tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11122839.post116076388590701733..comments2024-01-17T14:05:32.091+00:00Comments on Do Your Worst: Mainstream: it'll never happen.Damonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04921295141019123629noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11122839.post-1161001110808091082006-10-16T12:18:00.000+00:002006-10-16T12:18:00.000+00:00I think you're right, Damon. Very interesting. M...I think you're right, Damon. Very interesting. More blogs like this please. I have rambled too, dammit, only logged on for five minutes in my break! (deleted first reply cos of rambly spelling mistakes...)<BR/><BR/>Look at the response to the Ouch! podcast - the signatures on the petition. It's international. And the <I>variety</I> of people who signed! Youtube already has its own stars. (I always knew Waynes World was prophetic). <BR/><BR/>There's always muck in with the brass - but ever since it was ITV versus the BBC that's been said, hasn't it? Now theres more choice - but like you say, more ways to filter, to point to the good stuff. We are more savvy and quicker to catch on and the technology changes even more quickly.<BR/><BR/>Skill in entertainent is still a valuable commodity and I don't think that will diminish on the new platforms. I think we will see new styles and issues previously suppressed through 'management decisions', grow from new ways of communicating. Now that upper level of approval can be bypassed so the audience ultimately decides. <BR/><BR/>I'm very excited about the potential of content for artists... it's a good time to be working in a minority (or elite as I like to say) area. <BR/><BR/>Yes. All hail the disability culture revolution. I just completed a project where one of the finished pieces (from a disabled person) says "We're the next generation of super-heroes"... Hahaha. Oh yes we are.Agent Fanghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17283954005767631627noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11122839.post-1161000988697305982006-10-16T12:16:00.000+00:002006-10-16T12:16:00.000+00:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Agent Fanghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17283954005767631627noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11122839.post-1160831024809991132006-10-14T13:03:00.000+00:002006-10-14T13:03:00.000+00:00"Part of the problem of Public Access TV, and the ..."Part of the problem of Public Access TV, and the internet in general, is that it is too difficult to find the good stuff in amongst the crap. And there is a wealth of crap."<BR/><BR/>You said it. Trying to find information for a client on informed consent for surgery, I typed Informed Consent into Google and the first three hits wwere to BDSM* sites....and I would hate to tell you where I nearly ended up when I tried to get information on anal surgical procedures!<BR/>*I had to look it up, tooAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11122839.post-1160818113267732142006-10-14T09:28:00.000+00:002006-10-14T09:28:00.000+00:00Oh and also ... part of the point is that making T...Oh and also ... part of the point is that making TV is now much easier and cheaper than ever before. Broadcasting yourself is also much cheaper and easier. Previously disabled people wouldn't have been able to do this. Now that they can, it'll be possible to point at well-made programmes. The Mainstream broadcasters cannot envisage or even guess at what 'good disability tv' might be. They need to see it. Because it's now much cheaper and accessible to make and share it, they'll be able to see it and nick ideas, attitudinal change, etc. <BR/><BR/>'Public access' is a different model on linear 24-hour TV channels. With Video on Demand, many programmes won't even be accidentally hit upon, they'll get zero viewers. So the key is with the networking, the publicity and the number of viewers. Viewrs breed viewers. <BR/><BR/>But there will be many ways of choosing, including using decent keywords to tap in what you're after. <BR/><BR/>I think it's all change! TV as we know it will die. <BR/><BR/>Or maybe TV will stay as it is? Nawwww. <BR/><BR/>These are my thoughts, some of them, and I commit them to you. <BR/><BR/>It's interesting though, no?Damonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04921295141019123629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11122839.post-1160815315130257582006-10-14T08:41:00.000+00:002006-10-14T08:41:00.000+00:00But the difference here is the social networking a...But the difference here is the social networking aspect. It's being referred to as 'collaborative broadcasting'.<BR/><BR/>Part of the problem of Public Access TV, and the internet in general, is that it is too difficult to find the good stuff in amongst the crap. And there is a wealth of crap.<BR/><BR/>Collaborative Broadcasting is where you rely on other people to find the good stuff. Other people vote on it, basically, or add it to a 'Favourites' list. You can then tap into like-minded networks of people to find the good stuff. <BR/><BR/>If you type in 'Lost' for instance, if you're a Lost fan, then it'll create you a Favourites list based on what other Lost fans are also watching. Tap in 'Lost' 'Six Feet Under' 'Question Time' and 'Buffy' and you will get an even more honed Favourites list. <BR/><BR/>On the web, this is what they're calling Web 2.0 ... or similar such schemes. <BR/><BR/>Navigating your way through the rubbish is a potential nightmare. Logon to a disability network' (where the network is other people, not the broadcasting company) and you'll find your content.Damonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04921295141019123629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11122839.post-1160812046937818032006-10-14T07:47:00.000+00:002006-10-14T07:47:00.000+00:00Damon, if we are going down the same track as Publ...Damon, if we are going down the same track as Public Access TV in the States, God help us.<BR/><BR/>I forsee millions of people making programmes in their kitchens or garden sheds, each which will be watched by about 5 other people; that's the ultimate in niche broadcasting.<BR/><BR/>That is, if it takes off at all...whatever happened to Citizens Band Radio? That was so big in the States but a non-starter here.<BR/><BR/>Now in the US, people can broadcast pretty much what they want as they are covered by the First (I think) Amendment, which insists on freedom of speech. That is emphatically not the case in this country.<BR/><BR/>Look at how the Powers That Be leaped to block Canal when it was found that UK residents could access its porn broadcasts; and no, I don't have either cable or satellite!<BR/><BR/>I forsee one roiling mess. Our Govt really, really <I>hates</I> the idea of a broadcasting system it can't control, or hadn't the BBC noticed?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com