Digital Arts Service Corps - distribution

Video Distribution - Digital Media Group call 12/15

danielle martin — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 15:01:26 +0000

Just a note that we have our fourth CTC VISTA Digital Media group call on Friday December 12th at 2pm EST. (Email Danielle for the call in #s.)

In an effort to make the calls more useful, we're going to focus on a topic and keep the individual updates to the first 15 minutes. So any other CTC VISTAs that are interested in participating in a Video Distribution discussion, please call in!

Agenda

QUICK Introductions for new VISTA, Daniel Chen (2pm)
QUICK Project news (Updates to CTCVISTA.org, the Digest, etc) (2:10pm)

Discussion: Digital Video Distribution (2:15pm)

Video Blogging (Gariet?)
Other techniques?
Youth Video Sharing - Concerns for youth safety?
YouTube vs. Google Video vs. Blip.tv
Youth Video Exchange Network (2:30pm)- http://www.nymapexchange.net

(possible guest, Andrew from MNN)
Digital Bicycle / Torrents

Future discussion ideas?

(smaller groups?) (2:50pm)

IDEAS:

Youth Development
Volunteer Recruitment/Management
MySpace as an organizing tool?
Media Literacy

Digital Distribution

danielle martin — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 22:08:39 +0000

So far, digital distribution (or digital delivery) discussions among CTC VISTAs have been focused on video sharing, mostly among cable access stations (such as the NYMAP or Digital Bicycle projects). With the explosion of video sharing sites such as YouTube, Google Video, and Blip.tv, the ability to share video content has become almost second-hand to young web users. Factor in the ease of peer-to-peer network technology and we have an environment where youth could certainly be sharing all sorts of their own digital content.

Inherent in this area too are stumbling blocks such as copyright (see Creative Commons), digital rights management, and loss of video quality.

How can CTC VISTAs tap into these trends and resources to support their efforts? Blog your ideas, lessons learned, and questions and tag it "digital distribution."

Here's some other topics identified at the PSO around this area:

-outreach to local community organizations to share content
-Podcasting
-Videoblogging
-issues around distribution of youth content