Archive for June, 2007
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 feeds. [...]
Connecting F/OSS and PEG Access TV
In the Spring Issue of Community Media Review, Felicia Sullivan writes
“These concepts of freedom, transparency, accessibility, creativity, inclusion and community should sound familiar to those of us working in community media. They are the foundations of much of the work in which we are engaged. Therefore, we owe it to ourselves and to our communities [...]
Community Media 2.0 and The Mission of Public Access TV
“Community Media 2.0” on Flickr
There’s so many excellent articles in the Spring Issue of Community Media Review, it’s difficult to know where to begin. For my thesis, the mission of public access TV is the most important part of the project in exploring the present and future of public access media.
But, what does public [...]
Community Media Center 2.0 and Why Creative Commons Matters
The image above is (two pages pieced together) from the Spring 2007 Issue of the Community Media Review. Because this image is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial Share Alike 3.0 license, I can post it here on this blog. I can do that because I am giving the image attribution, I’m using it [...]
Community Media 2.0
The Spring Issue (Volume 30, Number 1) of Community Media Review is online. The title is “Community Media 2.0” (Download PDF). I’m really looking forward to reading it. Here’s the blurb from the website:
“The ground is shifting beneath us. We are entering a new communications era, an era dubbed by some as ‘web 2.0.’ More [...]
Why RSS Matters for PEG Access TV
Just a quick word on why RSS (Really Simple Syndication) really matters for PEG access TV centers that are posting (or thinking about posting) their video online.
RSS feeds allow Internet video players (like Democracy) to subscribe to and deliver an access centers’ video to viewers on-demand. This is important because it provides a fairly easy [...]
Video, Education, Open Content and PEG Access TV
On May 22 & 23, I was fortunate to have had the opportunity to attend a conference at Columbia University, titled “Video, Education, and Open Content: Best Practices“. While much of the content was focused around innovative uses of online video technologies in university and public broadcasting environments, there was a hugely missed opportunity to [...]
