Snipped some stuff... John Hibbs wrote:
> Here's my caveat. The one area that I think needs improvement is how > both groups can get more attention? > > My guess is that podcasting, satellite radio, community radio and the > innovative spirits that are found in both groups are the main > ingredients for wide publicity - and more money, accelerated results. > Yet, both groups seem satisfied to reach a few hundred in their real > time events and a few thousand in their electronic circulations. OK, I have only one problem with this, really: Podcasting. Note - that is not to say that I disagree with *mobcasting*. Podcasting, by itself, isn't something I deem very important as it is and as it is used. Aside from marketing hype... podcasting has limited value to the vast majority of users of the internet. Audio blogging is for people who have bandwidth. Now - *mobcasting*, which our own Andy Carvin came up with, is something I see quite useful in the context of many things. The mobcasting idea has suffered, I think, because of the hubris of *podcasting*. Mobcasting allows real time event *discussion*, and I know that Andy is thinking of ways to make it more useful in these regards. Satellite radio and community radio - definitely. I'd also like to toss in HAM radio, and that's something I'd like to see added into 'mobcasting' mainly because it fits inline with the poorly documented (my fault) concept of the Alert Retrieval Cache's next level; ARCTX. Once I get settled somewhere on the planet, I plan to get a HAM license to work on such things in a sensible manner. > > I wish they would give more thought on how to reach millions. The way to reach millions is actually already happening through the modern oracles: Search engines. Because of the great design of the DDN site, as well as the rapid evolution of it, DDN has become a model for reaching millions because it caters to the lowest common denominator on the internet. The user of search engines. > > Unfortunately, the recipe that will generate same has yet to be > formulated -- much less baked. Ideas welcome. Many people are busy looking for 'higher tech' solutions. I've seen it in ideas for electronic meetings for WSIS, I see it in doing things that pay the bills (commercially related stuff), and I've seen it in resistant communities. In the Nuclear Propulsion program, we used to call it 'Nuking a problem' - where instead of finding the best solution, people found the most acronym-filled, largest amount of equations, and so on. Catering to the lowest common denominator is what this is really about. -- Taran Rampersad Presently in: Panama City, Panama [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.knowprose.com http://www.easylum.net http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/Taran "Criticize by creating." — Michelangelo _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
