Social Media for the Third Sector
June 8, 2008
Learning Package: Social Media for the Third Sector
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Lib at Lift08
February 7, 2008
Lib has headed off to Lift08 in Geneva. Here she is giving some reflections so far…
Rich talking about Scouta in 1 Minute
June 15, 2007
Here’s my mate Richard Giles, Scouta’s CEO, giving a one-minute interview. One minute isn’t long, but he managed to fit a fair bit in there.
The Digg Revolt: turning point for DRM
May 3, 2007
It is starting to look like the Digg Revolt will be the next step in the turning tide against Digital Rights Management. And what a day for people power. But it does raise some interesting questions that will be played out over the coming weeks.
It all started when Digg responded to a DMCA takedown notice issued by the MPAA and AACS Licensing Authority, the body responsible for managing the DVD-HD rights managment system. Digg administrators deleted the offending posts, a fairly normal operation, in line with Digg’s terms and conditions. All ok so far.
The future of TV: Democracy
February 22, 2006
Democracy Player is a new free video player and downloader that (given a decent broadband connection) gives the first gimpse I’ve see of the post-broadcast-tv world where you choose what you want to watch without it being painful to do the selection and downloading. Fabulous fun.
And just like TV, if you’ve got stuff downloaded, it just plays video clip after video clip. And downloads in the backgound and all that sort of goodness.
But that is not all. This comes from the Participatory Culture Foundation, the software is open source, and there are other tools to make it participatory:
- Broadcast Machine is used to make channels of your own videos and photos - and it makes distribution by BitTorrent really easy.
- Video Bomb is a collaborative filtering internet video site. The more bombs, or votes a video gets, the higher up the list it gets.
This is a nice set of tools. And it really does point the way to the future. Give us all lots of bandwidth and connections to anwhere in the world, and we no longer have to live with those few free-to-air channels. We have choice. And we can take part by making and adding our own channels. I like it.
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