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The Vibewire.net e-Festival is now in progress at http://www.vibewire.net/efestival and already is full of a range of fascinating and informative discussions. The e-Festival runs till Monday April 18 and features more than 50 guests across 9 panels, giving you unprecedented opportunities to engage in discussion with some of Australia's and the world's most interesting people including Nancy Soderberg, former US Ambassador to the United Nations, Robert Greenwald, Director of the documentary Outfoxed, Peter Wintonick, the current Adelaide Thinker in Residence and international editor for Canadian film magazine POV and Craig Silvey, author of the acclaimed novel Rhubarb, chosen as the "One Book" of the recent Perth International Arts Festival. The festival is focused around three themes which each contain three panels: Global Issues - with Nancy Soderberg, Adam Ma'anit, Tim Colebatch, World Vision, Alan Wu + more. Panels :: we're rich, they're poor, so what? // global democracy vs global dominance // green becomes grey

The WomenSpeak Network is currently working on a research project called 'Young Women's Recruitment, Retention and Leadership: lessons learned from the women's movement.' The overall aim of the policy research is to establish broadly young women's involvement and perceptions of their involvement in women's organisations; to find out whether organisations are actively involved in the recruitment, retention and promotion of young women's into leadership positions; in line with the goals of the WomenSpeak Network reflect on how effective young women's participation, networking and diversity is within the organisations. The surveys are available on-line at: http://www.ywca.org.au/survey_2.htm (young women's survey) and http://www.ywca.org.au/survey_1.htm (women's & community organisations survey). read more for further details

Google have released a video upload program which will allow (PC users at the moment) users to upload their videos to be stored on the Google webspace. Will Google become a free hosting site for creative content, similar to www.archive.org? Interesting times ahead.

" Our mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. Currently, Google Video lets you search a growing archive of televised content -- everything from sports events to dinosaur documentaries to news programs. In addition to televised content, we're now accepting video from anyone who wants to upload content to us. Uploaded content will not be immediately available to users searching Google Video as this is just the submission stage of the program. But (if you'll pardon the pun) stay tuned. " read through the Google video FAQ for more details @ https://upload.video.google.com/video_faq.html

"Free internet access to thousands of clips from public service radio and TV programmes is a step closer after the launch of the Creative Archive Licence. The BBC, Channel 4, the British Film Institute (BFI) and The Open University (OU) launched the scheme on Wednesday. It is the first stage of the Creative Archive initiative announced by former BBC director general Greg Dyke in 2003. Under the plans, the public will be able to "own" a copy of the clips and use them for their own creations."

"The BBC will initially make footage from natural history and factual programmes available under the licence, while Channel 4 has commissioned a selection of content. The BFI will be releasing silent comedy, early literary adaptations, newsreel footage and archive footage of British cities in the early 20th century. " Read the full story at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/4441205.stm
or visit the Creative Archive Licence Group @ http://creativearchive.bbc.co.uk/index.html

Tempography is a certain way of directing one's camera eye to the world and discover details, small movements, minimal changes. It is an international video art project that wants submissions from you! We are building up towards a group exhibition, in a gallery and on public screens (to intrigue the accidental viewer), that will take place when we have reached our aim of 250 tempographs. Please have a look at the website http://www.tempography.org to get an understanding of the concept.

We would like to annouce a new web site dedicated to dark / industrial music and media for artists / musicians and followers at http://www.tidalportal.com/DEMUS. This is a community and platform for all creators, followers and fans of dark electronic music. Based in Melbourne Australia (but catering to everyone), our aim is to deliver a community site which: supports and nourishes musical artists, distributes and exposes the art of others, xxcites fans of the genre.

MusicAustralia is a new online service to help you find, access and navigate a rich store of information on Australian music, musicians, organisations and services from a single access point. MusicAustralia networks the Australian musical landscape, providing researchers with a comprehensive online service for Australia's music. You will find Australia's printed music, sound recordings, multimedia and audio-visual materials, artist websites, pictures, manuscripts and books, together with information on thousands of musicians and organisations - across multiple genres and musical styles, heritage and contemporary. The service is free to users. Visit www.musicaustralia.org for details

pspcasting : Wired is calling it the next big thing in mobile porn, but perhaps the videoblogging community will port their vids to mobile devices such as the new PSP from Sony. http://www.pspvideo9.com/pspcasting.html has software and instructions on how to convert your videos to psp format. check it out.