Category: video

  • What is web 2.0 the Video

    This video about Web 2.0 is sort of cheesy and full of simplistic analysis (and annoying Californians) but there are some good ideas if you can sift through the fluffy West-Coast crap. But hey, lots of crap; isn’t this yet another definition of Web 2.0? Stick with the video; it does get better towards the…

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  • Chancellor of Germany makes first political podcast

    In a world-first for a mainstream political leader, the Chancellor of Germany has made a political podcast. In the history of innovation in political communication, this is equivalent to Hoover and his political innovations with radio and his famous ‘fireside chats’ . Technorati : germany, podcast, politics, web2, web2.0 Del.icio.us : germany, podcast, politics Ice…

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  • A Stoaway’s Guide to the Pacific

    The new batch of interactives or ‘online documentaries’ (or what ever you call them) from the ABC are really wonderful. Check out the Stoaway’s Guide to the Pacific. It’s a wonderful story, rendered well in flash, with some truly bizzare side journeys. (Produced by the Melbourne-based crew, Arcimedia Technorati : abc, australia, documentary, pacific, video…

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  • BBC Creative Archive

    One of the most exciting developments in the past year or so has been the release of part/s of the BBC archive/s online under what is know as a Creative Archive licence. Bascally what this means, is that anyone can download a digitised film or television production and re-use it under certain conditions. What a…

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  • New Australian Video Distribution System

    http://www.peekvid.com/ Here is an new video distribution and indexing system from Australia. It's not quite YouTube , and it's not quite Australian (ie. if you minus North America there isn't much going on), but hey, it's a start. It would be good to see one of these services take a stricter editorial line to add…

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  • Digital Storytelling

    (from the Kelvin Grove Urban Village project ). Digital Stories are short, personally narrated multimedia tales. In a workshop run by specialist trainers from the Creative Industries Faculty at QUT, people from a wide range of age groups and experience levels worked together to produce digital stories related to the history of the Kelvin Grove…

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