Post by Lord Targaryen (Rhaeghar) on Apr 26, 2005 7:15:23 GMT -5
Please, if you have some spare time pick up Joe Trippi's book: The Revolution Will Not be Televised.
It deals with his work as campaign manager on the Howard Dean Presidential campaign but goes well beyond that. Really, it is about how television is a top-down medium and has ruined participatory democracy in America. Trippi believes we are on the verge of a new revolution in which the internet is quickly empowering Americans to take back our country from corporate America and corrupt politicians and lobbyists. He argues that the internet allows citizens/consumers to form large communities around a canidate or a product which are then able to hold those corporations and government accountable to the general will of the people. Those companies/canidates that take notice of this movement and build thriving internet communities, listen to their consituency, and allow them to participate in the process of developing or brainstorming will be the ones that survive this revolution. Those companies/canidates that resist, will be left in the dust.
When I was reading this I could not stop thinking about our OWN little community right here (LUS) and even beyond (the EE community). Also, if anyone is active on the EE2 Community board, you should know how MadDoc pays lipservice to the EE community but fails implement the suggestions made by those withing the community.
Look, this book is relevent to all of us in Lus and I encourage you to give it a read whenever possible.
We, as both consumers and more importantly as citizens HAVE THE POWER to hold the Government and Corporate America accountable. We, the people of this great country, have a responsability to our children to take this country back.
I leave you with these selection from the book:
"The companies that survive and thrive in this new age will be the ones that respond to the three demands that this movement will make of corporate America:
1) We want business that empower consumers.
2) We want corporations to ve responsive to shareholders.
3) We will only tolerate companies that are good corporate citizens" (Trippi, 204).
"This revolution is about more than just consumers. It's about citizens, too. And, in the end, the company itself is just another citizen" (Trippi 219).
"The internet is the most democratizing innovation we've ever seen - more so than even the printing press. There has never been a technology this fast, this expansive, with the ability to connect this many people from around the world" (Trippi, 235-236).
For more information please visit: www.changeforamerica.com
LT
It deals with his work as campaign manager on the Howard Dean Presidential campaign but goes well beyond that. Really, it is about how television is a top-down medium and has ruined participatory democracy in America. Trippi believes we are on the verge of a new revolution in which the internet is quickly empowering Americans to take back our country from corporate America and corrupt politicians and lobbyists. He argues that the internet allows citizens/consumers to form large communities around a canidate or a product which are then able to hold those corporations and government accountable to the general will of the people. Those companies/canidates that take notice of this movement and build thriving internet communities, listen to their consituency, and allow them to participate in the process of developing or brainstorming will be the ones that survive this revolution. Those companies/canidates that resist, will be left in the dust.
When I was reading this I could not stop thinking about our OWN little community right here (LUS) and even beyond (the EE community). Also, if anyone is active on the EE2 Community board, you should know how MadDoc pays lipservice to the EE community but fails implement the suggestions made by those withing the community.
Look, this book is relevent to all of us in Lus and I encourage you to give it a read whenever possible.
We, as both consumers and more importantly as citizens HAVE THE POWER to hold the Government and Corporate America accountable. We, the people of this great country, have a responsability to our children to take this country back.
I leave you with these selection from the book:
"The companies that survive and thrive in this new age will be the ones that respond to the three demands that this movement will make of corporate America:
1) We want business that empower consumers.
2) We want corporations to ve responsive to shareholders.
3) We will only tolerate companies that are good corporate citizens" (Trippi, 204).
"This revolution is about more than just consumers. It's about citizens, too. And, in the end, the company itself is just another citizen" (Trippi 219).
"The internet is the most democratizing innovation we've ever seen - more so than even the printing press. There has never been a technology this fast, this expansive, with the ability to connect this many people from around the world" (Trippi, 235-236).
For more information please visit: www.changeforamerica.com
LT
