07
Jun
Recent Encounters and Sites to Survey
A Web log like this permits short rants, quick comments, and the sharing of media resouces worth resourcing. I seem to spend my days and nights flying between events, conferences and, happily, meeting colleagues worth meeting.
And If that was all I did. It would be enough. Dayenu.
But there is much more.
Like these encounters this week:
l. With Pedro Miquel, the director of of the ciberoamerica site in Mexico City. It is emrging as these place for news and perspectives in Spanish from all over the Americas. The site is coherent, content rich, clean and colorful with a dash of flash. The place to connect with America Latina. We chatted about the possibilities of creating a Mediachanel in espanol. Pedro says his team could do it. Fantastico.
Visit www.ciberoamerica.com
2. Also from South of our border, I met Deborah Latham and Gilbert Carmichael of Radio for Peace International, a fesity shortwave station that promotes global community radio as a voice of peace and a champion of human rights. The station is on the air every day from its facility on the campus of the University for Peace in San Jose, Costa Rica reaching 120 countries. They point out that millions of people in the developing world only listen to shortwave. For frequencies and program info-and to hear streaming audio, “tune in” to http://www.rfpi.org
RFPI also carries the excellent newscasts on war/peace issues broadcast by Kevin Sanders for the War and Peace Foundation. Its called Earthspan and is streamed on the web at www.warpeace.org.
2. A panel discussion on the relationship between entertainment television and government, a joint panel discussion sponsored by the Writer’s Guild of America-East and The Council for Excellence in Government. The Council just released a new study showing “changing images of government in TV entertainment,” You can read it online at www.excelgov.org. Attention WEST WING TV FANS: This study is partially about the show’s POSITIVE impact on how government is now portrayed.
3. Patrick Phillips wrote to urge that we pass on information about a most useful media news site and resource–and a mediachannel affiliate. He’s right. You should use it. I do: www.iwantmedia.com
More to Come.
June 7, 2001
