The University of Oregon has a portal for accessing its streaming video assets. The UO Channel “is a gateway to video programs that reflect the quality, creativity, and diversity of academic and cultural life at the university. Featured programs include lectures, interviews, performances, symposia, documentary productions, and more. In addition to video/streaming media on demand, the UO Channel also provides access to campus radio stations.”

The project is a collaborative service of the libraries, the computing center, and the media/PR office at UO. Hooray for the library’s involvement!

At Miami I had identified a similar streaming initiative for the digital media lab’s action plan. Libraries have the potential to play a significant role in developing the access, categorization, management, and preservation of a university’s streaming media assets. Practically, every university now has some type of streaming media project. If libraries are not already involved, they should learn about the status of these initiatives and offer their services.

One of my favorite new blogs is adamnation.org by Adam Weinroth, founder of Easyjournal. He provides clear and insightful analysis of different issues within the blogosphere. He presents a lot of topics of interests which I will return to later for more examination.

The blogosphere provides a lot of fertile data for analysis. I’m disappointed that more people from the information science community haven’t started examining the rich research potential of blogs. There are a lot of issues here which we need to understand more fully.

The Guardian posts today an excellent article on Remixing the Blogosphere. It’s good to see this discussion in the mainstream media. The article talks about copyright issues and the creative commons, the need for easier searching of this new content and highlights some organizations, “independent media hubs”, that are developing projects that make discovery of copyright clear multimedia content easier. There are also some good quotes from JD Lasica, founder of ourmedia.org, on whose blog New Media Musings I first saw reference to this article.

As more people become aware of these services, not only should we expect to see a rise in multimedia content on the Web but we should see an increase in existing content that is remixed or repurpose in new ways. As the remixed content is developed, we should also see over the next few years an increase in simple, user-friendly tools for helping people to remix digital content.