The new new video

I don’t know how many anthropologists actually take seriously the idea of making video into a real tool of the trade–but I was amazed to find and play with eyespot, an online video-mixing site replete with Creative Commons tracks, Prelinger archive footage and an increadibly cool little interface. I can imagine this being an amazing tool for the creation of an ethnographic video as a collaborative effort, especially if your people produce and want to share their own video… bandwidth and memory notwithstanding (it was too much for me to upload a 12MB file).

Christopher Kelty does anthropological and historical research on science and technology, free and open source software, intellectual property and open access, the history of software, and the ethics and politics of nanotechnology. He also teaches classes about all of these things. From 2001 to 2008 he was assistant professor of anthropology at Rice University, in Houston, TX. He know teaches at UCLA and splits his time between the Information Studies department, the Anthropology Department and the Center for Society and Genetics.