[sudo-discuss] Radical Software - early experiments in television

A nice video about Radical Software, a magazine and "tv hacker" movement from the 1970s. The print magazine, I learned about it reading an old copy at Sudoroom :) the first time I went here. Radical Software - early experiments in television https://youtu.be/hIXlB1CHmOQ - It's really cool how she talks about how they did their own version of show and tell, which is what we'd like our five minutes of fame to become. - The fresh way people viewed television is so refreshing, it's too bad what television later became. did television ever reach its potential? I read that when people made sesame street or educational tv they had this idealistic hope that tv could decentralized stuff and create this kind of futuristic utopia. Sort of like what happened to the internet. I'm going to dig further, it was also a video journal. Should we try to do a video journal? People were favoring podcasts at the meeting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_Software "The video journal was begun with a questionnaire sent to a wide variety of interested people. The first issue was a creative editing of the answers to the questionnaire plus some additional special articles. The most outstanding element of *Radical Software* video journal was the style and emphasis used in editing <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Editing>. The content itself was a call to pay attention to the way information itself is disseminated. And it was a call to encourage a grassroots <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grassroots> involvement in creating an information environment exclusive of broadcast and corporate media <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_media>. It became immediately important and popular as it grasped fully what a lot of people had been concerned with and thinking about; giving its introduction a synchronicity of the ideas of the day.[*citation needed <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed>*]" ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com