From the engage media newsletter: The open video alliance wiki and principles.
http://osvideo.constantvzw.org/ – open source video blog
Open Source Video is a project of Constant, a Brussels based organisation for Arts and Media. This weblog is a collective testsite for producing and distributing open source video. Here we keep traces of experiments with software for sharing and editing video, and report on what we found to be [...]
Caught up with Andy Nicholson from Engage Media today and learnt about their Transmission online video metadata working group.
A metadata standard for online video will ensure a common definitions for basic information such as title, date, author and language and (free) tags. This standard is to be used in video upload forms and video feeds [...]
My one-minute rant for the Open Spectrum Quality/Control symposium held at the Melbourne State Library today. I lined up with 10 others and raced the clock to open the event. Documentation was done using a live blogging tool Cover it Live.
There is no content on the web!
on the web, content is a king (stripped naked)
content [...]
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
From the Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies and the book review section where authors reply to reviews.
Wired Shut: Copyright and the Shape of Digital Culture
Author: Tarleton Gillespie
Publisher: Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007
From a recent Leonardo Books review, October 2008.
Two Bits: The Cultural Significance of Free Software
by Christopher M. Kelty
Duke University Press, Durham and London, [...]
Received a link to this online design thesis openp2pdesign.org_1.1. I like the way this thesis has been re-designed for online distribution and translated from Italian into Spanish and English to increase the spread.
openp2pdesign.o rg was born in order to publish, disseminate and develop further my thesis, and to stimulate on it a collective discussion. The [...]
This application Sphinx-4 came up in discussions about tagging and annotating video content on the fly.
Sphinx-4 is a state-of-the-art speech recognition system written entirely in the JavaTM programming language. It was created via a joint collaboration between the Sphinx group at Carnegie Mellon University, Sun Microsystems Laboratories, Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs (MERL), and Hewlett Packard [...]
http://www.fridayarts.net/blogs/?p=3677
Internet video site YouTube needs no introduction. Its status as
both a branded channel and a medium in its own right has redefined
“new media” on both sides of the art and corporate entertainment
divide. But most of its content resides somewhere in between, and its
currency lies in the vernacular [...]
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Previous research into open source led to this article ‘The Cathedral and the Baazar by Eric Steven Raymond, Nov 2006. I like many others it seems who are involved in open-source software development have been influenced by some of the ideas that Raymond presents. A quote from the introduction:
Linus Torvalds’s style of development—release early [...]
From Markus Sandy’s blog a post tilted ‘Drupal as a framework for a social context engine’ , a video record of Richard Schave’ s presentation at the Los Angeles Drupal Camp 2007…. He refers to webjay which has been pulled down as an example of a social context engine (also Flickr, del.ici.ous).
