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

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http://www.elpais.com/articulo/cultura/Compartir/archivos/crimen/elpepicul/20100330elpepicul_4/Tes


http://www.elpais.com/articulo/tecnologia/valor/subvenciones/elpeputec/20100330elpeputec_6/Tes

http://www.elpais.com/articulo/cultura/estrella/copyright/elpepicul/20100330elpepicul_2/Tes

some in spanish "El País" (March 3, 2010)

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2010/3/31 Alex Rollin <alex.rollin at gmail.com>

> 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:
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
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>> 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
>>
>> Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss:
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>>
>> Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens;
>> http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens
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