December 12, 2005

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Grassroot media

December 12, 2005 in Uncategorized by Administrator | No comments

Today, my colleague pointed me to these incredible video clips produced by a friend of his son. I’m not so sure about the tools he uses but in a couple of minutes you see it all: 3D animations, The Matrix effects and much more. And on top of all, great scenarios.
 
Here are two extremely popular examples of what creative and highly motivated minds will do with… well… very low budgets!
  • Original Star Trek sequel brougth to you by real real fans: Wired december 2005 paper
  • The Codex: a group of teens who build and record SF clips from an X-Box game engine!

These guys distribute their content over Internet. Peer-to-peer networks are used to disseminate the video files efficiently and at no cost. This makes sense, of course, when files are large and extremely popular.

These are great examples of  what Broadcasting 2.0 is about: high volumes of data, one-to-many cheap distribution and also, great alternative content that people want to see.

Jack FM radio format

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Chris Anderson has a post on his Long Tail blog about a new radio format that could at best extend radio’s life:
I’ve been following the rise of Jack FM a lot lately… It’s alleged to be the fastest growing new broadcast format in radio today (I think that honor might actually go to latin radio, but it’s certainly one of the most popular), based on the idea of pulling the songs played from a much longer playlist and having no DJs.
 
The Jack FM format is based on 1000 titles playlists instead of the very commonl 100 or even 40 hits playlists.
 

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