DVB posts interview with Burma cyclone survivor

From DVB (via The Guardian, which has an interactive guide here, and is posting updates here)
UPDATE: Burma pages from ReliefWeb, IRIN, Alertnet and Global Voices.

Writers share videos from the Hub at PEN World Voices Festival

We’re very pleased to be a part of 3 events at this year’s PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature, held annually in New York City. I’ll be moderating the first event on Apr 30 and is for high school students (details here) and includes authors Uzodinma Iweala, Amanda Michalopoulou, Patricia McCormick, Kashmira Sheth, and [...]

Guest blog: Brian Fitzgerald - Greenpeace International

Brian Fitzgerald is Communications Manager for Greenpeace International - below he shares his reflections on the power of video to prod power and mobilise action. Naturally, his views do not represent the views of WITNESS (but we think they’re pretty interesting).
I remember the first time I saw video of whales being hunted. It [...]

On the Seesmic rooftop with Loic Le Meur…

A brief dispatch from San Francisco, where yesterday I spent some quality time with Loic Le Meur, Cathy Brookes and VinVin at Seesmic. As well as a quickfire exchange with users on Seesmic - some of whom are already on the Hub - Loic and I had a quick chat on Seesmic’s rooftop:

More soon [...]

Calling All Bloggers: Keep Tibet in the Spotlight

Monks marching in the streets, students staging sit-in protests, midnight raids by the military, monasteries sealed off, towns and cities sealed off…this is Tibet. The most violent protests in nearly 20 years continue after last Monday’s pro-independence rallies commemorating the 49th anniversary of the Dalai Lama’s escape from Tibet. The Chinese government reports 16 people [...]