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Plumi

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Engage Media release open source video sharing software.

Plumi is a Free Software video sharing Content Management System based on Plone and produced by the EngageMedia collective. Plumi enables you to create your own sophisticated video sharing site; by adding it to an existing Plone instance you can quickly have a wide array of functionality to facilitate video distribution and community creation.

interview Andrew - Engage Media on release of plumi - audio on Indymedia Opening question for the interview on Indymedia:

With video.indymedia currently dead and googlevideo, youtube etc dominating the upload your own online video sector, what is the realistic future of truly independent video online?

2012 vision of the Internet

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A video of a panel response on where the Internet is heading in the future. ‘The Web: 2012′.

A panel on the future of commerce, journalism, and community on the Internet, featuring Barry Diller, Arianna Huffington, and Craig Newmark. Moderated by Ken Auletta. From “2012: Stories from the Near Future,” the 2007 New Yorker Conference.

The speakers and moderator: Barry Diller; Arianna Huffington; Craig Newmark; Ken Auletta

In a closer look at this webcast it was interesting to see the differing perspectives of Barry Diller (fox/e-commerce) and Craig Newmark (social media/Craigslist). Diller argues that professional media practitioners will in the future be taking up a more significant role in the user-generated domain. A viewpoint that has some connections with Andrew Keen’s recent book ‘The Cult of the Amateur: How today’s Internet is killing our culture’.

Panel Discussion:
Ken Auletta: …will user-generated content (like YouTube..) be as popular as produced content?

Barry Diller: “…the talent pool is finite there are only so many people that make programming that will resonate with a lot of people…these are very early days in video…as it evolves people who are trained and professional at it will get in the mix…”

In contrast Newmark envisions a extended use of social media as a means to provide a varied mix of viewpoints from all types of people.

“…I do see people who we would consider to be amateurs actually doing the heavy lifting in media and quality in media today…”

Arianna Huffington (news/The Huffington Post) sees a hybrid mix of the two types of content producers with citizen journalism playing a major role.

Arianna Huffington:
“…not just reporters but the wisdom of the crowd mechanism…users put together pieces…a hybrid future [mixing both print and online]”

Perhaps the hybrid approach is slightly more realistic in relation to user-generated content where these two types of content producers will develop separately and the distinguishing line will blur even more between the two. What is obvious is the nervousness of the traditional broadcasters who are working hard on ways to tap the user-generated pool.

cyberflaming

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The article ‘Lost in cyber-flaming hell’ in the Age, holds a mixed perspective in terms of negative attitudes towards activism but does provide an insight into the gap between political campaign use of YouTube by governments in contrast with the way the site is engaged with by users. These differing worlds still seem a long way apart.

P2P Public Presentation - RMIT

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Michel Bauwens is visiting Melbourne to lecture to students in Networked Media
as well as give a public presentation and discussion. An event organised as a
collaboration between the Media department and MCD: studio to be held in the new
research studio.

Venue: bldg 4.level 5. room 1
Date: Wednesday August 1
Time: 6pm

A summary of the public presentation provided by Michel Bauwens:

Peer to peer is much more than just the sharing of music and film by
contemporary teenagers— it is in fact a new relational dynamic,
enabled by P2P- based infrastructures and organisational techniques,
which fundamentally changes the dynamic between institutions and the
peer- enabled individuals. No longer are institutions (companies,
governments, NGOs, mass media) communicating with isolated
individuals, but it is now the individuals who, assisted by their
peers, approach the institutional world from a totally different
perspective (pull and intention economy).

Far from limited to the co- creation of value with corporations and
media (think crowd sourcing and citizen journalism), it is creating a
whole new set of social processes such as peer production (think
Linux and Wikipedia), peer governance (how are these projects managed
without pre- established hierarchy?), and peer property (a new set of
licenses that protects the common production).

In this specific talk we want to focus more specifically on the
political implications of peer governance, and how it relates to
democratic models of governance.

Bio

Michel Bauwens was one of the internet pioneers in his home country
of Belgium, where he created two startups (e- Com and KyberCo)
respectively involved in the fields of intranet/extranet and
interactive marketing. He was also the eBusiness Strategy Director
for the country’s leading telecommunications company Belgacom as well
as European Director of Thought Leadership for the worldwide
webconsultancy USWeb/CKS- MarchFIRST. Prior to his involment in the
internet he was information analyst, and knowledge manager for BP.
Along the way, he has taught post- graduate MBA courses, been editor
in chief of a magazine (Wave), co- produced a 3- hour TV documentary
(TechnoCalyps), and co- edited two French- language volumes on the
anthropology of digital society.

In 2003, he moved to Chiang Mai, Thailand, which is surrounded by 60%
of the world population in a 1,500 miles radius, and started the
Foundation for P2P Alternatives to research, document and promote
such practices as peer production and peer governance.

Testimonials

There is an extensive list of Testimonials.

– The P2P Foundation researches, documents and promotes peer to peer
alternatives.

Wiki and Encyclopedia ; Blog; Newsletter

Basic essay; interview video interview

The P2P Foundation is support

P2P foundation audiovisual resource

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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.

video vortex call for papers

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The video vortex conference has put a call out for papers. A short precis below of the topics visit the post for full description. Conference website. Deadline for submission of abstract (500-1000 words) and biography (100 words): August 14, 2007.

Suggested topics:
- database theory
- software studies
- online video analysis
- YouTube criticism
- alternative platforms/open standards
- theory of participatory culture
- collaboratory data generation

The conference aims to raise the following questions:
· How are people utilizing the potential to independently produce and
distribute independent video content on the Internet?
· What are the alternatives to the proprietary standards currently
being developed?
· What are the commercial objectives that mass media is imposing on
user-generated content and video-sharing databases?
· What is the underlying economics of online video in the age of
unlimited uploads?
· How autonomous are vloggers within the broader domain of mass media?
· How are cinema, television and video art being affected by the
development of a ubiquitous online video practice?
· What type of aesthetic and narrative issues does the database pose
for online video practice?

video vortex wiki

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The Video Vortex conference has a vv wiki up online where pre-conference plannning will be written up. Including a list of possibel speakers and artists.

videosift

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I was up in Sydney and bumped into Peter at an artspace opening a performance by Guy Benfield, Maximum Commune (Ugly Business… on the basis of disbelief.) Peter produces a panoramic VR weblog. Turns out he winds down by hitting YouTube for hours on end and he put me onto videosift a site he uses to sort out his viewing. It looks like in the about on the site they only work with the Flash format which ties in with the YouTube connection. Also, they utilise the voting system as way to promote certain viewing for users.

VideoSift is a website that allows its members to submit interesting videos from around the web. Submitted videos are posted in the VideoSift Queue for the consideration of other VideoSift members. Users may vote on videos that they like. When a certain level of votes for a video is reached, the video will be published on the front page.

The site acts as the name suggests as an editor for large random sites like YouTube by using user-geneerated votes.

Narrative and Database

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Summary of presentation by N. Katherine Hayles at Re-Mediating Literature conference at Utrecht University, July 4-6, 2007.

N. Katherine Hayles: “Narrative and Database: Remediating Literature Through Data”

Recently several theorists have proposed that database is replacing narrative as the dominant cultural form, among them Lev Manovich and Ed Folsom. This presentation will argue for that narrative is essential for human communication and culture, but it will also acknowledge that contemporary narratives are transforming through the impact of data. Remediation here implies that the feedback cycle described by Bolter and Grusin in Remediation can also be understood to take place through different cultural forms as well as through different media, where the dynamics are informed not by the hypermediation / transparency dialectic they describe but rather by the circulation through narrative and data.

Remixing reality with narrative media - Nora Barry

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An overview of a presentation by Nora Barry at ‘Remixing reality with narrative media’ narrative media’

During the 60s and the 70s, an independent cinema community was established thanks to the existence of an extensive network of alternative film clubs with branches in various parts of the world. According to Nora Barry, if independent digital cinema wants to achieve a similar situation, it would be best for it to broadcast in various “physical” environments (festivals, organising public projections) that favour contact and the creation of a community, especially in areas and regions lacking in technological resources.