Video Active to Build EU TV Database
The major aim of Video Active is to create access to television archives across Europe. The unlocking of these (largely) closed archives will make their content available for educational and academic purposes. Eleven archives are represented in the consortium; Broadcast archives (BBC-UK, DR-Denmark, DW-Germany, ORF-Austria, RTBF-Belgium, TVC-Spain) as well as National Archives (SLBA-Sweden, SV-Netherlands, NAVA-Hungary, NTUA-Greece, IL-Italy). Added up, their collections comprise of over four and a half million hours of audio and video material from 1890 to now and represent a major part of Europe’s audiovisual heritage. The project will achieve this by selecting 10,000 items television archive content, which reflects the cultural and historical similarities and differences of television from across the European Union.
India Takes a Census
India's census will build the National Population Register, an identity database for about 1.2 billion people including photographs and fingerprints of all "usual residents" above the age of 15.
Video: Ground Zero mosque plans meet with protests
July 13: Plans to build a $100 million community center and mosque near Ground Zero has sparked controversy among politicians, neighbors and New Yorkers from across the city. NBC's Ron Allen reports. (Nightly News)
Kids Build Soybean-Fueled Hybrid Sports Car
Shooting to national attention in the US after major news coverage, the K-1 Attack Hybrid sports car is sending a message to the major US auto manufacturers: if we can do it, why can't you? Built from a kit, it's whats under the hood that counts: and this baby
Tubetorial’s Show & Tell with Web Video
7 Steps to Creating and Selling Niche Information Products, jump straight to this program for the inside skinny. In this episode we take a growth trend and do keyword reasearch to find a potential topic for an information product, and after researching the topic perform a prospective buyer survey using
Daily Show to Open Web Video Archive
Viacom is set to unveil a new site that will include 13,000 video clips of its popular "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart," representing every minute of the show since its 1999 inception.. wOOt!
To prepare for the site launch, 16 Comedy Central writers and video encoders have worked two shifts
MacMost Now 429: Using Automator to Create Services
http://macmost.com/ You can use Automator to create scripts that appear in the right click menu. This example shows you how to build a workflow that attaches the current file to a new email message.
VideoEgg Hatches Venture Funding
VideoEgg was born, well hatched really, in early 2005 when David Lerman, Matt Sanchez and Kevin Sladek were trying to crack the code on all things video (codecs, drivers and devices oh my!). At the time, the three Yale grads were involved in a social venture that was matching
Going GaGa over Online Video Communities
BabyTV.com is the first Internet-based television network dedicated to moms which allows new and expectant parents to tune in and watch broadcast-quality streaming television, upload videos to share with the community, interact with live events, engage in e-commerce transactions, browse links on the web, and participate in an online
Entrepreneur Aiming to Overthrow TV
Most software entrepreneurs' ambition is to sell out for a huge wad of cash, or maybe go public for an even bigger pile. Not so Nicholas Reville: He wants to overthrow the television industry, and he doesn't care if he gets rich. In fact, as co-founder of the Participatory Culture
The Age of Stupid
Oscar-nominated Pete Postlethwaite plays an old man living in the devastated world of 2055 in this documentary-drama-animation hybrid from Director Franny Armstrong and Oscar-winning Producer John Battsek.Runaway climate change has ravaged the planet by 2055. Pete plays the founder of The Global Archive, a storage facility located in the (now