Hey guys wow you're all tech-savvy and stuff now but what happened to the old-skool archives?
Hi CPGross... well, some of us have always been tech-savvy but I'm not sure what you mean by old-skool archives?
I know funding is a difficult thing to come by, and especially for art, and i ASSUME it is that particular process (along with an administration shift) that has created these changes, but I want to be able to access my show online!
As to seeing your show on-line, all we do in this forum is echo the feed from URTV's content provider service. I know it goes on and off sometimes but is on as I write this message. If you have problems with it, the proper procedure would be to contact Curt or Jonathon at URTV.
I don't want the URTV forum to be filled with big industry much-higher-budget work when its essential purpose is to promote and encourage the local community's productions.
First, THANK YOU for your comment about "big industry much-higher-budget work." Most of the video on the FORUMS is stuff I have personally produced. It is all nickel and dime stuff I would characterize as fly-by-the-seat-of-your-director's-chair except I cannot afford a director's chair. So I am quite complimented. ... but, yes, we DO encourage local community stuff from the Western North Carolina area and you or most anyone else is free to post your work. We will not allow any of the politically-based negative stuff about URTV but just about everything else is welcome. Speaking of technical savvy, I have made this EXTREMELY easy -- just cut and paste the URL from any number of video hosting services and your video automagically appears.
DON'T TURN INTO A BLOG!!!!
It was never a blog and remains exactly as it was when I created it back in November, 2007 -- a set of Forums to encourage among many things, great video production, TECHNICAL SAVVY, artistry in Western North Carolina, URTV, and much more, reaching out not just to WNC but the known universe..
Please make it more about the community.
It is up to the community to post content. I want that to occur and encourage it and have made it easy to do.
There are plenty of places online to post your favorite cartoons or fill html tables with stupid smiley icons.
The only cartoons posted here so far are my own personal artwork and I am the very epitome of 'local artist' or local anything else for that matter. And, alas, smileys have a life of their own.
URTV is NOT about proving your web-writing competency, it's about giving the willing members of the Asheville community a place to try their hand at expressing themselves through video production. And oftentimes it's not just trying-- you guys get a lot of people who have wonderful visions and actually know what they're doing with a camera and an editing program, and URTV is the perfect sanctuary of production for them. It was for me...
I believe in general and in specific with comments about "proving your web-writing competency" you may be a bit confused about the status of these Forums. I created the Forums in 2007 to support URTV and ran them independently at totally my own expense until July of this year. At that time, disgusted with all the drama and unnecessary fighting at URTV, I resigned from the Board and as a URTV producer in protest. Since no one else could or would take over the Forums and most of the material on it was mine anyway, it was agreed that the forums would become totally independent of URTV, which they are. We still support URTV and the true idea of public access TV (freedom of speech, etc. not the faux open meeting cant of those objecting to URTV) but we have NO connection with URTV, nor want one at this time. As it states at the top of this page, we are totally independent and sponsored by 1VIDeo Productions (my own company). In short, and as always, I pay for all this out of MY pocket.
As to the rest of that paragraph, I agree totally with you.
... and I would love to see the archives come back.
By "archives" I assume you mean the video on demand service. Can't help you on that one. When I was technical advisor to URTV, I set up both the live channel and the video on demand. It was decided to use another company for technical support and video on demand was broken. All I can suggest for you to do is talk to Curt about that. I'm sure he's working on it.
Why is there so much impersonal blog crap on this forum that i had to wait two days to be allowed into??? It feels cheap to me.
That is unfair. The reason we are forced to vet people joining is that 95% are spammers from Russia or God knows where who want to become members and post pictures of ladies and dogs doing reprehensible stuff (and I'm not kidding, one did do that briefly before we started this policy). As there is only one of me and I have a life and work that actually pays money, it sometimes takes me a day or two to get through all these. Sorry for the delay but it was for your and all of our protection. Most forums on the net now use this same policy.
GO BACK TO YOUR OLD WAYS!!!
Here's the thing about that, we have never left them. These Forums run exactly the way they always have from the very first and employ the exact same philosophy as always. We have lots of visitors daily because we have tons of interesting stuff.
What else can you ask of a website?
But thanks for your interest and comments.
--Ralph
