In the past few weeks, I’ve heard several people comment that they don’t know if there’s a need for Indymedia anymore now that Ourmedia is thriving.
Well, I don’t know about that.
The latest addition to this discussion comes out of Indymedia UK, where someone named “n” posted an essay with this bottom line:
Anyone looking to jump ship might like to check out Ourmedia – it’s far from what’s needed to replace Indymedia. It has no direct equivilent to the newswires but with its integration of RSS syndication, personal and group blogs, podcasts, video archives, video RSS etc. it has great potential.
In many ways Indymedia has no equal. It is an anti-authoritarian network and it has without doubt contributed a great deal to our common struggles. However, in my opinion, in it’s current form it’s days are numbered and the cracks are starting to show.
We’ve said all along that Ourmedia doesn’t want to be the borg, sucking in all the universe’s personal media. We’re about inclusion and connecting open media repositories together.
So we’ll be happy, when the time comes, to discuss sharing video, podcasts, tools and other materials with Indymedia. We don’t have a political agenda. But we do think that millions of people picking up the tools of the personal media revolution will change the world.
JD Lasica, founder of Inside Social Media, is also a fiction author and the co-founder of the cruise discovery engine Cruiseable. See his About page, contact JD or follow him on Twitter.
That’s perfect JD! That’s what I’m all about. That’s why I keep pushing Ourmedia over everything else.
Michael, we gotta spread the meme of personal media far and wide, thru Ourmedia, Node101 and from the rooftops, if necessary. :~)