trojan horse....or while you were sleeping

Participatory Culture might be well suited for implementing the Digital Bicycle. This would serve as a legitimate way to integrate an IP enabled content playback system within a traditional television cablecasting environment. The latter by definition is a local arm's length community where the people being reached can congregate in person and get stuff done. When the cablecasting environment as we know it radically mutates in the next few years we don't have to necessarily follow, trying to tread water within this virulent environment. Rather, we focus on our existing IP system (DigitalBicycle+Particpatory Culture+Osprey+PEG stream) for distributing content to micro audiences (local community + small online group). Our social and community ties keep our feet on the ground. The network keeps our centers connected. We just need to fence off our area of the internet.

We establish the political legitimacy to do this by arguing that the cables carrying this bandwidth have already infiltrated our public rights of way. We are just reclaiming them back. At least the portion we need. Leaving the rest of the commercial sphere to converge becoming both bigger (high def, more corporate consolidation) and smaller (mobile, more hyperindividualistic) at the same time. This blanketing phenomenon increasingly permeates our daily lives, perpetuating a culture of denial and internal fragmentation. This would be a compromising place for Access to be situated, a situation where access is inevitably compromised. Why should we strive to conform within this perverse rubric when can chart our own path and bring the community with us?


next?

Content.