YourWeek: I Hope PBS Is Ready for Undersexed Housewives at Disney

I may be heading toward a future as a Steven Hodson acolyte, because I'm starting to feel a little bit too cranky about some of the latest entrants into the Web 2.0 space. I'm all about democracy in site creation and user-generated content, but I guess I draw the line at letting the unwashed masses mess with my PBS content.

I'm really thinking about not renewing my annual donation based on the concept of YourWeek, a weekly television program whose content will be generated by the top stories on Reddit. No, I'm not kidding; I'm not feeling creative enough to have come up with something like that on my own. Funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (and viewers like you!), the show is coming out of WETA, Washington, DC, and can be seen online at yourweek.reddit.

The concept of the show (which has already filmed its pilot episode) involves covering the stories that make reddit's front page. During the week between shows, users will be able to follow up at the show's site, contributing thoughts on corrections, missing content, and comments about the show. As the reddit blog states:

"Meta discussions about that content and the show itself will all take place at yourweek.reddit, so please submit all your wittiest and smartest comments there."

I'm getting a bit concerned about the glorification of meta as an art form, much less as something PBS is involved with. I look to PBS content for breaking news and coverage of stories I might not find anywhere else. I'm not sure if I'm really interested in the exploits of a former Jack Sparrow at Disney's come-ons from sex-starved housewives*.

* #2 on the reddit home page as of the time of this post