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On Jan 18, 2012, the web pulled off a much-publicized and widely coordinated protest campaign to oppose SOPA and PIPA by "going dark." The effort, which included participation by notable web giants such as Google, Mozilla, Craigslist, and Wikipedia, was aimed at building public opposition to 2 proposed anti-piracy bills that were moving through Congress – the Stop Online Privacy Act in the House of Representatives (SOPA) and the Protect...

Last Saturday, August 27th, I had the privilege of watching the frontier of digital storytelling being made. No, I wasn't at Google's YouTube office. I was in downtown Berkeley at the Pacific Film Archive, where diverse youth presented their film projects to a captivated audience.

A little over a year ago, film director Ridley Scott, YouTube and the National Geographic Foundation put out an open call for anyone on the planet to film their life on one particular day: July 24, 2010.  They then asked people to upload their completed videos to YouTube - and received more than 80,000 submissions from 140 countries, totalling over 4,500 hours of content.  These they took and condensed into a single 95-minute documentary with the tag line, "The Story of a Single Day on Earth."   I went to see the film last night, on the last night of its run in San Francisco.

Okay, I'm spending way too much time SMS'ing.  What I MEANT to write was, "Vote 5-stars for each of ZeroDivide's 3 proposed sessions for NTEN's upcoming Nonprofit Technology Conference 2011 before tomorrow's September 30th deadline!"  Umm...you got that, right?