[IMC-Video] Fw: It's Our Web!

[hamish]

steve at coanews.org wrote:
> I just wanted to let you all know that you can upload videos to  
> FreeSpeech TV http://community.freespeech.org
> 
> -right now it is quickTime not flash and generally people use Youtube  
> and just use the community to embed and share. But they do plan to  
> have their own easy to use flash video upload system soon I believe.
> 
> If you want to share your videos and upload to a decent place that  
> offers good quality - I would upload to http://blip.tv and then embed  
> in: http://community.freespeech.org
> 
> -Once FSTV has it's own system I would then just stop using BlipTV.
> 
> BlipTV is for-profit, but they are indepedent, progressive, and offer  
> creative commons licenses. Their could be other systems that are more  
> just, but this is the best one I know. The only more activist sites I  
> know of are way too hard to use.
> 
> VisionTV seems like it's mainly a RSS feed in MiroPlayer - BlipTV is  
> set up well for this too.
> 
> Miro is very cool!
> 
> S
> 

Hi Steve,

I used to do stringer pieces for FSTV back in the global eyes days - it 
was fun (:

Miro is very good, we are using it as the base of our visionontv project 
- we had our own software development going on based on Azurease 2 years 
ago which we put to one side when PCF came along with Democracy Player.

Visionontv is Miro with a non-computer/geeky custom front end - the 
backed is all Miro - we dont change any of the fuctionalerty of the PCF 
project.

Our front end is currently in testing - the first open beta should be 
avalebal by the end of the week, but with xmus and party's it might slip 
to the new year (;

- lean back TV like expirence, swichabel to lean in TIVO like expirence 
(Miro UI)
- custom channel guide focusing on grassroots/direct action 
environmental and social change from an outreach prospective.
- easy install focusing on reducing the applications impact on computer 
resources.
- offline resources to facilertate public screenings and use of content 
in campaigns and community's.

Second version
- channel templateing/play listing to give easy TV look and feel.
- open meta-data standard to work towards the semantic web.
- real time embedded chat - linked to forums. Social networking to 
facilertat films connecting to campaigns and activist groups.
- sustainable by non-aspirational ethical/informative advertisements and 
sponsorship.

The project is, we hope, one of many easy to access views into the 
creative commons/RSS video soup - think of it as a golden ladeal that 
brings up tasty bite sizes morceals of what/were/why of social change in 
a fermilea excessabel TV like expirence, while still embodying all the 
interaction/complexerty of web2 when you feel the need for it.

We hope to inspire and enable other less tecky groups to copy/create 
simuler views and content streams - but for this to happen video needs 
to be posted in a good download format in a RSS feed - the web2.com crew 
is doing this and video activist cirecals are starting in this direction 
which is a good sign.

Lets add lots of good ingredient's to the RSS video soup, heat it up to 
a simmer and in a year or so it should be ready to eat, a semantic video 
soup might be very nourishing for the world.

Hamish
http://visionontv.net
http://www.undercurrents.org
http://hamishcampbell.com
http://oxford.indymedia.org.uk