Time Magazine Person of the Year: You (Pass the Kool Aid) but Where Do You End and Mainstream Media Begin?
The annual Time Magazine person of the year is slightly different this year….in their own words….
"But look at 2006 through a different lens and you’ll see another story, one that isn’t about conflict or great men. It’s a story about community and collaboration on a scale never seen before. It’s about the cosmic compendium of knowledge Wikipedia and the million-channel people’s network YouTube and the online metropolis MySpace. It’s about the many wresting power from the few and helping one another for nothing and how that will not only change the world, but also change the way the world changes."
Oh, but do they really like us or are they just sucking up?ﾃつ
CK,ﾃつ who I had the opportunity to meet at Toby’s Bipartisan Blogger’s Wonk, says, "It’s a pivotal moment to see a magazine that has boasted many presidents, philanthropists and visionaries in this annual top spot recognize the impact of a lot of "little guys" and, in so doing, relay that control is no longer in the hands of the few."
Yes, the winner is you…the content creators of the web. And I am flattered, really,ﾃつ to be a winning "you." I just wish they didn’t sound so….so much like us? So, Web 2.OMG! Group hug, pass the Kool-Aid.
But read on, "for working for nothing and beating the pros at their own game". If you are working for nothing, how are you beating the pros at their own game. Professional=pay; amateur= no pay. Right?
Well, Steve Rubel says that he and Robert Scoble and John Furrier have started an "important discussion" about where does citizen’s media end and mainstream media begin. Their answer is, Steve says: getting paid, in real time cash money. The mainstream media is using our stuff…blogs, wikis, podcasts and so on; they even try to write in a more casual style. On the other side, there are lots of bloggers whose blogs and podcasts and videos provide them with their primary source of income; income from advertising. So, this means just one thing: they are media. If you are passing the Kool Aid and supporting yourself from your Kool Aid stand….by Steve’s definition as well as Time’s, you are not a person of the year.
Well, I hate to have to note that there does not seem to be any diversity in this important discussion among Steve, Robert and John…we askﾃつ not "Where are the Women Bloggers?" but where is their voice in the important discussion?
Tags: Time Magazine, Person of the Year, KoolAid, Marianne Richmond, Robert Scoble, Steve Rubel, John Furrier, Toby Bloomberg, CK’s Blog,ﾃつ MySpace, Wikipedia, ,YouTube, Women Bloggers, Blogs, MSM, Main Stream Media,ﾃつ WIMN’s Voices
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President John Edwards Delivers the State of the Blogosphere…
A John Edwards presidency may be that moment that we look back upon and say, "He was the first president of the social media age." He seems to "get it." His wife, Elizabeth seems to "get it." I am not saying that just because he was the keynote speaker at Gnomedex. Visit his website and you will see a veritable showroom for social media…not only does he have a blog, he launched it in Beta.
You can receive updates on your mobile device; he has podcasts, he has video. He is using YouTube. Want to know what he talked about at Gnomedex? That’s correct, go to YouTube. He has a blogging family, Elizabeth and Cate. You can chat and there is community.
If John Edwards delivers the State of the Union in January of 2009,
can we expect authenticity and transparency? Will we nod and say, "its
the blogosphere, stupid." Will there be a national dialog on the
question: "Are all links created equal?" Will we need laws that state
that discrimination on the basis of race, gender, religion, age and Technorati
links is not permitted? John Edwards, if elected will become our first
blogging president; Elizabeth will become the first blogging First
Lady. Pass the Kool-Aid, please.
Tags: John Edwards, blogs Gnomedex, podcasts, videoblogs, Elizabeth Edwards, Technorati, YouTube
Net Squared Live Online!
The Net2 conference begins on May 30th in Santa Clara and ifﾃつ like me you are not one of the lucky 350 participants, Marshall Kirkpatrick informed me that there is a remote conference, live online at http://netsquared.org/remote. How cool is that going to be?
There is chat which features "special Q&A sessions with NetSquared speakers and other guests." The agenda is here and a speakers list is here….there is even a frappr map. Net2’s mission is to help non-profits understand and use the tools of the social web, or as they put it remixing the web for social change.ﾃつ Relationships are, of course what non-profit capacity building is all about and the tools of web 2.0, blogs, wikis, online social networks, RSS, podcasting, vlogs are transformational tools to enable non-profits to achieve their missions faster and further than ever before.
So, if you haven’t been to Net2, you need to; and sign up for the remote conference. I’ll see you there!
Tags: Net2, Net Squared, non-profits, Marshall Kirkpatrick, Web 2.0
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Join Us For The Debut of Media Slaves Podcast…Life in Permanent Beta
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We are very excited to announce that the Media Slaves Podcast series is up and running! What is the topic for the first podcast?
Glad you asked! User Generated Content is a label that has been the subject of many blog posts…some of them even our own.
What’s in a name? Or label? How do the labels that we use or that are used by others impact mainstreaming of new media and perceptions of what blogs, podcasts, and video blogs/podcasts and other new media are about?
Speaking of names and not that they need an introduction, the other producers of Mediaﾃつ Slaves are Zadi Diaz, the documentary filmaker, video blogger and editor who vlogs at Karmagirrrl; Debi Jones, mobile expert, blogosphere trend spotter, and designer of our wow, now, and its happening, baby! Media Slaves Blog who blogs at Mobile Jones;ﾃつ and Nicole Simon, European podcast expert who blogs and podcasts at Cruel to be Kind and Bloxpert. We are also the Blogging and Social Media Editors at Blogher.
So…join us at Media-Slaves at http://media-slaves@blogspot.com. We are there 24/7….
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Tags: podcasts, blogs, social media, media, Zadi Diaz, Mobile Jones, Marianne Richmond, Nicole Simon, blogher
Summer Camp!
I am really excited to say that I just signed up to go to Andy Wibbel’s podcasting boot camp…sounds like perfect summer camp for me: air conditioning, my laptop, my cell phone, a really fun camp counselor, no equipment lists that include mosquito repellent or a snake bite first aid kit and you don’t even have to leave home to get something that is HOT!
Maybe that is the best thing about podcasts…you don’t have to leave home but you can.
Also, Andy has an awesome blogging class and ebook both of which I can highly recommend….EasyBake Weblogs.
If you have questions about blogging, say about 40…he has the answers to them and a free special report.
Check it all out. I’m off to Podcamp!
BTW:Andy’s classes are valuable in and of themselves but when you see the
prices for some of the other blogging and podcasting classes being
offered, you will know just how great the value of Andy’s classes really
are.
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