Saturday, March 15, 2008

looking for ideas to blog about?


wpvm shadows
Originally uploaded by zen
We just had a wonderful 2nd meeting of Asheville Community Media and there will be interesting things to post, but for now, we'd like to promote a little cross-posting.

Who reads blogs? Mostly bloggers. Who watches URTV? Mostly TV gear heads. We'd like to get some crossover, some swapped thinking to get people looking at the wider range of Asheville media. If you blog and there's a WPVM radio show you've heard that interests you, blog about it. If you have a URTV show that deals with local ideas, promote a blog that you read or give some support to a WPVM radio broadcast. The idea has always been to keep Ashevillians informed of the local goings on, and we are blessed with many forms of media. Many locals read the Mountain Xpress and the AC-T and feel informed or entertained. But the idea here is to cross-pollinate between print and net and sound and vision to form a more complete community. One in which YOU have some input.

These are only suggestions, but try listening or watching another of Asheville's citizen-media, then blog about it, write about it, broadcast about it. The growth of our own grass roots media will thank you for it!

6 comments:

Edgy Mama said...

Love the idea, but I don't have TV and can't pick up WPVM out here in North Asheville.

zen said...

Well, you already promote local Asheville Media, maybe just throw a link in to others who do listen and watch? :)

skippy haha said...

edgy mama, you can stream WPVM online, it comes right through your speakers, anywhere in the world! hit the 'listen live' buttons in the top left.

zen said...

Oh yeah, thanks Skippy! and many URTV shows are available (not Utube) and i'll find the address...

Edgy Mama said...

Hurrah! I should've known!

zen said...

Edgy, apparently URTV is poised to begin putting their vids up on their own server, but haven't yet. It is currently a bit of a patchwork of those that put them up on various sites, BUT their forum is a place where they display the ones they have put up:

http://urtvforums.org/index.php/board,12.0.html

if this doesn't go directly to it, once you hit the link, select VIDEO SHOWCASE and then WATCH VIDEOS.