Close, but no cigar. Newspapers need to embrace the (evolving) consumer. Take it from someone who worked in digital media at a major daily newspaper.

The handful of Video Rants on this site has some downloading issues. They cannot be downloaded to “open” because the Logitech SW will not work properly due to some security pre-sets on my computer. My company will not allow us to enable plug and play features on our home network. Never mind, it’s a long story.

I am using a trial version of Video Edit because I cannot get Visual Communicator to recognize my Logitech 4000 Webcam. Once I get more serious about these rants, I will use my tripod and Sanyo Xacti to record them. The Video Edit SW (unregistered version) saves the files in some odd MPEG2 flavor; I have been able to download them and open them in Window Media Player. Most of the time.

I just ran across a legal P2P file sharing and hosting service called Prodigem. I am trying to find out more information, but it looks similar to what Open Media Network is trying to do. It also shows that Google (and others of its ilk) need to accelerate their video search and serve plans or be left behind.

Prodigem's "about us" info is sketchy. Stay tuned.