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The New York Times reports that TV networks including CNN are creating one reporter bureaus to file stories, not only from far flung countries but also American cities.

Media Mover is a rich media batch processing engine that was initially developed several of CivicActions' clients. Currently deployed on several of our client's sites (most prominently on the Hub and ACLU.tv) Media Mover has served a niche for video content manipulation.

In May of last year, I wrote a blog entry called "Defending Paris" wherein I expressed compassion for her being locked up. I later wrote that I'd hoped that she'd see the light, have some kind of conversion experience and start speaking truth to power. (You could say I'm a dreamer...)

Well, today, Paris comes through - kinda. It's clearly a spoof and she definitely rehearsed the lines someone else wrote for her, but OMG - this was Hil-ARIOUS. But she responds to the McCain ad which tried to throw some mud on Obama's "celebrity" status. A ridiculous line of attack given McCain's own penchant for celebritizing.

(some strong language might not be suitable for a mindful workplace, not to mention, y'know... Paris in a swimsuit) (after the jump...)

Drupalcon Boston sessions were all recorded on video and have been made available on archive.org, thanks to numerous drupal community members and other Drupal resources.

(This is quite out of date now, but better late than never.)

Here are the videos from my talk on Scalable Theming: Theming for 100s of node types, CCK fields, and views:

The MetaVid project captures legislative proceedings and make full video streams accessible and searchable from the text transcripts.

Check out MetaVid directly or search Pelosi

Bill McKibben's Project 350 introduces us to the most important number in the world today.

350 is the red line for human beings, as science now tells us that unless we can reduce the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to 350 parts per million (ppm), we will cause huge and irreversible damage to the earth. We are currently at 385 ppm and still rising.

To help spread the meme, Ian and I both spent some time making videos this weekend.

OK, this may be a little off-topic, but this video is so wild that I had to share. My good friend DangerMarc just created a sweet video portrait of Barack Obama. You can also see more of Marc's work on his web site at http://sketchbook.dangermarc.com/obama.

If you like it, I'm sure he'd appreciate the Digg love too.

Have you ever wondered what a "themer" actually does? How are they different to a designer and a developer? In it's simplest sense a themere takes a flat static image, the design, provided by the designer, and a mostly-functional but ugly site, provided by a developer, and makes the ugly site look pretty like the designer wants it.

This timelapse by Matthew Buchanan of the theming of nzmusicmonth.co.nz sums up that process:

Who Are the World's Most Influential?

Take a moment and Vote for Peter Gabriel to get a spot on this year's Time 100. In the article, he's credited with launching 'the Hub, a so-called YouTube for human rights' which was built with Drupal by a number of the folks right here at CivicActions!

Stephen Musgrave from Capellic was kind enough to video my talk at Drupal Camp a few weeks ago. I attempted (and succeeded!) to install the full Media Mover suite in under an hour, along with an introduction to the theory behind Media Mover. Check it out!