Links: Online Media

The internet represents a revolution in media that will ultimately dwarf the printing press. Through the internet virtually anyone anywhere will be able to make their voices heard. It hasn't extended to everyone yet but the number of people online is growing daily.

Additionally your options as a consumer are going up daily. An internet connection alone gives you more options for things to watch, read and listen to than you would have if you had cable and satellite television, plus a satellite radio subscription and a library card.

The links below are not simply sites I like but links to help you make the most of your opportunities as a content producer and consumer. I'm only getting this started and will add to it as I have time.

Because, here in Canada there is concern about the availability of Canadian content online extra emphasis has been placed on Canadian stuff.
Canada
Literature
Music
News
Podcasts (audio and video)
Radio
Television/Film/Video
Tools and Tutorials


CANADA


  • Canada Podcasts an exhaustive list of Canadian podcasts on a wide variety of topics
  • Canuck Abroad - a directory of online Canadian Radio stations sorted by genre and province.
  • CBC Video Many of the CBC's television programs are now streamed online and archived for on demand viewing.
  • Concerts on Demand CBC Radio 2's collection of Canadian concerts
  • I Heart Radio - More than 130 free, mostly commercial free Canadian public, campus and community radio stations you can listen to online (complete with instructions.)
  • The National Film Board has an extensive collection of film and documentary that you can watch online for free.


LITERATURE


  • Archive.org a repository of free, public domain and creative commons content including film, music, podcasts and literature.
  • Librivox.org - hundreds of free public domain audio books read by volunteers.


MUSIC


  • Archive.org a repository of free, public domain and creative commons content including film, music, podcasts and literature.
  • Concerts on Demand CBC Radio 2's collection of Canadian concerts
  • Free Music Archive download free music, legally, to your hearts content.


NEWS



PODCASTS

  • Canada Podcasts an exhaustive list of Canadian podcasts on a wide variety of topics


RADIO


  • Canuck Abroad - a directory of online Canadian Radio stations sorted by genre and province.
  • I Heart Radio - More than 130 free, mostly commercial free Canadian public, campus and community radio stations you can listen to online (complete with instructions.)
  • Mikes Radio World over 5000 online radio stations from Canada, the U.S., Europe, Australia and New Zealand
  • OnlineRadioStations.com directory of online radio stations.
  • RadioTower.com a directory of online radio stations around the world.


TELEVISION/FILM/VIDEO


  • Archive.org a repository of free, public domain and creative commons content including film, music, podcasts and literature.
  • Hulu.com a site that hosts many US network television shows. It's geo-blocked (only available in the US) but if you use Hotspot Shield or another VPN you can watch it. 
  • The National Film Board (of Canada) has an extensive collection of film and documentary that you can watch online for free.
  • Listen to a Movie - a site containing the audio (and only the audio) of over 1400 films.
  • NewTeeVee.com - will keep you abreast of the latest in internet video - technology and content.
  • tvchannelsfree.com - a directory of online television channels.
  • Web Series Today - There are a great many 'web series', which is sort of like television but is only available online. This is a blog about some of them.
  • Webseries2watch.com - another blog/directory about Web Series.
  • Web Series List - Wikipedia's list of Web Series.
  • wwitv - a directory of over 3000 television stations broadcasting online.



TOOLS AND TUTORIALS


  • All Streaming Media (audio) has information on a variety of free and low cost software that will allow you to listen to, record and save online radio and other audio content as well as tutorials and links
  • All Streaming Media (video) list of free and inexpensive software that captures streaming video.
  • AnchorFree.com offers a free Virtual Private Network called Hotspot Shield that allows you to access geo-blocked content (that means that you can watch sites like hulu.com from outside the U.S.)
  • channelchooser.com - a directory of online television and video.
  • CreativeCommons.org - An alternative to copyright creative commons allows content creators to decide for themselves what rights they want to make available for their work, it also has a search engine that will let you look for Creative Commons licensed work.
  • An article on remaining anonymous online and here's another one. Anonymizer is a free tool that will help you (it costs $80), the cloak is another one (it has free and pay options) and thefreecountry.com has more tutorials and links.
  • How to watch internet video on your TV - there are many other tutorials online showing you a variety of ways to do it. If this one doesn't work for you keep searching. There is also a quick video tutorial here and another one here.
  • Clipnabber allows you to easy download video from YouTube, Daily Motion, Vimeo and other online video sites.
  • Stream Capture another site that catalogues audio and video stream capture software.
  • whatisrss.com - if you're going to read online news and blogs you should really be using a feed reader and RSS/Atom - it will automatically deliver the things you are interested in to you and let you know when there is anything new. There is also a nice short video introduction here.
  • Miro is an online video player and aggregator that will allow you to watch downloaded or streaming online video, subscribe to feeds and much more. It requires an Intel processor (PC or Mac) if you don't have one you should at least download VLC Player which plays a wide variety of video formats.



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