http://www.blogherald.com/2008/04/09/flickr-gets-video-but-just-for-90-seconds/
Flickr has launched its long awaited video feature, and it’s an interesting addition. First of all, all videos are limited to 90 seconds, and secondly, only pro users can upload videos (everyone can view and embed them though). Why is that?
Magazine OPEN release appeared on the vv list. The article, The Rise of the Informal Media How Search Engines, Weblogs and YouTube Change Public Opinion I need to follow up on.
An article in NYT titled by Adam Cohen titled “Why the Democratic Ethic of the World Wide Web May Be About to End” which references video:
Consider online video, which depends on the availability of higher-speed connections. Internet users can now watch channels, like BBC World, that are not available on their own cable systems, and they have access to video blogs and Web sites like YouTube.com, where people upload videos of their own creation. Under tiered pricing, Internet users might be able to get videos only from major corporate channels.
Sir Tim expects that there are great Internet innovations yet to come, many involving video. He believes people at the scene of an accident — or a political protest — will one day be able to take pictures with their cellphones that could be pieced together to create a three-dimensional image of what happened. That sort of innovation could be blocked by fees for the high-speed connections required to relay video images.
Today, in the lab we had a discussion about having to create a standard video format for ipods (i.e the frame size, data rate etc) just like for example creating a delivery format for a program for television. The lab decided to bypass being restricted by video podcasting standards, in favour of leaving the published video on the Internet. The discussion was prompted by the aim to set up a reblog of video content that has a web feed from each student blog. Each video object from each individual student, which is made around a pre-set theme is brought together into one blog via the use of an aggregator. Each video object on their own blogs remains in the context of the environment it was created in. In the reblog also like in their personal blogs all the video objects remain within the networked environment of the Internet.
Nicholas Carr in a recent blog post titled ‘Steve’s devices’ provides a critique of Apple’s motives in terms of how their devices like ipods are designed in relation to the Internet. Carr states:
Jobs, in fact, couldn’t possibly be more out of touch with today’s Web 2.0 ethos, which is all about grand platforms, open systems, egalitarianism, and the erasing of the boundary between producer and consumer. Like the iPod, the iPhone is a little fortress ruled over by King Steve. It’s as self-contained as a hammer. It’s a happening staged for an elite of one. The rest of us are free to gain admission by purchasing a ticket for $500, but we’re required to remain in our seats at all times while the show is in progress. User-generated content? Hah! We’re not even allowed to change the damn battery. In Jobs’s world, users are users, creators are creators, and never the twain shall meet.
PIcked this up off the aoir list, a discussion about a video on YouTube titled ‘Web 2.0…The Machine is Us/ing Us’ that takes a swipe at web 2.0. A critique of the video on the on the Media @ LSE Group weblog in the post ‘Dangerously overstating the significance of Web 2.0′ Quote:
“It suggests that thanks to Web 2.0 technologies (which it neatly explains) “we’ll have to rethink copyright, identity, ethics… ourselves”.
And the discussion on the aoir list.