[webcast-l] podcasting question

[Bill Best]

Hi Mick

On 7/15/06, Mick Fuzz <mickfuzz at rocketmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all on the Webcast list,

Hello again  :o)

> I'm Mick from Manchester. I've been doing some work on
> a project called Ourvideo.org with the National
> Computer Centre. I work at Community Arts North West.

Good to hear from you as always.

> I've got a question for people. Is anyone out there
> doing Video Podcasting? If so what systems are you
> using?

At the Community Media Association we have set up an RSS feed to some
video content on The Showcase archive -
http://showcase.commedia.org.uk/ - but podcasting is not the most
appropriate distribution method for that material there due to digital
rights management considerations.

We have used Broadcast Machine -
http://www.getdemocracy.com/broadcast/ - as a platform for presenting
some material from The Showcase (see http://getmedia.org.uk) and
Broadcast Machine does support video RSS feeds.

The CMA has an excellent guide to making audio podcasts on our new
wiki server - http://wiki.commedia.org.uk/wiki/index.php/Podcasting_in_3_easy_steps
- and subscribers to this list are invited to add their own useful and
relevant content to the wiki here:
http://wiki.commedia.org.uk/wiki/index.php/Main_Page. The wiki will
shortly be updated to include information about video podcasting and
other technologies.

> I'd be really interested as I'm using a custom build
> one now, and I'd like to see what alternatives there
> are.

Has the custom build platform that you are using been made available
for general use at all?  What advantages does it have when compared to
other similar platforms?

> You can have a look at the Community Arts Nortwest
> podcast here.
> http://ourvideo.org/can/video.rss

Looks good.

> Which you can play really well with the New democracy
> player. http://www.getdemocracy.org

Yes, I'm on the developer mailing list for  Democracy Player and so I
keep up with all the latest releases.

> or if this isn't for you you can see the content as a
> web page here.
> http://ourvideo.org/can/cat.php?prefix=video

I have been working with a Ruby on Rails developer towards releasing
an open source content management system to facilitate mobile phone
blogging.  This new platform is called Jakka and will incorporate
video RSS.  Release of this application is imminent and is released
under the GPL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html) so I will post
more news of it here shortly.

All the best

Bill Best
-- 
Community Media Association
http://www.commedia.org.uk/