The Eagle Has Landed...
After an exciting flight from Kansas City, complete with turbulence and a small child staring at me from over the top of his seat for more than two straight hours, I made it to Boston.
This will mark the fourth Alliance conference I've attended in the past five years, and perhaps the most important of them all.
It was in Houston that a group of young adults from the Manhattan Neighborhood Networks put together a presentation on emerging technologies and their impact on telecommunications - especially television production.
In the years which have past, a great number of their predictions have come to pass into reality. Tapeless production workflows are now not only possible, but being implemented on a fairly wide scale. The internet has grown into a conglomeration of media networks, information services, and personal expressions of speech that very few people stood to imagine just a handful of years ago.
I'm excited at the offerings being presented at this year's conference. There are a number of educators, government-access programmers, and cutting-edge media manipulators in attendance. From the few conversations I've had, and overheard, so far today...there is a widespread anticipation (and in some instances, dread...) at how public access centers will have to grow in order to stay relevant with the changing times.
I expect to meet a number of new people at tonight's opening ceremonies, and I look forward to learning more about how they're dealing with changes in today's media landscape.
After an exciting flight from Kansas City, complete with turbulence and a small child staring at me from over the top of his seat for more than two straight hours, I made it to Boston.
This will mark the fourth Alliance conference I've attended in the past five years, and perhaps the most important of them all.
It was in Houston that a group of young adults from the Manhattan Neighborhood Networks put together a presentation on emerging technologies and their impact on telecommunications - especially television production.
In the years which have past, a great number of their predictions have come to pass into reality. Tapeless production workflows are now not only possible, but being implemented on a fairly wide scale. The internet has grown into a conglomeration of media networks, information services, and personal expressions of speech that very few people stood to imagine just a handful of years ago.
I'm excited at the offerings being presented at this year's conference. There are a number of educators, government-access programmers, and cutting-edge media manipulators in attendance. From the few conversations I've had, and overheard, so far today...there is a widespread anticipation (and in some instances, dread...) at how public access centers will have to grow in order to stay relevant with the changing times.
I expect to meet a number of new people at tonight's opening ceremonies, and I look forward to learning more about how they're dealing with changes in today's media landscape.
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