Press & Blog Coverage
The Participatory Culture Foundation is a new non-profit organization based in Worcester, Massachusetts. Our mission is to create tools for broader, deeper engagement with culture and politics. We're working to ensure that the new mass medium of internet TV is open and independent, just like blogging and podcasting.
Press Contact
Nicholas Reville, Executive Director
mobile: 508-963-7832
email: npr|at|pculture|dot|org
Recent Press Releases
November 13, 2007
Groundbreaking Open-Source Internet TV Software Launches
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Selected Coverage
This page is only updated occasionally (note that Miro was called 'Democracy Player' prior to July, 2007). For recent coverage, search for us on Technorati and Google News.
"NDR (Northern Germany's Public Broadcaster) Now Offers its Podcasts via Non-Commercial Software, Miro"
NDR Press Release, July 4, 2008
"Eine unglaubliche Vielzahl an verschiedenen Kanälen"
Lexikon, January 29, 2008
"The Future of Internet TV"
Fortune & CNN, November 13, 2007
"Entrepreneur Aims to Overthrow TV, Not Get Rich"
Wired.com, October 8, 2007
"Democracy Player wants to replace your TV"
News.com, June 15, 2007
"Mozilla contributes funding to Democracy Player"
ArsTechnica, May 31, 2007
"There's a new version of Democracy Player, the free and open source Internet TV program that can play any video format and that's as easy to use as a TV."
BoingBoing, July 22, 2006
Want to see the future of Net video? Download the open source Democracy Player from the Participatory Culture Foundation, a renegade nonprofit code shop. The app lets you subscribe to RSS channels, download in the background via BitTorrent, and view most video formats in full-screen resolution. (The companion site, Video Bomb, offers RSS feeds for tons of clips.) With Democracy Player, a well-stocked BitTorrent tracker, and a little RSS fu, who needs a TiVo?
Wired Magazine, May 2006
"David Moore of ParticipatoryCulture.org says, MediaRights has opened up a very cool project using "Democracy" internet TV...It's a perfect example of how open internet TV works as participatory, community media."
- posted by Xeni Jardin, BoingBoing, May 1, 2006
"If they're able to deliver on their stated visions, your donation just may help trigger a profound grassroots technology-induced human evolution."
- Chris Holland, The Apple Blog, April 30, 2006
"Linux Version of Democracy Released"
Slashdot and Digg, April 27, 2006
"So if you're looking for a non-commercial vlogger-friendly respite from the flames of online video growing pains, you may want to try good old-fashioned Miro."
Clark Saturn, We Are The Media, April 10, 2006
"This looks like an interesting example of network-centric voice and distribution via TV."
Network-Centric Advocacy, March 27, 2006
"Run, don't walk to the Participatory Culture foundation and download Miro, right now!...In a few short weeks, Democracy Player has changed my TV viewing habits. I've hitched an S-Video cable and a 2x RCA to 1/8 jack so I can plug my laptop into my home theater. I'm watching less broadcast TV and more and more downloaded videos. There is such a rich and exciting world of video on the Internet."
Matt LeClair, Maine Media-Arts Project (MEMAP), March 20, 2006
"I ran across an application recently that will change the world... Everything we know about television, radio and media in general will be re-imagined... What could make such a huge dent in the traditional media universe??? It's simple -- Democracy Player... In short, it's an IPTV solution so simple my Grandmother could use it. Democracy Player is an online television experience that you can share with family and friends. Democracy Player is to television what blogs are to newspapers."
Ben Higginbotham, Director of New Technology, Technology Evangelist, March 16, 2006
"Democracy Player Brings Power to the People ... The system is undeniably slick. One cool feature is the integration with Video Bomb, which means that whenever you click the star icon beside a video, that clip is added to your personal Video Bomb feed. Friends and family can subscribe to the feed, and by simply launching the Miro can see all the video content that you think is worth watching."
Nate Anderson, Ars Technica, February 23, 2006
"Democracy Player debuts; 'TiVo for Web video'... Miro is more than just a video player; it's an entire Internet television platform that also enables users to turn their videos into an Internet TV channel, and provides programmers with open source code offered under the Gnu Public License."
MacWorld, February 22, 2006