Semi-Celebrityness & the New Model for Media
I don’t watch TV in the traditional sense anymore. I canceled my cable subscription a few months ago to save money and I watched too much of it. Even if I knew there was not anything on that interested me, I would still sit and just channel surf.
Currently I have rabbit ears on my TV but I don’t watch broadcast TV that much. I think the writer’s strike had a lot to do with that. All the shows I had been following stopped producing new episodes. The strike is over but we are in a lull waiting for new episodes. So in the interim, I have been consuming new video podcasts. Some are produced by media companies and some are produced by a couple guys with a set in their apartment. There are thousands of audio podcasts but the cost for professionally produced video podcasts is more prohibitive. Many of the shows I watch are produced by Revision3. They are a new media company producing content and distributing it over the web. It seems like they are launching a new show every couple of weeks. I download the podcasts to an old computer connected to my TV and then I kick back and watch the shows.
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Podcasts to check out
So I have to make a couple shameless plugs. First is Fielder Road podcasts. Partly because I helped get them set up distributing the content they already had as a podcast. Second is Faith Factor Radio . This is a site run by my church, Travis Avenue. They are projecting to begin offering podcasts in the next couple of months. There are mp3 downloads available of the last few months of sermons.
Update – 1/27/2010: I left Fielder Road in Feb 2009 and we were in the process of moving from WordPress to DotNetNuke. Apparently they didn’t port the RSS functionality to DotNetNuke.
