In the discussion with the director, Alex Gibney, following a showing at the San Francisco Film Festival of Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, it came out that CNBC claims to have erased all of its coverage of Enron. It would be good to verify whether this is the case, but if true, it [...]
The newly-announced Open Media Network bills itself as the future of public tv and radio, and looks something like OurMedia – producers can upload content and have it hosted for free. A system that uses the Internet for distribution and allows creative workers to be compensated for their sound and moving image productions could be [...]
Amazing: sponsorship rules are getting re-examined and the FCC is warning broadcasters to identify the source of video news releases. Of course, the counterpart to this action should be an examination not only of broadcasters’ practices, but also of the government practices which the GAO called illegal.
In addition to creating a union catalog of moving images, MIC is also creating a vendor directory. Jane Johnson writes: Just a reminder: we are planning to build a MIC Vendor Directory listing individuals and organizations supplying professional services and products for archival moving image collections. If you are a vendor, service provider, or potential [...]
Seriousmagic’s Vlog it! looks very similar to Varasoftware’s Videocue, but for the PC. The ability to have a dynamic background is nice advantage, though I suspect that will soon to be included in Videocue. The items produced by Vlog it!, hosted at Vlog.com, don’t work for Mac users running Safari, and require Firefox users to [...]
Informitv has a good article today on the launch of the BBC’s Creative Archive, which will provide materials for non-commercial use and serve as a model for other archives in the U.K. that wish to provide enhanced access to their holdings.
Along with the new hosting services from the Internet Archive, Ourmedia, and Google, and the server-side video searching and selection services from companies like Yahoo, BlinkX, Google, and Feedster, there is a growing crop of new production tools. Some, such as Vided, are server-based, and oriented towards assembly and transcoding. But the one that has [...]
Bandwidth and storage have dropped to the point where it’s possible to think about hosting video for free. Google plans to start doing so soon and the Internet Archive, which has been doing so for a couple of years, now has a spiffy new front end with Ourmedia.org. Still image services such as Flickr and [...]
Kuro5hin has a nice write-up about C-SPAN today. C_SPAN’s American Political Archive provides access to past footage as well as to radio programs, and is quite interesting to browse, though unfortunately it’s using Real for encoding rather than an open standard.
IndTV is now calling itself Current.tv, and planning an August 1 launch. From AP: Gore Launches TV Channel for Young Viewers Tue Apr 5, 8:11 AM ET By BETH FOUHY, Associated Press Writer SAN FRANCISCO – Al Gore has a plan for luring the Internet generation back to television: make it more participatory by having [...]
The New York Times reviews Panorama Ephemera. Congratulations Rick!