Archive for May, 2007

More on the Folksonomy of PEG access TV

Following up on my previous post, I decided to carry the RSS feed (see wikipedia) for the del.icio.us tag “pegtv” here on the right sidebar of this blog.
When I noticed that other people were beginning to tag their del.icio.us bookmarks with “pegtv”, I thought it would be much more interesting to share what other people [...]

How-To-Tag PEG Access TV?

As I was searching for examples of access centers using blogs, podcasts, and other participatory web tools, I stumbled upon a great conversation happening around issues of folksonomy and PEG access TV. I first found WCCA TV’s Tech Blog post titled “PEG, tags and RSS“. In it, Felicia Sullivan poses a question about how access [...]

Felicia M. Sullivan on “YouTube = Public Access TV?”

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Back in March, I spoke with Felicia M. Sullivan, Executive Director of Organizers’ Collaborative and former Director of Community Programming at Lowell Telecommunications Corporation about a number of issues related to PEG access TV and the Internet.
This short video features an excerpt from our conversation with Felicia’s response [...]

Proposed List of Topics and Themes

We’re still in the very early stages of this project, but here are some of the main themes that I see developing at this point (in no particular order and completely subject to change).
This list (in the picture above) is on the wiki titled “Proposal” where you can add your ideas to this collaborative graduate [...]

More on Local Preservation and PEG access TV

I’m curious to know if any PEG access centers have worked with their town’s historical centers (or other local organizations) to archive their cable access content? The conversation about digital libraries in the future and metadata (particularly with regards to local community media content) is fascinating and important.
The IS2K7 conference sponsored by the Berkman Center [...]

Project Acknowledgement and Statement of Purpose

I only know as much about public, educational, and goverment access TV as the experiences I’ve had spending time around PEG access TV centers and meeting people working in community media over the past three years.
This project is indebted to all those who have worked (both paid and unpaid) as advocates for and participants in [...]

Archiving Local Stories through PEG access TV

With regards to archiving local community stories in PEG access TV, Jason’s comments made me think about the short video I shot on my digital camera of Jay Dedman’s presentation from the ACMBoston 2006 conference in Boston. Here’s the clip from blip.tv:

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From the blip.tv description:
“A video excerpt of Jay Dedman, Node [...]

Public Access as Collective Ethnography

The following post (and blog title = email subject header) is from Jason Daniels who gave me permission to share an email correspondence here on this blog. I think it’s very relevant to the issue of archiving of Public Access TV content to preserve a part of the history of local communities and its [...]

Production Value, Public Access TV and the Internet

It struck me as I was speaking with Mara Altman at the Village Voice last week how much image and production quality matter less in a participatory media culture. We talked about this a bit. It leads me to the question of whether or not PEG access productions on the Internet have the opportunity to [...]