I know that I had been complaining a lot in the past about ourmedia.org and how it was all buggy and stuff, but today I just realized that it is actually still in alpha and not even a beta test yet so that I should really just shut up. I should be happy that they were willing to open the alpha release to the public in the first place otherwise I wouldn’t even be doing a podcast due to a lack of bandwidth and space on my server.
I’ve found the new ourmedia publishing tool which is a little desktop application to upload your files to fix any odd file publishing problems I had had in the past. There was one weird thing this past weekend where I uploaded a file with it and it didn’t show up in my account, but you can usually still find the files through the internet archive if you do a good search. So anyway, I’m done complaining and realize that the services can only improve over time and that they are already performing a great service.
So what prompted all this positive ourmedia.org energy? Well it actually has to do with this entry I found on The Social Software Weblog discussing how Ourmedia was nominated as a finalist in the UN World Summit Awards. Seems as though they’re really starting to gain some positive attention in the world.
