A new way to spread the word about our stolen elections

[Kip Humphrey]

Netscape pioneers launch free content network
By John Borland, CNET News.com
Published on ZDNet News: April 25, 2005, 9:00 PM PT
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-5684073.html?tag=nl.e550

Netscape pioneers Mike Homer and Marc Andreessen are back on the start-up scene, launching a TiVo-like online network for distributing and viewing public TV, radio and grassroots media.

The free service, called the Open Media Network , is aimed initially at letting traditional public broadcasters and independent filmmakers distribute their work on the Net. But it will also allow ordinary computer users to publish their files.

Part TiVo, part BitTorrent file swapping, the network puts publishers' content into a peer-to-peer distribution network that could help lower bandwidth costs substantially. The service then creates a TV-like program directory that potential viewers can use to find and subscribe to automatic downloads of individual shows.

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"We're trying to create a free consumer service that would allow the viewing of public service content on the Internet," said Homer, who is chairman of the Open Media Foundation, which is backing the project, as well as Kontiki's chairman.

Article: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-5684073.html?tag=nl.e550


Could this be another avenue to spread the word of our stolen elections without MSM?

[helderheid]

1. sounds good to me!

Good find!

[Helga Scow Stern]

2. This sounds megacool. How can we use it?

Any ideas?

[glitch]

4. Here's how it can be used

Say an excellent speaker comes to your town. Nobody reports on it, nobody records it. But you do, with your $300 digital camcorder. You upload the file to this network and now anybody can grab it. Leverage the progressive message exponentially, with no gatekeeper.

Back when "Unprecedented" first came out I wrote to both my PBS stations requesting they air it. Got one snotty "not up to PBS standards" email back. Same for Farenheit 911.

Open Media is one work-around to that kind of bullshit. Another is public access community tv channels.

[glitch]

8. Edit above to add: We can load the videos of the election reform teach-ins

but don't forget http://www.radio4all.net/ for free audio distribution. Also http://www.indymedia.org/
:dem:

[Amaryllis]

9. Cool! On the PBS thing, I just heard yesterday on AAR that one of Karl

Rove's best friends is now on the board.

[glitch]

11. Yeah, which just goes to show you how well appeasement works.

Should be a lesson in that, but appeasers never learn.

[glitch]

3. EXCELLENT! I don't usually shout, but this WILL ROCK!!

Thanks for posting!

[understandinglife]

5. Get this on the 'greatest page' everyone. (nt)

www.missionnotaccomplished.us (what are you going to do about all the artocities being committed by the regime that stole the national elections of 2000 and 20004? MNA May 2 2005, the day to stop and think about it.)

[Peace Patriot]

6. Hey, thanks! I bookmarked this! I think it's got great potential! n/t

[keepthemhonest]

7. great kip

how much does it cost ,any idea?

[WHAT]

10. I'm not very tech sufficient, but...

this sounds like just what I want...to be able to see and hear what is ignored; examples: conferences on vote integrity, speeches such as Al Gore's recent one, debate on issues important to me (I'm without c-span), video of rallies so I can judge for myself what is going-on. My biggest frustration is the editing of discussion...I want to talk about population control...not be managed by it vis a vis oblique policy tangents such as immigration, abortion, health care access because I really think this is an important issue and I want someone to just come-out and say it...and then I want to be able to frankly discuss it.

So, how would this work? Would you need a computer and would you be at home talking to yourself with the dog cowering at the foot of the sofa? I could envision the whole thing but I'm really not good at computers so would my ignorance make it inaccessable to me (I'm not ignorant about everything...just haven't had the opportunity to learn a lot of tech)?

Please draw a clearer picture of how "I" would have this great stuff available.

But... :woohoo: :woohoo: I like it I like it

edit for typo and recommend

[helderheid]

12. mega kickety kickola!

[garybeck]

13. we need to check this out......... KICK

[MontageOfFreedom]

14. Sounds like a very excellent resource...

But then how would one make up for the cost? You have to pay money to spread the news this particular way.

[tommcintyre]

15. Could this be part of returning the media to the people?

<This developed into much more than planned. So I will give it it's own thread.>

I heard an NPR show (On The Media - link (and listen) below) a couple weeks back that said commercial TV is on the brink of failure (Yea!). It said it could no longer deliver the "bang for the buck" for advertisers, so they are deserting with their advertising dollars.

Then the program went on to explain that the Internet media would most likely take it's place (Yea again!). They then went on to explain how "vlogs" (video logs) were the wave of the future, and how eventually networks could not compete with the low cost personalization aspects of this emerging media.

The week before there was a similar segment on "podcasting" on NPR. People are able to easily (very low cost) make their own audio broadcasts, and some are building wide distribution. (Could this be commercial radio's eventual replacement (I hope so.)?

It seems that, whenever in history, power becomes too concentrated (as it is now); something comes along to break it up and create a new and better paradigm. The Internet is proving to be just that. It is naturally decentralizing power and returning it to the people. That's EXACTLY where it belongs.

http://www.onthemedia.org/

The Chaos Scenario
Network television was built around the 30-second ad spot. But that model is no longer working. Audiences are shrinking, ads are being skipped, and marketers are beginning to worry. And the New Media Order is fast approaching, with innovations like podcasting, videologs, and video-on-demand. Will the new media revolution be a violent and destructive one? What happens if the old advertising model collapses before the brave new world is fully prepared? Bob Garfield's answer: Chaos.
http://www.onthemedia.org/otm040805.html

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Some other interesting past shows:

Progressive Tense
On March 31st, 2004, with Democratic drumbeater Al Franken behind the microphone, the openly abrasive, unabashedly liberal Air America Radio was born. Advertised as an antidote to just about everything else on the dial, the network's inaugural year was one of turbulent staff shakeups and near economic collapse - all captured intimately on hundreds of hours of tape and distilled into the new HBO documentary Left of the Dial. Filmmaker Patrick Farrelly tells Brooke how Air America survived, and CEO Danny Goldberg talks about its future.
OTM's Previous Coverage of Liberal Talk Radio
--January 10, 2003
--April 2, 2004
--October 1, 2004
http://www.onthemedia.org/otm032505.html


In the Heartland, Someone Left to Talk to
Lest you thought Air America had a monopoly on liberal talk radio, tune in sometime to The Ed Schultz Show and you'll hear a self-described meat-eatin', gun-totin' pull-no-punches progressive, broadcasting from Middle America. Schultz is a former conservative who, after a change of heart, began preaching his own brand of political gospel in North Dakota. If you're not paying close attention, he sounds a lot like another radio talk-show host. Big Eddie tells Brooke what makes good radio and why Democrats need to get in the game.
http://www.onthemedia.org/otm032505.html


Bad News
In the aftermath of 9/11, many speculated that American news organizations would finally tear off their blinders and dedicate themselves to quality foreign reporting. But the media's newfound interest in the outside world was short-lived, and network news quickly returned to its race-to-the-bottom. That's the assessment of Tom Fenton, veteran CBS newsman and author of the new book "Bad News: The Decline of Reporting, the Business of News, and the Danger to Us All." Fenton speaks with Brooke.
http://www.onthemedia.org/otm030405.html

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<This MAY be the podcasting show I heard:>

'PodCasting' to Music, Talk Fans Online

Listen to this story... by Robert Smith

Day to Day, February 1, 2005 · NPR's Robert Smith reports on the rise of "podcasts" -- amateur music and talk shows created by the users of Apple's popular iPod personal music devices and other digital music players. Whole "shows" of music and talk can be downloaded from the Internet to individual players automatically, and some of the show hosts have become celebrities among the burgeoning podcast audience.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4473787

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Some more info on podcasting:

Trend in web audio
has pubcasters buzzing
Jacking in to podcasts
http://www.current.org/tech/tech0502podcast.shtml

'Podcasting' lets masses do radio shows
AP introduces readers to Craig, who podcasts a show from his computer in Carlsbad, Calif., at a cost of next to nothing.
http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2005/02/06/podcasting_lets_masses_do_radio_shows/

<Lots of podcasting links here:>
Podcasting by
public broadcasters
http://www.current.org/podcasts/

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Finally, a more general (but very much related) link from Reclaim the Media:

Could new technologies bring renaissance for radio journalism?
http://www.reclaimthemedia.org/print.php?story=04/10/16/8515739

[MontageOfFreedom]

16. And you wonder why indymedia has been hacked down.

I think there is clearly an agenda going on out there.