One of the things I’ve always loved about social media was.. lol, I guess that most of the events are free. I say this from the perspective of a starving artists who’s often been in a position to have to save up for a $50 book.. who demands crazy processing power from computers, but somehow was on the same Power Mac for… I want to say 8 years?

I’ve generally been forced to perceive things from the bottom of the social economic stratas… but in the social media space.. it really doesn’t matter all that much…

I think a part of the dream, that is somehow at the spiritual core of social media.. has something to do with inclusiveness, democracy, equality.. that sorta thing. We dream of more people joining our party.. I mean isn’t it great that those laps tops are going off to the developing world?

Globalization has this quality to it.. the petter parts of it that is, of being like a vision for told by Marx.. I often think of it like.. a dream that the amount that merit matters relative to power relationships.. seems like social media is in part about changing that relationship. Though maybe there’s some nievety to this thought, I don’t know.

I suppose I say this as someone who’s.. I guess a consumer of radical progressive political thought… the deeper philosophical critiques more then the politics per say.. and when you look at social media from the stand point of those intellectual traditions, and indeed a few others, its hard not to go “holy shit!”

I mean, for those of us who try to wrestle with the shadow side of the American experiment.. what you find your self feeling most proud of are movements with a lot of collective weight behind them.. when the people spoke, and spoke loudly.. and what should social media be, in it’s most ideal form, then the people speaking?

In any event, the charging for $50.. though it might not seem like a lot of money, that sorta depends on how much money you got.. and so it seems at least like a kind of symbolic thing.. that.. makes me at least long for a solution that.. might be different.

I appreciate the reasons for going this way.. and I see the virtues to it… and at the very least I’m interested in how it might change the experience.. I mean maybe there will be ways in which it will be better.. we’ll certainly see.

Another thing I’d add is.. with an $50 admission price.. its harder to drag people to it. “No man, you really really really gotta check this out!”

In any event.. Podcamp is like my absolute favorite event of the year. It’s one of these things I just can’t wait for, you know? So my concern is really out of a deep kind of love of the event and the space, and what it means to me, and it is not in anyway about being critical of you organizer folks… I think what you’re doing, and have done, is awesome.

One of the things I’ve always loved about social media was.. lol, I guess that most of the events are free. I say this from the perspective of a starving artists who’s often been in a position to have to save up for a $50 book.. who demands crazy processing power from computers, but somehow was on the same Power Mac for… I want to say 8 years?

I’ve generally been forced to perceive things from the bottom of the social economic stratas… but in the social media space.. it really doesn’t matter all that much…

I think a part of the dream, that is somehow at the spiritual core of social media.. has something to do with inclusiveness, democracy, equality.. that sorta thing. We dream of more people joining our party.. I mean isn’t it great that those laps tops are going off to the developing world?

Globalization has this quality to it.. the petter parts of it that is, of being like a vision for told by Marx.. I often think of it like.. a dream that the amount that merit matters relative to power relationships.. seems like social media is in part about changing that relationship. Though maybe there’s some nievety to this thought, I don’t know.

I suppose I say this as someone who’s.. I guess a consumer of radical progressive political thought… the deeper philosophical critiques more then the politics per say.. and when you look at social media from the stand point of those intellectual traditions, and indeed a few others, its hard not to go “holy shit!”

I mean, for those of us who try to wrestle with the shadow side of the American experiment.. what you find your self feeling most proud of are movements with a lot of collective weight behind them.. when the people spoke, and spoke loudly.. and what should social media be, in it’s most ideal form, then the people speaking?

In any event, the charging for $50.. though it might not seem like a lot of money, that sorta depends on how much money you got.. and so it seems at least like a kind of symbolic thing.. that.. makes me at least long for a solution that.. might be different.

I appreciate the reasons for going this way.. and I see the virtues to it… and at the very least I’m interested in how it might change the experience.. I mean maybe there will be ways in which it will be better.. we’ll certainly see.

Another thing I’d add is.. with an $50 admission price.. its harder to drag people to it. “No man, you really really really gotta check this out!”

In any event.. Podcamp is like my absolute favorite event of the year. It’s one of these things I just can’t wait for, you know? So my concern is really out of a deep kind of love of the event and the space, and what it means to me, and it is not in anyway about being critical of you organizer folks… I think what you’re doing, and have done, is awesome.

Likewise, “market forces” also have a role to play; how many people will be put off and away by a fee?

On a bigger scale, can we start returning to financial transactions that are imbued with value not usury, and reclaim that part of the conversation for ourselves as well? I am interested in that.

Likewise, “market forces” also have a role to play; how many people will be put off and away by a fee?

On a bigger scale, can we start returning to financial transactions that are imbued with value not usury, and reclaim that part of the conversation for ourselves as well? I am interested in that.