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« The Road Not Taken | Main | Fields of Gold » February 22, 2007A Digital DemonstrationEnvironmental activists planning a day of distributed demonstrations April 14 across the country are also hoping to employ social media to multiply the impact: From WorldChanging.com: In the spirit of the age, we've designed this be a distributed day of action - not a march on Washington (too much carbon!), but hundreds and hundreds of local actions. By the end of the day we should have reams of great pictures, still and video, from around the country. ... These actions will all be great by themselves, and have a real effect on Congress members in their districts - but we want more. We want the whole to be much greater than the sum of the parts. We want to link them together somehow. ... We want to have an end product by evening on April 14 that will give this lovely cascade of images both a home on the web and a shot at being picked up by major broadcast media. So what should we do? How do we best make use of tools like Flickr and Youtube? How do we make the evening news need to cover this?In the spirit of the age, they're asking for an open-source solution. And I expect they'll come up with something pretty cool. Liberals, for whom "collective action" is a part of their political DNA, are ahead of conservatives - for whom rugged individualism is paramount - in the leveraging of the social media as a political tool. Posted in Environmentalism
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