Jeremy Allaire writes on his blog at Brightcove:

"Beyond looking at Internet TV as an ideal platform for marketing and distribution, it is interesting to think about how the Internet facilitates a distributed and collaborative environment for media production. It won't surprise me to see new "media collectives" modeled after open source projects that form together to put forth a particular view point - be it for entertainment or informational programs. Note the work at TheWeblogProject.

Who will host the "sourceforge" of documentaries? Is this a missing piece to create a platform for citizen's media? How will content creators, directors and producers, with common vision, work together to put forth a story that is important to them? What tools are required to help manage these create endeavors? Is there a varient of BaseCamp designed specifically for collaborative video projects?

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Here's an interview just published by the Dutch newsblog popular with the media by Jody Donnelly (23), the opinionated bitch. Jody is a freelance writer and cyberjournalist writing for Struikgewas.be and Gent.blogt.be.

Together with three fellow bloggers you started up TWP, so are you friends, and how serious is TWP?

We are not really close friends but only people who share some common ideas and goals. As a matter of fact, while the original idea came from Marco Montemagno, an Italian journalist and media commentator, we have refined it and transformed it quite a bit since its original inception.

I am very serious about TWP and will be gradually increasing my contribution and personal investment in it. Not that I have not done so until now, but the project will require increasing attention and resources as it moves forward.

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Here are is the first miniclip I am showing from the set of video interviews I have shot in the past two weeks.
It is only 12" long, and it records Marc Canter own definition of what blogs are in the simplest way possible.

Click here to play the video clip in Quicktime (.mov) format.

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A couple of great new sponsors have recently joined the ranks of TheWeblogProject and will be contributing services, visibility and endorsement to the TheweblogProject initiative. I am proud to briefly introduce them here as you may find some of them useful and complementary to your publishing, communication and blog-related needs.

Prodigem, which provides a non-technical online service to distribute large media files online while using the extremely effective BitTorrent protocol. You don't have to worry anymore about storage space and bandwidth costs: Prodigem does it for you. But even more interesting is the new offering that Gary Lerhaupt (a Stanford graduate student) has made available recently and which allows artists and independent authors to easily host their large media video (or music) files and sell them at any desired price. Prodigem Marketplace, the name of this new offering, picks up a 10-15% commission on every transaction while leaving the independent video maker unencumbered by storage, hosting, bandwidth and distribution issues. Go give it a look.

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Finally, I have the recording of the press conference delivered a week in San Francisco and my contribution to the Cinecittà Studios event that took place this afternoon at Cinecittà Studios in Rome.

Here is the recording. Audio + slides.
Duration: 57'

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Last refinements and edits to the presentation to be given tomorrow at Cinecittà. In the afternoon I will be at the Studio 20 to test Internet connectivity and verify that everything is running as expected.

TheWeblogproject Sponsors iVocalize and Presenternet are providing a friendly and easy-to-use facility that will allow us to live-cast my presentation of TheWeblogProject tomorrow afternoon for up to 200 simultaneous viewers.

The presentation will be in English and the time should be around 3pm GMT+1 (9am EST)4pm equivalent to 10am EST, though being back in Rome, this is a bit harder to say :-)

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Got a great video interview in the backyard of Howard Rheingold and some of the clearest definitions of what blogs really are.

It has been quite surprising to see how difficult it can be for some of the popular bloggers I have interviewed so far, to explain, in a few, simple words, what a blog is. Of course the less geeky ones have some advantage at this, as they are more trained at exemplifying and popularizing complex ideas to non-technical audiences. In this respect Howard and before him Jay Cross, gave me some very clear and easy to understand definition for blogs which I feel are right on the mark with the communication goals of this movie.

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I am back in Rome.

Next up is the Cinecittà Studios event taking place this Thursday afternoon here in Rome. I will be delivering nearly the same presentation I have given in San Francisco last friday, and there should be confirmation soon of a live webcast as well.

Coming up: Official press release for the upcoming Cinecittà event.

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When: 28 April '05 h. 09,30 –
Where: Stage 20 Cinecittà –
Via Tuscolana 1055
Rome, Italy

Title of the Event:
CINEMA AND NEW MEDIA SHARED PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION

The production company Idea Produzioni, reached the first goal of the Scriptblog- ScrivoCinema project, dedicated to creating a concrete platform for the development, fund-raising, production and distribution of European cinema and New Media.

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Got an interesting video interview with Marc Canter.

Before it, we talked a lot about ourmedia.org and Marc's vision for DLAs (digital lifestyle aggregators). According to him every "brand" worth of that name will own and distribute one in the next 5-10 years.

Marc was also kind enough to suggest talking further to Eli Chapman, which works for AVID and focuses on Web productions and applications, to start defining in more detail the digital video formats that will be used for making this project possible.

Today I am off to interview Howard Rheingold.

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