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some new developments in web video
Caught in my tech news net over the last week: Via Boing Boing, another new ‘meta’ service launches into public beta: Dabble, a site that makes it possible to search, recommend, rate, discuss and be sociable about video hosted anywhere on the the net, has come out of private beta and launched for public use.…
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Web 2.0 crowdsourcers tossing coins to the crowds
Via CNet via Rachel’s del.icio.us:Saturday saw the launch of eefoof.com, a site that promises to share a percentage of the site’s revenue depending on how many viewers a video clip attracts. CNet positions this as a ‘challenge’ to youtube. Read the full article for the rest of the hot air and vapours. Now, because I…
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Crowdsourcing as Free Labour
I love Wired, it is just so blatant: For the last decade or so, companies have been looking overseas, to India or China, for cheap labor. But now it doesn’t matter where the laborers are – they might be down the block, they might be in Indonesia – as long as they are connected to…
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JumpCut
JumpCut is another new player in the “creative online community” business – the idea is to not only upload, share, and discuss, but also edit, collaborate and remix images and video online. You can automatically import sets of images from flickr, too. After having a quick play around with the editing interface, it seems pretty…
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Hypercreativity and Techno-Utopianism
So, the puzzle my Phd tries to solve (how creativity, cultural participation and the ‘democratization’ of technologies fit together) comes out of the hype around two converging ideas: the increased availability and production power of digital technologies for content creation and distribution (see Anne’s pointed mini-critique of some of this) and ‘creativity’ as life-fulfilling, as…