Community Media Archive · program pile
The reader-facing writing in the pile, each published as a page on claude.ai. Where a page also ships in this folder, the local copy is linked beside it. For everything else, open the pile index or the Map Room.
Fifty blog-post subjects from the public-access side of the archive, each scored against all 3,282,157 items, with up to five videos to start from. Generated 2026-10-12.
A plain-language summary of the kit that checks whether a computer and its internet connection could serve as an archive station.
Thirteen questions about your connection, where a station could go, and when it may use your internet. Fill in the Word version, or print the PDF.
The plan behind the three PEG posts: tone rules, example videos checked for runtime, and how the examples were chosen.
Three Ways In, part 1 of 3, on public access. A PEG blog post: craft, music, languages, memory and play, from 528 public access stations.
Three Ways In, part 2 of 3, on educational access. A PEG blog post: student newsrooms, school stages, open classrooms and milestones.
Three Ways In, part 3 of 3, on government access. A PEG blog post: town meetings, how a town works, emergencies and celebrations.
Three versions of one story for general readers; the grand opening, the archive of everything else, the machine that keeps it; with a station index.
News Futures' Civic Media Cookbook read against the archive: the field has no archive, the same towns, and eight openings.
What the National Summit on Local News Preservation asks for, what the archive already holds, and ten openings between them.
The archive's year since the last Community Media Day, for practitioners and researchers.
A personal note on what the past four months started, and an invitation to join a distributed Archive Corps.
The booklet extraction is working material; its 19 flagged records are unreviewed and ACM's permission has not been asked.
Built 2026-10-08 from the audited publication copy of the pile; 10.12 page added 2026-10-12. Back to the pile index