hi DDN community members -
here's a short news item i wrote for the monthly news of the virginia
macintosh users group, a computer club i belong to here in the washington
dc-area. http://www.vmug.org
thought it might be of interest.
- phil
Tip About Using the Internet Archive's Free Web Hosting
Do you have some videos you've created that you'd like to make available
for the world to see? Do you own all the rights to the video? (i.e. Are the
music and images in the video not copyright by someone else?)
Then the free web hosting on the Internet Archive is a good choice.
http://www.archive.org
As an example, here is a 52-minute (400 megabyte) QuickTime file that VMUG
member Phil Shapiro recently uploaded to the Internet Archive. To view this
video, click on the word QuickTime in blue on the left of your screen.
http://www.archive.org/details/multimediastorytelling
QuickTimes are best viewed using Safari or Firefox. Internet Explorer sometimes
makes you wait for the QuickTime to completely transfer before you can start
watching it.
Phil used Cyberduck to do the uploading. http://cyberduck.ch/
Cyberduck is a free download. You can make a donation to the creators of
Cyberduck if you find the program useful.
Using a cable modem, this 52-minute video took about 3 hours to upload to
the Internet Archive. If you have Verizon's fiber optic service, you could
probably upload this video in about an hour (or less.)
Using a dual-processor G5 PowerMac, this video took about 40 minutes to
export from iMovie, using Share on the File menu.
All this is to say that it's entirely possible to shoot a video, edit it
and upload it to the Internet Archive all on the same day. It takes about a day
for the Internet Archive to release videos that have been uploaded.
You can always go back and edit the description of the video from a link
at the bottom left of the screen describing your video -- after you are logged
in to the Internet Archive. Phil missed seeing that link and added a public
comment to his video to add some extra information he forgot to include.
If you have ideas for some group video projects that VMUG members can
work on, you might bring them to the VMUG Multimedia special interest group
(SIG.) See the Multimedia SIG blog for further information.
http://web.mac.com/haly2k1/iWeb/Site/Blog/Blog.html
Are you curious to learn a bit more about Brewster Kahle, the visionary
who created the Internet Archive? Search for his name in the Internet Archive.
You can view a video of a speech he gave at the Library of Congress in December,
2004. (Scroll down about 5 items in the search results.)
If Brewster Kahle has given the world this immense gift, what's the most
appropriate way of thanking him? Use the gift.
--
Phil Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/pshapiro
http://digg.com/users/pshapiro/submitted
http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html
"Wisdom starts with wonder." - Socrates
"Learning happens through gentleness."
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