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Remix, Mashup And Monetize Your Media With Licensed Content: MixerCast
Posted by: | CommentsIf you want to remix and mashup your own media with licensed content from top branded sources, and monetize the resulting rich-media presentations, you need look no further. Personal media remixing and publishing tools are hot stuff at the moment, with tools like the recently reviewed Flektor, Splashcast, Vuvox and Scrapblog offering different approaches to the trend. The key defining feature of all of these tools is the ability to take your existing media – whether from your hard drive or existing web services like Flickr or YouTube – and blend them together into new combined presentations. These final presentations can then be embedded into your blog, website or social networking service profile, letting your friends or users check out …
Online Activism: Media Stereotypes And The Rise Of Smart Mobs
Posted by: | CommentsThe mass-media have a long history of creating and reinforcing stereotypes, whether they be founded in gender, race, class or culture. And now, in the so-called \’war on terror\’ years, this caricaturing of cultures is helping to create a monumental clash of civilizations. In politics, as on TV, fear sells. And the easiest way to create fear in a population is to create a nefarious, shadowy \’Other\’, an Other so far removed from our beliefs, ethics and way of life as to seem all but inhuman. The Nazis, pioneers of mass-media propaganda, managed to convince a nation that it was being bled dry by the Jews, communists, gypsies, and anyone else that they could scapegoat. With relentless repetition and indoctrination …
Edit, Remix, Mash Up: Share Your Online Content With Flektor
Posted by: | CommentsDigital content is easier than ever to not only store and share online, but also edit and mashup into new and great looking remixes. Now it is possible to do all of this and more from a single browser-based application. The latest breed of web applications have moved on a step from the first wave of Web 2.0 services that made it easy to get your media online and share it with your friends. Flickr and YouTube are but two of the many popular services that have transformed the web from a static, text-driven medium into one dominated by photo-sets and web-video. The new wave of web apps let you take the media that you\’ve uploaded to the Internet and …
Collaborative Film-Making: The Basement Tapes And The New Wave Of Online Movie Mash-Ups
Posted by: | CommentsWant to see your online video mash-ups up there on the silver screen? The Basement Tapes is a collaborative documentary all about the changing face of copyright in the digital era, created by its online audience via video-sharing and remixing, an evolving online script powered by wiki-technology, and the rising new media form of the mash-up. Mash-up and remix culture are redefining the way that we interact with the media. Audiences today are no longer interested in sitting back and passively consuming bland, homogenous mass media, and are instead turning to participatory culture, aided by the new breed of social web applications. The Basement Tapes is an excellent case in point, encouraging its audience to play an integral role in …
Web Presentations: PowerPoint Meets Online Video Recordings With Zentation
Posted by: | CommentsA brand new service gives you an easy-to-use way to synchronize your online videos with PowerPoint slideshows, sharing the results online. This simple tool makes it a piece of cake to run your Google Video content side-by-side with PowerPoint presentations uploaded to Slideshare. Your audience gets the best of both worlds, with clear, easy-to-view presentations running alongside video of the presenter in action. This really has the power to bring online presentations to life. Photo credit: Krisdog Until now if you wanted to watch a presentation online you had two basic choices: check out any number of Internet PowerPoint clones that deliver slides, slides and nothing but slides, or else head on over to a video sharing site and watch …
Online Video Editing: The Best Web-Based Video Editing Tools – A Mini-Guide
Posted by: | CommentsUntil some years ago, videomakers would have never foreseen the possibility to edit videos online in a semi-professional way and without having to buy expensive software. However, today's Web is populated by sites that allow users to edit videos online within their browsers, without the need to install a specific software on their computers. Photo credit: Joachim Angeltun These video editing sites are generally characterized by a great ease of use, which makes it a breeze to do both basic and advanced editing even for the non experts. Most of them allow users to publish their edited videos on any web page, embedded in a video player; however, only few of them let users save their edited videos on their …