Philip Gomes

Involvism is a term I found following the links in this Doc Searls post.

I instantly liked it. Why? Because it should be the new 'ism' for what used to be described as journalism. Journalism for/by/with everyone.

As Searls says:

In the old media world, freedom of speech belonged to companies that bought ink by the barrel. In the new media world, it belongs to everybody with a cell phone or a keyboard. Get used to it. Or, as Jonathan did, put it to use.

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 A crowd organised global conversation about the 2010 Tour de France.

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More interesting food for thought from Jeff Jarvis on the collaboration economy.

Curley says that “we intend to participate in that stream, in that revenue stream.” But what about the content stream? He needs to participate in what Marissa Mayer calls the hyperpersonal news stream. He has to break out of the idea of sites and portals and go to where the people are. Yet Curley said he’d prevent his customers from redistributing his content through emails or “re-syndication” – from the stream, in short.

The bolding is mine. Increasingly I find this to be true. I'm at the point now where I find the entire idea of a single site or portal to be a constraining thing from a creative point of view.

It's a locked in/up/down thing, forcing the content creators/consumers (now one and the same) into certain behaviours and modes of production that don't - in my opinion - represent the future of media.

It's also a resource thing. I now see sites and portals as heavy things, anchored in a single place, unable to go to where the action is, consuming time and resources in a way that's unnecessary.

Unlike looser social structures which give you real flexibility and the ability to react and reach across a range of platforms.

To, in effect, go where the action is - or be where the action is.

Something is starting to take shape, you can see and feel it. We're about to break free.

Single sites, single [media] organisations and single governments cannot hope to compete against the plurality of millions of producers, creators and consumers speaking to each other, collaborating with each other and sharing with each other.

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How it was done, and more.

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Serious media observers far and wide have had their say about ABC supremo Mark Scott's speech about the new media environment, Rupert Murdoch and private versus public publishing and broadcasting options.

Here's mine.

Scott's speech was un-remarkable, important not for it's content but for who was making it. Notable in that a public broadcaster was defining a different version to content publishing and production that that currently envisaged by Murdoch and his ilk.

But then, for the millions of people who have spent time exploring new forms of publishing content online in a first hand manner over the past decade, none of what he had to say would be news.

You could see this coming a mile away. Where was Scott five years ago?

Best line of the day goes to Ben Eltham at New Matilda.

In the land of the blind, the man with a print-out of a Clay Shirky blog is king.

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Via. Amusing comments thread too.

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Should be fun and interesting.

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I wish I was a new/social media thought and conversation leader like all those other guys and gals, then I'd be able to go to those innumerable swanky conferences and hob-nob with the new mediaratti over coffee and sandwiches.

OTOH, I already have a real job doing just that instead of self referentially talking about it all over the internets to the boredom of just about everyone.

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