Announcing the Channel Channel!
We are very proud to announce a new project: The Channel Channel.
The Channel Channel is an internet TV channel that shows 60-second previews of internet TV channels. So meta, but so crucial.
We made this site because there are now more than 600 channels in the Democracy Channel Guide and hundreds more floating around the internet. It’s hard to know what’s good, what’s great, and what sucks, especially if you haven’t heard of something before. The Channel Channel let’s you watch previews of channels and subscribe to the ones that look good. Since we’re asking creators to keep their previews under 60 seconds, you can’t possibly get bored.
We have an awesome video preview of The Channel Channel, which is our first channel preview. The music is ‘Mountain’ by Professor Murder (buy their cd).
So take a look at our nice new site and then Subscribe to the Channel Channel.
Publishers! Send in your previews and we’ll put them on the site:
How to Submit a Preview of Your Video Channel.
September 12th, 2006 at 8:51 pm
I wonder why your ‘player’ won’t download without adminstrative privileges which I don’t have on the machines I use that have broadband but JUICE will.
Accordingly
http://subscribe.getmiro.com/?url1=http%3A//thechannelchannel.tv/featured.rss
is what we should paste into juice?
I also believe that getting files emailed to me occasionally is sometimes the best way of storing and downloading them in the future. So a mailing list that sent as attachments these 60 second movies as they came in would be great.
Finally although it isn’t exactly in response to todays blog I was wondering if the old vision of the newton or whatever it was called could be realised now with ‘by-usb’ vending hubs at access tv lobbies etc. where we could plug in with very fast jumpdrives to download multi-gig hours of democracy now etc. in ways that it’s ewheel and archive.org make impossible or not yet practical.
I also believe that for the price of dialup we can afford to have many many dvds sent to us in the mail every month. For thirty bucks in fact an annual subscription to twice weekly mailings of that show could be a great deal for everone, which there charging that much for ONE random disk ISN’T.
P.S.
As a child I taped a bunch of twisted pair phone lines harvested from a short dozens of line office pbx conduit together with duct tape and wired my across the block down the alley best friends backhyard with a half duplex speakerphone driven by a amp in a surplus vacuum tube reel to reel tape recorder. Why not encourage more then gamers sharing a room to do the same with there PC’s when it comes to media? We have to slay the myth that it’s intellectual property, not marketshare, that drives ‘play for sure’ efforts. Denon dvd players are hooked up with there amps via proprietary ethernet cables but we end up routing phone calls to our neighbors many miles and everyone in a city has to hit up archive.org for gigs per hour of hundreds of shows or settle for only the last three at streaming quality? What website will allow one to specify the urls for the files one wants downloaded and burned to disc and snail mailed out for twice the cost of doing that in much the same way googlevideo etc. allows them to be toyed with for free? The cost of doing that would seem little more then a few times the cost of pastage if that, if the volume is right at least. Optical media stands to make fiber house to house as obsolete as hydrogen. The blue ray promises to give us lp sized dvd’s in capacity finally more then a decade and a half after it’s announcement as RSN that accompanied the heavy copper bottomed early players. DVD’s cost less then the rest of the TV guide that had a token one with it to print. Almost all the spending on the internet is not for spam but for advertisements. I used to hear about large collections of music being the crack of the piracy trade if mailed out in multidisc sets, but why isn’t the entire mp2 archive, however many terrabytes in hidef that would be if even one, available for the price of an audiobook at retail? The brittanica teased with that prospect but quickly reverted to the ancient networked model itself. Allowing ones interview/performace etc. to be given away should and I think might be the price of appearing on DN. Clicking through the enacient GNU license to unsuccessfully download your player in a iway that begs the question of whether I could even onto a u3 drive makes me question even your ambition. Burner control isn’t even legislated. Enjoy the ability to press freely while we have it. If we don’t use it no one will care when it’s further criminalised.