David Pogue on Why We Shoot Home Videos

In case you can't tell, it's my day to catch up on all things New York Times...

Global

Other

Join The Impact speeding from a standing start...

A quick shout-out to Join The Impact, a website supporting people around the world to

United States

Discrimination, Elections, LGBTQ

Machinima for human rights?

I'm sitting in a hotel room in Menlo Park, California, swimming in a pool of creative content - and you should definitely dip a toe in the water......

Global

Children's rights

Blog Action Day - highlights and our bit...

A brief post on a busy day for Blog Action Day, to highlight the video aspects...

Global

Poverty

Online privacy and social networks

While we're on the subject of Demos, they've also released reports on privacy in a society filled with technology and surve...

Global, Great Britain

Freedom of opinion & expression

Human rights in the Video Republic?

Global, Europe, Great Britain

Corporations and human rights, Freedom of opinion & expression, Poverty

Monk's testimony of torture in Gansu

China, Tibet

Detention, Freedom of opinion & expression, Freedom of religion & belief

CHAMP bloggers at the AIDS conference

Our colleagues Sam Gregory and Bukeni Waruzi are at the AIDS Conference in Mexico City this week, and they drew our attention to some short interviews and videos coming out via

Mexico

HIV-AIDS

Interview: Wael Abbas - Egypt's activist bloggers are "the spark in the oven"

Wael Abbas is an Egyptian journalist and blogger who gained worldwide recognition for his work using online video to expose and publicise torture in Egypt's police stations....

Egypt, Middle East and Caucasus

Freedom of opinion & expression, Police brutality, Torture/ill treatment