Consolidating Broadcasts
I have a major headache but have a blurry need to post...
For me, media is the nervous system of our global organism. Granted it's human-centric, but this planet is, at least for the moment, human-centric. We are the species that drives more changes to the global organism than any before us.
For a long time, media was hierarchical, top-down, with the people with power/money, dictating the signals that were sent to the the rest of the people. But now, as has been being predicted for decades, media is more like the human nervous system with each person a cell able to send messages to the entire system. Videobloggers, podcasters, bloggers, artists taking advantage of long-tail realities...the democratization of media in general have all led to me being able to communicate with you, you communicating with your firend in Israel, your friend in Israel sending me messages from across the world and all of us broadcasting our messages to the other cells and the entire organism.
Some messages line up or help define and become evolving memes. These messages often come in the form of new technologies, attitudes, communities, and ideas.
After years of begin fascinated by media, i've now spawned too many channels to keep track of on a regular basis.
So, now i'm beginning to change my platform. On the one hand i'm beginning to grow each of the broadcast channels and their communities one by one. One at a time, i want to attend to each of the broadcast platforms i have and grow them until they are healthy, rife with neural connections with other "local" neurons.
At the same time, i'm consolidating. Bringing each of the communities to the core of the work i'm most interested in doing.
Over the past several weeks i've had my attention where i've wanted it most for nearly a decade. I've been developing the first installable module of the Human Operating System. And, of everything i've done in the past few years, outputting this product and everything that comes with it has stimulated something in me that i had almost forgotten about. And the deeper i've gone into doing this thing that i love, the more i've found myself grateful and fascinated by how to best serve the communities i'm developing it for.
Soon, all of my broadcast paths will lead to the Human Operating System. And, if all goes well, i'll be getting the community input to take it to levels i haven't yet considered. Here's to community.
For me, media is the nervous system of our global organism. Granted it's human-centric, but this planet is, at least for the moment, human-centric. We are the species that drives more changes to the global organism than any before us.
For a long time, media was hierarchical, top-down, with the people with power/money, dictating the signals that were sent to the the rest of the people. But now, as has been being predicted for decades, media is more like the human nervous system with each person a cell able to send messages to the entire system. Videobloggers, podcasters, bloggers, artists taking advantage of long-tail realities...the democratization of media in general have all led to me being able to communicate with you, you communicating with your firend in Israel, your friend in Israel sending me messages from across the world and all of us broadcasting our messages to the other cells and the entire organism.
Some messages line up or help define and become evolving memes. These messages often come in the form of new technologies, attitudes, communities, and ideas.
After years of begin fascinated by media, i've now spawned too many channels to keep track of on a regular basis.
So, now i'm beginning to change my platform. On the one hand i'm beginning to grow each of the broadcast channels and their communities one by one. One at a time, i want to attend to each of the broadcast platforms i have and grow them until they are healthy, rife with neural connections with other "local" neurons.
At the same time, i'm consolidating. Bringing each of the communities to the core of the work i'm most interested in doing.
Over the past several weeks i've had my attention where i've wanted it most for nearly a decade. I've been developing the first installable module of the Human Operating System. And, of everything i've done in the past few years, outputting this product and everything that comes with it has stimulated something in me that i had almost forgotten about. And the deeper i've gone into doing this thing that i love, the more i've found myself grateful and fascinated by how to best serve the communities i'm developing it for.
Soon, all of my broadcast paths will lead to the Human Operating System. And, if all goes well, i'll be getting the community input to take it to levels i haven't yet considered. Here's to community.
posted by Devon White at 5/03/2008
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