Peter Lyman pointed me at the topic of video news releases (VNRs). These are unlabeled ingredient in a growing proportion of broadcast news, and the new form of ephemeral film. A lot of organizations are now putting up libraries of VNRs on their web sites. Sometimes there are problems: HHS recently got slapped for violating […]
Boing Boing and Daily Wireless are reporting on INdTV, which is hiring “Digital Correspondents” and appealing to disaffected viewers in an effort to co-create a better world of television news. Founded by Al Gore and
The market for news videos taken by amateurs is evolving quickly. Ben Gross sent me a link to Lulop, which looks like a video-only version of Neal Stephenson’s Central Intelligence Corporation, or Webshots for video, but with an emphasis on news clips that will sell (e.g. candid celebrity videos), and a plan to market to […]
Microsoft’s IPTV Initiative made a number of announcements at IBD in this month. Highlights: HD on Windows Media 9, Win CE on set top boxes, and agreements with network operators.
The Hollywood Reporter notes that Michael Powell is very bullish on IPTV: “IPTV and video are going to start coming on very, very strong,” Powell said Wednesday. The chairman said that in the last six months, IPTV is the No. 1 item being worked on in Silicon Valley labs and small companies he’s visited…”Almost every […]
From the 9/5 SF Chronicle: On Tuesday, the National Film Preservation Foundation will release an amazing three-DVD collection of 50 rare films from American film archives. Some are features, some are shorts and some are fragments. None of the films have ever been available on home video. Few have ever been seen outside a library […]
The Library of Congress has published a notice of proposed rulemaking regarding the Acquisition and Deposit of Unpublished Audio and Audiovisual Transmission Programs. Note the extension of protection to LC contractors. Anyone know who else has made comments?
The Global Society for Asset Management conference in LA next month looks like a good place for television archivists to get the scoop on what is happening in the commercial sector.
Cataloging video is hard. The the Moving Image Collections (MIC) and the Independent Media Arts Preservation, Inc. (IMAP)’s cataloging project are both working on cataloging issues, but I wonder if past television guides couldn’t be used for quick and dirty cataloging for large video archives, as is done here at the 9/11 Archive. It would […]