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Video for culture & education
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Website design and development by Jack Brighton, curator of openwebworks, and inventor of the legendary Esch-A-Sketch. Logo art and design by Kevin Henson. Camera and video editing work by Tim Cothren, Jonathan Smith, Nick Nehez, David Frankfurt, and Joel Westbrook. Deep appreciation to Ira D. Wallach and Lorne Michaels.
Except where otherwise noted, rights to videos, audio, photos, images, text, and design here are governed by a Creative Commons 3.0 license. 
What we're writing
Innovation, Power, and Responsibility
Funding Media, Strengthening Democracy: Grantmaking for the 21st Century
Video Use in Higher Education: Options for the Future
On Building a New Market for Culture: Virtue and Necessity in a Screen-Based Culture
Good Terms - Improving Commercial-Noncommercial Partnerships for Mass Digitization
Tools to explore
Video Interactions for Teaching and Learning (VITAL) is a web-based learning environment that enables students to view, analyze, and communicate ideas with video. VITAL was originally created to help students practice their observation and interpretation skills in developmental psychology courses at Columbia University’s Teachers College. Today VITAL is deployed in a wide range of courses and disciplines across Columbia University, from the School of Social Work to the School of the Arts.
Archives for today
San Francisco Bay Area Television Archive
The San Francisco Bay Area Television Archive, established in 1982, preserves more than 4,000 hours of newsfilm, documentaries, and other programs produced in northern California between 1939 and 2005. Among the treasures recently put online are 1960s films of James Baldwin and Maya Angelou and Marlon Brando speaking at the funeral of Black Panther Bobby Hutton. The Archive is part of San Francisco State University Library’s Department of Special Collections.
What we're watching
Forum Network
Involving public media and partners in video online.
Vectors
A new journal in a dynamic vernacular.
Photograph of Jesus
Plus a group shot of the men on the moon.
What we're reading
Mobile Video Capture Soars; Now Brace Yourself for Views and Uploads
Pew reports 34 % of U.S. cell phone customers use their phones to record video. GigaOm reports on this, and notes that YouTube mobile videos increased 160 percent in 2009. Visit Mobile Video Capture Soars; Now Brace Yourself for Views and Uploads
http://wendy.seltzer.org/anticircumvention.pdf
Wonderful piece by Wendy Seltzer about DRM, anti-circumvention, and innovation. "DRM frustrates lawful use and the creation of new technology products with- out saving the entertainment companies from the uncompensated reproduction they feared. In the meantime, it forecloses the open innovation that could lead them and society toward new options that could be better for [...]
AIMS project / born digital archives
"The AIMS project, funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, represents a co-operative strategy among four partner institutions, to energize collection development in the area of born-digital papers, and to empower librarians and archivists in the management of born-digital assets. The four partners in the project led by the University of Virginia are Stanford University, [...]
Digital Lives
Digital Lives has produced some of the best work on personal archiving, and is holding a seminar about it on Monday, 5 July. Visit Digital Lives
more on the Archival.tv blog