Posts Tagged ‘media’
Open Video is a broad based movement of video creators, technologists, academics, filmmakers, entrepreneurs, activists, remixers, and many others. When most folks think of open, they think of open source and open codecs. Theyre right—but theres more to Open Video than open codecs. Open Video is the growing movement for transparency, interoperability, and further decentralization in online video. These qualities provide more fertile ground for independent producers, bottom-up innovation, and greater protection for free speech online.
YouTube and other online video applications are rightly celebrated for empowering end-users; however, online video lacks some of the essential qualities that make text and images on the web such powerful tools for free speech and technical innovation. Email, blogs, and other staples of the open web rely on ubiquitous and interoperable technologies that have low barriers to entry; they are massively decentralized and resistant to censorship or regulation. Video, meanwhile, relies on centralized distribution and proprietary technologies which can threaten cultural discourse and innovation.
Open Video is about the legal and social norms surrounding online video. Its the ability to attach the license of your choice to videos you publish. Its about media consolidation, aggregation, and decentralization. Its about fair use. In short, its about a lot of things, and thats why this conference is going to be so exciting!
Conference Highlights
* Brings together stakeholders in the online video space (video makers, coders, lawyers, academics, entrepreneurs, etc.) for cross-pollination and development of the Open Video movement.
* Raises the public profile of video creators and artists, especially those whose work relies on or contributes to Open Video.
* Raises public interest and awareness around the Principles of an Open Video Ecosystem, a community effort to define best practices in online video.
Conference Details
* two day event; June 19-20 at NYU Law School with live webcast
* main agenda to feature high-profile speakers and presenters in legal and cultural dimensions of online video.
* secondary programming to include workshops on DIY video creation, publication, etc. (like USCs 24/7 DIY Conference).
* secondary programming to include open source developer workshops, tech demos, and technical community building.
* compilation of video art reel (remix, collage, etc) and related documentaries for continuous screening (like Stay Frees Illegal Art exhibit).
The Organizers
The conference is a production of Participatory Culture Foundation, Yale Internet Society Project, Kaltura, iCommons, and the Open Video Alliance.
Uploaded it to YT because I didn’t find it here and YouTubers should know about it.
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Excellent speech and call to the world.
Please note: This video and my acompanying description is offered for solely for educational purposes and is not meant for commercial use or any other use/purpose other then to bring notice to the potential horrific circumstances related to economic turmoil that has been brought to us from incompetent and greedy industrialists and their peons and liars/lawyers who see to believe echos have some kind of value or worth.
People! We need to come together for our common welfare and for sake of so much more.
Communication is one of our keys to unite and we as people need to develop a system of communication that is away from the mainstream, the elitist globalist agenda based media services. The MSM owns the complimenting wealth and spirit transfer systems within a mechanism that promotes division, strife, fear as well as lies as truth. The corrupted system abets the corps(e) war against mankind in favor of having people live as slaves who live to feed machines and material, worshiping that which is dead and rewards the owners of the marketing rights.
Real People need to know that there is a simple method in which the world of true beings, those with spirit and desire to be a part of a global project, can unite to “Say IT Forward” and offer much reward, important information, protection and entertainment, R.I.P.E. is the acronym which holds the nature/purpose of a garden of sorts to feed minds that which is true and of good purpose/use. Through a small area like a neighborhood or a regional zone, as well as a national and global manner, we can form a mentor program that creates many positive ideals and situations, touches manys lives in a good way. This in a sense is a project to create/buld a cooperative that combines to present and offer, on a global level, a new multi-micro-media experience within participating regions/zones and utilize/assist Mom and Pop Shops (MAPS not International franchises, corporations) within as many communities as possible. These venues will host a networked mini-readerboard w/remote programming to display a variety of lighted/eye catching-mind nourishing alpha-numeric messages to reach “REAL PEOPLE” when they frequent MAPS, a real time media display/experience that is R.I.P.E. Tying in a community web-portal that has/offers a number of affiliated benefits (flashing the url on the systems to reach REAL PEOPLE) which aligns with other community portals can be achieved which can a”void” corps(e) which are detrimental to people and community as they ar e one-world government biased and vampiring society through manipulation and an all out attack upon the very essence of existence.
I implore you, contact me about building and participating in a global project that will turn LED into Gold and provide so much good for real people. The light and truth combine with spirit and intent within this project for peace and truth.
This type of network offers a world of economic benefit both on-land and online, all it takes is people with good spirit and a desire to be a part of something that is completely centered upon being in tune with people and with truth and goodness. Showcasing Daily Inspirational Quotes, Daily Chuckle, contests and more, the network bridges the gaps between people around the world and is always available and ready to display important and potentially life saving information. Let us come together and develop a new form of media that is for and of people. We can Say it Forward and at the same time, build a bridge that all can cross and count on.
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And with strength comes success. It was just five years ago that millions of Americans, aroused by the nascent movement of which you’re a part, bombarded Washington to protest the FCC’s decision to radically lower the barriers to corporate media consolidation. Last year, the Bush administration tried again. Their majority on the FCC resurrected the plan to permit one company to control our large cities’ newspaper and broadcast stations. Those stalwart servants of the public interest, Commissioner Michael Copps and Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein, once again, of course, they dissented, and once again, the vigorous protest that you created rocked the cozy confines of the media ownership elite, so that last month, the Senate, on a bipartisan vote embled by Senator Byron Dorgan of North Dakota overwhelmingly passed a resolution of disapproval countering the FCC’s decision. But even as we meet, the administration is pressing to give the conglomerates more control, from newspapers and broadcast television to satellite radio, to rewarding some of the most valuable remaining swaths of our public airwaves to two of the largest telecommunications companies, to mergers and acquisitions by the biggest digital media giants.
Inspired by Free Press, Save the Internet, a bipartisan coalition, has become crucial to the fight to keep the worldwide web a bastion of free speech. For example—for example, when the cable giant Comcast, which has just bought my old newspaper Newsday, tried this spring to pack an FCC hearing room on network neutrality by literally hiring strangers off the street to ensure that advocates of net neutrality would not be able to participate, Save the Internet and its supporters helped expose the ruse. Soon after, there was a new hearing, this time without the gerrymandering seating by opponents of an open internet. Now Congressman Ed Markey has introduced a bill to advance network neutrality, and it’s also become an issue in the presidential campaign.
Be vigilant. Be vigilant. The fate of the cyber-commons is up for grabs here, the future of the mobile web and the benefits of the internet as open architecture. We’ll lose that fight without you, because the antidote, the only antidote, to the power of organized money in Washington is the power of organized people at the net roots. Example: when Verizon tried to censor NARAL’s use of text messaging last year, it was quick action by your coalition that led the company to reverse its position. Your efforts also led to an FCC proceeding on this issue. So, be vigilant. Wherever the internet flows, on PCs, cell phones, mobile devices and very soon a new digital television set, we must ure that it remains an open and nondiscriminatory medium of expression, what our friend Jeff Chester calls truly a digital democracy.
But it’s going to take more than just hopes that the new media will deliver up what we have never fully realized with the old. And the clock is ticking. By 2011, the market analysts tell us, the internet will surpass newspapers in advertising revenues. With MySpace and Dow Jones controlled by Rupert Murdoch, Microsoft determined to acquire Yahoo!, and with advertisers already telling some bloggers, “Your content is unacceptable,” we could see the potential loss of what’s now considered an unstoppable long tail of content offering abundant, new, credible and sustainable sources of news and information.
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Streaming Media Summit Gets Underway in New York City as Beet.TV Readies Live Show!
The very premise of the “Streaming Media” conference has tranformed from largely a broadcast-engineering expo to a must-attend summit where online video and its revolutionary effect on society is explored. It’s a whole new ballgame. Congratulations to Dan Rayburn for programming such a relevant and informative show.
We are delighted to cover the show which starts tomorrow here in New York. Please watch Beet.TV for interviews with key players from Microsoft, Adobe, AOL, Forrester Research, Akamai, Level3, VideoEgg and many others.
Live video streaming will be a big topic at the conference. On2 will demonstrate a new Web-based live Flash streaming program and Microsoft will discuss plans to stream live video on its new Silverlight platform. New companies will announce plans to stream live video from phone cameras.
I believe the prospect for live video is promising. So, we’re going to do some live streaming ourselves, using the new Web-based program from On2 Technologies. We will be broadasting live on Wednesday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. EST right here on Beet.TV so stay tuned.
My PR firm has the good fortune to represent On2, so my use of this live streaming programming is promotional for my client, for sure. But, that much said, it’s very exciting to “go live.” I hope to schedule regular live interviews on Beet.TV before too long.
The clip on the top of this post features Eric Ameres, Chief Technology Officer of On2. I visited him in the company’s upstate New York offices a few weeks back. He filled me in on this new Web-based streaming application. While On2 and Adobe provide applications to stream Flash video, this new program from On2 allows anyone with a camera and browser to connect to their PC (Mac’s will work soon) via USB or firewire.
So, if I want to get a guest on Beet.TV from out of town, I can simply invite someone to plug in with a webcam or DV camera, have them log onto a web page and they will be live on the show. The file is sent to Flash Media Server, and a very nice looking Flash video is streamed.
The prospect of live, quality user-generated content is going to be big trend over the next 12 months. Keep an eye on this.
Please tune in on Wednesday!
– Andy Plesser
http://www.beet.tv/2007/05/streaming_media.html
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