net critique blog by Geert Lovink
By Geert Lovink, November 14, 2010
The pre-conference in Hilversum provided a stage for Dolf Veenvliet as member of the Blender Organization, and Jamie King of the P2P sharing platform VODO to talk about the commons, crowdfunding, and the community. The two presentations provided a perfect showcase of how open standards can provide a platform for creating and distributing content. The [...]
By morgancurrie, November 14, 2010
The presentation by the Dutch 3D artist Dolf Veenvliet would likely fall under the category of most pragmatic ones of the three day conference. Veenvliet started of by elaborating on the latest landmark production from the Blender Foundation (of which he is a member), namely the fantasy feature film called ‘Sintel’. After showing the trailer, [...]
Michael Dale is an advocate for open standard and free video formats for the web. The past two years he has lead open source development for video on Wikipedia. To realize open web video Dale has worked closely with the Mozilla Foundation, Kaltura, and the Open Video Alliance. During the open video pre-conference Michael provided [...]
Rufus Pollock intervention in the Open Content, tools and technology panel was different by all means to the rest of the session, not only because he finally couldn’t be in Amsterdam and had to join via Skype, but because the approach and topic were quite different. He gave a very brief talk and left aside [...]
Thursday 11 November, Hilversum by Serena Westra After the lunch, the pre-conference seminar continues with three parallel working groups. I joined the working group ‘Video on Wikipedia’, which was moderated by Ben Moskowitz and Michael Dale. This working group was held in a smaller room where all the attenders, about 14, sat around a table. [...]
by Caroline Goralczyk Michael Murtaugh, writer, web designer and creator of the Active Archives, presented his project that is aiming at setting up multi-directional communication channels for cultural archives and therewith challenging its traditional uses. Founded in 2006 in Brussels, Active Archives is offering new ways of making platforms for cultural industries by questioning the [...]
Hay Kranen gave an introduction of HTML 5 and the possibilities this new language introduces. In short, why HTML 5 video use? There are several benefits when it comes to the use of video via HTML 5: – Simple, just like HTML – Nu plugin hell – One codebase for everything – Multiple competing implementation [...]
In the “open content, tools and technology” panel, right after Ben Moskowitz and Michael Dale, it came the turn for Peter Kaufman to talk about appreciating audiovisual value, and do his bit to “achieve some positive social change within our lifetimes”, as he saw the ultimate goal of the Economies of the Commons conference was. [...]
During the pre-conference about open video held at the media park in Hilversum, Ben Moskowitz, the general coordinator of the Open Video Alliance, presented his thoughts for an “open” video ecosystem by bringing technology, institutions and databases of video’s together to make video on the web accessible, distributable, searchable and exchangeable. The open video alliance [...]
Open source, open government, open culture – as Nate Tkacz, PhD at the University of Melbourne points out in his talk, the ubiquity of ‘openness’ as a master category of politics in network cultures turns into a multidimensional, and even more into a political term in the debate on the free and open. With referring [...]
