January 18, 2007 12 Comments

Exploratory Committee

Explode For those of you stalking me through my site, I switched flights. I had something I forgot about this morning. I’ll be delayed to NYC, but not too bad.

Barack Obama shot a video for Brighcove announcing an exploratory committee as to whether he should go try and be President of the US. It’s always a funny announcement, because it basically says: “I’ve publicly announced that I haven’t made up my mind.”

I am writing to tell you I’m publicly announcing that I haven’t made up my mind:

Impact

PodCamp Boston ended with lots of us feeling supercharged about the future. We had all kinds of ideas that we wanted to work on. PodCamp Pittsburgh went one further and said, “Okay, we’ve had the conversation. Now ACT.” It was a powerful difference to an unconference that I helped create and that Chris Penn and Bryan Person and Steve Garfield and others felt was a raging success (it was!). But since Pittsburgh, I’ve wanted the idea to go higher. I want more.

I want to build a digital community with multiple contributors. I want to build a “living” exchange of information, in one form or another. I want to be an idea hub that helps people find each other and build on projects together, where it’s not MY project, but it’s a community that I help seed. I want the information to be in video, audio, and text format. I want art, creativity, the ideas and business plans to make sense.

My passionate readers and friends are perfectly suited for this project, but is it something we all want/need? I just don’t know.

I’ve been mulling variations on the idea over for days.

The other idea, in case you’re interested, is called “Walk about your World.” The idea is that you just take us on a weekly walk through the ecosystem around your house and show us a ‘story’ of life around your personal universe. What do you think?

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  • http://stevegarfield.com steve garfield

    Nice post. I sent it to Amy. She’s described what you described before and wants something like that too. Let’s plan for you to come to JP and have lunch with Amy to discuss.

  • http://stevegarfield.com steve garfield

    Nice post. I sent it to Amy. She’s described what you described before and wants something like that too. Let’s plan for you to come to JP and have lunch with Amy to discuss.

  • http://www.cc-chapman.com C.C. Chapman – Managing the Gr

    I love both ideas.

    I use to do something on my blog WAY back in the day called “Roads Less Traveled” and what I did was just go for a walk and take pictures. The rule was I’d then publish them IN ORDER and no deleting any. I’d comment on each of them. It made for an interesting time.

    This was prior to podcasting so I could see this in so many more ways now then it could then.

  • http://www.cc-chapman.com C.C. Chapman – Managing the Gray Marketing Podcast

    I love both ideas.

    I use to do something on my blog WAY back in the day called “Roads Less Traveled” and what I did was just go for a walk and take pictures. The rule was I’d then publish them IN ORDER and no deleting any. I’d comment on each of them. It made for an interesting time.

    This was prior to podcasting so I could see this in so many more ways now then it could then.

  • http://www.idoitdigital.com Clintus

    So this is what you meant that other day when you said “take your camera for a walk”. I like it.

  • http://www.idoitdigital.com Clintus

    So this is what you meant that other day when you said “take your camera for a walk”. I like it.

  • Kat

    teach me to use a camera
    i want to be able to do this kind of thing
    even if it’s only for me
    but then
    that’s not your point :)

  • Kat

    teach me to use a camera
    i want to be able to do this kind of thing
    even if it’s only for me
    but then
    that’s not your point :)

  • http://levite.wordpress.com jon

    on the second one, this is what you are teaching us with your views of you except, you are calling for us to turn the camera around.

    on the first you, you are raising exactly the right question: what’s the why? What is so compelling that we NEED to build community, not just as proof of concept but as life, a life and community worth being.

    Part of the reality, however, is that most often the digital resonates best when there is the face-to-face, somewhere, sometimes. It may be that the limits of the community are the touches that can happen.

    or not.

  • http://levite.wordpress.com jon

    on the second one, this is what you are teaching us with your views of you except, you are calling for us to turn the camera around.

    on the first you, you are raising exactly the right question: what’s the why? What is so compelling that we NEED to build community, not just as proof of concept but as life, a life and community worth being.

    Part of the reality, however, is that most often the digital resonates best when there is the face-to-face, somewhere, sometimes. It may be that the limits of the community are the touches that can happen.

    or not.

  • http://www.deborahschultz.com deb schultz

    you are my new idol…posted excerpt.

    I love both ideas as well. What is this community all about? Community benefits from shared goals and ideology –ok, that soundsboring, but you know what I mean..;)

  • http://www.deborahschultz.com deb schultz

    you are my new idol…posted excerpt.

    I love both ideas as well. What is this community all about? Community benefits from shared goals and ideology –ok, that soundsboring, but you know what I mean..;)