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).

ckelty

Christopher M. Kelty is a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has a joint appointment in the Institute for Society and Genetics, the department of Information Studies and the Department of Anthropology. His research focuses on the cultural significance of information technology, especially in science and engineering. He is the author most recently of Two Bits: The Cultural Significance of Free Software (Duke University Press, 2008), as well as numerous articles on open source and free software, including its impact on education, nanotechnology, the life sciences, and issues of peer review and research process in the sciences and in the humanities.