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2006 Oct 14 18:38 UTC

This week I spoke at the National Association of Legislative Information
Technology (NALIT), a division of the National Conference of State
Legislatures.  For those who don't know, NALIT members are responsible
for legislative record keeping and public meeting webcasting.  My topic
was the "PR vs. Democratic Accountability Models of Legislative
Webcasting."   Since the late 1990s NCSL has included my papers on
legislative TV on its Legislatures Live
<http://www.ncsl.org/programs/press/2003/more_resources.htm>  website.
A compiled list of my related writings on this subject can be found at
jhsnider.net/LegislativeTV.

My summary of the meeting is that legislative TV has continued to make
substantial progress in recent years, with Washington State's TVW
continuing to lead the way.  New efforts are underway to index
legislative webcasts to improve searching.   With archival costs at 34
kbps almost negligible, the decision to archive is less and less driven
by costs.  For example, the Texas legislature was able to archive the
entire session, more than 1600 hours of webcasting, on a 80 gigabyte
hard drive.