Channels and partners

Channels

Ourmedia 2.0 will make extensive use of channels: groupings of similar subject categories, through taxonomies as well as tagging.

Here are some initial channel groupings:

• Health
• Family
• Student life
• Environment
• Entertainment
• Politics
• Society
• News & current events / Citizen journalism?

See 49media and other sites for additional groupings.

Affiliates

We need to think through an affiliates strategy for Ourmedia. The Open Media Network (omn.org) uses affiliates to bear all bandwidth costs and to bring in a revenue stream. Revver uses affiliates as part of a distributed personal media marketplace.

Ourmedia could implement an affiliates program on two levels:

• editorial: for content partners that agree to the principles laid out by the Open Media Coalition.
• ecommerce: for long-tail artists and grassroots media sites (like art.com) that want to sell works of digital media.

Channels to study

• Fora.tv

• Magnify Media

Potential Ourmedia content partners

Ourmedia 2.0 will be less about pointing to items on our Internet Archive servers and more about pointing out to other respositories and open media sites. This can happen in two ways:

• automatic feeds of content from grassroots media sites
• specific files highlighted and programmed by editors -- either ours or our partners' reps

Possible partners for sharing tools, code, hosting

• Participatoryculture.org: we'll feature their democracy player in a major way on Ourmedia

• Engage Media: from Australia, they organized the global Transmission Forum in Rome june 7-10.

• Estudio Livre: Alexandre appeared at the iCommons iSummit in Rio June 23-25. They have

built a space for video (and other multimedia) using tiki-wiki and are also using Cortado to play back videos. See their video gallery.

• Outhink: they're building out a cross-site publishing capability.

• Guba: an option for uploading media files to them right now.

• Yahoo Video: we may talk with them about hosting video files.

• Open Media Network: for a p2p solution for high-quality video with DRM.

• Open Source Lab at Oregon State: we're talking with them.

• DotSub: JD spoke with them 6-30-06. they do translations of videos. In the future you'll apparently be able to have the translation of your video hosted there while keeping your video hosted on your own space.

• what other open media tools should we be highlighting?

• what other services like RackSpace can we approach for pro bono hosting in return for good publicity and tax writeoff?

Possible partners for sharing media files

• Witness.org: they're looking to build tools to put in hands of citizens in oppressed countries.

Status: JD has been in contact with their CTO.

• Museu da Pessoa in Brazil: Their chief exec, Karen W., is on our Board of Advisors.

• Peacetakescourage.com files like this one.

• Magnatune offers access to affordable rights-cleared music by independent artists.

• GlobalSchoolNet.org is a nonprofit online community for global project-based and problem-based learning.

• storytelling sites such as StoryCorps and Daniel Meadows and CaptureWales and possibly Turnhere, which although intended to generate tourist and real estate business has some great "slice of life" storytelling.

• open source podcasts like Insomnia Radio, $250 Million Radio and Indiefeed, which want to band together to create an alternative to Podshow.

• Podcast.com: Boston University's Podcast Academy is offering to cull the best podcasts on Ourmedia

• NowPublic is offering us not only access to their citizen journalism but use of their ThumbPrint technology for embedding purchase info into media files

• '''The Conversations Network

• Toodou, a new user-generated, interactive, multimedia content website in China that sounds remarkably like Ourmedia.org

• The nonprofit Public Radio Exchange (PRX) is interested in discussing (a) pushing some of its podcasts out to Ourmedia, and (b) offering its members an Ourmedia Publisher upload tool

• Center for History and New Media at George Mason University (book "Digital History"); their projects include the September 11 Digital Archive (http://911digitalarchive.org) and the more recent Hurricane Digital Memory Bank (http://hurricanearchive.org).

• There are a host of public domain sites (and CC-licensed sites) for photos (pdphoto.org) and video that could work in concert with Ourmedia.

• Music-recommendation sites that let you discover new artists (not Pandora, which wants to keep users on its site).

• Blip.tv has indicated they're willing to work with us on creating a global registry, and they'd like to offer an option to upload to Ourmedia.

• BlogHer will share multimedia content created by its users.

• The mission of the Bay Area Video Coalition is to be the nation's most advanced noncommercial media access and training center. JD and Joaquin have contacts there.

• Youth Radio is an award-winning youth development/media training organization in Berkeley, Calif., that provides young people with the opportunity to produce radio and video stories for broadcast on the Internet. Joaquin has contacts there.

• Possible partnerships with video sites like Campusmoviefest, indie film sites, film festival sites.

• Open Source Radio; contact is producer Brendan Greeley.

• Computer History Museum: archived footage.

There's a major gathering of open media organizations in Rome in early June (the Transmission Global Online Video Gathering and we'll find out then how we might work with groups such as:

• EngageMedia (Andrew Lowenthal)<br>
• CandidaTV/NGVision (Agnese Trocchi)<br>
• and: Portland Indymedia Video Collective, Freespeech TV / Deep Dish, v2v, New Global Vision, Clearer Channel, UK Indymedia, Video.indymedia.org, Insutv-Soma, Zemos98, OneWorld TV , Engagetacticalmedia, Jinbonet, Indymedia Brasil and Vive

Potential Ourmedia commerce partners

• Revver.com: revenue for your videos with CC licensing

• Art.com

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