As part of the Open Media project, we’re looking to collaborate with sites that work primarily in the area of grassroots video. In addition to participatory media sites like unmediated (see the “open media” blogroll) and efforts like Creative Commons, here are a few of the home-brew media sites that we know about.
• The Center for Digital Storytelling in Berkeley, Calif., has pioneered the digital storytelling space for the past decade.
• Storylink.org is a digital stories project at MIT that arose out of the academic community. More limited in scope than Open Media, it focuses almost exclusively on 3-to 5-minute digital movies.
• Undergroundfilm.org is a terrific site devoted to independent films that launched in June 2003. Alex Cohen serves as chairman.
• OneWorldTV gives people the tools and training to create and share video stories.
• Open4all.info is Drazen Pantic’s effort to empower people to become media outlets.
• DV Guide is the accompanying site to Open4all and requires use of BitTorrent.
• Fanlib: People Powered Entertainment is a tool for storytelling.
• Creativenarrations.net provides support and training to document the unfolding stories in our neighborhoods.
• Campusmoviefest.com is an annual contest for best short film made by a team of college students.
• Youth Media Exchange is a confederation of IndyMedia organizations that Brad DeGraf helped pull together.
• Witness.org is an organization using video and technology to fight for human rights.
• The Independent Media Center is a global organization that relies on citizen-reports to shoot grassroots video.
• FanFilms.com and iFilm.com offer fan films and tribute films.
• “OnScene.com”
• BrainGlow, the Bay Area Video Coalition, a San Francisco group that shows users how to create their own media.
• TellingStories is a San Francisco startup that sells the tools to let people create personal media.
• VideoBlogging Wiki on Me-TV.org: an open wiki about video blogging.
• ZeD, run by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s new media arm — the tag line is “open source television” — allows members to upload and promote material, from movies to music, and yes, even blog posts. Best material is shown on the ZeD TV show
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Home-brew media sites (More Open Media)
As part of the Open Media project, we're looking to collaborate with sites that work primarily in the area of grassroots video. In addition to participatory media sites like unmediated (see the “open media” blogroll) and efforts like Creative Commons, …
Home-brew media sites (More Open Media)
As part of the Open Media project, we're looking to collaborate with sites that work primarily in the area of grassroots video. In addition to participatory media sites like unmediated (see the “open media” blogroll) and efforts like Creative Commons, …
There is a 30+ year history of creating media within community settings via organizations made possible through cable franchise fees paid back to communities. Members of the Allliance for Community Meida (http://www.alliancecm.org) are scattered throughout the US and provide training, access, and a voice to thousands of individuals each year.
A collaboration of these types of centers in the metro Boston area have been working to share content and build community links for over 4 years via the Commonwealth Broadband Collaborative (http://www.cbcmedia.net).
It is important in this quest to build infrastructure and systems, that solid links to communities and the grassroot are not discounted. The Digital Bicycle is working to explore these connections withing community settings (http://10speed.ltc.org) as is ExtendMedia (http://extendmedia.ltc.org).
BBC Wales has two projects: Capture Wales at http://www.bbc.co.uk/capturewales and Video Nation at http://www.bbc.co.uk/videonation