VBS.tv is an online broadcast network streaming original content with Academy Award-nominated director Spike Jonze (Adaptation, Being John Malkovich) as the creative director. They claim original content from contributors and bureaus in 20 countries and have a pretty slick custom player interface with widescreen remote running on Brightcove.
Via: Steve Garfield.
Last Wednesday, Michael Wesch posted this five-minute clip, set to techno music, to help explain Web 2.0. As part of an article that is intended to appear in a journal of anthropology, Wesch created the video to appear on the publication’s Web site. “I was trying to explain this stuff in the traditional paper format, and I thought, ‘This is ironic,’ I can illustrate this much better in a video.”
The difference between HTML and XML, the formation of blogs and the nonlinear quality of digital text are topics addressed in Wesch’s piece. The title, “The Machine is Us/ing Us,” is a reference to a point made in the video — that we are teaching our computer new ideas every time we click on a link. As Wesch says: “The more we are aware of the machine, the better we can make it serve us.” And as he writes in the video, “Digital text is no longer just linking information. The Web is no longer just linking information. The Web is linking people.”
Via: Inside Higher Ed.
The popular daily Vlog WallStrip.com is on a tear lately with this man on the street style interview with some guy - aka CNBC’s Anchor Dylan Ratigan - (staged?). The upstart project, with some decent funding now, also got a nice little write-up in the NYT on friday.
Wallstrip is more like Rocketboom, the daily Web newscast with a similarly cheeky bent. Wallstrip’s producers, Adam Elend and Jeff Marks, however, say that they are carving out their own niche.
Wallstrip’s videos, ordinarily shot in an airy loft in downtown Manhattan or on location, have taken place outside the headquarters of Goldman Sachs and at a firing range in New Jersey.
But as with other Web sites the immediate trick is producing the content that will attract advertising. Mr. Elend said that Wallstrip would soon start lining up advertisers and sponsors, but has yet to generate self-sustaining ad revenue. He declined to provide figures.
The SplashCast media service entered it’s public beta last week, according to their announcement, SplashCast is different from other online video sharing sites. Content creators might want to carefully read their TOU. The mix-media service allows users to play dynamically updated channels of content on their web page which can combine video with photos, music, text, and dubbed narration. As a targeted syndication offering, if you create a channel, whenever you add new content all the web pages currently “tuned” to your channel instantly receive the updated broadcast.
For more details watch the their presentation at DEMO Here.
