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 [Participate.net] JD Lasica's blog: Millions of people are tuning in.</p><p>- Videoblogging and digital storytelling are exploding as well, with thousands of participants creating visual narratives.</p><p>- And, as other have noted, the explosion of weblogs -- now 19.2 million strong and growing at 20,000 a day -- signals the most forceful evidence of participatory media.</p><p>To me, "take the media into your own hands" means exactly that: The Internet has given us the ability to take part in the media conversation, without the media gatekeepers and corporate overlords playing the role of filter.

 [En.wikinews.org] Wikinews:Water cooler - Wikinews: Podcasting is one such method which I utilize and love because of time savings. I think the newsprint idea has great potential also...

[Completetosh.com] Complete Tosh, by Neil McIntosh: Digital revolution: So how's this for a conspiracy theory: perhaps SixApart are doing this with one eye on fattening up the operation, ready for being bought out themselves by - ooh, let's say - an internet media/search company that doesn't already own a blogging tool? Perhaps even a internet media/search company that owns a contextual text ad operation that, despite its many merits, is getting trampled underfoot by bloggers' rush to embrace the cooler Google Adwords?

[Andrej.mobileduo.com] Andrej Gregov's Weblog: Conferences Archives: iFabricate is their idea (a website) for creating open source hardware systems. It's a collaboration system, takes care of open source license registration, images, video, link to processes (think embedding text inline on your photos like on Flickr), a rating system to rank sub processes so you know which ones are optimal to implement, a way to see what you need to purchase to create the project.

Reflected tags on Technorati: Blog, Podcasting, Fresh Podcasts