(By guest blogger Andy Jackson)
I am going to take advantage of being a guest blogger here push a project I am trying to get started.
Rather than write the whole thing over again, here is the beef from a post on my blog:
Seoul Summit: Promoting Human Rights in North Korea has declared December 5 to 11 North Korean Human Rights week. Below are some events in which you can participate.
I will be covering some of those events while guest blogging at One Free Korea, which means (my blog) will be largely unmanned during that important time. One thing I can do is click around and post links to others who are covering these events.
If you have a blog and plan to cover some of the events below, email me and I’ll be sure to keep a lookout for your posts. When the Marmot gets back from China, I will talk with him about trying to coordinate some group blogging. USAinKorea has set up a site and has asked for video of the events to be sent to him for upload.
There are some events being planned by other groups for the week. I’ll post on them as I find out about them. I am hoping that enough bloggers can get involved that we can collectively cover everything. Perhaps some of us with good Korean skills (such as the Marmot or Oranckay) can get in touch with some of our Korean blogging brothers and sisters.
I am open to suggestions. Email me or leave a comment.
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I would love to be a part of this but I am heading out of the country for a little bit.
Good luck with it Andy and thanks for posting this BEFORE the actually dates (as opposed to when we normally seem to find these things out).
As Yangban said, I have bandwidth and storage space for videos of such things relating to North Korea and human rights.
One problem will be how to tranfer the files. FTPing it directly to the site would require handing over my password and thus giving free reign to the site - unless someone knows how to give limited access clearance? I’ll check on that. But, I think I am understandably worried about having my password becoming somewhat common knowledge. I remember not too long ago the guy doing a lot of work on USFK Forums had to go back and redo the whole site after setting up admin positions and allowing more access to some people to manage sections of the site and one of them just made an honest (catastrophic) mistake while editing their section…
But, I am pretty sure there must be ways to transfer the video from the people in Korea who take it to me beyond snail mail, and then, even if it is snail mailed, I think getting the video up one or two weeks later would still be a great source of info that does have an interested audience around the net.
Or, perhaps since I’ve seen some of you guys have gotten together in Seoul or such for some beers and dinner, it would not be impossible to ferry the videos in person or by disc in the mail to Flying Yangban or a Marmot who I can give the password to and they funnel them up to the site.
Where there is a will, there’s a way…
I suggest the LiNK people seriously think about setting up a storage site for such things to go with their website(s) - especially since the LiNK groups are located in different places around the world - just look at http://www.voiceofpeople.org and what reach they gain from their multi-media inventory.
I don’t think it would be too expensive. I pay for the space where I put up a good number of videos relating to the anti-US/USFK activity in Korea on my own and have plenty of place to spare right now. It would depend on the amount of site traffic.
But, any group with the participation and size of LiNK should be able to set up a video section and coordinate with people to get these meetings and events up for anyone with internet access to view.
C-Span is a great source and they don’t spend a lot of money on directing. If I were still in Korea, I think I could set up my 1998 camcorder and get video good enough to offer up on the web.
Broadban has increased enough even here in the US to warrant a lot of groups looking into expanding their material on the web to include video….
(I have also suggested to the Korea Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society that they might want to record their special presentations and set up some space on their site for people like us who can’t get there. They answered and said they would bring it up at the next meeting. And I encourage any of you who are interested in seeing such presentations on Korea’s history drop them an email too and let them know there are more people who would be interested in watching them than just me. raskb@kornet.net )
It would be nice to have more than porn videos on the net to watch……
Was told about this recently over at One Free Korea. I really wish I was finished with Korean school so that I could come to Korea and help out!
Appreciate all that you’re doing!
I hope the lack of comments doesn’t relect a lack of ability to get people to cover much of this event, but I doubt it….
I guess since it is during the week, it is a lot harder to set aside time.
I still wish it could be covered and offered in a format accessible to people who can’t make it in person……
One person emailed me and offered to viedo the weekend’s events. I’m in the process finding out if he can video the conference on Friday.
Do none of the LiNK people or related who are working on it have a video camera? In this day and age?
Even if it were an old VHS tape camera, there are ways to get it onto computer.
My camcorder is a 1998 or 97 model, and I had to buy the Pinnacle Link program to trasnfer video to the computer using a standard VCR-type 3 male prong adapters with a USB adapter at the other end, and I can also use that cord to plug a VCR into my computer — like when I transferred my wedding video onto computer to make it digital and preserve it better.
I’m not a tech guy……there are probably better programs and connectors now….
I would think in tech happy Korea, especially among the younger adults, somebody associated loosely with the event would have a camera at home…..
—-I’ve still got my fingers crossed….