As you may know from reading things in this space over the past few months, i'm pretty convinced that media production is going to move to a collaberative model. And so we've been mining our years of documentary and film experience to start to build media tools that make peer production easy. Our lastest is LogXchange - and it's free.

Why Free? The thing about logging is it's a thankless job. If you've ever made a documentary, a tv program, or non-fiction project, you know that. But shared effort - and teamwork make it easier. And the web makes that possible. We call it Peer Production.

At the heart of any team is shared information. And as fellow filmmakers, we've struggled with excel spread sheets, table layouts in Microsoft Word, and even a few filmmaker home-brew databases.

But what we figured out is that logging needs to be simple, team oriented, and free. You should be able to have multiple loggers working from anywhere in the world. Field teams should be able to add quick field loggs from a hotel room. And producers and editors should be able to search, print, and share information across a project and around the world. So LogXchange is built as a shareable free solution, now and always.

Logs are secure, private, and can't be seen by anyone you don't give permission to.

And you can back up your data by downloading the information in a text file anytime you want. We want this to be a tool that any filmmker can use - and one that encourages peer production in film.

In the future, we plan to add other features including centralized video upload, filmmaker clip research, and marketplace features to help you find a shooter, an editor, a composer, or an animator. (EditXchange is live now - others coming on line shortly).

So logging is a great application for us share - and if you like it, feel free to share ideas for new features and peer solutions that you think would help advance the emerging peer production community.

I'd love feedback, ideas, and suggestions.