I don't really follow economic news beyond what I learn from Connor on #NETV but uhhh
What the hell is going on with the silver market?
Andrew (Television Executive)
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If you're seeing my #publicDomain work, or seeing #NETV #NewEllijayTelevision for the first time, or even if you're already familiar with what we do and the ideas behind #communityMedia let me take this moment to make a small pitch:
New Ellijay Television needs advertisers to keep it going. Let me advertise your art project, indie website, small business, album, or other thing.
We'll stick you up on the Sponsor section of NewEllijay.News and run your 30 second spot at least 4x a day on our live stream and our cable network.
If you're not making much/any money on the thing you make, but you just want to get the word out, I'll run the ad for free.
If you're making money on the thing, and you want to get the word out to make more money, our packages for fedifolks start at $50/month.
Let's talk.
Allright! Now for the intermission.
If you can't decide which of these you'd like to watch, you can catch a rotating assortment of them on the current New Ellijay Television livestream.
We're about halfway through "Murder!" right now.
If you're seeing my #publicDomain work, or seeing #NETV #NewEllijayTelevision for the first time, or even if you're already familiar with what we do and the ideas behind #communityMedia let me take this moment to make a small pitch:
New Ellijay Television needs advertisers to keep it going. Let me advertise your art project, indie website, small business, album, or other thing.
We'll stick you up on the Sponsor section of NewEllijay.News and run your 30 second spot at least 4x a day on our live stream and our cable network.
If you're not making much/any money on the thing you make, but you just want to get the word out, I'll run the ad for free.
If you're making money on the thing, and you want to get the word out to make more money, our packages for fedifolks start at $50/month.
Let's talk.
I'm getting ready to publish the second chapter of the excellent CC-BY-SA "There is no Antimemetics Division" series I found on youtube to #netv
When it's done it will live here: https://vod.newellijay.tv/w/p/2z7ZxKWko9MgdeyuaVcehf
I have to decide if I'm going to do it with a decent modern camera, and control it all in software or if I'm going to use video cameras from the 70s and 80s and a vintage video mixer.
I think I'm going with tube cameras.
Way before I started #NETV, in the very early days of peertube, before COVID, before I was running a coffee shop in the mountains, when I thought I'd be an engineering manager in #BigTech for the rest of my life, I was planning to stream and do videos about computers and video games in the style of Cathode Ray Dude or LGR.
I turned a portion of our living room into a video studio. I bought some vintage computers, and set up an absolutely Bangin' windows 98 box.
I got some video cameras from the 70s and 80s and built a rig so that I could capture and mix footage from my PCs and these 70s and 80s cameras.
I had it all pretty much ready to go just before Christmas 2019, I was just waiting on some parts to arrive from China for a PC build that would serve as my primary streaming rig.
I registered a twitch account, I did a couple of test streams to an audience of one or two to find my feet. I was getting ready to turn making media into my Whole Thing.
And then it was Feb of 2020, and I caught COVID at SFO before anyone even knew it was in the country, and didn't get out of bed for a month.
And, without vigilance, the slop is likely to escape containment, to go unidentified, to bury the signal in more noise than it could ever hope to escape.
So boost the signal when you find it, and help to quiet the noise.
To that end, I think I'm actually going to try and start the short, infrequent, "I found this cool thing and I want to tell people about it" video series.
It'll probably become a television program for #NETV. every time I've got five or six of them, but mostly it'll be me sharing neat stuff that I found and some info about the folks that made it.
So I'm proposing a New Community Broadcasting Syndicate (New CBS), or less cheekily a Community Media Syndicate.
A digital first presence for all community broadcasters to share media that is broadcast ready, to share resources, etc.
It will be a parent organization from which things like NETV can syndicate, but also a name that is not so focused on Ellijay, that better tells the story of producing independent television without being so geographically limited that it prevents people who might otherwise be interested in support us from feeling like they can or should.
Ideally, this organization would operate less like PBS or CBS or NBC and more like a News Wire, but that's a conversation with some nuance that I don't think I'm fully ready for.
Practically, for #NETV right now, it wouldn't change much.
I don't know of any other community television stations. I know of some public access stations, but that's a different kind of animal in a couple of ways.
But it would give us a second homepage and window into the world that was a little less Ellijay centered and a give us a good reason to spin up a second Roku channel that might improve discoverability.
alcinnz
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Really and truly I believe that what we're doing at NEHI and NETV are vital to the future.
When I talk about what we're doing in each of these endeavors, that might seem silly, but I believe it.
So I'm going to talk about what we do, and then I'm goign to talk about why I think it's important.
#NETV is a television network and streaming service based out of Ellijay Georgia. It's Community Media in the kind that I wrote about here: https://communitymedia.network
We have a roku channel and a peertube server and we produce a lot of local content including music gear review shows, sitcoms, and political video essays. We also archive a lot of historical material from film. I've written about this stuff extensively, and I'm not going to re-hash it all here.
#NEHI is our haha only serious name for our manufacturing efforts. We're running a machine shop and making injection molded plastic using environmentally sustainable and horizontally scalable processes.
Most of what we've done so far has been toys, most of what we'll do in the future is toys.
I believe these two things are vital for the same reason:
When we make a toy, that toy supplants something made by a distant corporation using media owned by Disney. When someone watches our news coverage or one of the public domain cartoons we've archived or whatever, that's half an hour they didn't spend watching something owned by Sinclair ( https://communitymedia.video/w/kJ3dojouKA3G5onEaKq1Vu )
The biggest things that I need to do are:
- Figure out how to make our vintage toy sales justify dad's wages, or figure out how to get dad involved in something else that generates revenue or otherwise supports our goals. (This might actually be possible. I need to really think about it.)
- Re-task the other two folks towards projects that are closer to their skillsets and interests and more likely to generate revenue or otherwise support our goals. (What? I'll have to think about it. It almost certainly involves getting them out of NEHI.)
- Figure out the quickest path towards making NEHI profitable, or at least sustaining (I think we're already on that path, it just doesn't feel like it some days.)
- Spend some time really thinking about what happens next with #NETV
Really and truly I believe that what we're doing at NEHI and NETV are vital to the future.
When I talk about what we're doing in each of these endeavors, that might seem silly, but I believe it.
So I'm going to talk about what we do, and then I'm goign to talk about why I think it's important.
#NETV is a television network and streaming service based out of Ellijay Georgia. It's Community Media in the kind that I wrote about here: https://communitymedia.network
We have a roku channel and a peertube server and we produce a lot of local content including music gear review shows, sitcoms, and political video essays. We also archive a lot of historical material from film. I've written about this stuff extensively, and I'm not going to re-hash it all here.
#NEHI is our haha only serious name for our manufacturing efforts. We're running a machine shop and making injection molded plastic using environmentally sustainable and horizontally scalable processes.
Most of what we've done so far has been toys, most of what we'll do in the future is toys.
I believe these two things are vital for the same reason:
When we make a toy, that toy supplants something made by a distant corporation using media owned by Disney. When someone watches our news coverage or one of the public domain cartoons we've archived or whatever, that's half an hour they didn't spend watching something owned by Sinclair ( https://communitymedia.video/w/kJ3dojouKA3G5onEaKq1Vu )
In all three cases, I need to really figure out what they can do that will be beneficial to our long term plans, and that I can trust them with, or I need to figure out how to help them transition into other roles.
I do not know what the answer is. I don't even have the beginnings of a clue.
The biggest things that I need to do are:
- Figure out how to make our vintage toy sales justify dad's wages, or figure out how to get dad involved in something else that generates revenue or otherwise supports our goals. (This might actually be possible. I need to really think about it.)
- Re-task the other two folks towards projects that are closer to their skillsets and interests and more likely to generate revenue or otherwise support our goals. (What? I'll have to think about it. It almost certainly involves getting them out of NEHI.)
- Figure out the quickest path towards making NEHI profitable, or at least sustaining (I think we're already on that path, it just doesn't feel like it some days.)
- Spend some time really thinking about what happens next with #NETV
Andrew (Television Executive)
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This week's Open Stage is a day or two late because I've been a bit tied up with getting moved into my new office, I hope you can forgive me.
This week's Open Stage is a day or two late because I've been a bit tied up with getting moved into my new office, I hope you can forgive me.
Russ Sharek
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Here we go! What I've been working on this past couple of days! (I'll admit that most of the work was done by my computer)
It's a supercut of every time the word "fuck" was used during the run of Open Stage. The idea came from @RussSharek after I mentioned I had a few pages in my notebook from editing Open Stage for #NETV which were just entire pages of swear words and timestamps from censoring them for airing.
I hope you enjoy it, though I doubt you will find it as satisfying as I do after all of this work!
Here we go! What I've been working on this past couple of days! (I'll admit that most of the work was done by my computer)
It's a supercut of every time the word "fuck" was used during the run of Open Stage. The idea came from @RussSharek after I mentioned I had a few pages in my notebook from editing Open Stage for #NETV which were just entire pages of swear words and timestamps from censoring them for airing.
I hope you enjoy it, though I doubt you will find it as satisfying as I do after all of this work!
Mre. Dartigen [maker mode]
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News for #NETV fans!
Captain Isotope will be moving to a Saturday release, Fridays are now the day for another Studio Kaiju production: Mansion of Mystery! This show presents weird and wonderful classic movies, with the first episode titled "There's No Business Like Monkey Business" available today featuring 1952's Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla.
Check it out!
News for #NETV fans!
Captain Isotope will be moving to a Saturday release, Fridays are now the day for another Studio Kaiju production: Mansion of Mystery! This show presents weird and wonderful classic movies, with the first episode titled "There's No Business Like Monkey Business" available today featuring 1952's Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla.
Check it out!
Andrew (Television Executive)
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And I'll let y'all in on a secret. There's another episode up now for patrons (and it's going up for #NETV sponsors shortly.)