Exactly nine months ago, Marc Canter and I met up at Supernova. I mentioned to him the idea I’d been kicking around with Brewster Kahle of the Internet Archive to create a grassroots media organization, site, and registry called Open Media.
Turned out that Open Media was, ironically, a trademarked name. But Marc jumped at the chance to dive in as co-founder of this new entity — he’s been a multimedia pioneer for 15 years, and this is the culimination of what he’s been striving toward all these years.
Today, Ourmedia.org officially launched.
I’m pretty excited about it. I’ve put aside my freelance writing for the past half year to work almost exclusively on Ourmedia — on a strictly voluntary, unpaid basis. Why? Because I deeply believe that citizens media efforts such as this are the wave of the future.
As I wrote in the site’s Welcome message:
We are in the midst of the greatest boon in grassroots creativity in ages. Tools once available only to a professional elite are now being taken up by everyday citizens. Just as weblogs let millions of people become part of “the media,” so too are new tools empowering individuals to create video, audio, playlists and other works of personal media and to share them with a global audience.
The personal media revolution is turning multimedia. Digital stories, video diaries, documentary journalism, home-brew political ads, music videos, fan films, Flash animations, student films – all kinds of short multimedia works have begun to flower. Alas, the most compelling ones are scattered across the Web or hidden away on thousands of PCs, laptops and closed networks. These works deserve a wider audience.
That’s what Ourmedia is all about: Create. Share. Get noticed.
Marc and I believe that real change in the mediasphere will only come about when millions of us pick up the tools of digital creativity. The tools are now at hand. Let’s go.
I urge you to check out the site. But be gentle. We’re in alpha mode. That means you’ll find lots of stuff that isn’t working yet. We have a huge to-do list, and only a handful of programmers who are volunteering their time to make this all come together.
But I think they’ve done a top-notch job so far. I’ve never seen such a good-looking open-source project.
Some urls of note:
Press release: Spurring the citizens media revolution.
I’m pretty darned proud. Thanks, especially, to all those who’ve helped us get to this point: Brewster Kahle, Larry Lessig, Parker Thompson, Michael Sullivan, Damien Newman, Stephen Downes, Gaurav Bhatnagar, Ashish Kumar, our talented moderator crew, metadata team, wiki members, and many others.
This could turn out to be something big.
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.
JD Lasica Announces Launch of Ourmedia.org
MBA Member JD Lasica today announced the launch of Ourmedia.org which he describes as a “free, non-profit global repository for grassroots media — music, video, audio, text, and more. Free storage, free bandwidth, forever.” http://ourmedia.org…
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MBA Member JD Lasica today announced the launch of Ourmedia.org which he describes as a “free, non-profit global repository for grassroots media — music, video, audio, text, and more. Free storage, free bandwidth, forever.” http://ourmedia.org…
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JD Lasica’s and Marc Canter’s OurMedia.org has launched, “a grassroots media organization, site and registry.” Here’s the one-line explanation from the home page: “Share your videos, audio files, photos, text or software – for free – with a global comm…
OurMedia launches
JD Lasica’s and Marc Canter’s OurMedia.org has launched, “a grassroots media organization, site and registry.” Here’s the one-line explanation from the home page: “Share your videos, audio files, photos, text or software – for free – with a global comm…
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Dave Golden
Hi Seth,
Well, for one thing, something like only 1 or 2% of the wired population uses BitTorrent, so you’re cutting out 98% of your potential audience.
Second, we’ll be storing your stuff for decades, and chances are that most of the stuff being traded on p2p networks today won’t be there a year or two from now, much less 10 or 20 years.
Having said that, one of the first things on our post-launch to-do list is to add BitTorrent capability to Ourmedia.
If you’d like to help with that, lemme know! :~)
jd
Yes, this is the right idea. Don’t know if it will work, but it feels right to me. I’m currently trying to use Bryce still images in a blog in a format similar to James Leilks blog along with my writing, but Ourmedia might be a better way to go with the images…I’ll be watching and thinking. Let’s go!! Indeed.
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