At the end of March, CCTV shot some of the panels from the WAM 2009 conference, featuring speakers on a variety of topics related to women and the media, journalism, new media, and more. Those videos are now playing on CCTV; click here to learn when you can tune in to see each session!

We've talked a lot about making better use of our content classification and tagging system and now we've gone and done it.

The principle of a good classification system is all about telling items apart from one another as well as grouping items together that have some relationship or commonality. The best classification system we (read: human kind) has ever developed is the Scientific Classification of Organisms that helps us determine what family, genus, and species a living creature belongs in based on common and ancestral traits of the organism themselves. It get's really technical, like whether the hairs of the fur of a species are hollow or solid, but it's all there and does a fantastic job of helping us sort life out. read more...

Staff at CCTV are preparing for the 19th annual Summer Media Institute, set to start this Monday, July 6th at 9:30 a.m. The Summer Media Institute, or the SMI, is a six week media production and work experience program for Cambridge teens, run through a collaboration with the Mayor's Summer Youth Employment Program and Cambridge Community Services' CityLinks Program. This year, the program will serve 27 teens-- more young people than ever before! For more information about CCTV's youth programs, or to watch media produced by youth at CCTV, click here.

Scam artist Raphael Holoman-Franklin, who bilked several Cambridge residents out of thousands of dollars in 2008 via rent scams, is back in Cambridge. A victim's blog that was set up on the www.mybarackobama.com website (to mirror his own Obama blog there) has been taken down, no doubt at his request. A new blog for his scamming and theft victims has been put up again at:

http://holoman-franklin.blogspot.com/

Holoman-Franklin also feverishly flags Craigs List ads (which warn others about him) for removal. We have learned to include his name and our contact information at the beginning of the ad listing. These will stay on the internet after the ad expires or gets removed.

Please note also that one area victim, Clifford Truesdell, contacted and warned Holoman-Franklin's former employer, Trinity Church, in Boston. He received the following reply:

Dear Mr. Truesdell,

Thank you for this notice. It was sent to all our clergy.
We are grateful for your advice. read more...

Whether a Republican from Texas or an African American Democrat the decisions and structures of ruling and distributing " the spoils" are similar. The economy has been hijacked by elites who continually structure the resourses to satisfy their needs. The sub-prime mortgage melt down was a clear practical example of how this was done. The Rupublican branch of the elites came up with the plan and the Democrats continued it in the same manner. The result is the working poor are paying for the "bail out". Twenty (20) years ago the Berlin Wall was a symbol used for a peaceful change the parameters under which decisions were made. This program tells how that worked then.