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Question Ten: How do you view Pacifica’s potential in providing internet content?You can find all of the listener candidate's answers to Question Ten on this page.
WBAI Listener-Sponsor candidatesMarian BorensteinI think there is tremendous potential for providing our programs over the Internet. The fact that WBAI receives over 6,000,000 hits a year to its archives from all over the world demonstrates the massive interest in our programming and the possibility for growth in listenership. I think WBAI should do more promotion of its website on the airwaves. The station should also try to make use of the Internet to collaborate with some of the progressive radio stations that are geared toward various linguistic communities and link to some of their programming.
Rolando Binino answer submitted
Tibby BrooksHow often we hear an interviewer say, “If only the audience could see this!” Well, we’ve got the talent and the contacts, both here and abroad, to integrate sound and video (as with a YouTube format). Since we have activist-reporters, we wouldn’t be limited to talking heads—we’d get to see the action as it happens. It’s not only youth who are getting their information online, it’s also older people who are turning away from newspapers to the immediacy of the Internet.
Omowale ClayWe already have digital audio archives, thanks to fundraising by Justice & Unity. Also, members of Justice and Unity on national Pacifica committees have helped work out the details for a legal structure by which producers can share digital forms of their shows with Pacifica, so they can be broadly distributed to many websites. We could also explore a format like YouTube where we link video content to audio content. We should also continue to build on new technologies on the Web, through downloads, streaming and podcasting.
Carla CubitPacifica has great potential in providing Internet content.
Lisa DavisPacifica has a vast potential for providing Internet content. The Pacifica Foundation could build its audience via multi-media integration. In the digital age, people no longer just listen to radio. They interact with it online. I think it’s vital for Pacifica to have a strong Web presence. But also, Pacifica must not forget that there is no substitute for interpersonal communications face to face. So we must always think about events we could have that interact with and engage the public. Again, digital distribution. We should make some of our content – not all – available for downloads for a small contribution. There are quite a few creative ways in which this could be done. I have been one of the National Board members who’s been very supportive of steps to increase the digital distribution of our programming. Once a structure for this is fully in place, it will set the stage for a powerful fundraising idea: a Pacifica record label, using digital files that progressive musicians have agreed to let Pacifica use for airing and fundraising under specific terms.
Wellington EchegarayPacifica should be exploring every way it can to increase all the services it provides on the Internet. This is the way we will be able to build a national and even an international audience.
Sara FloundersEndless. Increasingly people download the programs that they want to listen to. They have tens of thousands of programs to choose from. But choices are also based on what is easily accessible and clearly listed. Much more attention must be paid to the five stations’ web sites and postings that search engines pick up. Program archives should include short 2- to 3-sentence descriptions of each program, listing who is interviewed, the topic and the event. Currently, for many programs you have to go searching based solely on knowing the broadcast time of a program that you heard or that someone else described. More information would lead to far more downloads.
Robert M. Gold -I think that Pacifica has great potential in reaching larger audiences via the internet; especially with English and Spanish speaking programs.
Seth GoldbergPositively.
Jennifer JagerImproved and expanded programming is key.. New health, environmental, and popular topics such as a sustainable food program would expand internet interest. Also provocative programs on 9-11 and programs concerning regional issues. would increase internet interest. Spots on U-Tube might widen internet audience.
Kenneth LauferI don't know enough about this.
Pat LoganI am deeply interested in this question of Internet content and Pacifica's role, but as yet I do not possess sufficient knowledge to offer a valuable contribution to the discussion. I will merely say that I am greatly impressed with the open source model of creation and distribution and feel that it accords well with the Pacifica mission.
Don Mathiesonno answer submitted
Lee McClure-ComeThere's great potential for Pacifica internet content.
Stefan S. NeustadterLimitless...we just have to get a handle on how it will make us money in a progressive manner.
Bok-keem NyerereThe potential of internet content that Pacifica can provide is second only to live broadcast in importance. We should be looking to improve and expand on internet services.
Bernardo Palombono answer submitted
James RossExcellent! All five Pacifica stations have audio archives. We could expand this by putting more material online that is solely web-based (i.e., not on the radio). Searchable and linkable audio archives would be a big step forward. Imagine a system whereby when you download audio from WBAI on a certain topic, you are directed to audio from the sister stations and affiliates on the same topic. We have to make it as network-y as possible so people all over get accustomed to looking to Pacifica for quality audio.
Marianella TriocheThere is great potential in providing internet content to our listeners, especially among young people. Justice and Unity has done fundraising that has resulted in the station having digital audio archives of recent programs. With creative thinking, this type of digital offerings can be expanded. Trackback(0)
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disappointed: nonsense numbers from a non-partisan perspecitive
We already have digital audio archives, thanks to fundraising by Justice & Unity. WHAT!!!!!!!!!!! wait a minute... if this were true, Pete Korakis (the guy who brought the archives to WBAI) would have been able to buy a PC to improve the local archive machine, when he asked for it 3 years ago (because it failed regularly). I was at the station once, when Pete K asked for about $600, for a new PC, to have the archives run more reliably, also, as a backup, and even at a higher quality (for sound checks, premiums, etc).. he was told, by the then iGM, we'll see if there is funding.. and there never was any (the archive still fail every few weeks/months - yet a few hundred dollars would've helped). Question: Where was J-U when this happened - did they support him, or this effort A.N.S.W.E.R.: N-O. But, pls don't get me wrong, not many supported this effort, certainly not the so called independents-SOS-ElectionCommitte-ListProg-ACE-whateverthey'recalledtoday.. they were too busy doing something else, fighting someone, or something (but not doin much for the station, afaik). here are some actual facts (all public info, if you actually listen/pay attention): * the archives cost about $200/mo. (Pete K said this himself as a guest during a report to the listeners).. so basically 4 average memberships pay for it.. * actually Otis Maclay, from KPFT/Houston wrote the software (none of this would be possible without Otis), and made the software available for free so Pacifica (and other community stations) to use.. perhaps J-U wants the credit for Otis too - but the truth is he was also not supported by J-U, in fact he was publicly disrespected, and demeaned *repeatedly*, by members of the J-U for the crime of being a white male - pointing him out, and mocking him, in fact repeatedly over the years.. (just as has been done to Pete K, and others).. * "Hits" are the most meaningless web statistic on the Internet.. see http://visibility.tv/tips/stats.html .. quote: "Hits stands for 'How Idiots Track Success'" Avinash Kaushik, Director of Web Research & Analytics, from the software company, Intuit interesting that after 3 years in power, this is the first thing that J-U points to as an "advancement".. especially if you paid close attention to the whole process.. actually its sad, not interesting. ps - to date, I've heard of at least 3 different sources of 'funding' for the WBAI archives, so J-U is actually 3 years late to get on this bandwagon.. too bad all these 'funding' sources never existed for the actual work to get done.. the Cub fans in Chicago say 'maybe next year, maybe next year we'll do it'.. I wish I could be that optimistic about WBAI/Pacifica.. but not like this we won't.  1
November 01, 2007
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