the Ad-vent of Media Recycling

story © Michael Betancourt | published June 2, 2004 | permalink |  |  

CNN is carying this story on how ads are starting to be recycled in different markets than where they were originally made.

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story © Michael Betancourt | published May 28, 2004 | permalink |  |  

MOOV is a revolutionary new High-Definition (HD) television channel dedicated solely to showcasing non-narrative film and video art.

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story © Michael Betancourt | published May 16, 2004 | permalink |  |  

A new electronic-based culture is emerging in the on-line communities centered around P2P networks, open source, and through personal web sites and blogs. It has been gradually developing ever since the world wide web was launched in the early 1990s, even though it began in the period before then. To call the loose collection of tendencies centering around the non-commercial spread of software, services, and media (music/art/video/writing) a culture may be premature, however, understanding what it could represent for a broader context beyond the confines of the Internet requires this designation.

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story © Michael Betancourt | published May 14, 2004 | permalink |  |  

It seems to me that the best way to get people to think about video and film in different ways than the narrow range shown in commercial media is to systematically expose them to alternatives while they're still young.

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story © Michael Betancourt | published April 28, 2004 | permalink |  |  

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Valenti clearly shows "whose side" he's on in the debate about copyright, ownership and the ability of everyone else to live without corporate control.