ipods are great for research - I watched and listened to on the train a video download from the conference Beyond Broadcast 2006 Reinventing Public Media in a Participatory Culture hosted by the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School. I checked out the talk by Peter Armstrong from OneWorld.net as part of the ‘Panel II: What the emerging participatory web media services are doing’. He focused on video online in his talk referring to the following sources:

Some of his points. With interactivity the podcast mode cuts this off i.e democracynow video. Interactivity for Armstrong is about liveness where the audience has the chance to email, phone-in be actively involved. A key part of his talk was the question for video databases - Make your own work and host it; or tag other work across the Internet (like google video for example); or just aggregate other work. Also, Armstrong believes ‘freedom’ is the significant objective for media producers, where they are not tied to or beholden to media organisations or governments.