sandbox. Reminds of the exquisite corpse like games we used to play on Arts Wire ten years ago with images.

Mike Meiser from Meedfeedia has set up a collection of these videos here.

Additional Resources:

Save the Internet
Neutraility Now!
Britt Bravo, Netsquared Post
Article in TechSoup by Henry Kumagai "What Will Tiered Internet Access Mean for NPOs
TechSoup's Network Neutrality ToolKit

Update:

My colleague Matthew Saunders from Westaff reminded me about his excellent pieces on this topic. I highly recommend them. Here's a link to all of them.

Check it out