April 17th, 2008
This Thursday and Friday the politics web 2.0 conference is taking place in London. Metavid is presenting on Friday. From the site:
Has there been a shift in political use of the internet and digital new media - a new web 2.0 politics based on participatory values? How do broader social, cultural, and economic shifts towards web 2.0 impact, if at all, on the contexts, the organizational structures, and the communication of politics and policy? Does web 2.0 hinder or help democratic citizenship? This conference provides an opportunity for researchers to share and debate perspectives.
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April 4th, 2008
The LiVE show at the Beall Center for Art and Technology at the University of California, Irvine features metavid in the shows collection. The pieces explored the meaning of “live” in the context of heavy mediation of day-to-day interactions. Karen Finley piece, titled “business as usual” highlighted a constant stream of deaths as a consequence of US aggression in the Iraqi region via unattended computers constantly printing out large stacks of the names of people killed in the conflict. MTAA & RSG’s Want consists of 900 video clips in which individuals declare something that they desire, which are then triggered by search requests from a peer-to-peer network. More information about all the pieces is on the site.
by dale
March 27th, 2008
This years NetSquared featured projects includes metavid along with 20 other proposed or in-development net mashups for social change. Featured project developers and social innovators will meet up in late may for the net squared conference. More from the site:
The NetSquared Conference, will be on May 27 and 28, 2008 in San Jose, CA. As in the past two years, the two-day event will bring together innovators in social benefit initiatives, business models, funding for philanthropic initiatives, software development, and technology to advance social change around the globe using social networks and social Web tools such as blogging, podcasting, and virtual communities.
by dale
March 19th, 2008
Google Summer of Code 08 will start accepting applications Monday, March 24, 2008. I have submitted a few metavid related project ideas under the xiph and wikipedia foundation organizations and offered to mentor them.
Google’s Summer of Code is a great program, as a student in summer of code 06 I worked on early video integration for mediaWiki. It was a positive experience and got me more involved with free/open source software. If your a student interested in open media I recommend you take a look at the many great project ideas for xiph foundation. There are lots of other great projects and organizations to work with as well.
by dale
March 13th, 2008
We are pleased to announce that MetaVidWiki (link) is now in open beta. We look forward to you comments, suggestions, and bug reports on this new free platform for community audio video participation.
We have put together a new extended screen cast demoing MetaVidWiki features available here on metavid. (also available on google video, and xvid copy here (23 megs) ). Editing on MetaVidWiki site is now open to anyone that can pass a audio or visual captcha test…
So check out the demo video, try some searches, and then try improving the archive by syncing a transcript or improving some text content 
Simultaneously we are releasing the software that powers metavid: MetaVidWiki extension (v.01). It has been packaged and released for other cool re-uses of the code base. The Mv_Embed package has been updated to version .7 and released as well.
Read on for Technical Feature overview:
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February 23rd, 2008
As you may have noticed there the site is undergoing maintenance as we transition to a new server and new wiki based software system. Feel to check out the MetaVidWiki site as seen in previous posted screen casts. We are in the process improving documentation and cleaning up the wiki for wider sharing next week. Right now editing is restricted but will be opened up shortly. The existing (old) metavid site will remain accessible 
update: There are a few issues that we have run into as the site comes online. We are working hard on getting everything ready for the “general public”. Watch this blog (and others) for a site launch announcement, and feel free to report issues on the wiki
by dale
January 29th, 2008
As development continues for metavidWiki, I am continuing to release updates of the stand alone component mv_embed. Fresh from the Melbourne is the new release of mv_embed .6. You can check out some videos from the conferences I have been attending here: The FOMS free and open media proceedings and the multimedia talks at the linux Australia conference. (both published with the latest release of mv_embed)
Changes in .6 include:
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January 9th, 2008
The metavidWiki svn has been relocated to wikimedia svn. This will enable tighter integration into the mediaWiki developer ecosystem. Enabling translations via excellent betawiki project, integrated bug tracking and friendly IRC bots reporting svn commits on #metavid
Development continues on metavidWiki and we hope to launch the mediaWiki extension with the congress video dataset within a few weeks. Keep on eye on this space for more updates
by dale
December 18th, 2007
Updated screen-cast available here
you can grab the original xvid/mpeg4 clip (37.9 MB) and if all else fails its posted on youtube
As we work hard towards release candidates of the metavid Wiki extension and the official launch of the metavid congress archive project I thought I would quickly share a little preview of what we are up to. Its a very rough screencast my apologizes for the low volume and rough ending. We will make better screencasts to help with documentation and promotion of features in the future
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December 11th, 2007
Leading up to the w3c video meeting tomorrow there has been a flurry of activity on slashdot and elsewhere, focusing on nokia resistance to a key component of the html5 video spec stating that video tag “should support Ogg Theora”. This key piece of the html spec has been removed from the latest draft. With proprietary web beneficiaries recommending a codec agnostic approach to the html5 video tag they would have us all stop worrying and love the proprietary web. Fortunately a lot of us think otherwise. Here is a short essay responding to some of the arguments against having the w3c recommend the theora codec.
Update: Check out Xiph’s press release, Digital Citizen’s “who benefits” essay, bluish coders comments (the theora for ff developer), about baseline video codecs and html5 by ginger of annodex & finally: the html 5 wars and why you should avoid them by spread open media
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