[videoblogging] Why videoblogging continues to grow in importance

[Jay dedman]

Public Access TV is not the favorite channel for Americans.
But in many communities, it is the only TV channel that actually shows
people like them talking...and expresses their opinions and ideas.
As many of you know, I worked at a public access TV in Manhattan until recently.
I brought many of the philophies I learned at this community TV
station to videoblogging.
Get everyone involved in the conversation.

These community TV stations are funded by a franchise agreement with
the Cable companies who are given a private monopoly to run the cable
system in a given city.
All they must do is give back some channel space and a small amount of
funding to allow the people to put on their own programming. Its
literally pennies comapred to their multi-million dollar yearly
porfits.

Unfortunately, this system will probably soon end.
http://tinyurl.com/qm48m

In my mind, this makes Videoblogging even more important.and each
of our efforts to spread the knowledge of how to get involved. Strange
days.

Jay




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Re: [videoblogging] Why videoblogging continues to grow in importance

[wlight]

 Public Access TV is not the favorite channel for Americans.
 But in many communities, it is the only TV channel that actually shows
 people like them talking...and expresses their opinions and ideas.
 As many of you know, I worked at a public access TV in Manhattan until 
recently.
 I brought many of the philophies I learned at this community TV
 station to videoblogging.
 Get everyone involved in the conversation.

Interesting that you bring this up at this time. I got my taste for video 
production working as a producer for a community access TV show called Sex 
Life Live (http://www.sexlifelive.org). In some ways, my vlog is an 
attempt at staying in a medium and hobby I've grown to enjoy working with.

On top of that, though, is that my local NPR radio station is doing a 
membership drive, and I had a long, hard talk with myself about why I 
didn't feel the need to donate to NPR even though I do listen to NPR for 
something like 30-60 minutes every day while I'm in my car. The reason, 
ultimately, came down to two things:

(1) NPR might serve the public interest, but only by serving a majority of 
the public at the expense of certain groups. My choices in lifestyle 
cause me to fall into several of those groups, and so I feel unrepresented 
by NPR. If NPR went away, my car's radio would play podcasts like 
Polyamory Weekly and Thelema Coast to Coast, which are produced by, and 
for, people more like me than NPR.

(2) It's public radio, but AFAIK, it's the copyright of NPR. If I pay 
membership donations to NPR, and it's really serving the public interest, 
then I would think the public should be able to reuse and rebroadcast that 
material as it wishes. By comparison, while podcasts and vlogs sare still 
copyrighted, there's a culture of sharing and distribution that just isn't 
there otherwise.

Sans the digital divide, I'm starting to think podcasting and vlogging are 
poised to serve public interests at the expense of things like public 
access TV, NPR, and PBS.

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Rhett.

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