ISOC LIVE

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ISOC LIVE is an Internet community livestreaming support service, operated and owned by Joly MacFie. Currently fiscally sponsored by ISOC-NY.

Online presence

Early History with ISOC-NY

  • ISOC-NY member Joly MacFie had founded punkcast.com in 1997, which focused on archiving live music online. Interested in the associated IP issues, on May 10 1999, he recorded NYU Prof Robert Dewar's lecture['Patents, Copyrights, and Free Software']. This. ironically, created a controversy when Prof Dewar, although he had given permission to record, expressed shock and surprise when a portion was then posted online. This served to stimulate much vigorous discussion on the Chapter Discuss list about IP issues generally, but, as a result of which Joly was recognized as a documentation resource.
  • Thus, on October 11 1999, ISOC-NY hosted a Vint Cerf talk "The Internet: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow". Care was taken to get a full release from Vint "in perpetuity", he recorded the event with 2 cameras. A clip was later posted on the ISOC-NY website. "How the Internet works in 3 minutes".
  • At the time, the predominance of dial up connections pretty much prohibited video streaming. For the March 14 2000 "Internet and the Community" panel, Joly implemented the SMIL protocol, Using RealPlayer, which combined audio with a timed slideshow, for a webcast. Presentations included a tour of 'Virtual Harlem' by Bruce Lincoln.
  • In early 2000, ISOC-NY President Bill Thompson instituted a new website based on the open source 'Squishdot' platform, a WordPress predecessor. A media spot was featured at the top of the side columnwhich Joly curated.
  • In later 2000, Lucia Ruedenberg-Wright acceded to the ISOC-NY Presidency. Joly stood up a mailing list 'isoc-ny-media' via eGroups. When the WBAI community radio station, in which her sister was involved, faced an existential threat, Luciacalled on the "group" to record and webcast the subsequent Town Hall. This event represents the first time ISOC-NY, or any ISOC entity, acted as a partner to share an event online. A clip of Grandpa Munster was later ported to YouTube. In another piece of media innovation, Joly created Video CDs (VCDs) of the event, which WBAI distributed during a fundraiser.
  • On Jan 17 2001, a talk by George Sadowsky was recorded, In another first, the audio was also shared via the a-Infos Radio4All platform.
  • On May 29 2001, a major speech by Richard Stallman "Free Software: Freedom and Cooperation" - a response to an earlier talk by a Microsoft spokesman who had declared Free Software "bad for business" - was recorded. At Stallman's insistence, this was the first time non-proprietary media formats were used to publish a recording. In another first, a full transcript was provided. This was the start of a strong relationship between ISOC-NY and the Free Software Foundation, which resulted in several more events.
  • On Feb 21 2002, a talk [general introduction to ICANN] by ISOC-NY board member Danny Younger was recorded, and the audio shared online. This was the first ICANN-related webcast by any ISOC entity.
  • in 2006, after a bit of a hiatus, ISOC-NY President David Solomonoff instituted a series of speaker events at Jefferson Market Library. First up was Gale A. Brewer, chair of the City's Technology Committee on Mar 1, followed by Eben Moglen, general counsel of the Free Software Foundation on May 3. Finally, on Nov 8, there was a forum, moderated by Danny Younger, on ICANN WHOIS Policy. Reflecting changes in the media landscape these were the first webcasts to also be published in the new mp4 format, with files stored on the Internet Archive. Also, ISOC-NY had received ISOC funding for a DVD Duplicator, to be used to distribute its ISX-Ubuntu software project, and it was utilized to duplicate DVDs of these events.
  • In 2007, the NYC Council established the New York City Broadband Advisory Committee (NYCBAC), and launched a series of hearings in each borough. Joly recorded the Manhattan and Queens events, and [documented the entire series] on the newly created ISOC-NY wiki.
  • In April 2008, Harvard scholar Jonathan Zittrain launched his book 'The Future of the Internet - And How to Stop It', and there were two associated NYC events that were recorded by Joly on behalf of ISOC-NY - Apr 11 Book launch, and Apr 16 Colloquium, which included Clay Shirky, Tim Wu, and Jimmy Wales. These were the first ISOC-NY webcasts to also be published on YouTube, and to be issued under a Creative Commons license.
  • In June 2008 ISOC-NY partnered with OneWebDay on a forum 'Participation and Politics Online' as part of Internet week NY. The forum happened to occur on the day after Barack Obama clinched the presidential nomination, so there was great optimism. This webcast marked the first time 'embed code' was provided, a new concept.
  • On July 30 2008, Joly was at City Hall as Mayor Bloomberg's hired broadband consultants briefed the NYCBAC. This marked the first webcast from NYC Municipal premises.
  • On Sep 22 2008, ISOC-NY again partnered with One Web Day, this time on the flagship event for its annual celebration, held in Washington Square Park. Speakers included Susan Crawford, Gale Brewer, Craig Newmark, Jonathan Zittrain, John Perry Barlow, and Lawrence Lessig. This webcast marked the first time captions were provided, crowdsourced via DotSub.
  • In Fall 2008, ISOC-NY VP and NYU Professor Evan Korth launched the "Computers & Society' course at NYU. This was an ISOC funded speaker series. Guest speakers included Sep 24 -Tim Westergren (Pandora), Oct 6 - Fred Benenson (Free Culture), Oct 8 - Fred Benenson (again!), Oct 27 - John Perry Barlow (EFF), Nov 5 - Douglas Rushkoff (author), Nov 9 - Lawrence Lessig (Harvard Law], Nov 19 - Andrew Raziej (Personal Democracy Forum), and May 18 David Bollier (author). These were all YouTubed and DVD'd.
  • Also in Fall 2008, Gale Brewer, as Chair of the NYC Council Technology Committee, launched a series of public hearings, which Joly recorded on behalf of ISOC-NY. Sep 29 - White Spaces, Oct 15 - dot nyc, Oct 29 - Webcasting, Jul 1 2009 - Open Data, Nov 29 2009 - Net Neutrality, and Dec 16 2009 - Innovation.
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