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

[Romy Ilano]

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>*]"






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Romy Ilano
romy at snowyla.com
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