We rolled out our shiny new website today! Lots of thought and effort went into this redesign, with the purpose of making it easier to find local stories and content made by people who live here in Cambridge. We've worked hard to bring all the locally produced blogs, videos, and special programs up to the surface of the site.

Our users get a few extra features with this new website release as well. Bigger and better user profiles make it easier to create an online personality and easier for you to identify and recognize the people using our site. We've strengthened our use of RSS feeds all across the board, and we're listing our full, search-and-sortable class schedule on the site as well. read more...

These events are FREE and open to the public.
Children are welcome in the company of an adult.

SUMMER BIRD WALK

Sunday, July 6
7:30 to 9:30 am
Neville Place Driveway, 650 Concord Avenue

In the summertime, early morning is the best time to look for birds. They are most active when the air is cool and they are hungry. Adults may be feeding babies, and fledglings will be following their parents and chirping for food. Beginning birders are welcome. Binoculars can be provided if you need them.

AN EVENING WALK IN THE UPPER CAMBRIDGE WATERSHED

Monday, July 7
6:00 to 8:30 pm
Walter J. Sullivan Water Purification Facility
250 Fresh Pond Parkway read more...

Come to CCTV on July 16 to learn how individuals and organizations are using the virtual world Second Life.

During the event, we will provide an overview of virtual worlds and present our proposal to create an historical re-creation of a physical location in Cambridge using Second Life in 2008-2009.

The goal is to present our project - created by you! - at the grand re-opening of the new Cambridge Main Library set for Fall 2009.

Join our CCTV online group for updates.

This event is sponsored by Cambridge Public Library and CCTV.

(Photo above by Pathfinder Linden available under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license)

The hard-working CCTV staff traded desks and edit suites for a day of work at George's Island in Boston Harbor. Between developing a capital plan for the next ten years, analyzing facilties' usage patterns, and discussing membership development and outreach, there was frisbee, sandwiches and cookies, and dodging lightning. Look for a newly invigorated group at the station on Sunday night.

As people celebrate the 4th on the Charles, they may be happy to find trash receptacles to help them depart with their waste. But if you are a resident in 02141, you know that these receptacles are only temporary. What you see for the rest of the year will shock you. There are only three receptacles between the Museum of Science and the Mass Ave bridge. If you call the DCR and ask why, they will tell you they will look into it. They have been telling me for this for the past three years. People often put the trash where the barrels should be. VERY SAD

<---- This is me thinking hard. Thanks to flickr user Regalore for the image.

Last night was a full agenda for CCTV's June Board Meeting! It was a night full of teaching and learning. Our Treasurer Steve did a great job teaching us a bit about financing, Steve Shultz and Rika contributed their knowledge about and experience with franchise negotiations, Amy brought us up to date on the MAC, Sean Eiffel, Associate Director of CCTV, shared with us all the hard work that goes into submitting to the Hometown Video Festival, in which CCTV won TWO Overall Excellence awards (Congrats again CCTV!!), and Susan gave us a "Sedentary Tour" of CCTV, generating lots of excitement about exactly HOW MANY THINGS are going on at CCTV!

All in all it made for a very fun meeting! My head is nearly aching from all the new knowledge. Well, either from that or these strange metal wires coming out of my ears. ;)

/aal

This summer, you could be learning how to make media for all of Cambridge to see! Come to CCTV's next public information session and find out how to get involved at the number one public access center in the country.

Where: CCTV, 675 Mass. Ave., entrance off Prospect St. (Central Square)
When: Tuesday, July 1st, 6:30 - 8 p.m.