Public Media and Organization

I am way pleased to see that things like www.digg.com and www.originalsignal.com are being distributed and housed by medialytes everywhere. These sources are a great way for the public to dispense, share and judge information.

They have a natural edge over televised and radio media, with the onset of internet sound and video, especially free sound and video, of a user-determinable content counter to television.

These technologies, along with the entirely monitored social networking sites, allow civilians to organize and share information faster and easier, continually, and at the touch of a button. They can also immediately and easily interact with news organizations and their state. This media must be more effectively used to help people become more in touch with one another.

It is only a matter of time before international internet events occur on a professional and democratic level. Amnesty International, the ABA, ACLU, the ICRC, these orgs should not only have sites, they should have CHAT ROOMS in which people around the world can organize and trade information. They already have reasonably interactive and educational media. I want ICRC chats, forums, action centers, and organization projects, and links to help with free donations and other action potentials.

The UN definately needs one of these. Email correspondance is just not cutting it anymore.

In a similar note, a poster at www.deviantart.com displayed about a year and a half ago the notion of home Hollywood websites and webservers, where people would film their own videos and mix their own music and produce it personally. Since that time, www.youtube.com has arrived and its copies. We are still awaiting a division of the internet designed for semi-pro awarded pieces. I would like this to be a professionalizing, a maturation of internet production. We should see the youtube be joined by professional publication organizations, clearly independent of major organizations, providing the software required to produce fine music and movies, private and public documentaries.

I am also moved that The Leader Of Iran has taken to blogging and that they have recently announced that suicide bombing is wrong and hurts Islam. I am very pleased at this civility and choice to honor God with peace. I also challenge the American president to the debate with the Iranian president. I would personally debate either of them on television any day of the week.

That should be on the internet. They should debate live on the internet. I want internet news TV with breaking news. I don't care much if it's local internet news, but I want reporters on there in reasonably funky suits talking about something that I am interested in at every hour of the day or night. I demand it. I want forums beneath the movies. I want it to be digg.com times the news. It will be fantastic and can be for anything, not just news. I want religious speeches by pastors, historical speeches. I want MLK's speeches online. I want Kennedy and Eisenhower there. I want the 1992 presidential debates on this thing. Make it happen.