World Peace day to launch new free web channel, although only on Joost From Peace One Day founder Jeremy Gilley: I am writing to you from the international film project Peace One Day, which I launched in 1999 to document my efforts to create the first ever annual day of global ceasefire and non-violence with a fixed calendar date. In 2001, Peace One Day achieved its primary objective…

"Humans are migratory beasts and as soon as they figure out that they’ve been locked-in-they’ll rebel." Marc CanterAs Facebook faces a lawsuit from uni-peers of founder Mark Zuckerberg claiming he stole the idea from them, Wired publishes a debate of why Facebook - and other social networks need to be open. With social networks evolving into operating systems for how you…

Imagine having to use a different TV set to watch every TV channel - one for Channel 4, one for Sky, one for Viacom channels. Because every media company wants to control the user interface for online video, that's the current future we're looking at, with Amazons UnBox player for films bought from Amazon, iTunes for films downloaded from Apple, and so on. The only way round it would be…

Vito Rocco's Goodbye Cruel World, produced by the UK arm of Partizan (music video whizzes and creators of The Science of Sleep and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind), has won 60% of the vote in the MyMoviesMashup contest. Rocco will go on to direct his feature Faintheart with a £1m budget and guaranteed distribution. While not strictly an amateur, as MySpace sister paper The Times…

The writers of Peep Show are handing the power back to the fans.. A competition has been created whereby fans are getting the opportunity to write their own scene of a romantic nature... The best entry will be filmed and added to the series 4 DVD and be the ultimate Peep Show fan Prize... Submit your story here I've already started writing.....Catch Up!!

Responding to overwhelming public demand, Apple and EMI announced at an event in London plans to release a number of EMI catalogue titles without the DRM software which dictates what can and cannot been done with  downloaded music. The move has implications for the film industry as producers weigh up how to release their films online.

Doc Searls, one of the authors of Cluetrain, has written an illuminating article on the missing link online between artists and audiences.. "Let's ignore the record companies for a minute. Instead, lets look behind them, back up the supply chain, to the first sources of music: the artists. Part of the system we need is already built for these sources, through Creative Commons. By…

Current TV, the network that pioneered viewer-created-content (VC²), is celebrating its forthcoming UK launch by holding a contest to encourage young people to produce short, non-fictional video pieces (pods) sharing relevant and compelling stories  documenting their world.

A romantic comedy involving a cheating father, a hot tub and a dog has scooped the inaugural Electronic Arts Sims Shorts film competition, and will now be seen by thousands of cinema goers at Vue cinemas this month.