DISQUS

WSmart · 1 year ago

Empowering the public is about as popular as a campaign to free the cows. The pubic is expected to do nothing. We can't just put people on trains and melt them down form the gold in their teeth. Duh. There has to be a justification for the exploitation. We're not animals, good gravy.

I have an idea on how to fund a community project or public service, that crystallized for me through my use of bit torrent; contribution share ratio. The idea is to provide the contributions context. The way things are today, you could contribute ten bucks or a thousand and it's all just a shot in the dark. Communication is fundamental to community. The project has $X dollars of costs and Y number of community members where X/Y equals a 1:1 share ratio. What that does is, first, gives people a starting point for getting involved, people who might otherwise do nothing because they have no idea what to do-which if you have a bag over your head it's hard to tell, isn't it. Secondly it opens the door for people to do more. I might contribute $20 bucks to my favorite community project, and that might be it, forever, because I have no idea what the costs are or what's going on. With some sort of feedback, you know where things are and it opens the door to getting involved, doing more, being empowered.

Don Quixote · 1 year ago

Uh, didn't you just get laid off from the new journalism? Do you still feel so impowered with that "new media ethos?" Just curious.....

airborneboy · 1 year ago

Wow, it must be nice to report on media from one side of the fence. Citing sources from milesaway and obviously trying to ensure the "truth" is told. I passed English Comp too, so I guess that qualifies me as a reporter.

Oh, by the way being a reporter gives you no more rights than any citizen to a story. You have no special access information, crime scenes or the like....you can just spin the same info we all know because you have access to the press machine...