Television Archiving

Yet another item for your aggregator: the recent changes feed for Me-TV.org’s VideoBlogging wiki.

They’re calling it vlogging.

The recent questioning by a federal appeals court of the legitimacy of the broadcast flag is surprising and for those interested in archiving HD broadcasts, rather heartening. There’s a really nice roundup at EEJD.

There has been a flurry of articles recently about vlogging, videocasting, videopodcasting, screencasting on the web. Is Video-Casting The Next Big Thing? Move Over Podcasting has a nice overview of tools related to both podcasting and what it is calling videocasting (slightly nicer than “vlogging” but too long a word IMHO; there’s a debate about [...]

The Science Network, based at the Salk Institute, is referring to itself as a “C-Span for science.” It looks really promising as a source of good programming; it will be interesting to see how they balance having big library of broadcasts available online with the requirements of scheduled programming.

The Online Publishers Association has a new survey out about Internet video viewing habits and how they are changing. Among the findings are that 27 percent of people are now watching Internet video once a week, 5 percent are watching daily, that videos are found through random surfing (interesting: not based on others’ recommendations), and [...]

ANT is a new aggregator for video feeds. It’s very suggestive of new possibilities for Internet-based video access, and comes loaded with a set of selected feeds, including Media Matters, which seems to be growing rapidly in scope and influence. I was unable to get it to work with the Reuters Television RSS feeds, but [...]

First Monday is running my paper on television archiving. A big thank you to everyone who provided input, and to First Monday’s editors. Here’s the abstract: Worldwide, more than 30 million hours of unique television programming are broadcast every year, yet only a tiny fraction of it is preserved for future reference, and only a [...]

Kedora TV rolls together BitTorrent, RSS, and a program guide that helps amateur video producers promote their work, and makes it easy to scan for new programs by popularity, genre, or title. Most of the programming is technology-centric — think cable access programming for hackers. But the site is nicely done. It would be nice [...]

IndTV is getting more attention again, with request for new submissions on Gizmodo, a recent post on Unmediated, and an in-depth article in East Bay Express detailing some of the organization’s growing pains. If anyone has any insight into what is next for IndTV, please email me; creating a network based on citizen journalism and [...]

Berkeley Cybersalon: Television Goes Online, BitTorrent Broadcasts Sunday, February 20, 6 p.m.-8 p.m. The Hillside Club, 2286 Cedar St., Berkeley Of the 31 million hours of unique television programming broadcast each year, less than 1 percent is available online. Technological breakthroughs from Internet companies such as Yahoo, Google, and BlinkX, decisions by CNN, C-SPAN, Reuters [...]