Public Television Rocks!
Thursday July 14, 2005
You just knew that all those years of calling in to donate to the PBS fundraising telethon were going to pay off one day, didn't you? (By the way, folks, I'm still waiting for my Anne of Green Gables DVD boxed set.) Anyhoo, I just found out via Lawrence Lessig's blog that PBS will be doing the following:
"Beginning Sept. 6, PBS will make available - exclusively over the Internet - broadcast television's first entirely downloadable series, featuring PBS technology columnist and industry insider Robert X. Cringely's interviews with personalities from the ever-changing world of technology.Yippee! How cool is that. In case you don't know, Robert Cringely is a very smart person who really needs to blog more. At least, I think so.This ground-breaking series will be distributed under a Creative Commons license, so if viewers like what they see, they can redistribute the shows or even edit their own non-commercial version," Cindy Johanson, Senior Vice President, PBS Interactive Learning, said."
Related: If you would like to read some interviews right now with "personalities from the ever-changing world of technology", you sure can. Read my interview with Blowsearch.com, or some Q and A with the founder of AlmondNet.com.
Here’s another reason Public Television Rocks! – that’s the name of the new initiative by NY Public Television stations Thirteen/WNET and WLIW21. Their first project is The Police’s last concert ever with The B-52s August 7 at Madison Square Garden in NYC – a benefit concert for the two stations. And now they’re doing an ebay auction with cool concert packages where you can meet the bands & bid on signed instruments. Check out: http://www.publictelevisionrocks.org