I'm wondering if this mobcasting would work for librarians marching on the
capital? What a great way to catch real-time events relating to libraries,
librarians, and politics at once....?
.....just brainstorming.
~Shonda Brisco
Trinity Valley MS /US Librarian
Fort Worth, TX
sbrisco021@charter.net
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From: "Andy Carvin" <acarvin@EDC.ORG>
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Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2005 2:31 PM
Subject: [LM_NET] blog: when mobile podcasting leads to mobcasting
> Hi everyone,
>
> I've just posted a blog that might be of interest. It's about
> "mobcasting" -- the idea of combining mobile phone-enable podcasting
> with smart mob-like group action. Here's a snippet from the blog:
>
> "What do I mean by mobcasting? Well, it's really a double entrendre, if
> you will: a play on both mobile podcasting and Smart Mobs, Howard
> Rheingold's notion of viral-like social coordination enabled by
> information and communications technologies. Smart mobs got a lot of
> hype last year in the mainstream media, usually in the form of
> surrealistic group performance art initiated over the Internet. But
> smart mobs are much more powerful than just a group of college kids
> showing up in an art gallery at 12:15pm, standing on one foot and
> yelling "Tevye, get off the roof!" before dispersing without further
> comment. Like the case of SMS use during the anti-Estrada demonstrations
> in the Philippines, smart mobs can be any form of group social action
> enabled by ICTs.
>
> "A quick example: imagine a large protest at a political convention.
> During the protest, police overstep their authority and begin abusing
> protesters, sometimes brutally. A few journalists are covering the
> event, but not live. For the protestors and civil rights activists
> caught in the melee, the police abuses clearly need to be documented and
> publicized as quickly as possible. Rather than waiting for the handful
> of journalists to file a story on it, activists at the protest capture
> the event on their video phones -- dozens of phones from dozens of
> angles. Thanks to the local 3G (or community wi-fi) network, the
> activists immediately podcast the footage on their blogs. The footage
> gets aggregated on a civil rights website thanks to the RSS feeds
> produced by the podcasters' blogs. (Or perhaps they all podcast their
> footage directly to a centralized website, a la OneWorld TV but with an
> RSS twist.) This leads to coverage by bloggers throughout the
> blogosphere, which leads to coverage by the mainstream media, which
> leads to demands of accountability by the general public. That's
> mobcasting."
>
> To read more, please visit here:
>
> http://www.andycarvin.com
>
> permalink:
> http://www.andycarvin.com/000712.html
>
> Would love to hear your thoughts on the concept.
>
> thanks,
> ac
>
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