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

[Samuel Rose]

On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 4:59 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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Great work, Michel and P2P Foundation!


It's really good to see this evolution. I really believe this is an
important time for people worldwide to consider plausible alternatives
to what they are doing now, so this is really nice to see.


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