At Friday’s Getting Ready for Prime Time: Online Video and the Future of Television conference in Berkeley, I grabbed Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle for this 7-minute video about the obstacles and opportunities in archiving our television heritage. Brewster’s great to listen to, as always. (Saw him Friday in Berkeley, Saturday at the Ourmedia gathering, and Sunday at the EFF party.) It’s a 28MB MPEG-4 video. (Ourmedia page | watch video)
Meantime, lots of coverage of today’s announcement that a group of edu, org, com and gov organizations are announcing an Open Content system in the tradition of open source software.
Here’s the page set up by the Open Content Alliance, including a set of principles.
Here’s Brewster’s announcement on the Yahoo! Search Blog.
The New York Times, Slashdot and BoingBoing are also all over this.
Tags: Internet Archive, Brewster Kahle, citizen journalism
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