dose

Readers of dose will know that CBC has been on my brain of late, particularly their still-dismal podcasting “plan,” of which there is none to speak of yet — though Tod Maffin is working on one, and we’ll all put our shoulders in to help if we can, assuming whatever is devised is good for the world.

I would like to see the CBC embrace podcasting, not just to make their radio content more available to more people, but also to embrace the technology to promote and support Canadian creativity and documentarianism (?). That is, to use CBC resources to support podcasting throughout the country. This content could be available only by podcast, with perhaps a best-of getting a weekly 30 mins or something.

Anyway, here’s the National Film Board’s fabulous program, Citizen Shift:

Citizen Shift is a web magazine that integrates written, audio and visual media and provides a space where filmmakers and citizens can share knowledge, be entertained and most importantly debate social issues.

NFB provides help and resources, and bandwidth, to citizens who produce documentaries, and make them available online. This is what the CBC should do for podcasting: a CBC citizen podcast page.

Sort of a disclaimer: I’ve been trying to set up a program teaching kids at-risk of violence to podcast, with NFB, citizen shift indirectly involved, at the Atwater Library, with sylvain carle of interstructure. (And I note that among the groups involved in Citizen Shift, there are a good number of names I know, some better than others: plank design, sylvain carle, martin lessard, patrick tanguay).