More internet TV
Recent surveys conducted about how Penn State students use technology suggest that approximately 20% of students have contributed video to a site like YouTube. There are any number of web sites and movements on the internet to promote a democratization of communication, some similar to YouTube, some quite different. I can personally think of several products that aim to put voice (back?) into the individual and route around a publisher of some sort.
Over a year ago I bumped into Democracy TV because of time I spent on a committee on which Mitch Kapor was also serving. He's an interesting guy so I thought I'd check it out. At first, it was clunky and slow and it wasn't clear where content was going to come from. The latest version, 0.95, works really well on my Mac and I regularly find interesting programming on it.
I like messing around with it. You might too.
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Have you looked at fireant? Development of the mac version seems dead lately, but I like how the software shows the hypertext that accompanies the video alongside the video. It also has a big, easy to see button that lets you jump back to blog/podcast post from which the video originated so it makes it easy to take part in the discussion around the video.
Democracy's big draw IMHO is a bright happy interface and bittorrent support.
I'd heard of it but forgotten about it. Thanks for the pointer, I'll have to check it out.