hi On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 2:33 AM, Michel Bauwens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > I also think you should perhaps open a (video) blog, and choose a > 10-minute selection every day (or at whatever realistic rhytms, even once a > week. These could then be refracted and embedded on other blogs, giving your > project more visilbility. >
Well, we are not yet really large enough as a community to be able to implement this suggestion. There are three phases to our work: 1) build a library of footage on the Internet Archive's Digital Tipping Point; 2) cut out the best 10 hours and make that available to our "module directors" who will interpret it into 5 segments of 20 minutes each; 3) stitch those 5 segments into our final feature. Lots and lots of people have made suggestions as to _how_ to do stuff. I am okay with those suggestions, as long as people actually commit to carrying out the suggestions that they make. That is how our community has grown. People will make suggestions, and I encourage them to turn their ideas into reality. We do have a decent core group of about 2 hardware specialists; one BASH developer; 6 rough video editors; one web developer; and one music contributor. Each of them does the stuff that they say they will do, and that is how we have gotten this far. So the problem with doing video blogs is it would pull us away from completing the first phase of the project, which is getting the video up onto the Internet Archive's Digital Tipping Point Video Collection. Maybe I could make a separate appeal for someone who would take our weekly releases (usually at least 4 or 5 releases per week, sometimes much more) and put those up somewhere. You can see our new releases by going to this page: http://www.archive.org/details.php?identifier=digitaltippingpoint and scrolling down to the section that says "This just in". That section will always include our 5 most recent submissions to the Internet Archive's Digital Tipping Point Video Collection. So one thing that would be really helpful is for you or anyone else who is so interested to blog about the link below and invite your readers to RSS this link: http://www.archive.org/services/collection-rss.php?collection=digitaltippingpoint For example, by RSSing that link in my Google Reader browser, I am able to see when my submissions get pushed out to other people who might be RSSing our new submissions. The beauty of RSSing our video is that you don't necessarily have to view it, but you will get a series of thumbnails pictures in your RSS reader, along with a short description, so you will be able to easily keep up on our video, so that if you see something that you know you want to view, you can either view it then or bookmark it for later viewing. Thanks again for the suggestions, Michel! I will have more replies for you later! > -- Christian Einfeldt, Producer, The Digital Tipping Point _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [email protected] http://digitaldivide.net/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
