What an amazing three days this was. I feel so inspired and blessed by everyone who turned out to participate in this event, and all the friends and colleagues who I’ve gotten to know in the process of organizing. After a much-needed days to catch up on sleep, we will get down to the work of cleaning up our event materials to post on the site, and starting on our very long list of follow-ups on things that were catalyzed at the meetings.

We will be posting all the video of our panels on the web, and some of our partners such as Bittorrent have also offered to help us distribute this. We are also considering some ways that we can make our video programs available. I know there was tremendous interest in having those available for people to peruse and view. We will at minimum have links to the work up on the web site once we get that sorted, but we are also considering other modes of distribution, including taking the show on the road in some form. If you have any ideas of interest along these lines I would welcome an email or a comment here. I thought our committee, curators, panelists, and workshop leaders did a spectacular job, and the vibe I got from everyone who attended made me believe that others felt the same. I would welcome any and all feedback over email, here on the blog, or on our web forum. We’d particularly be interested in aggregating any blog posts, photos, etc. that you may have created in association with this event.

A special thank you goes to Daniel Liss of kicktothehead, who’s mantra “Shut Up and Make Something” was the title for Ryanne’s program, and became a kind of inspirational tag line for our event.

Deep grateful-ness goes to Charlene Boehne and Mariko Oda who provided the leadership on all the organizational dimensions of the event, with the help of program coordinator Sarah Scott. Our video editor Erik Saks, with the help of Gabriel Peters-Lazarro and Francois Maurin, our web creator Rebecca Malamud, and the IML staff with the help of Jennifer Kekumu were more than wonderful and amazing in producing and running this event — even to the extent that I was able to actually enjoy the event and spend time connecting with people. No small achievement! You can see the full list of staff, supporters, and special friends at our web site.

Liveblogging first panel from DIY 24-7: DIY Tools and platforms. Panelists are Joi Ito, man about the world, Chairman of Creative Commons; Marc Davis, Yahoo’s social media guru; Dean Jansen, outreach coordinator for Participatory Culture Foundation; Angela Wilson Gyetvan, Revver VP.

Angela starts out, appropriately, by showing a toe-tapping video about revver. Notes that Revver shares revenue. Revver focused on producing web shows from the start.

Dean — nonprofit developer with open source platform — Miro, supported by foundations. About 3500 channels — like a combo of a DVR and RSS. Small team of moderators filters out porn and outright copyright violations. “As tv moves on, it can be in a closed fashion, or it can be as open as possible. We have blip.tv, revver, youtube, yahoo — you can add websites as guides. We’re trying to create an open ecosystem that makes patchwork quilt of video on the Internet available through easy interface. You can search and subscribe to, for example, George Bush mashups.” Check it out at getmiro.com.

Marc Davis — I’ve been waiting 20 years for 2008, in which production of video is a daily thing around the planet, in which people create as well as consume. Revolution now happening is that the device you carry with you all the time. Put platforms in place that captures in place that what happens when you make media — place, time, descriptions. Thousands of people are uploading — 63,000 geotagged photos in LA. Tagmaps: Web 2.0 meets DIY Completely automated collective construction of what matters in the world and sharing it. Making it possible for all of us to tell the story of the world together. Building and making accessible collective archive of human activity, and doing it at the point your device is making the media and sharing it with the rest of the planet.

Joi Ito — no single platform. Innovation happens at the edge and startups. Yahoo is a great platform. A lot of people break the law not because they want to, but because they don’t know what is freely available and usable and what is not. Automating access to usable material is essential. Right now it is difficult to attribute Creative Commons licensed material — it ought to be uploaded from your camera phone (building on Marc Davis). Norms are important — although you are allowed to do something, legally, it might be nice to add attribution. While it’s OK to do political satire, maybe it’s not nice to show people in a demeaning way. The normative stuff — what is OK to do, and in what country what is OK –is something we need to have a conversation about.

Dean — both important and inevitable that there be multiple platforms. We are working on ways for people to advertise over their RSS feeds. We don’t think it should be required of everyone, but adding the option is important.

We have just gotten word that Lawrence Lessig and Maryrose Dunton will not be able to speak at our event, both due to illness. They will be greatly missed at the gathering.

We are trying our best to offer a network infrastructure for this event both for those on site and for those who might want to tune in from afar.

The conference panels on Friday and the panel-style workshops on Sunday will be streamed live at:
http://iml.usc.edu/diy/stream. Quicktime needed.

On Friday, there will also be a Second Life feed:
http://slurl.com/secondlife/IML/60/128/52 starting at 9:30AM (SLT)

We have set up a web forum for the event for logistical information, organizing bird of a feather meetings, feedback, followups, and just general discussion. You can find it here: http://iml.usc.edu/diy/

We will have an irc channel set up on site for the backchannel lovers among you. #video247 at freenode.net.

Or if you prefer Twitter, hashtag #video247. You can post here if you want to connect with other 24/7 Twitterers: http://iml.usc.edu/diy/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=4

The tag we will be using for this event is “video247.” Please use this for your blogs, video, and photos that you upload so it is easy to find and aggregate. And please post any content you have created about the event to the forum so others can find out about it — blogs, vlogs, photos! http://iml.usc.edu/diy/viewforum.php?f=7