Personal-media Revolution
With more homes being connected to the Internet via broadband connection, the desire to transfer and access large media files is growing. Digital media such as video, photos, and audio are also being referred to as "vlogs", "podcasts", "soundseeing", "mash-ups", and "photo weblogs." These new media trends have got people creating their own personal-media with today's affordable digital cameras, recorders, and software.
But once you've created your digital masterpiece, how do you store, or share your content? Now there's a place that will host your media forever — for free.
Ourmedia is several things in one.
- An open-source project built and staffed by volunteers
- A destination Web site that freely hosts grassroots video, audio, music, photos, text and public domain works
- A community space to share and discuss personal media
- A learning toolkit to help our members create rich and compelling works
- An archive so that these works can be preserved for the ages
- A clearinghouse that allows anyone to search for licensed video, audio or music, download it and remix it, with proper attribution. Legally.
J.D. Lasica, co-founder and executive director of OurMedia, says "Our mission is to advance the personal-media revolution. We're not going to put big media out of business, but there's a real wellspring of creativity at the grassroots level that we've seen over the last several years. We want to make it really easy for people to share their creative works with the whole world. We want to be the center of push-button publishing."
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