Video Curation Tool

I'm looking for a video curation and annotation platform. I wonder if you can help me. 

Playlists are good because they're easy to share. That's important. But existing video platforms are too monogamous - you can't insert a vimeo clip into a you tube playlist for instance. Overcoming this disfunction would be a good start.

Yes - I could use Scoop.it or something else that sorts stuff into columns or rows... but I want both at the same time!

Video is too linear: it has a start and an end and that's it in terms of points in time that you can segue to another clip. What about all the points within the clip? What if it were more like text where I can copy a section of an article and paste it into a new document? Kind of like Storify. 

It would be great if I could annotate a video much as SoundCloud allows the viewer to leave comments on the timeline of the audio file, and then use these annotations as segue points to other clips.

What if, like Quicktime Pro, I could make an in point and an out point and copy that section into a playlist?

Finally, to protect the interests of the original producer, the platform should also automatically collect the attribution metadata.

Please world, find or invent this tool.

Civilizing the Economy

There's no denying that there are outstanding governance issues across remote Australia and while many of us are looking for solutions to increase stakeholder engagement, I suggest that we'd be better served looking to reinvent the box within which we're thinking. Hence my passionate interest in the work being pioneered by the School of Commoning. From this source, I've become aware of a new text: Civilizing the Economy.

In Civilizing the Economy, Marvin Brown traces the origin of this mistake to early capitalism aptly illustrated by Adam Smith's denial of the central role of slavery in wealth creation. In place of the Smithian property-based economics, Brown proposes a new framework for the global economy that reframes its purpose as the making of provisions instead of the accumulation of property. This bold new vision establishes the civic sphere as the platform for organizing an inclusive economy and a way to move toward a more just and sustainable world.

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