Take Back Our Media
Comparing today’s podcast revolution to the Woodstock event, Adam Curry says:
“This time the world is listening, not just a couple of million.”
“We are the media.”
“We want to take back our media…”
This morning over my first cup of coffee I listened to Adam Curry’s June 25, 2005 keynote (in the form of a Daily Source Code podcast) at the recent Gnomedex. If you want to read a one-screen summary, hit this blog.
Next, I popped into my A9.com search tool bar (if you are still using raw Google instead of Amazon’s A9, you’re missing a delightful and very functional tool in our Virtual Life.
Why did I dip into search mode (A9 uses Goggle as its search back end): I wasn’t sure how to spell “Gnomedex.” You can guess what happened next: While I instantly learned the correct spelling, my screen was filled with high quality links referring to Gnomedex 5.0, Chris Pirillo’s wildly popular “un-conference.” Of these links, the most useful was from Technorati which showed a gazillion references tagged with “Gnomedex.”
So here I am, now drinking a second cup of coffee, listening to Curry. I’m virtually attending a conference, at my convenience, in my venue, on my terms. Did I mention it’s all FREE?
The media world is being turned upside down by the podcast and weblog revolution. The global media conglomerates who control music, movies, TV, radio and print feel the earth shaking. So far all they’ve felt are relatively tiny movements, But The Big One is coming, a huge 9.5 earthquake that will destroy the media skyscrapers designed using yesterday’s rules.
The new “Take Back Our Media” rules are simple:
1) Users Rule.
2) Anybody with talent can create (and distribute) high quality content.
3) “Transmitters? We don’t need no stinking transmitters.” (Adam Curry’s tag line)
4) Citizens as journalists have joined professional journalists.
The line between content creators and content users is blurring. When you comment on my blog, you move from the audinece to the podium, while we all become your audience.
The New Content(tm) revolution is only beginning. Let’s have some fun!