Video: Forecasting the Future of Public Media, from Silverdocs

Pat Aufderheide, the brainiac who runs the Center for Social Media at American University, put together a fun panel at Silverdocs last month to try to forecast the future of public media. The video is now available here. Responding to Pat's scary/fascinating/hopeful scenarios for the next five years were:

- John Boland, chief content officer, PBS
- Andy Carvin, social media strategist, NPR
- Doug Craig, senior vice president, home entertainment, Discovery Communications
- Paco de Onís, producer, Skylight Pictures
- Jacquie Jones, executive director, National Black Programming Consortium
- Scott Kirsner, editor, CinemaTech, and contributing writer, Variety
- Alyce Myatt, executive director, Grantmakers in Film and Electronic Media
- Marita Rivero, vice president and general manager, Radio and Television, WGBH

The video below is the first segment... not sure if the other segments will play automatically... but the entire session ran about 90 minutes. That should supply plenty of Holiday Weekend Viewing Pleasure.

CinemaTech on NPR This Friday

Just found out that I'll be on NPR's "Science Friday" program tomorrow (Friday, 8.22.08), talking about my new book Inventing the Movies.

My segment will be from 12:30 to 1 PM Pacific time/3:30 to 4 PM Eastern. You can listen to it live online, or on the old-school radio airwaves, courtesy of Signore Marconi.

I'd love it if any CinemaTech readers felt inclined to call in...since no one knows better than you guys how the movie industry adopts (and often resists adopting) new technologies, which will be the subject of the segment. The 800 number is 800.989.8255 (good only during the show's broadcast.)

Also, just in time: the book's site is now live, with lots of bonus material, audio, and video.