This week’s Web site recommendation is a bit more fun than last week’s utilitarian choice, but should be very useful to some of you fine readers. I am a very big fan of copyright-free media, which I feel is the future of how we acquire information. Which brings me to
archive.org
I find this Web site exceptionally useful, especially when doing video editing and looking at public domain footage to use as a green screen background or inter-cut with my own footage. The Web site creed reads “Universal access to human knowledge”, which is really what the Internet supposed to be about.
The site’s achieves media in virtually every form, with its live action video, to music by people who understand the importance of exposure today rather than royalties tomorrow. Even books and text files can be found and downloaded for later use.
Much like Youtube.com, the site encourages the user to upload his or her own public domain material to add to the collective. I feel that this site represents the future of information exchange and will only grow stronger as more and more people join the revolution.

Posted by
Matthew Byrd