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I run a portal site for video content, we've got a feed w/ enclosures. Check it out.

I run a portal site for video content, we've got a feed w/ enclosures. Check it out.

Demandmedia is a collaborative video blog, based on the Scoop collaborative engine, users submit links to cool grass roots produced videos from around the 'net and users vote on which ones they like. Most of the video is of interest to those on the left end of the political spectrum.

I think the article makes a large omission when it doesn't point out that the Internet was a government funded project that grew up with the proto-free software movement. DARPA first approached ATT, then the owner of all phone lines in the country (when modems came along you weren't allowed to plug them directly into a phone line), about building a network based on open protocols and ATT turned them down because they wouldn't be able to control it. Remember AOL before they built in access to the Web? That probably is what the Internet would have looked like had ATT had control over whatever the Internet might have been in that alternate universe. Hell, even in the late 80's the head of ATT said there was no need for NSFnet because they could provide ISDN to the desktop.

It was a specific type of policy oriented towards open-ness that led to the Internet being the way it is. The software that underlies the Internet is free software, it has been and still is the dominant form of software in the infrastructure which makes up the Internet. Open source is not "counter culture" on the Internet as the article portrays. The only reason MS has any role on the Internet is they have leveraged their desktop monopoly.

I wish reporters understood these things.

The web contains an ocean of interesting video content, its just poorly organized. The Irate project for audio shows a way to harvest legal music content, the same can/will be done for video. I run a site that aggregates links to interesting video around the 'net.

With the BBC putting their archives online and the archive.org saying they will provide infinite storage and bandwidth for multimedia content, legal content for these devices is no problem.

You mean like this?

There's no money in streaming over the Internet, it costs too much.

Check out my site it lets people submit interesting videos they've seen on the web. I recently added a playlist for Real Video so you can watch it like a channel.

There's no money in streaming over the Internet, it costs too much.

Check out my site it lets people submit interesting videos they've seen on the web. I recently added a playlist for Real Video so you can watch it like a channel.

Video of anarchist hippy kids smashing TVs in front of NBC.

Check Indymedia video page with material from 90 grassroots indie groups worldwide and my new project, a video portal using a hacked version of Scoop.