MORE new (Low cost) ways to spread the word about Election Fraud/Reform

[tommcintyre]

<Inspired by Kip Humphrey's original thread:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x363728

I heard an NPR show (On The Media - link (and listen) below) a couple weeks back that said commercial TV is on the brink of failure (Yea!). It said it could no longer deliver the "bang for the buck" for advertisers, so they are deserting with their advertising dollars.

Then the program went on to explain that the Internet media would most likely take it's place (Yea again!). They then went on to explain how "vlogs" (video logs) were the wave of the future, and how eventually networks could not compete with the low cost personalization aspects of this emerging media.

The week before there was a similar segment on "podcasting" on NPR. People are able to easily (very low cost) make their own audio broadcasts, and some are building wide distribution. (Could this be commercial radio's eventual replacement (I hope so.)?

It seems that, whenever in history, power becomes too concentrated (as it is now); something comes along to break it up and create a new and better paradigm. The Internet is proving to be just that. It is naturally decentralizing power and returning it to the people. That's EXACTLY where it belongs.

http://www.onthemedia.org/

The Chaos Scenario
Network television was built around the 30-second ad spot. But that model is no longer working. Audiences are shrinking, ads are being skipped, and marketers are beginning to worry. And the New Media Order is fast approaching, with innovations like podcasting, videologs, and video-on-demand. Will the new media revolution be a violent and destructive one? What happens if the old advertising model collapses before the brave new world is fully prepared? Bob Garfield's answer: Chaos.
http://www.onthemedia.org/otm040805.html

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Some other interesting past shows:

Progressive Tense
On March 31st, 2004, with Democratic drumbeater Al Franken behind the microphone, the openly abrasive, unabashedly liberal Air America Radio was born. Advertised as an antidote to just about everything else on the dial, the network's inaugural year was one of turbulent staff shakeups and near economic collapse - all captured intimately on hundreds of hours of tape and distilled into the new HBO documentary Left of the Dial. Filmmaker Patrick Farrelly tells Brooke how Air America survived, and CEO Danny Goldberg talks about its future.
OTM's Previous Coverage of Liberal Talk Radio
--January 10, 2003
--April 2, 2004
--October 1, 2004
http://www.onthemedia.org/otm032505.html


In the Heartland, Someone Left to Talk to
Lest you thought Air America had a monopoly on liberal talk radio, tune in sometime to The Ed Schultz Show and you'll hear a self-described meat-eatin', gun-totin' pull-no-punches progressive, broadcasting from Middle America. Schultz is a former conservative who, after a change of heart, began preaching his own brand of political gospel in North Dakota. If you're not paying close attention, he sounds a lot like another radio talk-show host. Big Eddie tells Brooke what makes good radio and why Democrats need to get in the game.
http://www.onthemedia.org/otm032505.html


Bad News
In the aftermath of 9/11, many speculated that American news organizations would finally tear off their blinders and dedicate themselves to quality foreign reporting. But the media's newfound interest in the outside world was short-lived, and network news quickly returned to its race-to-the-bottom. That's the assessment of Tom Fenton, veteran CBS newsman and author of the new book "Bad News: The Decline of Reporting, the Business of News, and the Danger to Us All." Fenton speaks with Brooke.
http://www.onthemedia.org/otm030405.html

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<This MAY be the podcasting show I heard:>

'PodCasting' to Music, Talk Fans Online

Listen to this story... by Robert Smith

Day to Day, February 1, 2005 · NPR's Robert Smith reports on the rise of "podcasts" -- amateur music and talk shows created by the users of Apple's popular iPod personal music devices and other digital music players. Whole "shows" of music and talk can be downloaded from the Internet to individual players automatically, and some of the show hosts have become celebrities among the burgeoning podcast audience.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4473787

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Some more info on podcasting:

Trend in web audio
has pubcasters buzzing
Jacking in to podcasts
http://www.current.org/tech/tech0502podcast.shtml

'Podcasting' lets masses do radio shows
AP introduces readers to Craig, who podcasts a show from his computer in Carlsbad, Calif., at a cost of next to nothing.
http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2005/02/06/podcasting_lets_masses_do_radio_shows/

<Lots of podcasting links here:>
Podcasting by
public broadcasters
http://www.current.org/podcasts/

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Finally, a more general (but very much related) link from Reclaim the Media:

Could new technologies bring renaissance for radio journalism?
http://www.reclaimthemedia.org/print.php?story=04/10/16/8515739
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EDITS:

<Another interesting general article:>
Blog, Vlog, Podcast, Mobcast
(via Emmy Advanced Media - Television Business News)

So many new words, so little time. Blog (web log), Vlog (video web log), Podcasting (including audio in your RSS (really simple syndication) feed for download into an Apple iPod or other MP3 player) and Mobcasting (mobile podcasting) an Andy Carvin acronym which posits the use of smart phones to create podcasts -- are all relatively new words that represent one extremely big idea -- unfettered plebeian access to the fifth estate.

Until a few years ago, governments (secular or non) had almost complete control of information. That made (and continues to make) information a form of currency -- like the military and other stores of economic value. These "new words" are much more powerful than the technologies they represent, they speak a new language of information and, to be sure, currency.
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<More on Vloging:>
http://www.webreference.com/new/030306.html
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http://vidblogs.com/cgi-bin/public.pl?blogger=OlSpazzy&blog=1
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Learn Video Blogging Online
Gabe McIntyre teaches vlogging to film students at the Utrecht college of arts.

Now he teaches you how to videoblog online.

You'll learn:
1. What is Vlogging?
2. Editing Technique
3. Helpful Websites with helpful how-to's on how to set up vlogging and media aggregators.
4. Additional information including, how to set up blogger, how to add a photo still, free templates, videoblogging how-to's.
5. HTML Basics
6. Streaming & Downloading video on the internet
http://www.unmediated.org/archives/2005/04/learn_video_blo.php

[The Doctor.]

1. Is there a 'Mobile Net News' company yet?

There will be.

[Wiley50]

2. Anyone for DU TV?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x363728

[glitch]

3. Finally! The tech breakthrough to make distributed media accessible

to regular folks. Tried and tried to get friends and family into mp3s and mpgs. The ipods and the fancy smart phones are finally making that bridge.

:bounce: