Eli Spector of MediaMobz — the new video production marketplace that I’m helping out on — points to a new citizen media site geared to youth culture: Vimby, short for Video In My Backyard. The site showcases video and photos taken in backyards across the nation. The site encourages contributors to “help us uncover what’s […]
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No more shitty YouTube embeds
Rupert of Twittervlog.tv writes on the Yahoo! videoblogging list the other day: There are a number of reasons I’ve never loved YouTube: that intrusive watermark the inability to download videos without doing a workaround the site’s refusal to allow Creative Commons licenses generally crappy transcoding Hmm. Rupert and I have a lot in common. Rupert […]
Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video
The Center for Social Media at American University’s School of Communication has just released an important new report: Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video, which builds on the Center’s findings from its Recut, Reframe, Recycle: Quoting Copyrighted Material in User- Generated Video report. (The report might well have been called: How […]
Miro, the democratic media player
Miro, the democratic media player from JD Lasica on Vimeo. Here’s an 11-minute video interview I conducted with Nicholas Reville, co-founder and executive director of the Participatory Culture Foundation, maker of Miro at getmiro.com. Miro’s a cool application that lets you watch and subscribe to millions of channels of content created by us (any video […]
Hayden Black on creating your own webisode series
‘Goodnight Burbank’ from JD Lasica on Vimeo. Here’s a 5-minute video interview I did with Hayden Black, the mastermind behind the Internet video comedies Goodnight Burbank and Abigail’s X-Rated Teen Diary. He also stars in both series. Hayden also offers some tips for anyone who wants to produce webisodes or just a simple series of […]