This is so meta my brain is starting to dribble out my ears. First crowd-funding documentaries, then crowd-sourcing documentaries, and now making a Twittamentary - a documentary about Twitter, with content sourced through Twitter and filming planned via Twitter. Twittamentary, according to this article in the Guardian, is firmly in the ‘Twitter is a force for good’ camp, although I suspect the ‘force for evil’ camp is populated entirely by about three crotchety old folk who still call it ‘the Twitter’. I’ll plant my flag in the ‘force for good’ camp, and another flag for good measure in the ‘force for serious amounts of time-wasting’ camp. But I digress. To get in the spirit, you can follow the filmmaker at @sioksiok.

The next iteration of the ‘film a day in your life’ projects is almost upon us, with the 11 Eleven Project asking people the world over to hit record in less than two months.

On the 11th of November, 2011, project director Danielle Lauren and her team are encouraging anyone and everyone to pick up a video camera, stills camera, microphone or pen and record a moment in time. The hoped-for output is ambitious - a documentary, a photographic book, a world music collection and an interactive online portal, all in the service of encouraging connections between people across the globe and “an enlightened sense of global awareness, responsibility and recognition.”

It’s almost a shame to call INPUT a conference, giving rise, as the word does, to thoughts of oversized name badges and death by PowerPoint. Best of INPUT, the two-day conference showcasing innovative public television from around the world, is not that sort of conference. It began in usual style with a Skype link up with a German director who juggled coffee, red wine and a cigarette while giving some very direct answers to questions from the audience.

If you’re anything like me and find the complexities of global climate change politics a bit exhausting, watch and be perked up by this short video describing, in precisely 2:16 minutes, exactly what happened at the last Conference of the Parties in Mexico - all explained by hand puppets.

Over a coffee, Julia Overton is waxing lyrical to me about public television: “Australia doesn’t get much in the way of strong public discussion, but with public television you can tease out issues - help people deal with what’s happening to them,” she says.

Crowd TV, the first crowd-sourced documentary that I wrote about in a previous post, is now in full swing. The topic for the documentary has been determined by suggestions from the public and a vote, with the winner being ’Water and Culture’. Discussions have now been flowing on the website around how to approach the topic and also whom to interview.

This looks like a corker of an opportunity for anyone out there wanting to get into the multi-platform arena. Screen Australia has just announced the inaugural Digital Ignition Multi-Platform Clinic, a five-day residential workshop aiming to help production teams develop a multi-platform strategy for an already existing project. The workshop will be run by StoryLabs founder Gary Hayes, who has an extensive CV of multi-platform involvement.

After countless viewing hours by the whole programming team, somehow piles of discs for over 400 films have been whittled down to the final 42, and the Antenna International Documentary Festival is open for business with its inaugural program. We each had our favourites and argued fiercely for them, the result being an eclectic mix of big and small films from around the world.