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Video archive of the US Congress

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Recent Mentions/Reviews of Metavid (post site redesign)

  • Sander van Zoest gives a nice review of metavid archive and software project.[1]

Old mentions of Metavid

  • Reason online mentions metavid in an article "The Imaginary Adventures of the U.S. Senate Sorting fact from fiction in the Congressional Record" [2]
  • Slashdot mentions metavid in an article referencing the New York Times editorial about C-SPAN's bid to "liberate" the House and Senate floor footage. (for more info about C-SPAN's bid see our complementary blog post)
  • Boston Globe mentions metavid in opening [3]
  • Colbert Nation [4]
  • sunlight foundation notes our grant application.
  • moving blip.TV towrds free video formats courtesy of Fernando Cassia of the theinquirer. [5]
  • frozenbears [6]
  • evilsigntist [7]
  • UK Telegraph blog [8]
"MetaVid is so painfully bleeding edge that you’ll need the Firefox web browser with an obscure plug-in called Annodex to make it work, but it’s well worth a look."
  • about archives [9]
  • chaos / politics / technology [10]
"Check out MetaVid now, before it gets slash-dotted."
  • creative commons salon [12]
"If you're involved in U.S. politics, or make art that critiques U.S. politics, you must check out Metavid, the first presenters -- keyword searchable public domain footage from the U.S. Congress in high quality open format with cool remediator applications coming"
  • carobotero post [13]
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