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Learn how popular commercial online digital video platforms, such as YouTube, GoogleVideo and MySpace, are being used to create, exchange, and comment upon information for public knowledge and action—and what their limitations are!

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By Jane Hall
This fall, a remarkable group of key decision-makers and innovators in news and information came together at American University in Washington, D.C. Read how leaders in the field are working to ensure the future of serious, credible news and information and public-minded media in the 21st Century media and journalism landscape.

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Eager to be among the first adopters of new technology, producers of the award-winning public radio program The Infinite Mind have branched into 3D virtual broadcasting. They have "built" a spacious broadcasting complex in Second Life, a burgeoning online world where the rules of three-dimensional commerce and coexistence are just being established. Will their public radio audience follow them to this unfamiliar new world?

The Densho Archive-a vast, free online multimedia collection of materials related to the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II-is a model of what public media can be. Created by retired executives from Microsoft with family histories of wartime incarceration, it marries sophisticated digital archive design with innovative donor arrangements that allow it to host media without the originals leaving private institutions and collections. Where other online digital media projects fail or are forced to charge prohibitive fees to end-users, the Densho Archive has created a successful, truly public, digital resource.