Tuesday, August 05, 2008

Vision On TV at Climate Camp 08



Here we are in our studio in a field at Climate Camp 2008


Hamish and Zav setting up the Camp TV studio for VOTV just finished our first show this afternoon.

Saturday, August 02, 2008

CC TV studio - embed

Make the player big, as the video is actually 800x480 in size so the bigger the better experience. The current embed we put out is the grassroots channel on VOTV were all the content from the Climate Camp will be broadcast – if you whont ONLY the stuff about Climate Camp then the is the option to replace the grassroots embed with this one. Up to you which one to use.

Sorry my blog takes out some of the code here, goto this link to find code http:visionontv.info

Climate camp TV studio is being hosted by http://visionontv.net over the week of the gathering. From Monday there will be practical workshops on how to make downloadable live-edited TV using low-cost equipment. You can get the low-down on how to add VOTV to your blog/website and watch it here http:visionontv.info

Sunshine permitting we hope to make two 30 minute chat shows a day and to upload a number of action/positive alternatives shorts. These will be broadcast via any website that embeds the TV widget, the main VOTV webpage, our VOTV player application and via the open source MIRO. The programs will also be broadcast on satellite in the US via Freespeech TV.

VOTV is a not-for profit internet TV station setup by http://www.undercurrents.org and supported by ethical foundation funding. We will be launching the full service in December.

Friday, August 01, 2008

Climate Camp 2008 is Open

To get to kingsnorth directions at http://www.climatecamp.org.uk http://visionontv.net

Tuesday, July 29, 2008

VOTV embeds for Climate Camp

Please use these resources to embed the films from the camp on your blog or website.

ALL these resources are released under a creative commons licence so feel free to mix it all up and re-edit.


Creative Commons License

VisionOnTV by
http://visionontv.net is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0.






Embed code for the VOTV show player on your website or blog

This will auto update dynamically to stream all the latest films that we broadcast from the camp.

<embed src="http://blip.tv/play/gZtgAQA" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="700" height="360" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed>




Just change the numbers for height and width to size the media player window on your website. If you need the style changing e-mail us info@visionontv.net







You can use this code to dynamically list and link the shows as text on your own website:

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://app.feed.informer.com/digest3/AVZDPWK84X.js"><noscript><a href="http://app.feed.informer.com/digest3/AVZDPWK84X.html">Click for &quot;GrassRoots - Short&quot;.</a> Powered by <a href="http://feed.informer.com/">RSS Feed Informer</a></noscript></script>


You should just copy this into a table in your HTML code or website CMS - we have geekya codes than this - e-mail if you need any other flavor such as PHP etc.








The RSS feed is here for your own pod-catcher or RSS reader http://feeds.visionontv.net/undercurrents/grassroots

To watch the VOTV videos there are lots of options:

Streaming online at http://visionontv.net

You can install our VOTV show player application for easy hi-quality TV experience. http://www.undercurrents.org/visionon/install.htm

Or, if you prefer corporate experience youtube page is here: http://youtube.com/user/undercurrentspaulo

There are lots more ways to watch the videos: http://www.undercurrents.org/webvideo/index.htm

You can install in MIRO https://miroguide.com/channels/4510

You can also watch the shows on Hamish's and Paulo’s personal blogs along with comments about the camp:

http://hamishcampbell.com

http://undercurrentsvideo.blogspot.com/

Or get the latest tweets on your mobile phone at:

http://twitter.com/hamishcampbell

Or just do a goggle search: VisionOnTV

If you need help customizing any of these codes/URLs, please e-mail us at info@visionontv.net

Monday, July 28, 2008

VisionOnTV trailer for Climate Camp 2008

VisionOnTv will report daily from inside the Climate Camp- the new frontline in Climate Change activism. August 3-11th 2008 http://www.visionontv.net

Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Italy closes the door on justice

In 2001 more than 300 000 people came to Genoa to stop the G8 meeting. Many suffered extreme police violence. 7 years later the trials are coming to an end. The mayor of the city of Genoa has invited the people to ask for public reconciliation. 25 people were sentenced for up to 11 years of prison for property damages such as breaking windows compared to sentences of a maximum of 5 years for the 76 Italian police officers under trial so far. 15 have been found guilty for torture and systematic abuse of authority.

Saturday, July 19, 2008

Some key characters from the Diaz trial

Dr Enrico Zucca the prosecutor

Sky (Mark Covell) - Plaintive, pushing the court hard to conclusion
Massimo Pastore – Sky’s lawyer

Judge Barone

Sky out side the court in a rare moment of relaxation.

Some thoughts

I just whont to touch on two subjects for VOTV that people need to think about.

Firstly is the centrality of RSS and "podcasting" to the project. We get told all the time that the future of the web video is streaming - think Youtube. This article from Mashable (one of the most successful social media blogs in the world) looks at this issue and concluded that if you arent doing RSS then "Bottom line - if you’re working with video online: by all means have a web strategy, but if you don’t understand podcasts and RSS, be prepared to fight with one hand tied behind your back." LINK

And an article about editorial issues - looking at Wikipedia "The bottom line, however, is that Wikipedia is an incredibly fast source of news on not only important events but also on a million little things such as the color of the lightsaber, and having to wait for editors to go through all that might make Wikipedia a bit dull. Hopefully, the final solution they come up with will manage to avoid that." LINK

That is two things that makes us different is RSS and creative editorial system.


Friday, July 18, 2008

Words and meaning


http://xkcd.com