Robin Good has some kind words about ourmedia on his Masterofnewmedia blog.
Under the Ourmedia flag a small group of brave and visionary independent thinkers, technologists and change agents has gotten together to create what will very soon be the largest public open access archive for all grassroots creative multimedia content.
This is very, very major news and it should be welcome with the best fanfare possible.
Not only we are deeply in need of such a free content sharing infrastructure, which must be tightly connected with the licensing options offered by the Creative Commons, the Public Domain and the traditional Copyright licensing scheme, but we have been missing the understanding of how much creative potential this Ourmedia creature may in turn unleash.
Ourmedia wants users to be able to create photo albums and digital jukeboxes by tapping into the content in ourmedia’s databases.
For instance, a blogger who writes about film criticism might set up an area of his blog that lets users call up amateur or independent films culled from Ourmedia multimedia library.
The idea, in short, is to create the world’s largest collection of home-brew media — video, audio, photos, anything a creator wants to share with a global audience — which people can generally freely share with each other. …
Talk about disruptive? Get some thermonuclear seat belts brother.
If we accomplish one-tenth of what Robin is excited about, we’ll really have something. The public alpha site’s launch is taking longer than we imagined (surprise), but we’re getting there, bit by bit.
JD Lasica, founder of Inside Social Media, is also a fiction author and the co-founder of the cruise discovery engine Cruiseable. See his About page, contact JD or follow him on Twitter.
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