Election campaign day 6
So, day 6 of the election campaign here in Denmark.
Yes, election was announced on Wednesday at 1 PM.
I decided that: I will get involved, no matter what.
I asked my boss at work whether I could get leave without pay. No such options - options are: either I quit permanently or I show up at work every day for the whole day.
Thursday morning I resigned from work at the bookstore, so I can be Fully committed at working in this election campaign. I dont hold any grudges to my boss at the bookstore work - he was simply thinking about their needs in the bookstore - the Christmas season is approaching, and they cannot have someone going around doing videoblogging when they are supposed to be selling books and preparing for the Season. Fair enough.
From today I will every day make a small video in the morning to post here on dltq.org <- Update: Too ambitious. No time!
Here is my video for today, day 6 of the election campaign:
election in a few weeks?
rumors in Denmark has it that the Danish Prime Minister, today, at 1 PM, will announce an election for parliament.
if so, it means that the election will be held in about 3 weeks.
if so, it means that i have MUCH less time to soft-launch political videoblogging into the Danish political party i joined last month.
it means that either i withdraw; not wanting to push them into something that might hurt the party a lot in the mainstream media,
or
push further.
push push
Post-DLTQ
[You can’t play the above video? Try the flash version]
So, my post-DLTQ life has started:
*I begin a new site together with Michael Meiser, after having discussed “vloggersations” with him for ages.
*I have a tumblr-log that I use as my personal/ranting site. The current design doesnt show the rss feed, but it has a feed. Be aware, though! It is very high-volume at times, and also, I cannot guarantee at all about the quality there. I consider it my digital scrap-book, and even though it is public, it is not meant as a starting-point for public discussion. Thus, the tumblr-system with no comments feature suits me perfectly.
*I will start a new site with a few others dealing with “mediated politics” in one way or another. So far, I have one partner living here in Denmark, but we are looking for a few more partners. If you are interested in the crashing of politics and new media, and interested in case studies of mediated politics and the role of the individual from around the world, you are welcome to email me at raymondmk AT gmail.com.
DLTQ has been a good thing for me to frame some of all these questions I have asked the last years. I know that most of the time I have not followed any specific thing for a period of time, but just moved on to whatever caught my interest next.
Now I am coming to a stage where I know that it is the mix of politics / civil society and new media that really interests me, and that I want to focus on in the future.
I thank all of you who have commented on DLTQ over the years, and who I have had discussions with about some of these topics. I try to remember it all, remember the different perspectives and points of view. I will keep the DLTQ archive of videos and posts, and I think I also might post a new entry here now and then, but it will definitely not be a (semi-)regularly updated blog anymore.
Let’s stay in touch!
35 days : Day 1
For 35 days, it will all be about political videoblogging. Day 1 is today, Friday October 5th. How do we bring all of this together?
I have been talking about political videoblogging for a long time, many videos, lots of text.
Here is for a new process: 35 days
Day 1 : Video 1
