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	<description>This Blog covers the metavid project and related politics.</description>
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		<title>Theora 1.0 Released</title>
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The xiph foundation has announced the release of Theora 1.0.  Theora is the underlining free software video codec used here on metavid.org and elsewhere. This release paves the way for the new encoder work to become the main focus of development.
This 1.0 release marks an important step in the free media formats relentless push for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://metavid.org/blog/2008/11/03/theora-10-released/</link>
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		<title>A Call to 5min of Action for More Perfect Archive</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Metavid Archive has captured video and text captions from cable broadcasts of public domain house and senate footage since 2006. We have made all this content available for search and reuse in an entirely open source video platform. But the archive is not perfect, over-the-air cable broadcasts do not provide perfect sync for close [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://metavid.org/blog/2008/10/09/a-more-perfect-archive/</link>
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		<title>Massive Metavid Updates</title>
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We have rolled out massive feature updates we have developed, the new skin and interface features developed in collaboration with the participatory culture foundation and Summer of code contributions by Stjepan Rajko. Simultaneously we are doing 1.0 release candidates for the metavid software packages: the complete metavidWiki mediaWiki extension and the stand alone html5 javascript [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://metavid.org/blog/2008/09/18/massive-metavid-updates/</link>
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		<title>Native Theora for Firefox 3.1!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Looks like the code to support ogg vorbis/theora playback has made its way into the nightly builds of firefox! This is a really great development! Mozilla&#8217;s has announced support for native theora support in ff 3.1. This will have a hugely positive effect on promoting free formats and ensuring current &#8220;non-free&#8221; formats stay cheep or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://metavid.org/blog/2008/07/30/native-theora-for-firefox-31/</link>
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		<title>Kaltura Sponsored Development for Wikimedia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As you may have heard kaltura will be sponsoring the development of open source video integration features for wikimedia projects. The news is covered in wikimedias blog:
Michael will work on adding support for video editing operations and other video-related functionality to MediaWiki, with a rich user interface built entirely on open standards like Ogg Theora. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://metavid.org/blog/2008/07/25/kaltura-sponsored-development-for-wikimedia/</link>
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		<title>wikimania 2008</title>
		<description><![CDATA[wikimania 2008 is under way here in Alexandria, Egypt. Lots of good talks, and its quite warm  Although not as hot here in Alexandria as it was in Cairo&#8230; anyway&#8230; here are the slides (ppt, odp) for the presentation i will give tomorrow. As with last year wikipedia weekly is providing coverage of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://metavid.org/blog/2008/07/17/wikimania-2008/</link>
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		<title>Personal Democracy Forum</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Personal Democracy Forum conference is under way here in NY.  A lot of really cool projects and talks  I particularly liked Clay Shirky&#8217;s talk summarizing his new book  Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations. In questioning the structure of current online political mobilization he highlighted the network capacity [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://metavid.org/blog/2008/06/23/personal-democracy-forum/</link>
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		<title>Firefox3 Launches!&#8230;What about html5 video?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Firefox 3 download day was a huge success and it features many improvement over firefox2. But as they say you can&#8217;t please everybody, and download issues were not the only blip on this otherwise exciting launch. Perhaps lost in the hoopla over Fierfox 3 impressive new features set is the html5 video support which did [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://metavid.org/blog/2008/06/18/firefox3-launcheswhat-about-html5-video/</link>
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		<title>Some Features Updates</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few updates to metavidWiki have been rolled out recently, thought I would take a quick opportunity to point them out.
Search

Search now has a more &#8220;google-like&#8221; display with text links to &#8220;Watch Clip&#8221; and &#8220;Improve Transcript&#8220;. This should make it clear that you can play search results inline and gives the inline search results a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://metavid.org/blog/2008/06/09/some-features-updates/</link>
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		<title>Steal This Footage and Community Remix Documentaries</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Steel this film I and II have helped shape the debate on copyright policy. The first film focused on the raid against the pirate bay and file sharing culture. Part II took on the broader copyright debate.
Now they are making their interview footage from Steel This Film II available for remixing. Their site features ogg [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://metavid.org/blog/2008/06/03/steal-this-footage-and-community-remix-documentaries/</link>
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