Don just spent a few fun days in Tulsa cutting extreme sports for the WPSA Snocross third stop on the 2005-2006 PowerSports Snowmobile Tour, airing on ESPN2 Thursday, February 2 at 3pm EST.
The project reuinited Winnercomm’s extremely busy producer Tim Turrell and Don, who used to work together on NTRA events on the road. Gee, 16 hour days? It DOES seem like old times!
Here’s a link to an interesting interview with the founder of the Pixel Corps, Alex Lindsay. DCal and now Don are both members of this online guild of digital craftsmen.
In case you’ve missed it, the FCC has been phasing in requirements that programs longer than 10 minutes be closed captioned. As of 1/01/06, all new nonexempt programming* must be captioned.
We’ve put up a page to help you make sense of all of it.
Besides just meeting regulations, closed captioning info has other uses as well:
Tivo wants to use it for making programming choices
Google Video can search the text and return relevant results
*As Joe Clark points out, new networks, Spanish language programming, and programming that airs between 2am and 6am are some examples of exempt programming. The Spanish language captions, for instance, are being phased in over the next 4 years.