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Youtube.com Google Video CTV Newsnet CNN News Video - Will ask which version of Windows Media Player you have, if you have the MPlayer Mozilla "plug-in" on your Linux machine, just ignore it and "play" the video. Cable Pulse 24 (Toronto) PBS "Frontline" - All of the episodes of this excellent investigative journalism programme are archived on line. PBS "Scientific American Frontiers" - Hosted by Alan Alda. Past episodes are archived on line PBS "Now" - Video and audio clips from past episodes are archived on line. PBS "Moyers on America" - Past episodes are archived on line IBC Today - Daily online TV news clips from around the world (Video will work with MPlayer plugin for Mozilla) Cubavision - Live streaming Cuban TV (Windows Media format but can be watched with MPlayer Plugin for Mozilla) Free
& Open Source Software Related Video
Video coverage of the forum on free &
open source software held at the "World Summit on the Information
Society" (WSIS) held in Tunis in the fall of 2005
"Go Open Source" - This TV programme aired on South Africa's SABC Channel 2 between 2004 and 2005. This is episode number one on Youtube.com. You can download the entire series (13 episodes) from here: FTP Download HTTP Download "Software and Community in the Early 21st Century" - Talk by Eben Moglen of the "Software Freedom Law Centre" on October 27, 2006 at the "Plone" Conference held in Seattle. Moglen is in charge of enforcement of the GNU General Public License and also is responsible for drafting the new revised "GPL Version 3". This lecture is an absolutely fascinating talk on what free software can do for humanity in the 21st Century. Audio and video recordings of the "FSOSS Symposium" (Free Software and Open Source Software) organized by Seneca College and held at Toronto's York University in the fall of 2006. This symposium is held the last weekend of October each year. If you don't know what "net
neutrality" is, you should click on the links below to find out about
it. At present, all internet traffic is supposed to be treated
equally. However, telecom conglomerates are pushing for the
creation of a "two tiered" internet. A "fast lane" for content
providers who can afford to pay, and a "slow lane" for everyone else.
If you think this is strictly an American issue, you would be completely wrong. The situation in Canada is actually worse. In 2005, one Canadian ISP actively blocked its customers access to a website that was critical of the company's practices. Others are slowing down Bittorrent and VOIP traffic. Net Neutrality by Public Knowledge Net Neutrality and Internet Freedom Report The Death of the Internet? Promote Network Neutrality by "Save the Internet.com" PBS "NOW" on Net Neutrality (Part One) PBS "NOW" on Net Neutrality (Part Two) Rocketboom Explains Net Neutrality Massachusetts Congressman Ed Markey on Net Neutrality DRM
(Digital Restrictions Management) Videos
Virginia Beach Amateur Radio Club Field Day video on Youtube.com BPL and HF on Youtube.com XE2TS (Mexico) working AO-51 Satellite ED3SSB (Spain) working CQ World-Wide WPX SSB Contest 2006 M8C (England) working CQ World-Wide DX SSB Contest 2006 Audio
Stuff
A Prairie Home
Companion - Hosted by Garrison Keillor and
the best thing there is on American radio! Old programmes
are archived on the site going back to 1996. You'll need
"Real Player" (or Helix Player) to listen. The programme is
carried live at 5 PM on Saturdays (Central North American time) or
23:00 UTC in winter, 22:00 UTC in summer on many National Public Radio
(NPR) stations across the U.S.
A number of stations rebroadcast the programme at 1 pm (Central North American time) on Sundays...that's 17:00 UTC in summer and 18:00 UTC in winter. Most NPR member stations stream audio in one format or another! You can find a list of stations that carry the programme here. In Canada if you live within 100 KM or so of the Canada/US border you can usually pick up one of the local NPR stations. In the Toronto area you can listen to "A Prairie Home Companion" on WNED-FM 94.5 on Saturdays and WNED-AM 970 on Sundays. WNED is out of Buffalo, NY. CBS News Larry Magid Interviews ARRL's Allen Pitts on Ham Radio and Emergency Communications (Click Here!) (MP3 Format) Open Media Directory - This is a wonderful resource for finding free and open source music, audio and video that you can use in your podcast or video podcast. Toronto Area AM Radio Toronto Area FM Radio Personal Media Learning Centre
- This is a really terrific resource with lots
of tips for creating podcasts, video blogs and various other types of
multimedia.
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