Mountain Lake PBS Productions

Colin Powers reflects on PBS programming for the Adirondacks, Lake Champlain, & Quebec, public broadcasting, and the future of media distribution.

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How I Lost the Big One, Bigtime | Save the Internet

April 16th, 2010 · No Comments · Digital Television, Future of public media, Multi-media

How I Lost the Big One, Bigtime By Marvin Ammori, April 7, 2010 On Tuesday, the D.C. Circuit ruled on an important Internet law case I argued for Free Press on behalf of a range of “supporting intervenors” in the case. I wanted to post a few thoughts about the decision. I’ll begin with how [...]

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Excercising (or was that exorcising?) my old school brain at DIY Days

April 5th, 2010 · No Comments · Documentary, Multi-media, Resources

The Workbook Project, Lance Weiler’s “open source” media collaboration platform pulled off its third outstanding DIY days event in NYC over the weekend. I’ll be posting some great links, thoughts and feedback this week on what I’ve learned, but here’s one for today: a spinoff of the WB project has developed this award-winning 3 minute [...]

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Live from SXSW: Viral video how-tos from the pros

March 26th, 2010 · No Comments · Educational Programming, Filmmaking, Multi-media

clipped from smartblogs.com By Merritt Colaizzi on March 15, 2010 | Comments (19) The most fun — and still useful — panel I’ve attended at SXSW Interactive so far was Saturday’s How to Create a Viral Video. It doesn’t get much better than the three viral experts that Flux creative director Jonathan Wells brought together: [...]

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PBS is getting pretty post-modern!

March 25th, 2010 · No Comments · Documentary, Educational Programming, Multi-media, PBS, PBS Distribution

clipped from mashable.com “Earth Days” PBS Documentary to Premiere on Facebook Feature-length documentary film Earth Days will premiere on Facebook with a live video stream and a chat at 8 p.m. EST on April 11, more than a week before the over-the-air PBS television premiere at 9 p.m. EST on April 19. The film chronicles the [...]

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