Jeff Jarvis has a long piece on the fast approaching explosion of Amateur Television.

Many people have been predicting this for some time, but Jeff has some good thoughts about why TV will happen first:

- TV is more exciting to consumers.
- TV is more exciting to advertisers (who have been trying to turn the Web into TV ever since it started).
- Thus there's more money in TV.
- There are also far greater savings in TV. Radio's already cheap to produce. TV isn't. But with new cameras and tools and citizen producers, just a few people (or even one person) can turn out decent TV today.
- TV does not bring with it the added expectation and difficulty of portability; we do expect to get radio everywhere but we don't (yet) watch it in our cars (much).

Jeff unloads a mess of links to resources, articles, and prognostications as well.
[thanks to Patrick at Pictureworks]