Community Media 2.0 Toolkit #1

A big part of my thesis project includes researching how community media (PEG access TV) centers are educating their producers, or vice versa, about how to use new media tools for Internet publishing and distribution (using blogs, podcasts, wikis, etc.). So as we go along here I will be pulling together (aggregating) a list of [...]

Almost Urban on YouTube and Public Access TV

Over at Austin360.com, the “Entertainment” side of the online Austin-American Statesman in TX, there’s a post titled “Lonelygirl15, Public Access TV and the YouTube revolution” on the Almost Urban blog. It was written by Deborah Sengupta back in March during the annual SXSW festival, where the LonelyGirl15 producers made a panel appearance. In her post, [...]

Working on a New Blog Header Design

It would be nice to have a better looking header image for this blog. The image above is something I threw together over the weekend. If anyone would like to contribute design ideas for this site, you can email them to colin (AT) cmediachange (DOT) net. The dimensions across the top are 780×150.

PEGTV Aggregator Wiki

Jason Daniels set up a wiki as a place for Public Access TV stations to add their RSS feeds. See an earlier post on why this matters. Here’s the blurb from the wiki: “Welcome. This space has been created to help folks working in PEG TV and related community media ventures to contribute their RSS [...]