PEG, tags, and RSS
Submitted by wccatv on February 28, 2007 - 4:57pm.
Public access TV stations should find more ways to work together. We all agree on that.
Felicia Sullivan:
I wonder if we in the community media world could start using a mutually agreed upon tag for the work we do in the socially networked world. It would help to pull together the growing number of us using these tools.
Mauro DePasquale:
I would like to see each public access channel dedicate a web page that includes links to other public access channels. . . . We could all set up a standard looking page that would contain links to video streams and video players that exist on respective public access sites. Each link would appear in a box with your public access center's logo or an image.
Anonymous:
Let's agree on a common "tag" or "taxonomy" that would pull all of our RSS feeds in one comprehensive whole that could be replicated across all of our centers. Thi s would certainly ease the distribution of content scattered across the web. So what tag should we come up with?
What information are we trying to share? Are a critical mass of access stations using Flickr, delicious, etc? Can you point to other communities that are using RSS to help organize themselves?
WCCA has a Flickr page, and some of the techies here use delicious, but these tools are not in common use. Our website is chock full of RSS feeds, and we have a feed combining our RSS with some of the other local feeds:
http://www.wccatv.com/aggregator/rss/2
I like the idea of using both tags and RSS to communicate, but I don't have a clear idea of what we would end up with.
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More about tags
I have been involved with Pubic Access for twenty years. Here what I see it as:
Public Access TV, P.E.G , community access, community media center, free speech television, participatory media, democratic media, independent media, educational TV, information TV, community media clearinghouse.
WCCA TV has used the following tags as bylines: “The People’s Channel” and “Your Vision Television”
Today it seems the Internet seems to get a lot of attention. The Public Access community has been doing it all for decades, and not for a profit or personal gain. Public Access really is a clearinghouse to access all community media.
I am happy to see some sort of standardization in the movement.
The purpose of tags isn't what you can think of...
Tagging is a method to uniquely identify data on the web. In this way we think of the web as a giant "Database" and a tag is a way to identify data inside this "database".
Flickr uses tags to relate pictures from various people to a single topic (tag)
De.licio.us uses tags to relate links from various people to a single topic (tag)
that's how we use them currently. The idea of tagging, however, is for those things that you can't think of. For example Yahoo Pipes! ooohh how I love thee.
Yahoo Pipes allow you to combine two or more RSS feeds (a mashup of RSS) to correlate data within this giant "database" (i.e. the Internet).
For example I could take an RSS feed from wccatv and combine it with a feed from flicker matching on the tags and find all pictures related to your blog entries. awesome!
Or... in the case of Peg I could do something like.
RSS feed from CNN on topic X (again, the topic is a tag) mash this with a google RSS with tags on the same topic and the tag "pegtv". Immediately I could see Pegtv's reaction to the same news that CNN reported on.
ok better example.
tag:iraqwar
tag:pegtv
Mash together CNN news Feed, blip and youtube.
Now I can see CNN's coverage of the News combined with PEGs coverage.
aaahh.. now the power of tags is revealed. If you want more local coverage you simply add on to it.
tags: iraqwar + pegtv + wccatv = local peg access of iraqwar as mashed together through CNN...
Remember: tagging is not for the access center to use but the PRODUCERS to use when they are posting content out in that vast database (i.e. the internet)
check out the pipes
http://pipes.yahoo.com/
Of course the question is what will be invented next? Leave it to the internet peeps, they're all geniuses.
Tags on Archive.org
One place WCCA should be using a PEG tag is when posting stuff to archive.org.
Our individual producers are not making much use of blip, youtube, flickr, etc that I know of . . . .
Understanding a community tag -
Here is something from the nonprofit tech community which may be of use:
"When the nptech tag started one of the ideas was to gather enough data to look and see what words people were using to describe, say, open source (open source, floss, foss, open source software) and then use those words to inform a taxonomy. It’s a taken a long time but I bet there’s enough data in the nptech tag on a combination of bookmarking systems to do a little crunching and get at some of those commonly used terms. Sort of an emergent taxonomy… Marnie Webb, nptech proto-tagger
read more -
http://www.unthinkingly.com/2007/01/10/understanding-a-community-tag-the-history-of-nptech/
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