This guest post is by Marin Tockman from Land of Opportunity. Learn more about their interactive web video player, or click here to read more from their blog.
Right now, as you read this blog post, you probably have a few dozen other windows open on your desktop, are writing an email, making your own facebook or blog post, retweeting your friends’ retweets, streaming music etc…
It’s cool – I’m with you. Welcome to the present – we are in a world of media over drive and we are loving it. Read more...
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Responding to an outpouring of filmmaker and viewer enthusiasm for Independent Lens and POV, PBS has reinstated the two programs on its core schedule. The two programs will now take the 10pm EST spot on Monday nights, prime TV programming real estate. Read more...
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Tomorrow Partners, a Berkeley based strategic design firm, recently launched a free cloud-based online tool for aggregating all sorts of metrics, including social media and web presence in a personalized dashboard.Read more...
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One of the great projects being showcased through the Living Docs intiative to foster a community of web-native documentary development is Luisa Dantas's Land of Opportuntiy. Grown out of the documentary by the same name, Luisa is deep in the trenches creating an interactive web player to harness the resources and collaboration of partners working toward affordable housing, urban planning and other pressing issues. YOU CAN HELP! Check out Luisa's message about the demo: Read more...
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This month's fair use question comes from a university librarian who wants to create an online exhibit to showcase part of the library's permanent collections. Read more...
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Don Loves Roger mashes up every episode of Mad Men and remixes it into a story about two men who once preserved concepts of manhood and masculinity but then found relief and happiness in each other, becoming a threat to the very same patriarchal system on which their power and privilege was based. In this remixed narra Read more...
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Image by Ben Moskowitz
Creating a project leveraging the web opens up uncountable opportunities for storytellers. Footage that was previously cut due to time constraints, or stories that didn't fit tightly enough within the narrative to be included, can now contribute to the narrative of an interactive project. As freeing as the many options a media maker has may seem, however, they can also be overwhelming.Read more...
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This weekend at Mozilla's Hot Hacks (part of Hot Docs in Toronto), filmmakers and web developers are coming together to redefine what it means to tell a story with video online. Read more...
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The second annual Innovate/Activate conference kicked off with great enthusiasm in Berkeley this April. I/A is about IP policy that is in the public interest. Were you part of the battle to take down SOPA and PIPA? Then this community is for you. According to co-founder and organizer Chris Wong, "for many of us the IP system is broken, but we can rebuild it." Legal scholars and activists gathered to set the rebuild agenda. Read more...
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Documentary has always been an exercise in freedom of expression. This year's Full Frame Documentary Festival put the spotlight on free speech and the filmmakers who are taking risks to showcase our first amendment rights. Read more...
