New Links
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April '08 Update
Selling/Buying
Brad Sucks Digital Download Store "I needed a cheap, DRM-free digital download store so I wrote this quickly over a few days. Then I thought it'd be useful for other artists. It was created to sell music but any files will work. ... I'm giving this store away for free to help other artists sell their stuff online." (www.bradsucks.net)
1,000 True Fans "Other than aim for a blockbuster hit, what can an artist do to escape the long tail? One solution is to find 1,000 True Fans." (www.kk.org, 04.03.08)
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How-To
The Digital Artists' Handbook "is an up to date, reliable and accessible source of information that introduces you to different tools, resources and ways of working related to digital art." (www.digitalartistshandbook.org)
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Annotation/Subtitles/Tagging
dotSUB.com is "a browser based tool enabling subtitling of videos on the web into and from any language" (dotsub.com)
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March '08 Update
Publishing
Plumi "is a Free Software video sharing Content Management System based on Plone and produced by the EngageMedia collective. Plumi enables you to create your own sophisticated video sharing site; by adding it to an existing Plone instance you can quickly have a wide array of functionality to facilitate video distribution and community creation." (blog.plumi.org)
Show in a Box "is a package of free video-centric themes and plugins for WordPress, made by and for independent web video creators. All of these tools are open source and ready to be tweaked to look as good as your video content does." (showinabox.tv)
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Selling/Buying
Bid4Vid "We connect businesses with independent video producers in an open, secure marketplace to get high-quality videos made at an affordable price." (bid4vid.com)
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Vlogging Project
Semanal "One video per week for all of 2008" (semanal.org)
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Useful Software
FFMPEG2THEORA offers user friendly solutions for encoding video to the free and open-source Ogg Theora codec (no licensing fees for commercial use in contrast to other proprietary formats) (wiki.transmission.cc) - for OS X users specially interesting seems the Simple Theora Encoder (direct download link) (www.v2v.cc).
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Media to Mobile Phones
Open Handset Alliance "Together we have developed Android™, the first complete, open, and free mobile platform." (www.openhandsetalliance.com)
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Related Blogs/Sites
Transmission "is a network of citizen journalists, video makers, artists, researchers, programmers and web producers who are developing online video distribution tools for social justice and media democracy." (www.transmission.cc)
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P2P Related Media
The Future of Ideas (2001) by Lawrence Lessig is about "The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World - to buy or free .pdf, 368 pages (www.the-future-of-ideas.com)
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