Content Generation

Haribs comments came during a seminar on Local Content in Arab MediaIts Hopes and Prospects held on the second day of Arab Media Forum 2010. The session analysed the future of Arabic content in Arab media, particularly in television and broadcasting.

Recounting the challenges he faced while seeking support from TV networks for Freej, he recommended it would be much easier to support local content generation and creativity if a local fund is set up to support content that reflects on Arab culture and traditions even for established creators.

The panel discussion also looked into whether local content is relevant any more with the reach of distribution extending to areas outside local viewership and how the media content affects overall preference and its reflections on Arab societies.

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Recounting the challenges he faced while seeking support from TV networks for Freej, he recommended it would be much easier to support local content generation and creativity if a local fund is set up to support content that reflects on Arab culture and traditions even for established creators.

The panel discussion also looked into whether local content is relevant any more with the reach of distribution extending to areas outside local viewership and how the media content affects overall preference and its reflections on Arab societies.

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It is justified. What the Net represents is a standards-based platform for communication, collaboration, commercial transaction and content generation. So, it is a multi-dimensional media. It is a grand experiment with the power and implications of a standards-based open network. Most other media or consumer networks are proprietary. The Net is truly global and open. It has reduced the cost at which the content is generated and has increased the breadth of the content generated. For example, every minute, 24 hours of content is being loaded onto YouTube. The Net has democratised access, and created a world based on merit and performance.

If aggregation is the way to make money on the Net (à la Google), what happens to the original content? Eventually, even the aggregators make money only on popular content produced by professionals. The long tail doesn’t really deliver value...

The long tail is by definition a tail. It is a collection of niche properties. Tail content providers cannot have a bigger audience than the head providers. In the early nineties, India had just Doordarshan; with liberalisation came more channels. Think of the Net as the logical next stage of that phenomenon — it reduces cost of entry and production. The fact is that people have more choice. Search counter-acts what you are saying too, because you can find what is relevant. If a website has no value, it won’t show up.

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In a bid to spread Information Technology (IT) education in the northern belt of the country, the HRD ministry had entrusted the IIIT-A with the responsibility of developing IT mentors and modules for technical institutions like IITs and National Institute of Sciences.

In a bid to spread Information Technology (IT) education in the northern belt of the country, the HRD ministry had entrusted the IIIT-A with the responsibility of developing IT mentors and modules for technical institutions like IITs and National Institute of Sciences. ?We have already started the project and have finalised contents of 120 chapters each for web courses and video lectures. The subjects are civil engineering, computer science, electrical, electronics and communication, mechanical engineering and all common core science and humanities courses,? said IIIT-A director M D Tiwari, adding that the e-contents will be uploaded on the ministry?s educational website Sakshat. The ministry has released Rs 75 lakh for the project.

The curriculum was decided after analysing various model engineering course syllabi designed by All India Curriculum for Technical Education (AICTE), Anna University, Jawaharlal Nehru Technical University, Visvesvaraya Technical University.

Full Story: Soon, IT course material to be available at a click of mouse - Expressindia.com

Most people familiar with Pegshot are not aware that our team has been focused on the location-based media niche for over 5 years via WellcomeMat.com, a video publishing platform (like Brightcove) for locally-focused brands. We ended up focusing WellcomeMat on the real estate vertical because that is where we were finding profitability (finally) and Pegshot was born because of this move.

It’s impossible for us to separate Pegshot’s mission from our experience with WellcomeMat because both platforms are focused on 1) positioning our users and partners as an information sources, and 2) enabling the celebration of stylish, cool, weird, funny and interesting things within each city.

We are extremely passionate about making sure that uniqueness is preserved and rewarded within every town and neighborhood.

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