What I'm more interested in lately is how the economics of digital camera memory, and plummeting prices of digital cameras with video options, could change certain aspects of life. As recently as a year ago, I remember hunting around for a 64MB Smart Media card for my 4megapixel used camera, which had initially cost someone $600+ and had no video option, and the memory type was discontinued and cost a lot. But now there is a bidding war and some new cameras are $130, and I just got a video option Pentax for $40, and memory is cheap. I can carry it everywhere. A lot of the cameras have almost identical features, and there is no file conversion ability necessary. However, I haven't noticed a large amount of amateur protest video on youtube - most of the work is from actual freelance journalists who are acting like journalists.
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/03/21/16744461.php http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/03/23/16750171.php http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/03/21/16746711.php
>Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] NYPD acts like pigs
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>I've seen plenty of angry skimishes between protesters and police. Three
>years ago I saw a black bloc in San Francisco charge and overrun a
>police line. I've seen "peaceful" protesters have confontations with the
>police. There have been plenty of other confrontations at a variety of
>protests.
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>I tell people that there is no such thing as a "safe" protest. I've been
>to "peaceful" ANSWER marches where the cops engaged in assaults and
>provocations with protesters who weren't doing anything.
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