What is PlumsteadWatch.org trying to do?

Some townships are televising their meetings. PlumsteadWatch.org is the nonpartisan project of a Plumstead citizen, Barbara Glassman, to show how cheap and easy it would be for Plumstead Township to videotape their public meetings, starting with the Board of Supervisors, and post them online. Google Video hosting is free, and we already have a tech-savvy township employee who attends most meetings. Barbara addressing the 19 August 2008 Board of Supervisors' meeting (3 minutes):
[If screen is blank, go directly to video at http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5994518932996464612&ei=YqlBSZPZEoeQrAKGiOnGAg&q=plumsteadwatch&hl=en or http://tinyurl.com/ydna564]

The Media Bloggers Association, featured on NPR's On the Media on October 5, 2008, sounds like a great place to start to answer some of the questions that arise; they even offer liability insurance and a course in media law. On the Media features SLAPPs on their April 2, 2010, show and offers the possibility of using a homeowners' insurance policy to buy inexpensive coverage against defamation lawsuits.