ISOC LIVE

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

Online presence

• Noticeboard https://isoc.live/
• Legacy livestream channels
  • https://livestream.com/internetsociety
  • https://livestream.com/internetsociety2
  • https://livestream.com/internetsociety3 (terminated Dec 2024)
• Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/@isoc_live
• Facebook https://www.facebook.com/liveisoc
• Twitter / X https://twitter.com/ISOC_Live
• Twitch https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive
• Mastodon https://mastodon.nycmesh.net/@isoclive
• Blue Sky
• Instagram
• LinkedIn
• Discord

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.
• 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.