More than that though, I’m trying to think of models to suggest to staff who don’t have the expertise to run systems themselves. Even I’m not all that keen on setting up my own video streaming service; someone new to technology will just put it in the too-hard basket.

I want to spend some more time looking into services like Blip.TV and Vimeo – both of which I’ve used in the past but haven’t read the fine-print in their TOS and Privacy policies.

Ultimately though the worry with any free-to-use service (or even paid-for services) is that they’ll do a massive about fact and betray user trust in the way that Google has done.

The potential damage of that in an already skeptical faculty will be really hard to undo. If we can’t trust a company that swears to “Do no evil,” who can we trust? It’s a hard argument to counter, and I’m not sure I even can at this point