Ourmedia: an Open Repository of Multimedia Texts

In looking at some new sites recently, I stumbled upon a great new project running on Drupal for expanding the public commons. In conjunction with Internet Archive, Bryght, Creative Commons and Wikipedia, Ourmedia is offering " free storage and free bandwidth for your videos, audio files, photos, text or software. Forever. No catches."

As David Bollier points out,

It's not every day that you get to watch the birth of a new media genre. This could be such a moment. Ourmedia has an impressive digital infrastructure, good legal protocols (Creative Commons licenses), social networking software to bring creators/audiences together, an archiving system, and lots of storage and bandwidth capacity. The site invites creators to upload their works to the site, where everyone else can then browse and rate them, discuss and share them, and remix and distribute them, at no cost.