http://engagemedia.org/videochronic

EngageMedia and Kunci Cultural Studies Center are pleased to announce the launch of Videochronic. This publication is the result of a collaborative research project charting how activists are engaging with video technologies in Indonesia, addressing some of the issues of technology-mediated social movements, and exploring the potential and limitations of online video distribution.

The past decade in Indonesia has seen a dramatic increase in the use of video as a social change tool by community, campaign and activist organisations. Access to the tools for producing and distributing video have become increasingly democratised over this period.

Greetings Transmitters

It's been quiet on some of the technical front over the (british) summer - preferring to be out in the wildness, sun, rain and wind and mud..... but now I for one am back in town - for a bit anyway. so the ongoing work in this 'ere online 'field' deserves a little recounting here.

Finn from Ecobee, plus Peter Chowla, Hadiru Mahdi and I met lately at Bretton Woods Project offices. we noted that

* the Drupal aggregation and media sharing tools we created for IFIwatch.TV, RethinkingFinance.org and ChalkTalk! are basically working well.

­EngageMedia is pleased to announce a Plone Video sprint at this years Plone Conference in Budapest, Hungary. The 4 day sprint will be an opportunity for developers to collaborate on open video technologies around the Plone CMS. The sprint will take place from 31st October 2009 to 3rd November 2009, directly after the conference.

so here we are in the sticks, surrounded by old stones and new gadgets, shaping our free video sharing tools to make more simple, usable sense.

We've divided into two working groups - one making 4 key modules work together, including FeedAPI, MediaMover etc.

the other working to improve user interfaces for various work processes..

The three aggregation and publishing sites we are focusing on are
http://www.ifiwatch.tv (D5)
http://www.chalktalk.org (D5)
http://www.rethinkingfinance.org (D6)

some photos on their way.....

This weekend in rural Wiltshire, west of England, we will be taking forward the Drupal media aggregation tools which have been being developed through the Transmission network with a test case at http://www.ifiwatch.tv ...

This site can now aggregate media feeds from all kinds of video publishing platforms, moderate and display the items, and then generate new media feeds by tag or search for users to take and do what they will with.

Want to know what's really going on with the financial crisis,
who caused it, and what could be done?

Want to share your ideas, actions, events, stories, analysis?

Want to see the future of free media on the web?

Then come to....

*** the Launch ***

of our innovative, timely and necessary sister sites:

*** http://www.rethinkingfinance.org *** and *** http://www.ifiwatch.tv ***

films, info and website demos, bar and snacks,
news about imminent actions, in depth analyses and the future,
vital information, lovely people... come!

Thursday 26th March, 6.30-9 pm
Horse Hospital
Colonnade, London WC1N 1HX UK

IFIwatch.tv and numerous other video sharing web platforms now offer media RSS complete with thumbnail images, link to video etc. However, as it seems to be impossible for most content management systems to meaningfully display, let alone aggregate, this vibrant and often important information.

We at IFIwatch.TV have a small bit of budget available to pay someone to create piece of javascript that will display the image+descriptions of videos on a 3rd party website. It will be used straightaway in several social/environmental/economic justice websites, and win you eternal gratitude as well as a few quid for the work..

Please do be in touch ASAP if you can do this work, or know someone who can..

many thanks!

eyes - at - ifiwatchnet.org

http://www.ifiwatch.tv is broadening focus to include more material on the reforms to the international financial architecture currently being proposed in response to the financial crisis.

In particular we are featuring the upcoming G20 meetings in London - and the popular alternatives, protests and so forth.

Lots of new material coming through, but more new feeds needed - do you know of a good source of info? please suggest it! let's syndicate! and do take our media feeds, from keywords or search if you only want a little from these waves of detailed info...

We are pleased to announce the release of a new version of Plumi, 0.2.2, a free and open source video-sharing software package for Plone.

This release was focused on user-enhancements, with several small improvements that should make a big difference to users, including:

* A new animation during video upload to indicate uploading.
* Transcoding messages are now only seen by site managers.
* The featured video now includes a flash player on the front page - no need to go digging for your first streaming video experience!
* Workflow improvements - consistent across videos, callouts, news and events.
* Video listings template improvement - the country metadata on each video is now listed.