A Conversation with Juan Cole — Video Interview on Iraq
[From the diaries by susanhu. Citizen journalism! Great job, Mark.]
As some of you may have read, I was planning to travel to the University of Michigan and do an interview with Prof. Juan Cole, the noted expert on the Middle East and proprietor of the blog Informed Comment. This was an outgrowth of an email exchange that I had with him as well as some diaries I posted on dKos and on BMT.
Well, I decided to go all out and do a video interview. I was accompanied by fellow dKosser JessicaDrewSW, who contributed her video expertise and was the cameraperson. I have just posted the complete interview video (split into seven parts) at the following locations:
Please click…
Introduction
Attempts to stop Cole’s internet activities and allegations of antisemitism
Motivations for the war and consequences of a partition of Iraq
The separation of church and state in the new Iraq
The worst black mark on American foreign policy
All you have to do is go there and, after the page loads, click on the “This media file’s URL: Link” just below the picture on the web page. Left click if you want to view the video within the browser, or right click and select “Save target as…” (or similar, bepending on your browser) to save the video as a file on your computer. It is a Quicktime file.
The intro is about 8 minutes long and amazingly only took about 12MB, due to the fantastic compression afforded by Quicktime. The succeeding 6 parts vary from 8 to 23 minutes. If you don’t have Quicktime then the file may play in another viewer, but if not then it is easy (and free) to download Quicktime7 from apple here:
I assume that you already have it if you are a Mac person.
If you think what I have is promising then maybe you could recommend this diary so that the interview can get a wider audience.
Feel free to respone with comments, auggestions, questions, or whatever. Please realize that I haven’t done anything even remotely like this before, so I am climbing the learning curve. That said, let me have it 🙂
