Mediacology

As a media educator one of my big frustrations is that I cannot afford or have access to great documentaries. Thanks to the legions of dedicated media activists out there, though, much of the obscure and out of print is being collectively uploaded to the Internet, apologies in advance to the copyright holders. But hey, you want to get your work seen, que no?

Anyhow, I was alerted to a great new tool which is making my life so much easier and I want to pass that info along to you. Omnisio is a fantastic Web video service that enables you to past together all those movie fragments on YouTube or Google video (BlipTV is also supported) into one continues feed. For my undergrad class I have been stringing together clips so I can view some of these documentaries seamlessly. You can view my channel here, which will grow as I add stuff. Currently I have a documentary on PR and Propaganda, The Century of the Self, and PBS NOW’s treatment of Net Neutrality up.

The only thing I would add is an ability to adjust the width of the embed file. I know it’s possible to do it manually in the embed code, but it’s hard to figure out the correct proportional adjustment for height. If it’s possible to set the width before it generates code, that would be great.