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, Sengupta adds that Public Access TV in Austin (PACT) is a great educational resource for the public to use in learning how to make media for distribution on the Internet:

“. . . PACT Austin offers a very reasonably priced TV producer training program. For less than $200, you can learn everything from how to operate a camera to how to edit your work in Final Cut Pro. Not just for conspiracy theorists, it’s actually a great resource for musicians, artists and garden variety soapbox philosophers with a desire to learn how to broadcast. And perhaps, to join the YouTube revolution.”

It’s great to see people in the “blogosphere” making connections about why Public Access TV is important and relevant in an “Age of YouTube”. It’s even more important for community media centers to educate their producers about RSS, tagging and metadata (along with video production training) in order for PEG access TV content to be found, watched and shared alongside the LonelyGirl15’s of the YouTube world.