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ReTransmission

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seth.keen
on October 5, 2007
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This is an interesting iniative with loads of good information in this Transmission.cc Report report. And the video resource http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Video

ReTransmission is a gathering of citizen journalists, video makers, artists, programmers and web producers who are developing online video distribution tools for social justice and media democracy.

The Free Open Source Software community has provided a wide number of production and distribution tools on the Net, while the Creative Commons copyleft licence offers a way to share content without commercial exploitation. The event has been organised to add to the work of these and other communities to contribute to the building of real world usable tools for distributing and sharing video online.

listen up

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seth.keen
on October 5, 2007
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Beyond Broadcast 2006 ‘Reinventing Public Media in a Participatory Culture’. The panel session ‘The future of digital community.’ Rhea Mokand Director ‘listen up’

Listen Up! is a youth media network that connects young video producers and their allies to resources, support, and projects in order to develop the field and achieve an authentic youth voice in the mass media.

Rhea focuses on video production. Initially their objective was to bring together a cohesive collaborative space for youth media. They also identified a need to integrate youth media organisations within their own known networks. They have formed a partnership with the Internet archive as a means to get server space. Over time listen up has become the largest collection of youth video on the Internet. The content is made and curated by youth. Each participant has their own space on the web site to meet and discuss with others including production issues for example. The only censorship the organisers do is keep an eye on unacceptable comments. The intiative now attracts particpation from schools and community media organisations globally. The listen up site is an example of an “exclusive” online social media community.

P2P foundation audiovisual resource

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seth.keen
on July 17, 2007
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There is an extensive audiovisual resource on the p2p foundation wiki, which has an audiovisual category. The supporting article ‘The construction of an alternative media infrastructure’ provides the ideology behind the initiative.

stage 6 - DivX video-sharing

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seth.keen
on June 14, 2007
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The Stage 6 website are working with the DivX video codec. They propose an alternative.

It’s an experiment. Like all experiments, it exists to test assumptions and answer questions. In this case, those questions are about the future of media. How do new technologies and platforms re-shape the content experience? Instead of just making things different, can digital media actually make things better? Is it possible for a video site to offer more than dogs on skateboards?

SpinExpress - collaborative vlogging

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seth.keen
on March 31, 2007
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There is some discussion happening on the videoblogging mail list on independent video production including this initiative, SpinExpress.

“It’s never been a better time to be an independent video producer - the space is wide open. So we built SpinXpress to make collaboration easy so you can raise the quality of your production while maintaining your independence.”

The website includes a link to a videoblog.

Independent video history

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seth.keen
on March 30, 2007
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Also on the videoblogging mail list an some links to websites that archive earlier movements independent video production right back to the first portapaks. The Radical Software movement:

“Our purpose is to make all the historic issues of Radical Software freely available to everyone. This site is designed for easy browsing and downloading, and hosts a sophisticated search engine to help you find the information you require on all aspects of independent video and video art back in the “Portapak Era.”

A curated group of artists on the California College of the Arts, Wattis Institute website.

And an archive of individeo iniaitives the Media Burn website:

“Welcome to Media Burn Independent Video Archive, the first website of its kind, created entirely from progressive nonfiction videos and television programs.”