There’s been so many great videos this weekend – hats off to the DIY curatorial team for really putting together a great show!  It’s been great fun to see the videos usually seen in tiny little windows on the big screen.  A few videos particularly stood out to me, and not too surprisingly, many of [...]

We’ve spent much of the past 150 years working to achieve full literacy across the globe.  Information has historically been widely disseminated via the written word:  so, much knowledge required the ability to read,  or have someone who’s judgment you trust relay that information to you.  More important still, if you wanted to produce information, [...]

I’m at the DIY video summit at USC, watching some fantastic videos and listening to some great people speak. Today’s panels have discussed state of research, state of art, and the intellectual property dilemma.
The first day  centered around two sets of questions. This post deals with the first set:
what is DIY video? [...]

I’m listening to Fred von Lohmann of the EFF right now. He’s talking about how the changes in copyright law changes the type of creativity we see. Here’s one example of fair use that Disney would love to challenge.
Meanwhile, the Youth Media: YouTube-sized: Youth Personas, Protests, Paranoias and Pleasures is playing downstairs. [...]