{"id":174,"date":"2005-03-18T23:17:21","date_gmt":"2005-03-19T03:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/03\/18\/pointing-to-commonbits\/"},"modified":"2005-03-19T23:12:47","modified_gmt":"2005-03-20T03:12:47","slug":"pointing-to-commonbits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2005\/03\/18\/pointing-to-commonbits\/","title":{"rendered":"Pointing to CommonBits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, let&#8217;s take a moment to talk about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commonbits.org\/index.php\">CommonBits<\/a>. What, you may be asking yourself, is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commonbits.org\/index.php\">CommonBits<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Well, let&#8217;s pinch the answer straight from the site:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What is CommonBits?<br \/>\nCommonBits is a free community directory of progressive political media that anyone can contribute to.<br \/>\nSearch for audio, video, photos, reports, transcripts and other files in the directory.<br \/>\nSubmit links and files to share with the community. We&#8217;ll distribute your files via BitTorrent.<br \/>\nSubscribe to our content feed in your blog reader to keep up with the latest content submissions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Or, to put that in Chris language: there&#8217;s an RSS feed reporting the availability of torrents for retrieving entirely legal bits of progressive content.<\/p>\n<p>For example, remember when I mentioned in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2005\/03\/10\/166\/\">the video-in-the-mail posting<\/a> that two of the films I had recently picked up were the documentaries <a href=\"http:\/\/www.disinfo.com\/site\/displayarticle4495.html\">Outfoxed<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.disinfo.com\/site\/displayarticle5961.html\">Uncovered<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Well, here are two sample items available on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commonbits.org\/index.php\">CommonBits<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.commonbits.org\/outfoxed\">Outfoxed Interviews<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Outfoxed Interviews: &#8220;Watch some of the interviews from the recent scathing documentary Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch&#8217;s War on Journalism.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.commonbits.org\/uncovered\">Uncovered Interviews<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Uncovered: The War on Iraq &#8211; Interviews: &#8220;Watch interview from filmmaker Robert Greenwald&#8217;s documentary Uncovered: The War on Iraq.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">So, let&#8217;s take a moment to talk about CommonBits. What, you may be asking yourself, is CommonBits? Well, let&#8217;s pinch the answer straight from the site: What is CommonBits? CommonBits is a free community directory of progressive political media that anyone can contribute to. Search for audio, video, photos, reports, transcripts and other files in the directory. 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