{"id":12,"date":"2005-04-14T12:38:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-14T16:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/driscolldev\/2005\/04\/14\/participatory-culture-takes-on-tv"},"modified":"2005-04-14T12:38:00","modified_gmt":"2005-04-14T16:38:00","slug":"participatory-culture-takes-on-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/driscoll\/2005\/04\/14\/participatory-culture-takes-on-tv\/","title":{"rendered":"Participatory Culture takes on TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a16'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If I had to explain my involvement with these affairs in a word it would be this: participation.  In the last few years, open forms of digital media have caused access barriers to crumble with startling efficiency.  There are <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/wireStory?id=559297\">bloggers in the white house<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=4473787\">NPR is podcasting<\/a>, a sci-fi author finds success in <a href=\"http:\/\/craphound.com\/down\/\">giving away his books<\/a>, and a bedroom record called <i>the Grey Album<\/i> is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/2004\/0301\/p11s01-almp.html\">the most popular download of the day<\/a>.  Now, <a href=\"http:\/\/downhillbattle.org\/\">Downhill Battle<\/a> comes at us with perhaps the loftiest challenge: TV.<\/p>\n<p>With a new moniker deployed expressly for this project, DHB is redubbed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.participatoryculture.org\/\">the Participatory Culture Foundation<\/a> and Wednesday announced, &#8220;Anyone can broadcast full-screen video to thousands of people at virtually no cost.&#8221;  They are <a href=\"http:\/\/sourceforge.net\/projects\/demotv\/\">presently seeking volunteers<\/a> to get the DTV client and Broadcast Machine publishing tool up and running by mid-June!<\/p>\n<p>GPL, RSS, XML, HTTP, BitTorrent, cross-platform, community-driven and developed, free <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gnu.org\/philosophy\/free-sw.html\">as in free beer<\/a> &#8211; TV is Dead, long live DTV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I had to explain my involvement with these affairs in a word it would be this: participation. In the last few years, open forms of digital media have caused access barriers to crumble with startling efficiency. There are bloggers in the white house, NPR is podcasting, a sci-fi author finds success in giving away [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":198,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[259],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/driscoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/driscoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/driscoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/driscoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/198"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/driscoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/driscoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/driscoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/driscoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/driscoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}