C-SPAN OPENS UP: “Under pressure from bloggers and other Internet activists, the network that broadcasts congressional hearings has agreed to grant public access to many of its video feeds.” Read the whole thing.

And bravo for C-SPAN, as this is an excellent thing. And might I suggest that they make it possible to embed video in a YouTube fashion — or better yet, like MotionBox, which lets you set links to multiple locations within a video.