Rich media web madness
Take one of the latest web media starlettes BitTorrent, shake in some video publishing, add a smart bunch of kids with a cause, and make it all sorts of easily participatory and open source, and you have the Participatory Culture Foundation. It’s like podcasting on steroids, and with that visual element that’s popular with the millenials these days.
The plan is for the Participatory Culture Foundation (the folks that publish The Regular, another favorite of mine) to develop not only the DTV viewer that allows you to subscribe to channels and plays your shows, but a publishing tool based on Blog Torrent, making video publishing as easy as blogging. The only thin help area right now is the actual digitization of file, but they do have a page set up for that, and they are taking suggestions. Just add some Creative Commons/copyright management fun, and it’ll be all sorts of nifty. According to their site, everything launches Juneish. A nice and more robust alternative to the Google Video madness.
I can totally see how “this will change your internets“. I also see applications for libraries, for everything from reader’s advisory shows to information literacy specials. Talk about outreach on a digital level!
Need to go back a few steps?
- What is podcasting? [try me: Greg Schwartz, librarian, podcasts The Show @ Open Stacks]
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