[p2p-research] A P2P Foundation milestone: breaking through to the mass media

[Michel Bauwens]

thanks synnove, as I have received no links myself yet!!

On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 4:15 AM, Synnove Mathe <synnove.mathe at gmail.com>wrote:

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> http://www.elpais.com/articulo/cultura/Compartir/archivos/crimen/elpepicul/20100330elpepicul_4/Tes
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> http://www.elpais.com/articulo/tecnologia/valor/subvenciones/elpeputec/20100330elpeputec_6/Tes
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> http://www.elpais.com/articulo/cultura/estrella/copyright/elpepicul/20100330elpepicul_2/Tes
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> some in spanish "El País" (March 3, 2010)
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> Hugs,
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> Synnöve
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> 2010/3/31 Alex Rollin <alex.rollin at gmail.com>
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> Can you share the details of the media interviews?  Send over some links
>> and we can repost.
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>> --
>> Alex
>>
>> “It’s no longer possible for a country to collapse in isolation. Now we
>> all collapse.
>>
>> The only path to stability is to equalize the consumption rates of the
>> first and developing world. Our dream is no longer possible in the new
>> world.” - Jared Diamond March 2010
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>>   On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 10:59 PM, Michel Bauwens <
>> michelsub2004 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>   a reflection after my trips to athens and barcelona:
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>>>
>>>
>>> When you take up a advocacy task like the P2P Foundation, which requires
>>> an investment of time and effort, it is obviously to influence to some
>>> degree or other the state of affairs in the world. Permanently swimming
>>> against the stream without any progress would be disheartening.
>>>
>>> In measuring the influence of our work, there is of course what the
>>> online world tells you.  We can’t really complain about our achievements
>>> since 2006. Our wiki stats page mention over 10 million pageviews, and the
>>> Twitter-oriented Topsy tells us we are a top 2% global influencer in terms
>>> of number of retweets and secondary audience. Nevertheless, reaching the
>>> online world is important and essential, but mass media are still
>>> influential amongst huge audiences which cannot be reached through
>>> specialized internet media.
>>>
>>> Until this month, this type of coverage is something that eluded us
>>> almost completely. We would have lectures in many places, but for
>>> specialized audiences and without any mass media echo. This seems to have
>>> changed in the months of March-April 2010. Once could be a fluke, but
>>> perhaps two times is not. In Greece, where we were early March, an interview
>>> with the major conservative newspaper, was coupled with a video interview in
>>> front of the Acropolis, and two political meetings. However, these last two
>>> days in Barcelona certainly topple that. Two TV interviews were coupled with
>>> four interviews for print media, such as for El Pais and Publico.
>>>
>>> I would not like to raise any expectations that this would become the
>>> rule, but nevertheless, I think we have gotten through the glass ceiling,
>>> and I consider this an important advance for the influence of our ideas.
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Work: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhurakij_Pundit_University - Think
>>> thank: http://www.asianforesightinstitute.org/index.php/eng/The-AFI
>>>
>>> P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net  -
>>> http://blog.p2pfoundation.net
>>>
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> --
> Synnöve
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http://www.asianforesightinstitute.org/index.php/eng/The-AFI

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