YouTube is holding a competition for journalists, as part of its new ‘journalism programme’. The video-sharing website is calling for submissions of a max of three minutes, in English, featuring original content profiling someone in the community that ‘the world should know about.’ .
Technology has fundamentally changed the way we produce, gather, share, and consume news - and thousands of people from every corner of the globe are using YouTube to share important stories with the rest of the world.

Online politics anyone? Way to GO! The Web gives anyone — candidates, advocacy groups, corporate interests and ordinary folks — affordable and powerful tools to mold policy, influence elections and shift the direction of public discourse. Welcome to political prowess in the age of digital dialogues and the wisdom of online communities.
The all important role of the Web is making politicians sit up. So core is the Web to politics today that a certain anxiety pervades the political classes. And it comes

See Simon's (and his cat's) other animations at www.youtube.com/user/simonscat...

An excellent debunking of the scam "documentary": "The Great Global Warming Swindle". This analysis shows how the film's editor and the speakers in the film use every trick in the book to attempt to deceive the viewers of "Swindle" film.

A detailed rebuttal of the film is here: http://www.chase-it.com/climate/The_Great_Global_Warming_Swindle-A_Rebuttal.pdf«

A controversial documentary challenging the scientific consensus that human activity causes global warming. In a long-awaited judgement, Ofcom says Channel 4 did not fulfil obligations to be impartial and to reflect a range of views on controversial issues. The film also treated interviewees unfairly, but did not mislead audiences "so as to cause harm or offence". Plaintiffs say the Ofcom judgement is "inconsistent" and "lets Channel 4 off the hook on a technicality.

The journalism of PBS FRONTLINE is recognized every week for in-depth, no-glitz examination of something significant. On Monday March 24, the fifth anniversary of the Iraq invasion, PBS will retrace the path of the war in a two-part documentary that draws on its FRONTLINE reports to examine the legacy of the Bush administration.
Once in a rare moment, a work comes along to reconcile our hopes in the Web as a documentary medium. “Bush’s War” elevates the telling of true stor...

It’s been four days since Mas Selamat Kastari answered nature’s call and put Singapore in the global spotlight. The city’s most wanted man, and now ubiquitous poster boy, gave his guards the slip during a toilet break in a top security detention facility on the island. Accused of plotting to crash a plane into Changi Airport in 2001, Mas Selamat was never charged in court. At the time of his escape, he was being held under an internal security law that allows for detention w...

Un proiect ambitios initiat de catre castigatorul premiului TED 2006, Jehane Noujaim. Pe data de 10 mai 2008, timp de patru ore, lumea va putea urmari filmele oferite de catre participanti, filme ce au ca scop promovarea unei mai bune intelegeri a potentialului uman pe care il are omenirea in acest moment. Mai multe detalii pe site-ul oficial www.pangeaday.org

A six-minute animated film in which John Lennon talks about global conflict and the need for peace has caught the imagination of Hollywood.

This year's closely fought race to the Greenhouse features a wide selection of prize vegetables! Watch as they debate some of the most pressing issues facing our country today, then head over to the Spin Room for a bit of post-debate analysis.

Road to the Greenhouse is a joint project of PETA and Free Range Studios.

A video from New York artist Jonathan Keller gives you a glimpse of what aging looks like. Every day for more than eight years he has taken a photo of himself. The result is a striking time-lapse video of a man in his 20s turning into a man in his 30s.

The Web 2.0 "bubble" had it coming. A Silicon Valley music video by the Richter Scales.

Old Grey Lady moved into fancy new digs in a building designed by Renzo Piano.