(quoted from overview) Following the success of the first Video Vortex reader (published late 2008, second edition, 4000 copies in total), recent Video Vortex conferences in Ankara (Oct. 2008), Split (May 2009) and Brussels (Nov. 2009) have sparked a number of new insights, debates and conversations regarding the politics, aesthetics, and artistic possibilities of online video. Since these issues develop with the rapidly changing landscape of online video and its use, we want to open up a space once again for interested people to contribute to this critical conversation in a second issue of the Video Vortex reader.

Favourite films re-purposed into a 6-frame comic strip. Good example for A4 comic strip exercise in editing media texts.

Article on why a lot of online video innitatives are going belly up . (From the techcrunch article): More importantly, why is so much venture capital that funded video startups going down the drain when the number of videos watched on the Web is going through the roof?

Detailed referenced report on copyright in regards to video mashups.

Vimeo channel for the Andreas and Britanny 'Lumiere Manifesto' project http://videoblogging.info/several

A summary of software and platform studies in the overview for the DAC 09 articles under the Software / Platform Studies theme.

Good examples of varied approached to film and video for poetry brief

Nive use of map and found objects in relation to locations using geotagging. Sound as qt movie off photos works nicely.

Tool for connecting latitude-longitude information which will let other people watch geotagged photos in google earth – accessed as a type of application

From the about page of the shadow world project: 'I have always considered Shadow World to be something somewhat different than a conventional documentary. My concept for the series came from a desire to document a certain overlooked reality, but without focusing on the factual specifics of that location. Instead, I chose to focus on what made that location both unique as well as universal, eschewing narrative and message for observation and formal balance as well as a personal connection with the environment and subjects. The inception of Shadow World came out of my relation to the moment through my background as a painter, the attention to minute details and how hey relate to each other to shape a moment in time. Time being one element that video allows me to explore and manipulate in a way that painting has not.'

From the about: 'I am a film and video artist originally from Houston, Texas now living in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Over the years my work has taken on many forms: Super 8, 16mm, 16mm multiple projection performance and installation, video installation, 16mm found footage films, hand-painted film, culture jamming video, videoblogging, and web video series. I currently plunder tv and the internet for Wreck & Salvage and spend my free time buried in old films.'

from the title byline: 'the fine art of 'pataphysics in daily life. condensed poetic voodles. A video blog by sam renseiw' and from the project description 'Spacetwo:Patalab will exist in this spirit and function as a small, unassuming, experimental visual laboratory. Laced with quotes and useful links, Palatab02 is a forum for subdued, yet powerful and complex, indirectly moving imagery.'

pouringdown project Daniel Liss that looks at using video as a medium for mapping locations, providing a sense of place.

Useful website design for documentation of this locative project, as well as a number of approaches presented towards the project brief.

from the information web page: 'Life: a user's manual' is a series of public performances and online mappings that examine the hidden stories captured by private wireless CCTV streams and how they intersect with the visible world around us.

locative media, gps cinema, walk art, 3D literature – one of Will Leurs' locative projects sent to artist-cloud list. Quoted from the about: 'This is the website for a locative media workshop for the Digital Technology and Culture department headed by Dene Grigar at Washington State University at Vancouver where I am currently an artist-in-residence.'

Recent public domain manifesto project that has links with copyright/IP.