Montgomery Community Media

News reports this week of American officials being killed, including the U.S. Ambassador to Libya, center around a new film that apparently depicts the prophet Muhammad in an unflattering light. According to press reports, the film “Mohammed, Prophet of the Muslims” is intended to talk about Islam while satirizing the religion’s founder. Other protests spread […]

It’s hard to believe that as we sit here in September, both the Orioles and the Nationals are sitting atop their respective league divisions. While I don’t want to jinx their chances by talking about the prospects for a Beltway World Series, that’s a tantalizing thought to even think about that! All this local excitement […]

Two major events dominated the news this week: the pounding of the Gulf Coast by Hurricane Isaac exactly seven years after Katrina, and the Republican Convention in Tampa. Hurricanes and conventions are a regular fixture in the American landscape, but this week’s events were very different than their previous iterations… thanks to community-generated media. In […]

There’s an old saying that goes something like this… “If you knew the world was going to end today and you had time to call just one person, who would it be & what would you say… and what are you waiting for?” I was reminded of that recently when a very dear friend of […]

The largest-attended event in Montgomery County each year is the annual Agricultural Fair. Held at the county fairgrounds in Gaithersburg, hundreds of thousands of people take in the exhibits, monster truck shows and carnival. Yet the name of the fair itself is quite striking: “Agricultural”. Our sister jurisdictions of Arlington and Fairfax don’t have such […]

It’s been a blast watching the London Olympics this month. I can’t help but get a lump in my throat when I hear our national anthem being played, or a sense of pride when our young athletes perform under such intense pressure. Montgomery County’s own Katie Ledecky, all of 15 years old, really made things […]

I’m just back from the Alliance for Community Media conference in Chicago, a three-day gathering of Public, Education & Government (PEG) media centers from across the country. You may have heard that Montgomery Community Media walked away with the award for best PEG organization in the country, but for me that wasn’t the highlight of […]

Do you own a High Definition television? If you’re like the majority of Montgomery County residents, you do… and perhaps more than one HD set. HD is the standard now, and once you’ve seen those amazing images, it’s hard to go back to standard definition. And like most cable subscribers, you spend most of your […]

It’s been such a treat to see high school kids at MCM this week. They’re the final of three Backpack Journalism classes we’ve held this summer, teaching students how to turn all those funky iPhone videos they shoot into real new media media content that has an impact. MCM’s Mandi Wyndham has been blogging about […]

It was one of those events that touched the life of every Montgomery County resident: the ‘derecho’ storm that slammed through the region earlier this month. Where I live in Kensington, downed trees toppled across roads, cars and houses… power was out for days, and after years of outages, my family’s trusty refrigerator just couldn’t […]