Rainforest Action Network and social media
After a lengthy hiatus from things related to social media after I came back from Georgia (much more on the Georgia trip soon), I talked with my friend and videoblogger extraordinaire Jay Dedman today and he pointed me to the latest video produced by Ryan is Hungry
I find this to be a very good introduction to the kinds of stories that RAN wants to share. The challenges, something about the opposition they get (the CEO talking to the press after the RAN intrusion was interesting), and what kind of effects their work has.
RAN uses several different new media tools: Facebook, Flickr, and Youtube. It will be interesting to see how they use these different new media tools together with the blog to pull visitors deeper into the issues, informing and engaging us.
Next year the COP 15 will take place in Copenhagen, and I am increasingly interested in how stakeholders from Denmark and across the world can communicate about the issues among ourselves and towards the delegates at that meeting before, during, and after that conference.
Ryan Is Hungry is an excellent site for becoming inspired from what people are doing. Are there other similar videoblogs out there, interviewing NGOs active in “the green field”?
Leaving for Tblisi
In a few hours I fly to Tblisi via Riga. I am packed and ready, and I look very much forward to this.
I will next week update from the election observation at SILBA’s twitter account for this mission: http://twitter.com/silbageorgia08. I will also use that account sometimes during the seminar after the elections.
I will also twitter some on my own twitter account while there, with more personal notes.
Like a painting
This is my first video for Semanal, which is a site where the participants aim at making a video per week throughout the year:
I guess you already know Jay, Ryanne and Jeffrey who appear in the video. The woman speaking is Triny Prada, who is a columbian-french visual artist, working both with video and painting. I have not seen much of her work, but I am really intrigued by it, and I hope I can get to see more of it later on.
This video marks the beginning of my Semanal project, and I will explore Triny’s entry-point to the video further. Seeing the video as a painting, as material you can manipulate just like you manipulate colours, textures, brush techniques on the painting.
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!
Bicycles in Copenhagen
As some of you know, Denmark is a pretty flat country. Whereas many think that Himmelbjerget is Denmark’s tallest “mountain”, but in fact it is Ydinge Skovhøj that is the tallest place in Denmark with its 172.5 meters / 565 feet of majestic height. Actually, there has been quite a debate on what point in Denmark is the tallest.
Anyway, with Denmark being this flat, it is a country made for bicycling, and the city of Copenhagen now has an explicit goal of making the city the world’s greatest bicycle city before 2015. Here is a link to their campaign site (in Danish).
The last months, I have been borrowing a friend’s bicycle, and I have taken quite a few trips around Copenhagen. Whereas I never used a bicycle in Bergen or Oslo, it seems so natural here, and it is very convenient.
Here is a video I took yesterday, which I present unedited (because my Sony Vegas application decides to crash every time I load a movie file into it :/). It is 15 minutes long, and gives a pretty good impression of how it is to bicycle from Nørrebro to Nørreport on a morning. The trip was taken about 9 AM.
Did you notice the “69″ tags on the yellow wall (@ 5:48 min)? 69 signifies the now abolished youth house, which was at Jagtvej 69.
