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Iran: A Nation of Bloggers - Aaron Chiesa

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Iran: A Nation of Bloggers explores how the digital world allows many Iranians access to ideas and freedom of expression they have not had for close to thirty years.Blogging is, in essence, a means of revolution. To find out more about Aaron Chiesa, visit their profile Here. For more great films visit the Shooting People Channel.

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GOOD: Porn Stats
The sordid relationship between the internet and pornography is a storied one. It's a kinship that inpires thoughts of locked doors and closed blinds, the secret fulfillment of shameful lusts. That, and it makes a hell of a lot of money. With this addition to our video library, GOOD investigates the ins and outs of online porn traffic, and just how much cash those sweaty-palmed clicks are bringing in.

02:44

GOOD: Internet Censorship
Sex. Ass. Falun gong. Chances are, if you’re reading this right now, you don’t live in Yemen, Myanmar, or China. Internet censorship can take many forms, from restricting private internet access to blocking searches for politically volatile keywords. Exercise your internet freedom by taking a look at our latest Transparency.

06:51

Jonah Peretti: The King of Internet Buzz
If the Internet ever had a mad scientist who mailed tasty viruses to millions of inboxes, Jonah Peretti would be him. It all began in 2001, with a Nike promotion and a chain of emails. While Peretti was a grad student at the MIT Media Lab, the shoe company was custom making sneakers emblazoned with words that consumers could choose themselves. But among the “inappropriate slang” not allowed by the company, Peretti discovered, was the word “sweatshop.” Peretti took a polite email correspondence he had with a Nike employee to Harpers. When they refused, he sent the emails to ten of his friends. This wasn’t just any old email forward. With their combination of social commentary, moral conscience and sheer hilarity, the “Nike Sweatshop Emails” was the first link to spread via “six degrees,” pass the internet tipping point, and go truly viral. The sensation turned Peretti into an internet celebrity, landing him on national television and on class syllabi, earning him plaudits from the New York Times and Vogue, and consulting gigs with big companies. But his base remained the ragtag world of the internet. Other fun experiments followed -BlackPeopleLoveUs.com, the New York City Rejection Line, FundRace.org - and in 2003, Peretti co-founded the Huffington Post. Internet news would never be the same. But Peretti’s real focus is BuzzFeed, the site he founded in 2006 with the internet video star Ze Frank. Playing master referee in the internet’s giant popularity contest, it’s both a tool for tracking online social behavior, and a vehicle for turning Internet hits into true viral sensations. The site’s helped make Peretti into not just a spreader, but an epidemiologist of the internet’s viruses, and an expert on the “Bored at Work network,” an audience he says has surpassed that of most network television shows. In a way, it’s a journey that’s landed him right back where he started with the Nike emails: a world of semi-forbidden words (and images), big corporations, and a new kind of online “sweatshop”—the kind where thousands of unpaid internet users help move ideas across the internet just because, “hey, you gotta check this out.”

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GOOD: How Much For A Word.com
The Top 5 Most Expensive Domain Name Sales. An original GOOD Video.

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Funny Movie Quotes Pass the Popcorn.44
Mike wants you to join him in movie quote madness! If you're a big fan of movies, please join our movie trivia community at www.guessthemovies.com! Can you guess the movies?? http://www.facebook.com/PassThePopcornGame

05:08

Pure Evil - Gallerist and Artist
Pure Evil is one of the most dynamic artist/gallerists in London. He tells us about San Fransisco, making music and shooting rabbits.

01:24

Vamped Out: Behind The Scenes #2 "Samm Levine VS...
Enjoy another behind the scenes look at Kevin Pollak's directorial debut, VAMPED OUT.

02:32

Oil Story
From Pete Bishop, the animator behind the acclaimed Discovery series How to Destroy the World, comes this quick animated history of humans' insatiable lust for oil! Oil Story is a supporting feature to Dirty Oil, Babelgum's first original feature film production, and has been nominated in the Educational, Scientific and Industrial category of the Annecy International Animation Festival 2010, the world's largest animation event.

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Cosmo Jarvis - She's Got You
music video for 'She's Got You' by Cosmo Jarvis

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Acrobat Champion Spider
The desert sands of Namibia are home to a remarkable miniature acrobat. The Golden wheel spider turns on a performance that rivals the tumbling floor routine of any gymnast.

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