Comments on: Democracy Now! puts the corporate “debates” to shame http://www.digitalcitizen.info/2008/10/16/democracy-now-puts-the-corporate-debates-to-shame/ Free Software movement news and related interests. Sun, 18 Jul 2010 02:27:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: J.B. Nicholson-Owens http://www.digitalcitizen.info/2008/10/16/democracy-now-puts-the-corporate-debates-to-shame/comment-page-1/#comment-2530 J.B. Nicholson-Owens Sun, 19 Oct 2008 03:12:56 +0000 http://www.digitalcitizen.info/?p=522#comment-2530 Not to take any credit away from DN!, but <a href="http://www.archive.org/" rel="nofollow">the Internet Archive</a> is doing the heavy lifting there. Anyone who uploads certain types of movie files to them will have derivative formats created automatically by default; one of those derivatives is Ogg Theora with a Vorbis soundtrack. DN! deserves credit for choosing archive.org for their media hosting, and more shows can do as DN! and countless others do by hosting their audio and video shows there at no charge (save any costs associated with uploading which are unavoidable). I think services like these make archive.org one of the most important websites on the Internet. I believe this service will get far more widely used when Firefox 3.1 comes out (which features Ogg Vorbis+Theora support built-in, no plugins or addons needed) and as more people become aware that they don't have to know much technical stuff to take advantage of what archive.org offers. Not to take any credit away from DN!, but the Internet Archive is doing the heavy lifting there. Anyone who uploads certain types of movie files to them will have derivative formats created automatically by default; one of those derivatives is Ogg Theora with a Vorbis soundtrack. DN! deserves credit for choosing archive.org for their media hosting, and more shows can do as DN! and countless others do by hosting their audio and video shows there at no charge (save any costs associated with uploading which are unavoidable). I think services like these make archive.org one of the most important websites on the Internet.

I believe this service will get far more widely used when Firefox 3.1 comes out (which features Ogg Vorbis+Theora support built-in, no plugins or addons needed) and as more people become aware that they don’t have to know much technical stuff to take advantage of what archive.org offers.

]]> By: Matthew http://www.digitalcitizen.info/2008/10/16/democracy-now-puts-the-corporate-debates-to-shame/comment-page-1/#comment-2528 Matthew Fri, 17 Oct 2008 14:22:48 +0000 http://www.digitalcitizen.info/?p=522#comment-2528 Glad to see Democracy Now! distributing video in Ogg Theora format, so it is available to everyone. Why are the presidential debates distributed over Flash Player and Mpeg-Patented technologies? Glad to see Democracy Now! distributing video in Ogg Theora format, so it is available to everyone. Why are the presidential debates distributed over Flash Player and Mpeg-Patented technologies?

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