New media
Open media projects
Ourmedia.org supports the following kindred efforts that are helping to enable the grassroots media revolution. Know of others? Please add them to the Comments below.
Node101
Bay Area Video Coalition
Youth Channel
Free Vlog
Undergroundfilm
Undergroundfilm.org is an ad-supported website that provides online distribution to independent film and video.
BlipTV
Blip.tv is a video blogging, podcasting and sharing service. If you don't have a blog, they'll give you one. If you have a blog already, they'll make it a video blog. The service is currently free.
Prelinger Archives & Internet Archive
Prelinger Archives was founded in 1983 by Rick Prelinger in New York. It grew into a collection of over 48,000 "ephemeral" (advertising, educational, industrial, and amateur) films. In 2002, the film collection was acquired by the Library of Congress. Prelinger Archives' goal remains to collect, preserve, and facilitate access to films of historic significance that haven't been collected elsewhere. Included are films produced by and for many hundreds of important U.S. corporations, nonprofit organizations, trade associations, community and interest groups, and educational institutions. The Internet Archive also offers thousands of videos and other works not yet found on Oumedia.
Participatory Culture
The Participatory Culture Foundation is building software and websites to create an independent, creative, engaging, and meritocratic TV system for millions of people around the world. Its DTV is a new, free and open-source platform for internet television and video. An intuitive interface lets users subscribe to channels, watch video, and build a video library.
FireANT
FireANT is the easiest way to find and watch video on the Web, by subscribing to video feeds. It's free.
Mefeedia is the first video aggregator, sort of a Bloglines for video. You can subscribe to channels and watch thousands of videos created by real people. You can also find independent videos for your video iPod or PSP. It's free.
49Media
VlogDir is a free service that lets you find and watch hundreds of videoblogs. You do not need to register or download any special software to start finding and playing vlogs. If you've created videos and want people to find them, submit your vlog's url here.
SpinXpress is a free peer-to-peer file sharing application from Outhink.com that makes it easy to conduct personal webcasting or share large video files with creative collaborators. The files are stored and served from your own hard drive.
OneWorldTV
OneWorldTV gives people the tools and training to create and share video stories.
Participant Productions
Participate.net invites people to film a news segment, record interviews, or write an editorial about something that moves you, and they'll showcase it at the Report It Now blog.
MediaRights
MediaRights is a community organization dedicated to maximizing the impact of social-issue documentaries and shorts. The group, a project of the nonprofit Arts Engine, Inc., helps adult and youth filmmakers reach audiences, helps educators and librarians bring films into their curricula, and helps nonprofits and activists integrate media into their campaigns. Arts Engine's production wing, Big Mouth Films, produces feature-length documentaries and advocacy videos. MediaRights also runs Youth Media Distribution, whose mission is to improve the distribution of independent youth-created film, video, radio and new media.
Chat the Planet is a television show and internet community that connects groups of young Americans (ages 15 to 25) with their peers around the world, via satellite, for frank, no-holds-barred discussions about politics, relationships, prejudices, and life in general. Chat the Planet lets you record short webcam videos of your thoughts and offers a seris of chat shows, snap shows and video profiles
Video Reporter
Video Reporter, based in Germany, puts on an annual International Video Reporting Award competition geared toward innovative documentary shorts and non-fiction digital films helmed by a single autonomous author. Video Reporter is the merge of cinematography, editing, sound and directing in one person's hand.
Youth Radio
Youth Radio is an award-winning youth development/media training organization in Berkeley, Calif., that provides more than 1,000 young people with the opportunity to produce radio and video stories for broadcast on the Internet and other outlets.
Center for Digital Storytelling
The Center for Digital Storytelling nonprofit arts organization in Berkeley, Calif., rooted in the art of personal storytelling. They assist young people and adults in using the tools of digital media to craft, record, share, and value the stories of individuals and communities, in ways that improve all our lives. The Storycenter helped launch the Digital Storytelling Association.
Digital Storytelling Festival
The Digital Storytelling Festival is an annual gathering where professionals and enthusiasts who use technology to communicate and share stories gather to examine creative works and new concepts being used in areas of education, community building, business, personal and legacy storytelling, new media and entertainment.
Museum of the Person
The Museum of the Person is a Brazil-based effort begun in 1993 with the main goal of creating a virtual space for every person to have his/her life story preserved so that it becomes part of the social memory. The group works with oral history methodology, registering in video and audio the interview or receiving the stories through the Internet. Its goal is to have a global network of life stories, so we can have many perspectives of the world.
StoryCorps
StoryCorps is a project to collect extraordinary stories from everyday people. Participants receive a copy of their interview on CD and have the option of having it archived at the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress.
Musicbrainz
Musicbrainz is a community music meta-database that attempts to create a comprehensive music information site. You can use the MusicBrainz data either by browsing the site, or you can access the data from a client program — for example, a CD player program can use MusicBrainz to identify CDs and provide information about the CD, about the artist or about related information.
Last.fm
Last.fm , powered by Audioscrobbler, lets you create your own online music profile that you can fill up with the music you like. This information is used to create a personal radio station and to find users who are similar to you. Last.fm can even play you new artists and songs you might like. It's free.
Opsound
Opsound is a record label and sound pool using an open source copyleft model. It's a gift economy in action, an experiment in applying the model of free software to music. Musicians and sound artists are invited to add their work to the Opsound pool using a copyleft license developed by Creative Commons. Listeners are invited to download, share, remix and reimagine.
GarageBand.com
GarageBand.com is the web's largest independent music community and home to the definitive charts of the best emerging artists. Download mp3s for free. Lots of other band and fan sites have spun out of this music community as well, such as MacIdol, where thousands of Mac musicians freely share their original music.
Boston Pop Underground
Boston Pop Underground is a live music series featuring the best local and national indie/alt-pop artists. This genre is known for memorable melodies, soaring harmonies, thoughtful lyrics, irresistable hooks, and a love of the craft of songwriting.
LOCA Records
LOCA Records is an open-source copyleft record label. LOCA believes that creativity requires that musicians reappropriate and reinterpret music and sounds to enable them to create truly innovative music and then release it into the commons.
PD Photo.org
PD Photo.org offers thousands of royalty-free pictures.
Also see Wikipedia's list of public domain image resources as well as Gimp Savvy's list.
Project Gutenberg
The venerable Project Gutenberg effort offers 16,000 free, downloadable public domain books from its online catalog. Distributed Proofreaders is now the main source of Project Gutenberg's e-books.
Online Books Page
The University of Pennsylvania's Online Books Page is a directory of free books on the Web, started in 1993. It's now chronicling more than 25,000 text works.
LibraryCity
LibraryCity is a nonprofit that will put thousands of e-books and other items online. Interactivity and multimedia will help readers absorb subjects ranging from Shakespeare to nanotechnology. Participating in he project are learners, teachers, librarians and readers in general.
OpenReader
The OpenReader Consortium's mission is to use standards to help grow the market for e-books, newspapers, magazines and other digital publications. They plan to create next-generation open-source software for reading digital publications based on XML and related open standards.
Wikipedia
Wikipedia is the world's largest encyclopedia, a continually updated, free global resource and information database. Anyone may contribute.
NowPublic
NowPublic is an ad-supported citizens media site that lets anyone report the news, chiefly through images and text entries.
Orato
Orato is a citizen journalism news site based in Vancouver, Canada, that aims put a human face on the news by showcasing vivid, first-person stories from individuals involved in current events. Whether it is politics, sports, entertainment, science, love or war, the site aims to capture news in its rawest form and be a celebration of every person's right to be heard in their own words.
Open Media Developers Summit
The Open Media Developers Summit is an occasional gathering of people working in open media with the goal of collaboration and sharing of knowledge and resources. The group maintains a wiki here.
Drupal
Drupal is an open source content management platform that supports an increasing number of high-profile citizens media websites, such as Ourmedia, CivicSpace and Bayosphere.
Open Media Network
Open Media Network is a free public service designed to help people enjoy a broad selection of movies, public TV and radio, video blogs and podcasts while protecting producers' copyrights.
Youth Media Exchange
Youth Media Exchange, an initiative of the nonprofit Media Venture Collective, is a free "creative commons" and open publishing platform for young media-makers worldwide. Its purpose is to make it easy for any youth media organization anywhere to empower its members to publish their work online, and for the best of that work to get mainstream exposure.
Other projects
CyberJournalist has a list of citizen journalism initiatives, some of which are true grassroots efforts.
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