Colin Rhinesmith

Cambridge Community Television
Colin Rhinesmith is Community Media Coordinator at Cambridge Community
Television (CCTV) in Cambridge, MA. Previously, Colin was Digital Media
Producer for the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard
University, where he produced audio & video podcasts for MediaBerkman and
the Citizen Media Law Project. At CCTV, Colin manages the
Bridging the Digital Divide program, NeighborMedia, Computer CENTRAL and other community media & technology projects. He also teaches many of CCTV's web media courses. Colin received his M.A. in Visual and Media Arts from Emerson College, where he wrote his Master's Thesis on the intersection of PEG Access Television and the Social Web. Colin's blog can be found at http://colinrhinesmith.com.

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Colin talks about his previous work and how he arrived at a community media center.
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Colin describes how the internet has changed the role of CCTV.
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Colin describes new classes and services that go beyond cable TV program production at CCTV - most of which have come about because of potentials generated by the internet.
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Colin describes the exciting citizen journalism enterprise at CCTV called "Neighbor Media."
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Colin describes the training CCTV gives to Neighbor Media participants.
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Colin explains the multiple functions and functionality of the Drupal-based CCTV web site.
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Colin explains how the CCTV web site is set up to gather "Cambridge-centric" media from other sites on the web.
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CCTV is trying to figure out ways to outreach to folks already publishing on the web, that may not know of the media center resources.
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There are drop-in hours every week at CCTV just for figuring out web 2.0 applications and destinations.
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Colin's thesis is that there will always be a need for "brick and mortar" media centers.
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