when you change points of view, you can change the world

Dave Gahan Depeche Mode Visuals from fan found news material. A wicked combination I think.

“It enables citizens to participate in public conversation continously and pervasively, not as passive recipients of recieved wisdom from professional talking heads, but as active participants in conversations carried out at many level of political and social structure”. from Benkler Wealth Of Networks page 130

Ah yes the talking heads, really I think he must be talking about newscasters, if not lets pretend he is. Yes the way we receive the news has changed, yes the newspaper, television newsbroadcast still exists, but the addition of webnews really has its effect on me, and probally you and the rest of the individuals on the net.

I think the best thing for me has been youtube commentary about the news that is caught by passersby and posted, there is something about reading the written commentaries from the people who experienced the news first hand that gives a much different perspective than the news reporting that we had as the only option it seems not that long ago.

And yes news from different countries and difference sides of wars lends intoself a little more to a clarity of whats going on, I think I was in Ottawa when I heard from my Iranian friend Besnoz a perspective of the Iraq war that I had never heard. I was just so niave and unaware even when I was watching the news. Hey I just watched Jarheads speaking of that, oh man good movie, well if that is just one perspective I guess.

Anyway now because of the net, the web, the web 2.0, we have access to more than the individuals we know in front of us, and the global perspectives of what is going on in our world. I guess yes I’ll have to pull my head out of the sand a little more, ya a reference to my podcast, because it is my daughters world too, I wonder what web 3.0 will look like. Ill see you there okay?