Comments on: The “participation revolution”? http://www.levjoy.com/blog/2005/11/21/the-participation-revolution/ Mon, 19 Dec 2011 21:31:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: ma594zda http://www.levjoy.com/blog/2005/11/21/the-participation-revolution/comment-page-1/#comment-25093 ma594zda Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:03:40 +0000 http://www.levjoy.com/blog/?p=224#comment-25093 <strong>t219a...</strong> t545t... t219a…

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]]> By: citizens, agency, independence at This is really happening. http://www.levjoy.com/blog/2005/11/21/the-participation-revolution/comment-page-1/#comment-1285 citizens, agency, independence at This is really happening. Tue, 29 Aug 2006 14:13:25 +0000 http://www.levjoy.com/blog/?p=224#comment-1285 [...] This has all reminded me of questions I had last November when I first discovered Flock, a still-in-development web browser that integrates blogging, feed-reading, and photo-sharing into one application. Beyond it being a cool toy (it is), I was interested in the way it billed itself as a revolutionary tool of the social web. Said CEO Bart Decrem, We are part of the participation revolution, a shift of control away from corporations, publishers and other large entities, and towards the individual. [...] [...] This has all reminded me of questions I had last November when I first discovered Flock, a still-in-development web browser that integrates blogging, feed-reading, and photo-sharing into one application. Beyond it being a cool toy (it is), I was interested in the way it billed itself as a revolutionary tool of the social web. Said CEO Bart Decrem, We are part of the participation revolution, a shift of control away from corporations, publishers and other large entities, and towards the individual. [...]

]]> By: Chris Messina http://www.levjoy.com/blog/2005/11/21/the-participation-revolution/comment-page-1/#comment-213 Chris Messina Tue, 22 Nov 2005 18:03:22 +0000 http://www.levjoy.com/blog/?p=224#comment-213 Hi Josh, I can't speak on behalf of the rest of the Flockers, but I can tell you that I'm personally committed to that vision in my advocacy and work in open source. In fact, we're designing Flock to serve that very purpose, considering the citizen journalism angles and working to build a suite of tools that can be used to re-democratize media. But this has to happen on both sides, which is why I <a href="http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2005/06/09/moving-on-from-civicspace/" rel="nofollow">left my job</a> at <a href="http://civicspacelabs.org/" rel="nofollow">CivicSpace</a> to come build Flock. The publishing tools are out there but getting rich content into them has a long way to go. And in so much as we are able to help bring a new vehicle for encouraging a wider diversity of voices on the web, I believe that we will be doing a great service for the advancement of human dialogue and debate. (How's that for lofty ambitions?) Hi Josh,

I can’t speak on behalf of the rest of the Flockers, but I can tell you that I’m personally committed to that vision in my advocacy and work in open source.

In fact, we’re designing Flock to serve that very purpose, considering the citizen journalism angles and working to build a suite of tools that can be used to re-democratize media.

But this has to happen on both sides, which is why I left my job at CivicSpace to come build Flock. The publishing tools are out there but getting rich content into them has a long way to go. And in so much as we are able to help bring a new vehicle for encouraging a wider diversity of voices on the web, I believe that we will be doing a great service for the advancement of human dialogue and debate. (How’s that for lofty ambitions?)

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