On Friday afternoon it was time for the first round of workshop presentations. In the first workshop Sascha Düx and Cilia Willem presented the Roots & Routes project. This youth project started in the Netherlands and focuses on music, dancing and media. Young people from different countries and migrational backgrounds came together in workshops to make music, study dancing choreography and creating a documentation of all that on video and on the internet. Sascha showed the latest step of the Roots & Routes idea, the rootsnroutes.tv website, a social media site focused on the online presentation of videos done in the local workshops. The site is fully multilingual and aims at connecting the young participants in the partner countries and serving as a digital hub to collect all the music and videos made.
Cilia gave a short outlook on video production, showing an online video creation site called mogulus studio. The online application has certain features of tradidional local video software, allowing the user to cue and mix video clips directly in a browser. There are three sources for the video clips, either they are uploaded from the user's computer, taken from other online video sites like youtube or fed live from the user's webcam. Given that the internet connection is fast enough, mogulus allows real-time editing of online video shows that can be streamed and thus watched by others directly. A good overview of online video tools can be found in Cilia's social bookmarks at del.icio.us/ciliuka.
In the other workshop space, podcasting was the main topic. Alex Wunschel, who has his own weekly podcast on podpimp.de, showed how you can become a podcaster yourself with only minor investments such as a cheap microphone and a small tabletop mixer. His research showed that there are about 6000 podcasters in Germany who produce shows on a regular basis. The main advantage that podcast listeners quoted in a recent survey was the possibility of listening whereever and whenever they wanted. Additionally, 47% of podcast listeners said they were listening less to traditional radio programmes now. Another number from Alex's survey showed that about 18 million podcast episodes were downloaded in Germany per month (August 2007).
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