TVShift

Public-Access TV Fights for Relevance in the YouTube Age

by Mike Rosen-Molina

Public-access television is a sometimes bizarre world where anyone with the time and inclination can appear on television. It's where you find the rants of Colombus, Ohio, goth Damon Zex and the strange instructional videos of Let's Paint TV, where Los Angeles host John Kilduff taught viewers how to paint and make blended drinks all while exercising on a treadmill....

• December 17, 2008
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Open Source Reporting

Can Video Search Engines Find What You Want?

by Mark Glaser

Video search engines are based on a simple premise: Type in a few key words, and voila! you can see the video you have described. The problem is that the main video search engines haven't figured out how to match key words to content, and they don't have all the commercial and amateur video you might want. In other...

• January 23, 2006
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