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

[Alex Rollin]

Can you share the details of the media interviews?  Send over some links and
we can repost.



--
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



On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 10:59 PM, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> thank: http://www.asianforesightinstitute.org/index.php/eng/The-AFI
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