this project is sponsored by chc-land of lace market house.

phil here from @fibrecamp studios in the heart of the lacemarket and i’m posting this to my main blog, the fibreca.mp site and over on the IMPS site that shawn asked me to become a contributor on.  this is pretty cool news so i thought i would update you with progress of the web tv studio down here on high pavement.

we got the television up in reception!

yes, we are super pleased because it means that we can start to progress building a custom theme for posterous that will aggregate all the rss feed content from the companies in the building.  we are using some cool plugins to allow us to rotate the tabs in a browser so swapping out from different media views.  the first view will be the themed lacemarket fibrecamp page with some neat jquery code connecting to the posterous api.  this will allow us to provide an easy way for people to submit news to a central blog location as well as creating movement in an ajax infinite scroll arrangement – we are also thinking of using this for media events in general – it’s pretty cool tech actually – more on that as we develop it out.  should take a month or so.

the ultimate aim with the screen is to get us to move on the community television idea.  at the moment we are just bringing people into the fibrecamp space to record interviews and tell us about services and products and we have done quite a few but we want the space to be constantly used 2/3 times a week – we have a few coaches, fashion experts and radio presenters using the services in a paid manner but we are also looking for interesting projects and discussion/brainstorming groups that we can gather in the space every week and stream out live to bambuser – let us know if you have some ideas to bring in.

the hyperlocal internet tv will work quite simply.  from the 3/4 hours of content we produce (hope to be more as we scale) we will put that in an automated looping wistia media embed.  this embed works on ipad/iphone/ipod and also on the desktop – it is a html5 player so it will work anywhere.  the best thing about it is we can track time watched as a heatmap and also track a bunch of other metrics.  we have a master feed of everything coming out of the studio and separate rss feeds and social media channels for each show – all together this makes for quite a chunky distribution network of content from the local area.

we are really keen to get the community tv service up and running and distributed across the internet and ideally locally via some kind of interconnected network between venues like the broadway, tea shops, shops in hockley and antenna.   we think there is huge potential to have a local webtv station of sorts with a variety of content and education material from social media news and daily programming.