[cma-l] Website and community media news round-up: 09/01/09 - 21/01/09

Thu Feb 5 23:15:40 GMT 2009

Dear Colleagues

The country may have ground to a halt with snow but the 'Twitterverse'
is as busy as ever with news from our sector.

Below is our website round-up of the week and Twitter feed summary
until 21st January 2009.  More to follow.

Website:
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Only one major story this week on our website but more updates around
the Digital Britain report are promised shortly.

Ofcom publishes statement on public service broadcasting
http://www.commedia.org.uk/2009/01/21/ofcom-publishes-statement-on-public-service-broadcasting/

If anybody still would like to comment on the the DRWG report
published on 19th December 2008 then the invitation to submit feedback
to the
website Comments space still stands:

http://www.commedia.org.uk/2008/12/19/digital-radio-working-group-report/#comments

Twitter:
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If you use Twitter yourself then try to mark your posts with the
following hashtags (http://hashtags.org/) to make them easier for
other community media practitioners to find: #communitymedia,
#communityradio, #communitytv, #DAB, #Ofcom etc.

Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/community_media - 'tweets'
from 09/01/09-21/01/09 below:

#US activists hope #Congress will allow low-power FM #radio stations
in urban areas in 2009 & facilitate #communityradio: http://tr.im/bi7p
9:56 PM Jan 21st

#Ofcom advises #Channel4 to merge with #Five or #BBCWorldwide to
ensure a strong alternative public service broadcaster:
http://tr.im/bdtc 4:14 PM Jan 21st

RT @barstep Government to pilot #digitalmentors for the web-naive
http://tinyurl.com/7jp9ee 2:44 PM Jan 21st

#DCLG announces GBP73.1bn for English #councils next yr increasing
funding by 4.2% - potential #communitymedia #funding:
http://tr.im/bbcf 12:30 PM Jan 21st

#Thirdsector groups set to have a key role in the #UK Government's
drive to to boost #social mobility: http://tr.im/bb5t 11:55 AM Jan
21st

Shell LiveWIRE #newmedia #awards for 19-30yr olds #funding #innovative
#entrepreneur #ideas: http://tr.im/bb3y 11:47 AM Jan 21st

@dougald. Good post - agreed. Danger in UKGov pushing #technology as
panacea for #socialexclusion when other interventions more
appropriate. 11:40 AM Jan 21st  in reply to dougald

UKGov Cabinet Office Minister Tom Watson says #technology can make our
public services even better: http://tr.im/bae2 10:30 AM Jan 21st

A #communityradio station in the remote village of Donga-Mantung,
#Cameroon has kick-started a #media revolution: http://tr.im/awk0 7:34
PM Jan 20th

#NESTA's 'Spectrum for Speed' plan proposes that HMGov swaps #radio
spectrum to #telecoms in exchange for a fibre rollout:
http://tr.im/awd9 7:19 PM Jan 20th

#NESTA calls for free basic #broadband to be be offered to low-income
households to help combat #socialexclusion: http://tr.im/aw9x 7:16 PM
Jan 20th

#Communityradio stations in #Wales are encouraged to apply for
Assembly #funding: http://tr.im/aw5g 7:04 PM Jan 20th

A pioneering #Peterborough, UK #charity working to give vulnerable
#refugees a voice seeks urgently-needed funding: http://tr.im/avgx
6:24 PM Jan 20th

Community Gateway residents get a chance to get on airwaves as part of
a new deal with #communityradio station Preston FM: http://tr.im/absn
9:55 PM Jan 19th

#Communityradio stations, an important tool for social empowerment,
are finally making inroads into rural Orissa: http://tr.im/abft 9:35
PM Jan 19th

#UK #music #rights agency MCPS-PRS Alliance changes its name to "PRS
for Music": http://tr.im/a76z 5:24 PM Jan 19th

Peter Bazalgette's views on public service broadcasting, the #BBC and
#Channel4 in today's #Guardian: http://tr.im/a1q4 10:54 AM Jan 19th

Lockport Journal, #NY, explains the possible problems with #US
#digitaltv migration: http://tr.im/9pza 9:29 PM Jan 18th

Ipswich #communityradio (http://www.icrfm.co.uk) could be silenced if
a new site is not found 4 the station's transmitter: http://tr.im/9poh
9:06 PM Jan 18th

#Occupy, #Resist, #Produce - during economic crisis, workers movements
turn to tactical #media such as #communityradio: http://tr.im/8rqo
11:56 PM Jan 16th

Anecdotal evidence suggests that #communityradio in #Oz contributes to
much of the basic training 4 broadcasting industry: http://tr.im/7784
11:31 PM Jan 14th

#Ofcom has published 39 applications it received for #communityradio
licences in the South East of #England: http://tr.im/75se 10:31 PM Jan
14th

#Bolton, UK to get a new #communityradio station in June:
http://tr.im/75r5 10:30 PM Jan 14th

#Mandelson confirms package of support measures to support #UK economy
now also open to #thirdsector businesses: http://tr.im/732s 8:49 PM
Jan 14th

Call for papers: 5th ECPR General Conf, Potsdam, 10-12/09/2009.
Mobilisation & Protest Communication on the #socialweb:
http://tr.im/6746 12:16 AM Jan 14th

£100,000 #fundraising challenge for Link Radio #communityradio in
Hadleigh, UK to replace rotting studio: http://tr.im/65c0 11:17 PM Jan
13th

#DCLG has unveiled plans to get deprived young people involved in
activities and introduce them to a richer culture: http://tr.im/5q4h
12:24 PM Jan 13th

New Opportunities White Paper presents £15m communities fund to tackle
deprivation and build thriving communities: http://tr.im/5oa4 12:06 PM
Jan 13th

#communitytv threatened in #US as #cable telcos seek to cut #PEG
funding in 20 states inc #CA, #TX, #NV, #FL, #IL, & #MI:
http://tr.im/59tz 1:53 AM Jan 13th

#Obama's request to delay implementation of #digitaltv to post-Feb 17
frustrates US #localtv stations keen to save costs: http://tr.im/58x2
1:05 AM Jan 13th

Cash-strapped #communityradio station Radio Cardiff is now back on air
after it closed when its funding ran out: http://tr.im/54sl 10:04 PM
Jan 12th

RT @thefabians: Fabian New Year Conference http://is.gd/b9eF to be
tweeted live using #fabiannyc - hopefully pod and vodcasting too. 6:08
PM Jan 12th

Council staff in Warwickshire #UK are in line for a national award
after reducing #socialexclusion using #socialmedia: http://tr.im/4yx3
5:29 PM Jan 12th

HMGov UK guidance for awarding institutions on learning support
practitioner roles and initial training qualifications:
http://tr.im/4x3u 3:29 PM Jan 12th

Rising Voices is accepting project proposals for microgrant funding of
up to $5,000 for #newmedia outreach projects: http://tr.im/4tow 10:18
AM Jan 12th

How are the voices of marginalised & disadvantaged communities to be
heard in large conurbations without #communityradio?:
http://tr.im/4tjs 10:08 AM Jan 12th

"Finding & Funding Voices: the London experience", a study of
#communitymedia in London, Cardiff, Budapest & Stockholm:
http://tr.im/4ke9 11:11 PM Jan 11th

NuSoundRadio.com #communityradio gives the low-down on mee hoon goreng
& cucuk udang on its Malaysian culture show: http://tr.im/4jeo 9:59 PM
Jan 11th

#BBC Click tunes to #communityradio station Asian Star at #CES, LA to
demonstrate in-car internet radio device (@ 6mins): http://tr.im/3y4a
3:58 PM Jan 10th

European Year of Creativity and Innovation 2009 launched with the
slogan "Imagine. Create. Innovate": http://tr.im/3xks 3:02 PM Jan 10th

AMARC is participating in the 2009 World Social Forum taking place in
Belem, capital of Para, Brazil 27/01-01/02: http://tr.im/3mjr 11:01 PM
Jan 9th

Development Communication is the use of communication to promote
social development & bring about positive social change:
http://tr.im/3m0z 10:11 PM Jan 9th

#Israel's Knesset Economics Committee agrees to boost government
funding by 300% for #communitytv in #Israel until 2010:
http://tr.im/3ita 6:25 PM Jan 9th

RT @ictlogist Book on ICT4D in Africa (CFP): http://twurl.nl/amwhbt
5:36 PM Jan 9th

RT @mediauktv Oona King to become Channel 4 head of diversity:
http://bit.ly/17bD9 5:35 PM Jan 9th

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