Not mainstream media
- Paper Tiger Television: http://www.papertiger.org∞
- Indymedia International: http://www.indymedia.org/en/index.shtml∞
- Indymedia, The Netherlands: http://indymedia.nl/nl∞
- Radioqualia: http://www.radioqualia.net∞
- Deep Dish Television: http://www.deepdishtv.org∞
- Telestreet is an Italian movement that set up pirate TV stations in several metropolian areas in Italy. It started in Bologna with a small trasmitting station, OrfeoTv; since June 2002, this micro-tv has been broadcasting for a few hours a day within a range of 200 metres. http://www.telestreet.it/∞
- Pietje Bell Cineac (Rotterdam local television) Their starting point is that everyone can be motivated to make their own television programs. "Pietje Bell Cineac wordt gemaakt door amateurs, begeleid door enkele professionele televisiemakers. Met de Cineac willen we laten zien dat lokale televisie leuk is om te maken en om naar te kijken. Ons uitgangspunt is dat we iedereen die gemotiveerd is kunnen leren televisie te maken.": http://www.cineac.tv/∞
- Cultura Digital "These grassroots programs enable communities to utilize cyberspace as a common territory by offering web access, digital kits and open source software through which they upload their stories ": http://www.archive.org/details/cultura_digital∞
- Experimental Television Center Geared towards the arts, this organisation has a rich history in supporting media artists. :http://www.experimentaltvcenter.org/index.html∞
- Pirate Cinema Knoxville http://www.piratecinemaknoxville.org/news/∞
News after the Net
- We the media: Interview with Dan Gillmor http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2004/09/14/gillmor.html?CMP=ILC-FV7511446129&ATT=1462∞
- The Echo Chamber project a collaborative, investigative documentary about how television news media were functioning leading up to the war in Iraq.
- BBC Documentary: Making News. This documentary asks: What is the future of news when the internet may undermine the old-fashioned paternalistic precepts? http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/documentaries/2007/12/071214_making_news_two.shtml/∞
The BBC
- BBC Audio Interviews: http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/audiointerviews/∞
- BBC Radio: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/∞
Education
- Berkeley's lecture and course webcasts: http://webcast.berkeley.edu/∞
- Foundations of American Cyber Culture: http://webcast.berkeley.edu/course_details.php?seriesid=1906978491∞
- Sims Course on Search Engines http://www2.sims.berkeley.edu/courses/is141/f05/schedule.html∞
- The Bank of Common Knowledge (BCK) is a pilot experience dedicated to the research of social mechanisms for the collective production of contents, mutual education, and citizen participation. It is a kind of laboratory platform where we explore new ways of enhancing the distribution channels for practical and informal knowledge, as well as how to share it. http://openserver.cccb.org/bcc/inicio∞
- University Of Openness The uo is a framework in which individuals and organisations can persue their shared interest in emerging forms of cultural production and critical reflection such as unix, cartography, physical and collaborative research. Any member may start a faculty to socialise their research with the Uo. http://uo.twenteenthcentury.com∞
Streaming Software
- FOSS Codecs for Online Video: Usability, Uptake and Development A review of the best available tools for the creation, playback and embedding of online video http://wiki.transmission.cc/index.php/FOSS_Codecs_For_Online_Video:_Usability_Uptake_and_Development_1.2∞
- Flossmanuals 'Quality Manuals': how to set up an Icecast server, how to stream using VLC etc. http://flossmanuals.net/∞
- G.I.S.S (Global Independent Streaming Support) Free streaming services for free media. Free as in cost, free as in software. http://giss.tv∞
- Cortado Java-based applet for embedding streaming .ogg files http://www.flumotion.net/cortado/∞
- Theora Streaming Studio A GUI to stream theora video using ffmpeg2theora software http://gollum.artefacte.org/tss/∞
- http://freej.org/∞ streaming and mixing multilayered video images the rastasoftware way
Generally Handy
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http://www.digitalartistshandbook.org/∞
- Make internet TV: a how to guide http://makeinternettv.org/∞
Sharing Platforms
- blip.tv Blip.tv focuses on the kind of stuff you might find on television but don't. http://blip.tv∞
- Miro "There's an opportunity to build a new, open mass medium of online television. Unlike traditional TV, everyone will have a voice." http://www.getmiro.com/∞
- Radioswap is an exchange platform between free radio & sound projects. http://www.radioswap.net/∞
- http://host.geuzen.org/wiki/UploadFile/files.xml?action=download&file=broadcast_color.gif∞
- Talkaoke "The streamed, spontaneous talk show where anyone can take a seat and air their views around the doughnut of chat." http://www.talkaoke.com/∞
- Livecastr "broadcast live video directly from their mobile phones to the web" http://www.livecastr.com∞ (beta version)
- Transmission http://www.transmission.cc/∞
On-line media archives
- Ubuweb http://www.ubu.com/∞ To understand broadcast policy see: http://www.ubu.com/resources/faq.html#3∞
- Kiberpipa / Cyberpipe is a Ljubljana, Slovenia - based multimedia centre focusing on opensource and other free technologies. http://video.kiberpipa.org/∞
- Prelinger Archive Mashups "What happens when you make close to 2,000 ephemeral public domain films freely available on the Web? People make art and more films are born!" http://www.archive.org/details/prelinger_mashups∞
- oxdb "The 0xdb is a rather unique kind of movie database. It uses a variety of publicly accessible resources, like search engines and file-sharing networks, to automatically collect information about, and actual images and sounds from, a rapidly growing number of movies. What the 0xdb provides is, essentially, full text search within movies, and instant previews of search results." http://0xdb.org/∞
Radio
- Furthernoise.org So much more than radio ;-) http://www.furthernoise.org/∞
- W.fmu describe themselves as: an independent freeform station broadcasting at 91.1 fm in New York, at 90.1 fm in the Hudson Valley, and with gobs and gobs of online offerings. http://www.wfmu.org/∞
- SDM.NU: DFM This station has a history connected to the now defunct Radio 100. Members are broadcasting live from their home studios, from locations like alternative bars, parties, events or from the DFM studio in Amsterdam. The DFM Amsterdam internet/radio/tv studio is perfect for regular programs, DJ'ing or post-production but also to receive/record/broadcast guest artists/dj's and small acoustic and/or electronic performers/groups. http://dfm.nu/∞
- Radio Tonka (situated in the Hague) http://www.radiotonka.nl/∞
- Koekoeroe (Leiden based) http://squat.net/koekoeroe/∞
- Radio Patapoe (in Amsterdam) http://freeteam.nl/patapoe/∞
- Radio Banzai (Den Bosch) http://members.home.nl/adk/banzai/∞
- Radio Wanklank (Wageningen) http://www.wanklank.nl/framed/index.html∞
- Radio Alice (Bologna, Italy, now defunct but historically important: Florian Cramer has a book in German on the station) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Alice∞
Online theoretical texts
- CAIRN online database of magazine articles, some articles are in English and free http://www.cairn.info∞