"I love that you've brought this to attention. An extensive database of uncommon but resistant and hardy plants/foods could be developed and organized by climate. Ease of growth and processing should also be taken in to account. I will try to…"
A crash course in changing the world.
Act1: My hero: Brian Conley
The first hero I want to write about is Brian Conley.
You may not have heard of him, but for the last years he has been doing impressive work in helping reports from hot zones around the world reach us. Unfiltered, co-created by locals, raw at times.
His first video project that I became aware of was "Alive in Baghdad". For a few years, they sent out videos from Baghdad and surrounding areas. Videos most often shot by locals. Brian Conley believes that instead of the western media just travelling to the hotspots in order to say "... and this is Live from Baghdad" or similar - we should listen to the actual people who are living there. The ones who are, for instance, Alive in Baghdad.
AiB is unfortunately not active anymore, but Brian Conley has moved on. Alive in Afghanistan as well as other similar media outlets. His company is called Small World News
Brian Conley is one of my heroes because he is relentless in his vision, and also he works with people from around the world.
His way of sharing news from places such as Afghanistan or Mexico is interesting, and his videos deserve more attention in my opinion. But I also hope that his model and the model of others who are trying similar projects can spread further, and that we can have ever more small-scale social media outlets from areas around the world.
Who knows, maybe you and 4 friends of yours from your city can use a regular digital camera, a computer and a youtube-account to share with us fragments of your world.
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Comment by Gene Becker on March 3, 2010 at 9:20pm
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Great share Raymond. I hope you'll reach out to Brian and let him know how he has inspired you.
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Comment by David Harris on March 4, 2010 at 1:05am
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Such a true statement about to say "Live from..." Let's celebrate the locals who report on their environment but also commend those who do travel from afar to live in those places long enough to truly understand and report.
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Comment by Raymond M. Kristiansen on March 4, 2010 at 1:16am
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@David: Oh, I agree. This is Nothing against people who fly in, spend a week in an area, report while there, and fly out again. I am simply in favor of a wider ecosystem of information available. Where you have other options than the CNN news and camera positioning.
@Gene: Yeah, I have had contact with Brian for the last couple of years. I will send him the link to this thread :P Thanks!
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Comment by Ángeles Araguz on March 5, 2010 at 8:21pm
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I never thought of this "inside news method" before. Things like this make me expect a lot from games like evoke. Thanks for sharing
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yes, we need to expect more from EVOKE than what is in 'the cards' already. we also need to make the reality of EVOKE closer to our own expections, dreams, visions. thats a part of why I today started an EVOKE guild (hehe), you can read more about it on my blog, or on the google docs
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