From the Screen to the Streets

By Howard Rheingold

It has taken 10 years of talk about “new media” for a critical mass to understand that every computer desktop, and now every pocket, is a worldwide printing press, broadcasting station, place of assembly, and organizing tool—and to learn how to use that infrastructure to [RETURN TO ARTICLE]

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    Great piece.  In the spirit of the “Electronic Town Square” I’m been working a little volunteer project at NPOBlogs.org to aggregate RSS feeds from nonprofits and activists.  It’s important for us all to know what each other are doing and to see what’s possible with a simple tool like RSS. 

    If a few visionary funders could direct resources toward the building of decentralized nonprofit communications technology and skill building, we could avoid a lot of the “recreating of the wheel” that’s going on at nonprofits today.

    Webmaster: Please note that the link to the smartmobs.com web site actually points to the Dean campaign web site.

    United States Posted by Kathy Watkins on Oct 30, 2003 at 2:15 PM

    Hey—
    Good story on the media and the changes coming from the left.
    http://www.inthesetimes.com/comments.php?id=414_0_1_0_C
    —Jake

    United States Posted by Jake on Oct 30, 2003 at 7:11 PM

    Yes!

    United States Posted by j! on Oct 31, 2003 at 5:40 AM

    Mr. Rheingold failed to mention Dennis ZKucinich’s web network, which is at least as effective as Dean’s. You’d think, from what we read in the media, that Dean had invented the Internet and that no one else is taking afvantage of it.

    Visit <kucinich.us> and see.

    Ed. Schofield

    United States Posted by Ed. Schofield on Nov 2, 2003 at 10:40 AM

    Excuse the typos in my earlier message!

    Ed.

     

    United States Posted by Ed. Schofield on Nov 2, 2003 at 10:52 AM

    Ed—use the “submit a link” form at http://www.smartmobs.com when the Kucinich campaign has something smart-mob-like (i.e., using the Net, mobile devices, p2p, self-organizing techniques to organize collective action) to announce, and I will blog it.

    United States Posted by Howard Rheingold on Nov 8, 2003 at 10:07 PM

    Kathy—I really think you are on the right track. Let me know how your plans to get NPOs to use RSS works out.

    United States Posted by Howard Rheingold on Nov 8, 2003 at 10:09 PM
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