From the monthly archives:
June 2008
Google Media Server
Google has released Google Media Server, a PC-only beta, “desktop gadget” for Google desktop that utilizes Universal-Plug-N-Play to stream media from your home PC to a network-connected display.
Google’s first toe-dip into the TV advertising pool?
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Tara Jane ONeil @ Terrastock
Some Tara Jane ONeil I shot this weekend at Terrastock. Wasn’t using a mic so the sound kinda sucks.
Tara Jane ONeil:Terrastock 2008 from Scott Johnson on Vimeo.
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YouTube Adds Indie Film Screening
YouTube has opened up a channel/section/whatever for long-form indie films, The YouTube Screen Room.
Check out Are You The Favorite Person of Anybody? written by Miranda July and directed by Miguel Arteta, from the Wholphin DVD series.
The YouTube Screening Room is a platform for top films from around the world to find the audiences they deserve.
Every other Friday, you’ll find four new films featured in the YouTube Screening Room.
These films always appear with the permission and involvement of the filmmakers, so be sure to rate, share and leave comments. This is your chance to not only watch great films from all corners of the globe, but also to converse with the filmmakers behind them.
While the majority of these films have played at international film festivals, occasionally you’ll find films that have never before screened for wide audiences.
All films playing in the YouTube Screening Room are displayed within our High Quality player to give you the best viewing experience possible.
Be a part of a new generation of filmmaking and distribution and help us connect films and audiences in the world’s largest theater!
Silicon Alley Reporter runs some numbers:
Because YouTube bypasses CDNs and peers directly with big Internet exchanges, YouTube pushes data on the Web more cheaply than anyone. Their cost of streaming is a tiny fraction of a penny per user per hour. If it were 1/4 of a cent, we’re talking about $250 to stream an hour of video to 100,000 users — and we can make informed guesstimate that YouTube is paying even less than that. Meanwhile, assuming YouTube can sell at least one Adsense For Video ad at a $15 CPM, that’s $1,500 in revenue.
Storage costs? Yes, there are some, but they’re tiny. The going rate is $175 per terabyte (1,000 gigabytes), and that’s subject to Moore’s Law, so it should likely drop by half every two years or so. Meanwhile Assuming YouTube can sell at least one Adsense For Video ad at $15 CPM, that’s $1,500.
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Mrmr: Controlling Video Installations with Your iPhone.
The scoop on Mrmr:
Mrmr is an ongoing open-source research project to develop a standardized set of protocols and syntax conventions to control live installations and multimedia performances via mobile devices. The project is currently spearheaded by Eric Redlinger, researcher-in-residence at Brooklyn Polytechnic University’s Integrated Digital Media Institute (IDMI).
Simply put, Mrmr is a technology that enables you to use ordinary cell phones and PDAs as controllers in audio-visual performances, or to participate in interactive museum exhibits, or as a replacement for your computer in pretty much any situation where you would normally use a mouse or trackpad.
Create Digital Motion has this piece on using Mrmr with Quartz Composer on an iPhone.
Awesome examples of Quartz Composer in action at Zugakousaku.
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The Journal of Short Film
The Journal of Short Film looks quite interesting:
• a quarterly DVD journal containing 90-120 minutes of independent short film per volume
• peer-reviewed by filmmakers and scholars of film theory
• inclusive of all genres of film, favoring independent and underrepresented work
• sold at a low cost—$10/vol., $36/subscription
• non-corporate and ad-free
• open and free submission process
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Experimental Television Center Artists in Residency Program
The Residency supports contemporary electronic media art projects. The studio workshop environment offers access to an image processing system, intensive individualized instruction and time for exploration and personal creative growth. Artists have an opportunity to study the processes and techniques of analog and digital imaging and to then use the system independently in the creation of new works. Participating artists have complete aesthetic and technical control over all aspects of the making process.
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ProPublica: Open Source Investigative Journalism
From Craig Newmark:
ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that will produce investigative journalism in the public interest. Our work will focus exclusively on truly important stories, stories with “moral force.” We will do this by producing journalism that shines a light on exploitation of the weak by the strong and on the failures of those with power to vindicate the trust placed in them.
(HT: Jeff Jarvis)
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