This site is worth examining even though it is still in the alpha development period. (Access and processing may be slow; I had trouble registering an account.) "Share your videos, audio files, photos, text or software - for free - with a global community of creative individuals." "Please come in and register — this site belongs to our members. You can publish media, post comments, and you get a free blog. We'll store your video, podcasts or digital photo collection for free — forever. No catches. Just one request: Go easy on us. We're still in alpha. There's still a lot of work to be done, and we have a lot of wrinkles to iron out. But we're happy our doors are finally open."
Ourmedia is affiliated with Drupal and the Internet Archive. Compare Ourmedia with Yahoo360 which is now in beta (http://360.yahoo.com/reg/whatis.html). Both resources offer free storage space and blogs; but the interfaces and the communities differ very much in style.
The amazing low prices on memory storage units means that more and more types of free online storage for all kinds of tools and all types of file formats should be available to Internet users, including students and instructors. How these new capacities are used for instructional applications will be interesting to observe. ___JH
(Thanks to blog.photoblogs.org for bringing this resource to my attention:New Grass Roots Not-for-Profit Will Store and Promote Your Photos. Well after months of anticipation Our Media is finally here. Ourmedia.org is an open source media project that allows it's users the ability to store any kind of digital media on it's servers with no charge for unlimited bandwidth or... [blog.photoblogs.org])
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