Digital Lives :: Main
"The Digital Lives Research Project is designed to provide a major pathfinding study of personal digital collections."
(tags: archives archiving personal PersonalArchiving)
The Bourne Innovation: UC Researchers Launch a YouTube for Scientists | Xconomy
Good piece about video, but also interesting factoids about publishing: "Of 1.35 million peer-reviewed articles published in 23,750 journals of science, [...]
Becoming Screen Literate – NYTimes.com
Kevin Kelly says "A new distribution-and-display technology is nudging the book aside and catapulting images, and especially moving images, to the center of the culture. We are becoming people of the screen."
(tags: media technology culture video literacy)
Europeana
From Peter Suber
(tags: europeana)
YouTube – TVLEGENDS's Channel
"Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (home of the Primetime Emmy Awards) Foundation's Archive of American Television makes many of its more than 550 exclusive interviews with TV legends available online. Updates and interview links available at
http://emmytvlegends.org."
(tags: television history archives)
Chinese pirates crack Blu-ray DRM, sell pirated HD discs
(tags: drm blu-ray)
Personal Democracy [...]
Online Video: Where’s The Money?
Dean Denhart, the CEO of BlackArrow has very interesting numbers about online video. TechCrunch reports "people in the U.S. watched 389 billion hours of plain old TV. That compares to 95 billion hours of on-demand TV, which he breaks up into live DVR (59 billion hours), time-shifted DVR (23 billion), cable [...]
Lost Format Preservation Society
Maybe Lockheed could use this at NARA
(tags: preservation formats)
The Archive of American Television | MetaFilter
Mefites discuss the Archive of American Television.
(tags: archives television history)
VideoSurf Adds Film Strips to Videos in Your Search Results – ReadWriteWeb
Segmentation in action.
(tags: tools search youtube)
Inventing the Movies: Hollywood's Epic Battle Between Innovation and the Status Quo, from Thomas Edison to Steve Jobs: Scott Kirsner
Good book by Scott Kirsner.
(tags: media innovation history)
World Medical Association on ethics of publication
"Authors, editors and publishers all have ethical obligations with regard to the publication of the results of research…"
(tags: opencontent open ethics)
[Networked] Memory Institutions: Social Remembering, Privatization and its Discontents by Guy Pessach
"The article then analyzes the consequences of privatizing memory institutions in the light of their unique social functions in a democratic culture. Commercialization and unequal participation are two elements that characterize privatized memory institutions and that may conflict with a democratic vision of social [...]
QUBE Interactive TV Warner Cable Columbus Ohio
Tremendous bit of Tee Vee history.
(tags: televion history)
Magazine supplement on JISC activities
Peter Suber, Open Access News
(tags: jisc)
FOCAL Awards for best use of archival footage
(tags: FOCAL re-use)