- Collaborative editing tools and cool collages A quick note here on some online tools I’ve recently come across: Kaltura – a collaborative video making tool that another colleague brought to our attention (thanks Sam). I realize this is not new to bloggers and videophiles in the know – but its relatively new to us here and we’re considering ways to use […]
- Web 2.0 still in its infancy David Pogue wrote a blog entry this week entitled Asking the Crowd to Spread the News in which he muses about all the useful and more pro-active things that Web 2.0 applications could be used for beyond just entertainment (YouTube) and buying ‘collectors items’ (eBay), etc. Its further endorsement that the time is now for […]
- Opinions on the Cellphone Videos from the Virginia Tech Massacre Steve Safran of Lost Remote writes: I like it whenever I come upon contrarian points of view. And newassignment.net has a doozy. Steve Fox writes about Virginia Tech student Jamal Albarghouti’s cellphone video of the shooting at Virginia Tech. Here are some of his thoughts: As everyone steps up to applaud the “citizen journalism” that […]
- Best practices when aggregating videos Re-Remediated (again) from unmediated, who got it from JD at Social Media. Our friend from blip.tv, Mike Hudack, wrote an article with some handy guidelines at Video Vertigo: • Aggregators should always identify the individual show, videoblog or video podcast in their index, and include a link to the appropriate site for that show. When […]
- Reviewing how NGOs use vlogs and videosharing sites Beth Kanter has an excellent overview of recent discussions on how nonprofits and NGOs, mainly in the US, are using online video sharing sites, and also experimenting with their own vlogs documenting their activities. Most examples so far seem promotional or fundraising-driven rather than advocacy-driven, and its not yet clear how traffic is being driven […]
- Malaysia: Cellphone video captures police excess [via GV/WITNESS] [Originally published here as part of WITNESS‘s collaboration with Global Voices Online] When the Malaysian police started accepting crime reports sent in by members of the public from their cellphones, little did they expect that their own misdemeanors would one day be caught in the frame. Malaysians have had to put up with police corruption […]
- Top 10 Video Sharing Sites Reviewed Thanks again to the folks at unmediated for pointing out this review from lightreading comparing video sharing sites, something I’ve been meaning to do for a long time. Here are the results: 1) Blip.tv 2) VideoEgg 3) Dailymotion 4) YouTube 5) Veoh 6) Google Video 7) Grouper 8 ) Jumpcut 9) AOL 10) Eyespot
- Propaganda and User Generated Content JD Lasica from OurMedia had an interesting post about a “spoof” of Al Gore’s Inconvenient Truth. Turns out that Republican PR firms are “users” too. Is this something we should expect on the Video Hub as well?
- The State of Human Rights Tagged Videos I was thinking, maybe a good way to see what might happen w/ the Video Hub is to check out what’s going on on existing sites, like YouTube and Google Video. Doing a quick search on human rights, came up with the following links. Salvor at YouTube Salvor blogs about sex worker exploitation in Spain. […]
